Bonnie’s Dream
Be Both Brave and Bountiful
Or Outrageous: that’s O.K.!
Never think you’re Naught or Null,
No other is like you, oh Nay!
If you follow Bonnie’s dream
Every day is Age Esteemed.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for Bonnie Fatio & AgeEsteem®
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
Our Autumn Days
We’re entering our Autumn days,
That sounds like my own “Oughta” phase.
I oughta start out every minute
With only positive thoughts within it!
I oughta be so grateful for
The Life outside my home’s front door.
I oughta give my age a chance:
A kind of Autumn leafy dance,
And shimmer like a Harvest moon
As Twilight enters in my room.
Autumn ought not end a Summer’s dream,
It oughta Fall on Age Esteem!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
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®
