A Melody Of Life
Someone wrote “The Silent Spring,”
But I think it bursts with song!
Birds sing out when on the wing. –
The wind whistles all day long.
Crickets chirp and pond frogs burp
And dogs howl at the moon.
Insects have with time, usurped
Their own inherent tune.
Each one of us has notes to bring
A melody to our lives,
And silently we all can sing
When verbally we strive!
Written by Alexandra Taylor † for AgeEsteem®
Age With High Esteem
Spring just rang our bell!
“Hello” we said: “Well, well,
We’re ready to grow flowers
And bloom, like them, in bowers.
We hope you’ve brought the sun
To start our sap to run,
And learn to shake our feet
And spread our wings and Tweet!
You’ve come to help us dream
And age with High Esteem!”
Written by Alexandra Taylor † for AgeEsteem®
Your Beauty Will Unfold
Buds and Blooms and Birds and Bees –
Spring brings every one of these…
Besides the Brightest Skies of Blue
(Best when Broiling Bar-B-Ques!)
By Becoming Brave and Bold
Your Beauty will Spring up = unfold
And Be the Better, in Between
Its Benefactor: Age Esteem!
Written by Alexandra Taylor † for AgeEsteem®
No More Masks On Halloween
If you are keen
On Halloween
And favor Treats
To tricks,
Then just be seen
With Age Esteem
And no more masks
To fix!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Your Life’s Book
(This poem’s theme)
Begins at any age.
It’s how to be
Yourself and see
Your Life’s Book page by page
Chapter one
(Already done!)
The Volume grows with Time.
Chapter Three
Begins with glee
Esteemic, like this rhyme.
Chapter Five
You’re still alive
And confident, at last!
Chapter Twelve
It dips and delves
With lessons from the Past.
Chapter Twenty
There’s a-plenty
Pages still in Reams.
The end remains in formament
Rewarded and Esteemed.
Written by Alexandra Taylor † for AgeEsteem®
Growing Pains
“Growing Pains”
That does explain
Our ever-changing moods –
We way and wane
From Bright to Broods
A pattern we entrain.
How to seem
In Harmony
With Age Esteem
And synchrony
Of Painless Qualities?
“No pain, no gain”
a wise refrain!
Just aim for Joy
Don’t get annoyed
With fruitless “frivolities”!
Written by Alexandra Taylor† for AgeEsteem®
Adieu Alexandra Taylor
Another page has turned as we say “Adieu” to Alexandra Taylor who has kept us entertained and uplifted with her poems for almost five years. AgeEsteem published her first poem, Celebrate Your Age on October 27th, 2010.
Ever since then she has been generously sharing her talents with the audience of AgeEsteem blog weekly. One of my many favorites is just four lines.
Rejoice!
Let your voice
Be the clue
To the you
Of your Choice.
Alexandra Taylor wrote this after reading the chapter “Rejoice” in my book AgeEsteem: Growing A Positive Attitude Toward Aging .
Her poems developed as a genuine pastime after she attended an AgeEsteem program. I well remember our discussion that began with her explaining to me that she had no talents to share. I recalled seeing cartoon characters that she had made into drawings for her children previously and as our conversation moved forward I learned that she had designed greeting cards with both drawings and prose. This soon led to her poems and my suggestion that she might like to write for AgeEsteem.
What few people know is that she wrote her poems while waiting for the bus, walking home from town, or sitting on a park bench. She wrote these rhymes on scraps of paper or envelopes that she found in the trash next to the bus stop or on the program from a concert she had attended. On the rare occasions that they were actually on writing paper, they were often stuck in an envelope already addressed and sent through the mail to someone else before she salvaged it to enclose her latest rhyme. She was a scavenger at heart! I hope to make a book of her many poems, handwritten and on “recycled” paper as she gave them to me.
Alexandra thwarted Google because she never wanted to be interviewed or to have her photo published. She was happy to simply share her talents with no acclaim. It was enough to know that others enjoyed her poems.
Alexandra’s latest poems remain to be published, two of which she wrote during her last days.
Alexandra Taylor left us in much the same way that she lived, quietly and with dignity. Death is, after all, a natural ending to this life as we know it. She leaves us with the precious gift of her wealth of poems and memories of moments shared, both of which are life continued.
Bonnie Fatio
Hospital Poetry
Doctors and nurses and
Agreeable showers
Perfusions and pink pills
Almost every hour.
The scenery is wheel chairs
And blue-sheeted beds
With plumped up white
Pillows for all patients’ heads.
There’s never a moment
For making up poems
That’s why it’s much better
To write them from home!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
while waiting to be discharged from the hospital.
An Impatient Patient
I’m an impatient patient!
Yes I am!
I want to leave now,
In a moving van!
I’m impatiently here
In a Hospital Bed –
Patience is out there
Waiting for it to be “fed”!
With calmness and coolness
And positive thoughts
(All of those attitudes which
Bonnie has taught!)
Patient and Patience
The one wants you to stay
In clinical care (patient)
The other says practice it,
No matter where! (patience)
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
The Feast Of Life
Think of Life as one long Feast,
From the “oven” of your birth
To your souffléd rise (like yeast!)
(A fine recipe for Mirth.)
Don’t ever think your “goose Is cooked”
(There’s many “fish to fry”!)
So plan a life-long Menu Book,
With Relish in supply.
Every day can be “baked” or “steamed”
(Depending on your Age Esteem!)
This “aspic” may seem a little trite
But wishes you a Good Appetite!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
