Here is a poem I wrote some years back at a change-of-decade birthday. It acknowledges a particular effect of growing older upon this writer, and I suspect it may also apply to many others, whether they write poetry or prose.<\/p>\n
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POET’S BIRTHDAY<\/p>\n
When squeezed within the tentacles of youth,<\/p>\n
I darted out free verse, pursuing time.<\/p>\n
Now revolutions mellow into truth,<\/p>\n
And age has made me less adverse to rhyme.<\/p>\n
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Kenneth Alan Moe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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