Audenesque for the Sixth Decade

From: Poetry | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Gwynn, R S | Copyright information

For Leon Stokesbury

More effort spent to function

Or even to get by

Extreme is the unction

To which the moments fly.

Do sundials seem depressing

When the light grows less?

Do you lean towards confessing?

What will you confess?

Superannuated children,

See us jump and run

Into Time's teeming cauldron

To simmer until we're done.

Beauty remains attractive

And makes the forehead burn

But is not...

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