I AM NOT OLD

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Quote from Carl Sandburg. The Hummingbird Poetry Series is curated by Lynda Bernard.

Past Poetry Selections

Hummingbird’s Featured Poem

I AM NOT OLD

Samantha Reynolds

I am not old she said. 
I am rare. 
I am the standing ovation at the end of the play. 
I am the retrospective of my life as art. 
I am the hours connected like dots Into good sense.
I am the fullness of existing. 
You think I am waiting to die.
But I am waiting to be found.
I am a treasure. 
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are imprints of my journey.
Ask me anything. 

Curator’s Note. Reynolds presents a deeper perception of aging, turning the more common thinking upside down. She communicates the grace inherent in growing old.