Steeled “On the Eve of My Birthday” uses the occasion to toast his life, “unsuccesses” as well as accomplishments.
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Happy Birthday to the Love of My Life
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Old Love in Shapes That Renew Forever
A Tagore poem for my wife on her 71st birthday.
To Julia, Who Turns 70 Today
I celebrate my wife’s 70th birthday with a Christina Rossetti love poem.
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A Birthday Poem by the Numbers
My wedding anniversary and birthday this year all work together as a numerical quirk, giving me a rationale to share one of Jonathan Swift’s “Stella birthday poems” in which the poet also plays around with numbers.
Happy Birthday, Phoebe Strehlow Bates
My mother’s birthday is today–and because 89 is the new 75, here’s a Robert Service poem on his 75th birthday.
For My Father’s 90th Birthday
I celebrate my father’s 90th birthday today with R. S. Thomas’ rich poem about visiting a 90-year-old woman.
Blow Out Your Candles, No Darkness
This Richard Wilbur poem has fun kidding the poet’s esoteric friend.
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