Featured Art and Poem: My Sleeping Beauty & Life in My ’80s

“My Sleeping Beauty,” 12×16 acrylic by Marie Francis

 


Life in My ’80s

By Marie Francis

 

I just turned the big 8 0!

Today I tripped and broke my toe.

 

I am now 81,

When am I going to start having fun?

 

Wow! I made it to 82.

I must find more crossword puzzles to do.

 

Today I will be 83.

Oops. Sorry I must watch my favorite program on TV.

 

Today I am 84.

When I sleep, I can hear myself snore.

 

85 and still alive!

How blessed am I.

 

At 86,

I am not that quick.

 

Turning 87.

I wake up each day, think I am in heaven.

 

It is my Birthday again Iā€™m 88.

Everywhere I go Iā€™m always late.

 

Well at 89,

I am just biding my time.

 

At the big 9 0,

I am still on the go.

8 comments

  1. Barb Whitmarsh NLAPW says:

    LOVE THIS – JUST PRICELESS

    MY AUNT NELLA LIVED TO BE ONE O FOUR (104)
    MAN ALIVE COULD SHE SLAM THE DOOR. LOL. – TRUE STORY.

  2. I loved this. For my big 7-0, I fell down the stairs. I had to splint my broken hand with my great-grandmother’s whale bone stave and drive myself to the hospital.

    May I share this with others who are not pen women?

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