Seasons

Surreal Artwork 

by Ronald Ong

Seems we go 

Seems we go from Spring's lush beauty blessings 

passing Summer's steamy unpleasantness

with one blink of eye into Fall's messes 

and flashing on to Winter's cold bleakness 

Seems Old Age has shown its infirmities 

before it's time before we are ready 

Ugliness too from stiff whitening hair to 

red splotches cover faces and bodies 

We use canes crutches walkers and wheel chairs 

Yesterday we ran races rode our bikes 

Visited places we'd only heard their names 

Drove our cars like racers through thick traffic 

Oh yes, belly buttons stick out not in   

Our love life has changed but can it remain

How long the Winter will be we don't know

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Like the old song, before 

your time, enjoy life now 

"Those were the days my friend 

We thought they'd never end" 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - Song, "Those were the days"  credited to Gene Raskin, (Wikipedia, Those Were the Days (song) - Wikipedia )  

 - I am linked with Carrie Van Horn with the Sunday Muse #151, , http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/03/sunday-muse-151.html?m=1 

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Weekly Scribblings Poem -- Your Dad, Trouble

A beautiful girl 

A beautiful girl not quite ready 

Not quite ready for expectations 

Don't marry a preacher's son if you 

don't want to live in a house of glass 

Most preachers are sure of their rules 

and will tell you they came direct from God 

don't argue the Ten Commandments 

Though drinking beer not known on the mount 

 

Our young lady drank since her teen years 

Not uncommon for a lot of teens 

But when you marry the preacher's son 

his house will surely be made of glass 

What she did where she went what she drank 

What wasn't ask is why did she drink 

Pressure from those watching through the glass 

Drove her to drink more and more often 

Her husband was caught in the middle 

'Tween his loving wife beautiful 

and the strict morals of his father 

While he pondered wife hit the bottle 

Once too often for her health she drank 

Rehab for her but while she was gone 

Her man looked around for a new wife 

She shot him dead--father-in-law too

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero at Weekly Scribblings # 60, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/03/weekly-scribblings-60-troubled.html, who is inviting us to write new poetry or prose using “a troubled relationship” —literal or metaphorical—as inspiration.

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