Poems About Aging by Top Critiquers

Inspiration Requiem

It is amazing
how long an eclipse
can seem
to churn on.....

and yet
these vapid
and nullifying
instances
are their own source
of inspiration.

There is
a humble nobility
in painting
that waning
instability
even
as we fall
off a roof....

a zenlike quality
of seeing despair
as the staircase
to moonlight.

Time drifts quickly,
Issuing desperation into the void.
A besom's stirring memory,
Ascends to the fore.
Reflection, stokes a flame,
That sparked long ago.
Yours, is a prod, that could ignite;
A flicker, that might engulf, into burning.

Do you recall?
Or is it mere imagination,
What almost was?
It's something I relive,
When warm winds, only arouse memories.
Memories, that invoke you,
& that cause me to think about rekindling, an old ember.