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Perspective Seen
Through
Centenarian Eyes
by Nancy Ness
Perspective seen
through centenarian eyes
Replete
with visions time cannot disguise.
Our blessing still is your sagacious smile,
A hundred years ~ forgetful now, but.wise.
Nine decades past a Finnish child gleams
Vast riches lay in “Great American Dreams.”
Once seventeen, alone at Ellis Isle
No limits hence, resplendent U.S. seems.
Your
days have seen the horse before the cart
Gas lanterns e’er we knew electric start ~
Since “Model-T’s” you’d sooner walk a mile.
From Kitty Hawk, “Endeavor’s” worlds apart.
As Prohibition challenged freedom’s tole
The “Roaring 20’s” yield to “Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
New-fangled gadgets ne’er befit your style
Simplicity, without remote control.
A toiler through the days of suffragette.
From radio to “color” TV set,
And telegraph to bustling cell-phone dial,
Now ICQ on world-wide internet
In
constant strife, our politics five score
Whence numbered I or II, a Great World War
Descried “Depression”, “Holocaust” in heil,
Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm.
Our presidents, of forty-two you’ve seen
Each one of nineteen hundred’s seventeen;
With JFK your favorite all the while
Great leaders slain for “civil rights” demean.
Your family’s most important to your life
You proudly bore three young as Olof’s wife.
Lone son you’ve lost, yet his your eighth grandchild.
Twelve greats, three great-greats, each one borne your rife.
Today’s
applaud your independent stealth
In quest of late undaunted elder’s health
With innate spirit challenge can’t defile
Or quell eyes yearn-in-stilled old dreams of wealth
Your
riches now your great-great grandchildren.
Our prayer for you, dear Grammie Anderson,
Perspective with a centenarian smile,
To see as well the new millennium.
A simile is as easy as pie, but a
metaphor is a piece of cake!
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