I spend my life

Posted on August 24, 2017 by riverwriter

Climbing stairs
used to be
a fun sprint up
two, three steps at a stride

a little race with myself
victory
the top.

Remember as I muscle
painful joints
up another breathy step

 

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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
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