Poems about Growing Older (and Wiser :-), Poems about Aging
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“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” 
                                      —Alberet Einstein 

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Relinquishment

 
​When years ago my mother-in-law
bemoaned the fact that
to stay steady on her feet 
she had to exchange 
her stylish heels for flats,
I shrugged off her complaint
as a small concession to growing older. 

Now that it’s my turn
to scale down to comfortable shoes
I realize that parting with my heels
is more than a minor inconvenience
and may be a kind of dress rehearsal
preparing me for my final leave-taking
which I will undertake unadorned.

UTE CARSON
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"I cannot change how old I am,
but I CAN change how young I feel." 
—Liliana Kohann
*From a poem, No Longer Room for Stones