Reginald Reid
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At Your Age
Don't you just hate it when they say "At your Age"
Yes, AT YOUR AGE you should just expect these sorts of things to happen
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HOW SHOULD A MAN MEASURE HIS LIFE
How should a man measure his life?
Did he live it alone or share with a wife
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END OF DAY
Sunset shades of orange, bronze and gold
tinged with fading softest blue
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AUTUMN MORNING
Serene clouds stir in the valley's misty dawn
bathed in curling fog and breeze
while silently from slumbering valleys
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THE ROAD TO DEMENTIA
I'm on the road to Dementia
a town I thought was far, far away.
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Ghandi's Seven Deadly Sins
There were more than just Ten Commandments delivered by Moses,
Ever since of rules there have been many proposers.
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Beauty can be sinister
Hills ablaze with yellow flowers
Saint John's wort spreads out for hours
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IT IS BETTER TO HAVE LIVED
It is better to have lived than not have lived
For if I had never been I would not have ever seen
The wonders of man and world, or tasted all that unfurled
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PICTURE PERFECT
I gazed upon a sheltered glasslike mirror pond
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LIBRARY BOOKS
Come into the labyrinthine passages of mystic mysteries and facts
where fantasies and hopes are all played out in neatly packaged acts,
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MEMORIES IN LOVE
I still recall the time I first met you.
How my heart skipped its rhythmic beat,
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Reflections on Childhood and Youth
Why when I was just the smallest lad so many years ago
The older folk were in control as they knew all there was to know
We went to school and listened to them talk of things we never knew
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SLEEP
Sleep, how should I address you?
I am your slave.
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THE KNOW ALLS
Now don't you think it rather quaint
you're called to be the things you aint?
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THE LADIES' BOOK CLUB MEETING
I found the book was hard to get,
Now I haven't tried these nibbles yet.
But I found the plot in chapter four
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The Particularty
A place for all things and each in its place
Rules to obey for the whole human race
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THE STUFF OF DREAMS
I visioned how things might sometimes be
for all set free of burdened need
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THE TREE
She stands her arms outstretched embracing all the sky
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The Best Poem Of Reginald Reid
As We Get Older We Frequently Hear The Saying 'at Your Age '
At Your Age
Don't you just hate it when they say "At your Age"
Yes, AT YOUR AGE you should just expect these sorts of things to happen
You're not getting any younger you know
And you need to be realistic about what you can and can't do now.
Get used to it.
These know alls who weren't even born when I was their age
Doctors and nurses, dentists and physiotherapists, special advisors and carers, I could list a thousand of them but you know who I mean
You go to them for a simple answer to a simple question and they want you to do a test or two
Or they pass you on to a specialist who, it seems only works on some days and in some inaccessible distant places
Even when you are put in hospital, it's a case of; what day is it, do you know the date today, who is the current Prime Minister?
To which you want to reply - - if you don't know the answers you shouldn't be wearing that white coat
"Well AT YOUR AGE things get beyond you and we need to know how you are" As if you were a Rhodes Scholar before.
Listen here, I'll have you know that there are people my age and older running nations around the world
So what's your point? Do you plan to treat my illness differently?
You know I always remember stuff - eventually
Some words elude me for a while and I know people like ……er what's his name - the one with the funny chin - I saw him here recently - his wife passed away not long ago
And there's that other fellow down the road -- he has to go into care and he's not as old as me but he doesn't get about so easily now
I'm healthy (cough) and fit, I walk a lot and go to exercise classes AND I take all my medicines on time, (EXCEPT WHEN I FORGET)
But it's these regular checks up, they just find things and then it's a new pill or more tests.
There are things I need to get help to do these days, and even if the help is partly paid for by the government if you're lucky, I'd rather be independent
We won't go into the private stuff that no one wants to know about like when you bend over to put your socks on…………. And you need to think if there is anything else to be done while you're down there
I've got clothes I can't wear because they are too small or too big Shoes that I will never wear out, Hair that won't stay in but falls out
Not to mention false teeth, back pain, ARTHERBLOODYRITIS, eyesight issues, can't lose weight, always falling asleep, BUT I HAVE MY GOOD HEALTH - WHAT MORE SHOULD I EXPECT AT MY AGE? AT LEAST I STILL HAVE MY DRIVING LICENSE
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