Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy;
Sing as a happy bird will sing
Beneath a rainbow’s lovely arch
In the spring.
Category: AGEING
POEMS: “Seeking Beauty” by William Henry Davies
Cold winds can never freeze, nor thunder sour ,The cup of cheer that Beauty draws for me, Out of those Azure heavens and this green earth –I drink and drink, and thirst the more I see.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “A poem on Hope” by Wendell Berry
for hope must not depend on feeling good
INSPIRATIONAL BEAUTY TIPS: from an old lady (about kindness)
A dear old lady was asked what she used to make her complexion so beautiful and her whole being so bright and attractive.
PET POEMS: “One by One” (about rescuing older pets)
One by One, they pass by my cage,
Too old, too worn, too broken, no way.
Way past his time, he can’t run and play.
POEMS: “Second Childhood” by Robert William Service
When I go on my morning walk,
Because I’m mild,
If I be in the mood to talk I choose a child.
POEMS: “What is a Mother’s worth?”
I humbly appraise my mother’s worth,
It began with pain to give me birth,
Which triggered off a love so strong,
Blossoming into a life-long bond.
POEMS: “Good night Irene” (to a 100 year old mother in law) by Joseph Anderson
My mother-in-law, Irene by name Is the leader of her clan. At ninety-three, you surely see Why I became her fan.
FUNNY POEMS: “My younger days” by Maya Angelou
When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less, I needn’t hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The old man and the rose”
During the mid 1950s when I was a kid, my dad worked in a furniture shop at Spadina and Queen in downtown Toronto (Canada).
LOVE POEMS FROM USA: “At last” (true love later in life)
At last, when all the summer shine
That warmed life’s early hours is past,
Your loving fingers seek for mine And hold them close–at last–at last!
POEMS: “When you are old” by William Butler Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
