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Spring Tune-Up
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Spring comes...work on it!


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Baggy face, rub your lazy eyes awake.
Goodness gracious, look at you - a disgrace!
Those extra layers Spring uncovers such mistake.
Unseated winter heavy weight, displace!

Stand up! Stretch. Bend over. Lower, slower. Hold.
Exhale. Now, uplift stiff torso, upper limbs.
Reach higher. Pull. You ache you say? Don’t fold!
Journey’s many more treadmill miles begins.

Look in mirror. Be ruthless! Recognize?
Let’s recover some of who you used to be.
Lose that spare part ‘round the middle. Resize.
Stroke, pummel, massage visage worth the see.

As we write, count 6 weeks or so's reprieve:
Mold, remake yourself, best you can retrieve!



copyright © Helga Ross 2004

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 Reviews of "Spring Tune-Up"
Reviewed by ya mama (Reader)
Reviewed on January 30, 2004
well done.

Reviewed by Carmen Ruggero
Reviewed on January 30, 2004
So much energy! Very appropriate -- could be addressing me! Good work, Helga.

Carmen

Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz (Reader)
Reviewed on January 29, 2004
Helga...this was absolutely terrific!
And the cat pic topped it off perfectly.

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on January 29, 2004
Great message...we are doing the atkins thing...lol...and using exersicer...trying to trim up a bit...gosh loved the fat cat on the scale...enjoyed this sonnet Helga..floria

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on January 29, 2004
Great advice - in a sonnet yet!

Love that graphic, too!

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 29, 2004
Helga were you peeking in my window!;-)LOL Perfect timing! I just started;-)You are such a whiz to get this in a sonnet! Wondrous!


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