Showing posts with label eightieth birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eightieth birthday. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Birthday Again. Comical poem 746 by Angela Lansbury.

 


May you live to be a hundred

May you live to see a hundred

People gather smiling at you

They can't go wrong singing a song


How old are you?

They haven't a clue

You look so young

You're so much fun


Fifty, sixty, seven, eighty

Each decade sound much more weighty

Years pass fast when you're having fun

I want to repeat twenty-one


As the candles burn

it's your turn

to blow them out

and give a shout


Thank you for your presence

Balloons and cards

Finding something nice to tell us

Really isn't very hard


What's the secret of living long?

Is it hiding or striding strong?

Eat good food or like a small drink

Exercise, or soothe what you think?


Think of flowers and butterflies

Cakes, balloons, candles in your eyes

Think of friends, laughter and Champagne

Have a great year, meet here again.

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Monday, January 6, 2025

Be Brave - Don't Save, comic poem number 499 by Angela Lansbury

One pound coin. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
 

On my eightieth birthday I'll spend all my money

On a full size jar of manuka honey

My taxes all go to warring nations

I could be cruising, or at train stations


You wonder why I'm getting impatient

Why this panic buying? What do I want?

From postwar rations to cheap fast fashions?

Savings scarily shrink with inflation!


Last night I dreamed of a weeping willow

And a swing where we hidden children play

A butter-size gold block under my pillow

In the light of day it melted away


When I am tired of endless clothes washing

I've got the year planned for spending a grand

I'll spend hours searching, for just ten dollars

Splurge on pairs of removable collars


all my life I saved for a rainy dayy

Now sunny days have gone too far away

I grain and say what others dare not say

That every day's a bloody rainy day


I dream of birthday one hundred and three

The king's birthday card saved addressed to me

But I have not yet reached seventy nine

That's why I buy on discount all the time.

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