Who says age is only a number?

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear rgs,
glad to hear you enjoyed reading my poem.

PS

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear Harini,
Don't keep calculating your age. Just keep thinking that age is only a number.

PS

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear mimmyme,

Thanks for visiting and for the sweet appreciation.

PS

Kamla · May 26, 2015

Dear PS m'am,

How true your words are. You said it all with a wit and smile! You should know after all!!

Whether the saying is true or not, I do find solace in the phrase as I keep adding the number to my age! When someone says that today's seventy is yesterday's fifty, I nod my head with full enthusiasm even as my glasses on the nose does a jig and the gray strands escape and dance on my forehead!

Every day is a present from the Almighty and I want to be all there and present to enjoy the present!

RGS is also duly impressed with your lovely lines and nominated this to the Finest of the Month! Congrats!

L, Kamla

jayasala42 · May 26, 2015

Dear Pushpa,

A poem from the heart! Not from imaginative thinking but flowing from maturity and actual experience! It deserves to be nominated by no less a person as great as RGS. congrats.
Jayasala 42

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear Kamla,

I was quite surprised to know that our master poet RGS has nominated my poem for finest post.

Of course the saying " Age is only a number," may be true for many elderly people.

By God's Grace I am also enjoying life in my late seventies without any major ailments. As you have said, everyday is a present from the Almighty as long as we are hale and hearty.

I have seen many elderly people in our family and friends' circle who suffered a lot and now also suffering. After seeing the suffering person on a sudden impulse I have written this. I felt that I should express my thoughts in a lighter vein.

I am very much humbled to know that impressed RGS and made him to nominate.

Thank you also for your appreciation,

PS
,

Poetlatha · May 26, 2015

Very well written, I could see that experience was the expression of this poem. Your conclusion was awesome, when you are happy you are always young at heart, no matter what comes in life. love to read more keep writing Mam! Thanks for sharing.

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear Jaya,
Thank you!
It was just scribblings of a septuagenarian.
PS

PushpavalliSrinivasan · May 26, 2015

Dear Poetlatha,
Happy to welcome a Young poet to IL. Hope that you will enjoy the friendly atmosphere in IL.

Glad to know that you enjoyed my poem. I have written haikus in Tamil also in the past. Hope that you will enjoy them also.

PS

Poetlatha · May 26, 2015

@PushpavalliSrinivasan : Sure Mam I will check it out. Thanks for your warm welcome and blessings. I write more in English and very few in tamil. Please do pass your comments when you get a chance to read mine too. In hobbies section, I have posted photographs too if you are interested, please do visit, I mentioned it for it is in reference to your name.