Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Day Dream
By Henry Lowenstern
(I did not plan this, but at 87, find myself composing nearly daily limericks and sharing them with fellow residents of my continuing care community. This is one of them.)
I'm going to take a brief vacation
from the need for medication,
from capsules, drops, and shots and pills,
from new prescriptions and refills,
- if only in imagination.
[INVITATION: All elders, 50 and older, are welcome to submit stories for this blog. They can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir, etc. Please read instructions for submitting.]
Posted by Ronni Bennett at 05:30 AM | Permalink | Email this post
Comments
The comments to this entry are closed.
Tres cute!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 08:00 AM
My favorite:
There once was a blushing young bride,
Who ate some green apples and died
Her husband lamented
The apples fermented
And made cider inside her inside.
Posted by: steve kemp | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 08:11 AM
Excellent. That would only be in our imagination for sure.
Posted by: granny annie | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 08:16 AM
I like it. Nice going, Henry.
Posted by: Marcy B. | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 08:29 AM
Terrific!!! I admire your imagination!
Posted by: Dani Phillips | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 09:47 AM
Well done! My father did as you're doing Henry and started composing limericks later in his life. He also, over the years, initiated some round-table limerick-creation where each person would supply one line in the limerick. Such fun!
Posted by: Donna | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 09:58 AM
Very good. Enjoyed your creation. Please share more with us in the future.
Posted by: Gabbygeezer | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 11:04 AM
I'm just impressed that you're still writing every day, never mind how cute and funny the limericks are. I find it gets easier and easier to piddle my days away without doing any writing. I wrote in a white heat in my 60's, comfortably slowing in my 70's and now, at 80, only write during my two writing groups--1 weekly, 1 bi-weekly. I do know the major reason--it's called email, internet or Facebook. I'm a fan of all of them, but they ARE time-stealers.
Posted by: Lyn Burnstine | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 02:30 PM
There is a woman, 101, at the retirement home up the street and she is famous for writing limericks. I admit, I'm a failure so please keep on writing them for us to read.
Posted by: Johna Ferguson | Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 03:50 PM