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Won't you help support DayPoems? Birthday FlamesBy Timothy BoveeBorn 1946Quench the birthday flames with quavering regret And bravely dodge the smiles of friends and kin After eighty years of living on the target. Recall your younger days as a foggy silhouette Of golden hopes without and shadowed fears within. Quench the birthday flames with quavering regret. Smile in grateful thanks at each gaily hidden gift set In your faintly trembling hands, spotted and thin After eighty years of living on the target. Watch your collagen dissolve and don't protest Today's measured dose of nausea and phlegm. Quench the birthday flames with quavering regret. Nod calmly to your doc, "Will chemo let Me stick around and dodge the pay of sin After eighty years of living on the target?" UV rays, gasoline fumes, viral poem and bacterial minuet, Melanoma, myeloma---tubers and tumors will always win So bravely quench the birthday flames with quavering regret After eighty years of living on the target. DayPoems Poem No. 2 Comment on DayPoems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, DayPoems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at DayPoems Feedback. Won't you help support DayPoems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep DayPoems on the Web . . . Copyright The DayPoems web site, www.daypoems.net, is copyright 2001-2005 by Timothy K. Bovee. All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on DayPoems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of DayPoems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. |
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