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Midlife
by Karen C Vanderlaan → (All Poetry by Karen C Vanderlaan)
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my response to a recent question about wether i was going to have a mid-life crisis

If I had more time


I would have a mid-life crisis


If I could stop the world


I would fall apart
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Reviewed by cecil hickman
Reviewed on February 28, 2007
very very cute and definitely full of reality, this was short in words but stands tall in virtue and humor,,lessings Cecil
Reviewed by Art Hernandez
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
A nice work that places the reality of how one copes with this escape from the mid-life...

crisis.....Art Sun...
Reviewed by Bobbi Duffy
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
Karen, so sucient and to the point. Midlife crisis aren't what their cracked up to be anyway.

Bobbi
Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
Wonderful reply and JUST SO TRUE!!! Trouble is, I did and I did and I have.. if you get me... And it feels GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!! Reckon there is much to be said for deconstructin to reconstruct... but tis bloody painful in the process. BRILLIANT summation and wonderfully complex in so few lines. TY Kate xx
Reviewed by Constance Gotsch
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
Yes. Exactly.
Reviewed by Rusty Daily
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
Sage advice here Karen.
Rusty
Reviewed by Kimmy Van Kooten
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
If the beginning of life, to the mid of life got us thinking as such, what does mid-life to the end of life have in store?
Great thoughts stirred here!
Enjoyed!
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
I think I had mine already - now I await Old Age Crisis - which will probably be very traumatic.
Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on February 15, 2007
So true but time unfortunately only speeds up it seems as we face the aging clock...
Fee
Reviewed by Larry Lounsbury
Reviewed on February 14, 2007
Great comeback to living life for each moment. Life is grand.
Reviewed by R Beeman
Reviewed on February 14, 2007
I totally understand. Nice answer to the question i must say.

always,
randy
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on February 14, 2007
Being busy does counteract mid-life crisis...wild yam root keeps poetry youthful and flax seeds level hot flashes into surges of creativity...great concept, Karen...

Sage
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