This poem will be number sixty
I don't know why that matters
but it seems rather significant.
Something of a milestone,
like completing a 5 or 10 K run.
A modest but personal achievement.
Why is it we celebrate turning twenty-one
but not twenty years old?
Sixty seems a nice round number.
The Sixty is the motorway ring-road
around the city I live.
I count the number of poems
like the guy in the Great Escape
marking in chalk the tally-count
of the tunnels he's dug
or like a footballer recording
caps for their country
or a competing quiz team
totalling up their score.
How should I celebrate
completing sixty poems?
I think I'll celebrate
by writing
sixty one.
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Author:
Tom C Dylan (
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You are not even in second gear yet...Go for the ton, Tom - I'm sure the projected forty will be as equally entertaining as the first sixty.
Bless ya. Thanks Dave. Here's to the ton! 🙂 Appreciated mate. Cheers, Tom.
A good sixty Tom.
Thanks a lot, Orchi. Really appreciated. 🙂
Good write
Cheers, mate. Appreciated.
The answer to your question is exactly what I was thinking. Congratulations Tom on sixty. Cheers to the next sixty and beyond. 😊👍
Cheers, AP. Thanks as always. Yeah, here's to the next sixty. And happy Friday. 🙂
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