TURNING FORTY

Turning 40?
What do you mean?
Been there done that.
And in between

Turning forty ain't nothing
You're

I look like my dad..

I tend to move quite slowly now,
and find aches when I do,
I find that stairs are

Feeling sad cause you're turning 40?
I'm twice that now and feel young and sporty.
I walk two miles most

For thirty-nine years, my life was a story, flat and unclear.

There was no sun to my setting, no meaning

I look into the mirror
my baldness has gotten worse
The hairs left on my head are turning gray
is it that

TURNING FORTY

Some bemoan their passing years
With vain regrets and bitter tears
Invoking storms of pointless

I now make sounds my father made,
I groan when I a rise.
I forget where keys were laid,
So much for being

The innocence of youth
Has passed me by
There's no getting it back
No matter how I try

The years have added

Turning forty is a piece of cake.
It's turning fifty when one starts to take,
A good hard look and choices

At thirty I felt like a woman
finally adult
thirty nine was harder
and it happened like a jolt

fearing that

SPORTY AT FORTY
(Coming of Age with Limericks)

I so adore my best friend Marge.
Whose big four-oh was looming

Turning forty

A bread-maker truly is
A helping hand for busy moms
Just toss the dough and yeast right in
The

Nice, nice, nice to be

Forty and fancy free.

Forty is a great age to attain.

It's kinda like being under

Turning 40

I'll soon be 40 and as I reflect on what my life has seen,
I have accomplished quite a list;
fulfilled

I'm forty.
Am I naughty
If I tell you that I'm not?
That I'm only in my thirties
And can almost pass for

The day that I turned forty
Fun was had by all
Family and friends together
We really had a ball

The following

Is aging when
the poetry is gone
with wanderings midst
the leaves of summer whimsy
fallen in a golden bronze
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