On your 70th birthday
I gave you a poem,
appropriately beautiful,
speaking in warm words
and soft images,
But you asked for another,
one that makes you blush,
makes your mouth water
and eyes glaze over.
Is 70 too old
to feel the urge,
a flash flood in the dessert,
swift, and so quickly passed?
Or is it a time to linger
in the heat, sand burning
the bottoms of your feet,
and round rocks roll
with the current
of a slow moving stream.
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I love the movement and voice. Favorite parts: “a poem,/appropriately beautiful” and “to feel the urge,/a flash flood in the dessert”
Thank you!
Nice! It’s never too late to feel the heat, in my experience, but it might be too late to do much about it 😏
Yet hope springs eternal. 💕
Great movement and heat “the urge,/a flash flood in the dessert,”
Thanks 🙏
wow
at 77
my sentiments
exactly
Beautiful
This poem really picked up heat as it moved! 🙂