At Halloween

At Halloween and most events

One hides behind a mask;

With Age Esteem one sheds pretense

And challenges each task!

So switch your witch’s costume act

And subdue the ghosts of youth,

Stay young and age with fun and tact

And subscribe to Bonnie’s truths!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Age Esteem’s Classmate

 If you think “I am”, instead

Of feeling that “I’m NOT”,

You will rise above the dread

Of negative’s sly plot.

 Planted in your mind will be

The flowering tree of age,

Growing years productively

“Rosemerry”, “TiAMe” and sage.

Say: “I am the burgeoning bloom:

One of a kind and just great!

I am the one to banish gloom;

I am Age Esteem’s classmate!”

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

You Are Special At Every Age

 You look in the mirror – the mirror looks back.

It is your reflection, but there’s something it lacks.

Your face is the place where the person is you.

But your innermost self needs to really shine through.

Smiling begins the whole transformation

And then cheer and real joy and elation.

Ignore all the manifestations of Age

You’re special and startling at every stage.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Written On A Bumpy Bus!

I’m writing from a Greyhound Bus,

A Public Transportation.

I’m learning not to make a fuss,

Instead: a celebration!

Happy to be traveling on

To one more destination.

As my life goes unraveling on –

On to a brand new station.

One can voyage without leaving home

By letting your mind wander,

Creating mood trips, like a poem:

Vast passages to ponder!

 Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

A Spirited Scheme – Age Esteem

There was once a spirited scheme

Which they cleverly named “Age Esteem”,

    It teaches all ages

            Just how one engages

To live to the fullest each dream.

So how does a person first start,

When they think Life’s falling apart?

            You can wake up and say

            “Hooray for this new day!”

“I’m alive and I’ll strive to live smart!”

Written for AgeEsteem® by Alexandra Taylor

Life Is A Trip

Goodbye, Farewell, I am going on a voyage,

But Life is a trip from “here to there”;

I’ll return with lots of notes: a mental forage,

Resplendent, receptive and prepared:

For the journey through the vicissitudes of Time,

Step by step, hour by hour, day by day,

(While stopping on the way to write a rhyme!)

Traveling and marveling The Way.

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Under The Rainbow

Somewhere, under the Rainbow,

Tempers fly…

Moods grow grim, and Spirits cry.

If, instead, we’d see the glow

Of all those colors in the sky

And shed our cares and worthless woes,

The Rainbows could respond to “Why?”

Our Pots of Gold are lost below.

Written for AgeEsteem® by Alexandra Taylor

I Don’t Know Why

I don’t know why they often say:

“Oh, she old, she’s turning gray!”

Gray is neither black nor white,

It shows you’re neutral in your sight –

Not too strong and not too weak,

Measuring the goals you seek;

And then there’s what is called “gray matter”,

That’s the Brain, the side we flatter,

The person whose talents don’t abate:

She’s fun.  She’s someone who we’ll call GRAYTE!

Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®

Savor Your Uniqueness

Why do we care about hair?

It’s ours and it’s us and it’s there!

We fuss if it’s straight, if it’s curly, we hate

To look furly, but it’s

Our “atmosphair”!

We often just wish we could change:

Our old clothes?  A new nose?

It’s so strange.

It is best to just be our own selves,

Where our soul and uniqueness both delve;

There are no two “us” in the world –

Let’s keep floating free and unfurled!

Written for AgeEsteem® by Alexandra Taylor

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat

Calmly up each stream.

Cheerfully, fearlessly, stay afloat,

Alive with Age Esteem.

Grow, grow, grow your roots

Deeply, with each dream,

Brightly, mightily do what suits

Yourself, with Age Esteem! 

Written for AgeEsteem® by Alexandra Taylor