Going through pictures from 30-50 years ago didn't do my ego any good.
(nor my poetry skills) But hey, it might be fun for someone else to read, so here you are.


I Need A Face Lift, Make That a Body Lift

I was going through pictures today

I saw the me of days gone by
And I wanted to just sit and cry

Who was that girl in those photographs

With those high cheek bones and great big eyes
And a body half its current size?

Oh how things have changed

I think its a dirty trick
For time to pass so quick

I didn't have enough time being young and fit

I turned over one picutre and I was twenty
I turned over another and I had aged plenty

I don't know why skin has to stretch and sag

What happened to my fairly full lips
Now they look like thin putty strips

And my brows

They no longer arch
They look like they're on a down hill march

I had a hard flat tummy once

Now a jelly belly announces my weight
And my seatless butt is as flat as a plate

And what about the upper torso

My bustline is another flop
I have to reel them in to keep them up top

I looked at one old picture and thought, gosh what a bod

Then realized it was me
And wanted to how could it be

Did I appreciate what I had back then

No, I'm sure I did not
There was always something not so hot

I've given up on wanting to be glamor girl

I'd just like to be me once again
the way I was way back then

If I had known that was as good gets

I'd would have had birthday twenty four
Then refused to have any more




Poetry by Phyllis J. Rhodes
Read 484 times
Written on 2006-10-15 at 04:11

dott Save as a bookmark (requires login)
dott Write a comment (requires login)
dott Send as email (requires login)
dott Print text


Jessica Rexroat
by the way, dad thinks your hot!
2006-10-17


Jessica Rexroat
Dear Mommy - you are so beautiful, so very wonderful, if only you could see yourself through my eyes!
2006-10-17



Oh yes, I know the feeling so well! Great and relentless is the power of gravitation!
Though, as you say, we did not like our bodies even when we were 20.
Let us learn to love ourselves NOW!
Thank you for a text that makes us think a little about these things!
2006-10-15


Amanda K
hhhhh. It was fun to read and pleausre.old ppl feel so as they age but this life' fate and we can't stop it. consider wrinkels as wisdom,larger size as physical change you can't expect old ppl to be the same.Each age has it beauty.I loved the poem and will save it.
2006-10-15


Saga
You're still beautiful!!!
2006-10-15


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
hey this Phyllis is so funny well done on thge admissions rgds mike
2006-10-15


wee2souls
made me laugh
love
cindymac
2006-10-15


Kathy Lockhart
you have me laughin' even in my sick state. They way you wrote this was like you commenting on each picture as you picked it up and then throw it down. I can just see you doing that making these quick and quirky comments. You are still beautiful no matter what shape you are in!
2006-10-15