The years from late middle age onward are also marked by a steady erosion of ambition. The cause isn’t so much a loss of drive as a growing realisation that you aren’t going to change the world after all. You’re just going to die and be forgotten, like almost everyone else. The ...
“New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.” “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”-Francis Bacon ...
Poems Funny Poems Humorous Poems Growing Old Prev Poem Next Poem Humorous PoemA Humorous Take On Our Efforts To Appear Young I began writing poetry in middle age. For about 5 years I lived aboard a yacht in remote areas of Australia, mostly in the Torres Strait. We had intermittent TV ...
new 30. Long ago, people my age were considered long in the tooth; now we are long in the youth because the fast pace of life is slowing time down. If I live long enough, it may take three of the old years to equal a new one. By the time I reach 90, it may be the new 30...
Peters, John
Liu Rui, a 15-year-old boy from Guangdong, began to wear glasses at the age of five. Most students in Liu's class wear glasses. In fact, half of Chinese teenagers are near-sighted (近视). But young people aren't the only ones with eyesight (视力)___ in China. This is ___becau...
Corpse by Jeff Strand, which is as funny as you would expect. I forgot who wrote Dead City. Shawn Chesser: The remake of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead really grabbed me when it came out. The credit sequence at the beginning when Johnny Cash sings ‘When the man comes around’ is ...
contributes poems inspired by desert hermits and the Council of Chalcedon in A.D. 451, where “stiff robes chafe; their doctrines / don’t sit comfortably, either.” She’s capable of a lighter touch, too, as she shows in a funny, Browning-like soliloquy about a cat in a Mercian chu...
It was very cute, funny, and heartwarming. I loved that it had elements of crime in it, and also telenovelas(evil twin!) so it was interesting and not completely predictable like romances are. Now, things I didn’t like…it was too long for what it actually contained! It was 500 ...
When I was only 3 years old, my mother taught me to memorize and recite poems. She was my first teacher of the arts, and my father was the first to appreciate my performance. Even at that young age, I had a simple understanding of how art and culture affect us as human beings and...