Alan sent me this one and I copied it so I could put it out here, then read the next one he sent and was so shocked by his recent brush with death I forgot that not long before his near-fatal heart attack, he'd celebrated his 74th birthday! I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do, me who basically hates poetry, as I've posted before, BUT his nearly always pulls at my very limited poetry strings! Thanks Alan!!!
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Happy Birthday, Finally
……………..“For My Seventy-Fourth”
……………..“June 6, 2021.”
it still seems
……………..amazing to me
I try to play
……………..the trumpet everyday
and can still make it
……………..to high “c.”
*****
awhile back
……………..I had my old horn
professionally cleaned
……………..& worked on.
it’s so good to play on it
……………..looking forward.
it seems now there is
……………..no more old arthritis in the slides
and the sticking values
……………..are all fixed.
*****
I now feel I still have
……………..some more notes to play!
and feel, also for sure
……………..now I have
just a few more poems
……………..to play & sing out high, like high
“c.”
.Postscript: A very sincere birthday wish. My hope, is a wish for a lot
of people, who survived the virus era. Those that made it both mentally and
physically. And now the wish is, they all feel a lot better, finally!.
by Alan Yount
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