Did you say that or I? Max, sounds familiar! I had to run after my dog the
other day - a small way but, hey, the effort! Thanks for the poem :-) Andrew
On 24 July 2013 09:16, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Once I ran miles for fun,
> now it's hard yards, walking.
>
> Once the high sky was the limit,
> now it's a low dark near horizon.
>
> Once I clambered from handhold
> to handhold up a rocky cliff-face
>
> with the sun on my bare brown back.
> Now one rueful glance at the cliffs
>
> and I keep well out of the sun.
> Once my voice reverberated
>
> to a great distance - hoarse now, hard
> of hearing, I hardly hear it myself.
>
> Once my powers of memory
> stood me in great stead -
>
> now: what was I going to say?
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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