An aged (wo)man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick,
unless Soul clasp its hands and sing,and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~ W.B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Happy Birthday to me...still singing after all these years.
Happy birthday for yesterday, hope you had a lovely day
Happy BD.
i think Yeats stole the tattered coat from Shakespeare.
Happy Birthday dear lady!!
@MissKathleen Hot and tired and not in a good way. I've started doing breathing treatments and that has really helped.
@MissKathleen At least you had that trip to Co. Sorry it is so hot there.
Have good birthday fellow Virgo of the cusp!
My bd is three days away!
I will spent it alone, for that is how I feel these days living in this country under trump and the obstructionist republican fascists!
Any more I wish we all had so much more to celebrate than the times we are now living among!!!
Happy birthday, @MissKathleen, and may it be filled with plenty of song.
Happy Virgo....I mean birthday. (Not the virgin as once was told, but a twirling nymph on the forest floor.
That shall still seduce men young & old, a siren's feast as is the lore. )
@MissKathleen Me. Thank you.
A very happy birthday to you Kathleen, and may you have many more of them. You quoted Yeats, do you know you share your birthday with another Irish legend ....Van Morrison?
Lucky woman! Love him!
@ReadyforaChange Yes...he’s definitely a legend here in Northern Ireland.
Happy birthday. The sweetest of chestnuts do not ripen till last, and wear the most tattered garments, it is the kernel grown inside that counts.
@MissKathleen Its me, just wrote it.
@Fernapple You're a poet and we didn't know it!! Nice!
Just a bag of bones, once flaunted within youth, now just a vast distance memory of what was and will never be!!!
By me this day 31August 2020