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I would like to thank Real Poetic for this challenge. My work is very personal instead of just dealing with the changes in the wider world, so maybe I have broken the rules?

Just maybe...

And I have not written in a classical style in some time, and this one seemed to demand it (enjoy the links on Yeats and Tennyson):

That will be my sixtieth year.

I feel as though things will go on;

Same old ideas, brand new fears,

And maybe even another poem.

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I have Yeats and Tennyson in mind

As I wonder what will come.

And in such talent I can find

That I am not the only one.

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The only one? What do I mean?

To say that I am alone with age,

The sense of death and things unseen;

I too will turn a page.

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So in the ten years ahead,

I expect more of the things I have heard,

Studied, felt and read.

But...I cannot think of another word.

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