Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg
Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg, age 13, to me, November, 2002
The clock awakens
Ticking through time
The boy grows older
Abandoning nursery rhymes.
He learns to read,
Write, and talk
Goes through school
Books, tests and chalk.
To a bright future he heads
Aging too fast
Going through college
Using his skills from the past
The boy, now a man
Becomes a lawyer
Happily marries
Is his own employer
He grows older
Wiser too
Still fresh and hip
As he was at age two
He reaches sixty-two
A perfect age to be
Is wished happy birthday
By his good old friend, me.
Poetry
- A Dog Has Died by Pablo Neruda
- A Moment of Silence – by Emmanuel Ortiz
- A Quiet Life – Baron Wormser
- A Wreath to the Fish – Nancy Willard
- Alone – Jack Gilbert
- Black Momma Math – Kimberly Jae
- Crow Blacker Than Ever – Ted Hughes
- Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads – Martha Rivera-Garrido
- Failing and Flying – Jack Gilbert
- Feel Mo – Michael Korson
- Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg
- I Talked to a Lady – Tanya Howden
- If You Knew – Ellen Bass
- Men – Maya Angelou
- my brain and heart divorced ~ john roedel
- Relax – Ellen Bass
- Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
- The Four Noble Truths – Jake Onami Agnew
- The History of One Tough Motherfucker – Charles Bukowski
- The Layers – Stanley Kunitz
- The Shyness – Sharon Olds
- Tryst with Death – Gina Puorro
- Wage Peace – Mary Oliver
- War Primer – Bertholt Brecht
- What I Learned From Listening to a Stutterer – Ellen Zorin
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