Reginald Reid Poems

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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DREAMS


What miracle transports me by my mind
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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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