Birthdays Poem by Erica Jong

Birthdays

Rating: 2.9


Next birthday
I am thirty-six,
& formed (for all intents
& purposes)
in tooth & claw.
Six books
have peeled away
all that I am
& all
that I am not;
I turn back pages now
in history's dog-eared
book, & write
of other lives.

& here you come,
pink as dawn,
rosy as the aurora borealis
blooming over Yorkshire
& the ruined abbeys
of the Lake District,
curly as a baby sheep,
hungry as a little billy
goat, cuddly
as a lap dog,
able to flex your spine
to fit inside my own,
& born
between piss
& shit.

I welcome you
with all my breath
& guts;
I hallelujah
to your eyes, your heart,
your tender toes.
May I keep growing younger
with your years
until, when you are just my age,
or more, I have gone back to zero
& am ready,
perhaps then,
to be reborn.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

Erica I love reading your poems for you bring so much feelings into your poems and mean different meanings if interpreted differently...10+++

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Mahtab Bangalee 20 July 2020

Birthday is coming next day the dawn sun will greet with pink face rosy lips of the east sky will say- Happy Birthday the white page of the earthly book will write -a song of coming life with an elegant verse; solemn and depth feelings; the surrounding of the home will dance rapturous, delightful everywhere with the sweetened tongue to say together- Happy Birthday

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beautiful.. nice one.. real 10 Reborn-Birthday Tuesday,21st July 2020 yes, the birthday reminds and finds the respect for the days gone new zeal and energy have shown for coming days Hasmukh Mehta

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