<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Turning Fifty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Having known war and peace<br>and loss and finding,<br>I drink my coffee and wait<br>for the sun to rise,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With kitchen swept, cat fed,<br>the day will quiet,<br>I taste my fifty years<br>here in the cup.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside the green birds come<br>for bread and water.<br>Their wings wait for the sun<br>to show their colours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll show my colours too.<br>Though we've polluted<br>even this air I breathe<br>And spoiled green earth;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though, granted life or death,<br>death's what we're chosing,<br>and though these years we live<br>scar flesh and mind,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">still, as the sun comes up<br>bearing my birthday,<br>having met time and love<br>I raise my cup -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dark, bitter, neutral, clean,<br>sober as the morning -<br>to all I've seen and known -<br>to this new sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Wright">Judith Wright</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427797" data-title="Turning Fifty de Judith Wright" data-description="Having known war and peace and loss and finding, I drink my coffee and wait for the sun to rise, With kitchen swept, cat fed, the day will quiet, I taste my fifty years here in the cup. Outside the green birds come for bread and water. Their win..."></div> </div> </div>

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