Men At Forty Poem by Donald Justice

Men At Forty

Rating: 3.1


Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
M Asim Nehal 28 March 2016

Very true, wisely written. Thanks for sharing..

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S Kirsch 05 September 2019

Next stanza: At rest on a stair landing, They feel it Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship, Though the swell is gentle.

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Jason Farris 25 June 2007

This is only one stanza of a longer poem.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 October 2021

Very wise, very true, but yet for me a thought-provoking poem. Only one quatrain? But it is written with great wisdom.5 Stars full

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S Kirsch 05 September 2019

Guess I should have put these in backwards... Extremely profound in the first stanza, and even more powerful in full -

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S Kirsch 05 September 2019

Final stanza: That is like the twilight sound Of the crickets, immense, Filling the woods at the foot of the Behind their mortgaged houses

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S Kirsch 05 September 2019

Next stanza: And the face of that father, Still warm with the mystery of lather. They are more fathers than sons themselves now. Something is filling them, something

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S Kirsch 05 September 2019

Next stanza: And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the boy as he practices trying His father’s tie there in secret

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