Showing posts with label senescence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senescence. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Re: Old Age

Day 8- Write a cinquain on a topic of your choice.

maybe
she lost all that
weight so you could get used
to seeing your giants shrink to
nothing.

In Your Old Age

Day 3- Find the nearest book (of any kind). Turn to page 8. Use the first ten full words on the page in a poem. You may use them in any order, anywhere in the poem.

Senescence is the great equaliser.
great men, average men,
men of faith, men of none
living life with the promise
that some of its secrets will be revealed
but all you will ever learn
are verbs like forgetting
and dying.