Monday, November 26, 2012

DEDICATED TO ANYONE WHO IS PERHAPS A LITTLE LESS SYLPH-LIKE THAN THEY ONCE WERE AND OTHER THINGS

This is a poem (by a lady named Maya Angelou) that I came across recently and it certainly applies to me (except my shoe size has gone down rather than up).  I enjoyed the humour of it and hope others will too.

MY YOUNGER DAYS

When I was in my younger days I weighed a few pounds less;
I needn't hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.
But now that I am older, I've set my body free;
There's the comfort of elastic where once my waist would be.

The inventor of those high-heeled shoes my feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a size nine now but used to wear a seven.
And how about those panthose?  They're sized by weight you see;
So how come when I put them on the crotch is at my knee?

I need to wear these glasses as the print's been getting smaller;
And it wasn't very long ago I know that I was taller.
Though my hair has turned to grey and my skin no longer fits,
On the inside I'm the same old me......but the outside's changed a bit!

5 comments:

  1. I love this!
    I'd like to know how your shoe size goes down though, that seems a little unusual.

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  2. Yes, it is unusual....for years I took an Australian size 10 but now I take a 9. I must admit though that dress sizes seem to have changed from years ago as well. We of course had sizes such as SSSW SSW SW W XW and so on and now of course they go up in sizes by 2's from size 6 through to heaven knows how big.

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  3. I remember those dress sizes. I used to buy skirts and blouses in SSW and they'd be a bit big, not too much, but enough that I'd have to take up hems and shift buttons. Nowadays, I still have to take up hems but if they were sized the same I'd probably have to buy the XW or whatever the equivalent is for size 16.

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  4. I adore Maya Angelou. She is a beautiful, witty, wise woman. I'm surprised at your shoe size too! Each of my pregnancies gave me a higher shoe size! I was a 7, and I'm now an 8 wide or a 9.

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  5. I know it is strange about my shoe size but I for many years did take a size 10 but now a 9 is just right for me as long as it is a wide fitting. A size 10 just falls off. Weird? Just me I guess!!
    I'd not previously heard of Maya Angelou but must find more of her work. My hubby belongs to a group at our local library calling itself The Dead Poet's Society and they meet once a month to recite their selected poems and have light discussions about them. This Maya may be a poet that he could introduce to the group via one of her poems.

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