Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to
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.
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
Guess I should have put these in backwards... Extremely profound in the first stanza, and even more powerful in full -
Final stanza: That is like the twilight sound Of the crickets, immense, Filling the woods at the foot of the Behind their mortgaged houses
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
Next stanza: And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the boy as he practices trying His father’s tie there in secret
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Very true, wisely written. Thanks for sharing..