{"id":1824,"date":"2019-02-09T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:02:11","slug":"maybe-ten-more-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Ten More Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>None of us are getting any younger, but as you progress through your seventies\u00a0 you begin to reflect on just how many more years you actually may have left&#8230;<\/em> <\/strong><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1857 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TPOTG-Getting-Older-Acknowledgement-1.png\" alt=\"TPOTG Getting Older Acknowledgement\" width=\"584\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TPOTG-Getting-Older-Acknowledgement-1.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TPOTG-Getting-Older-Acknowledgement-1-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe ten more summers, I hope there are more,<br \/>But nothing is certain, nothing is sure.<br \/>And at the end of those summers, when the lights fade,<br \/>Too late then to regret decisions not made.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe ten more summers, so what should I do?<br \/>Stick with the old or try something new?<br \/>Another adventure, before I\u2019m too old,<br \/>Create some new stories, which to friends can be told?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe ten more summers, our lives are so short,<br \/>That time passes so quickly is not something we\u2019re taught,<br \/>Feels like only yesterday those teenage years,<br \/>No old age thoughts then, no nagging fears.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe ten more summers, choices need to be made,<br \/>But with age we lose confidence, become more afraid;<br \/>And what if that ten becomes twenty, or more?<br \/>If only I knew what life had in store.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe ten more summers, is the time now or never<br \/>To stop being so wise, to dispense with the clever?<br \/>Is it time to be carefree, just live for the day,<br \/>Before my summers are all taken away?<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg\" alt=\"TOOTG Copyright 2016-2020 01\" width=\"206\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-1200x720.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of us are getting any younger, but as you progress through your seventies\u00a0 you begin to reflect on just how many more years you actually may have left&#8230; Maybe ten more summers, I hope there are more,But nothing is certain, nothing is sure.And at the end of those summers,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1824\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[252,247,253,246,49,11,10,30,251,245,248,31],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-adventure","tag-decisions","tag-fear","tag-life","tag-old-age","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reflecting","tag-rhyme","tag-summers","tag-time","tag-verse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phbx6B-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}