Ellen Bailey Poems

http://www.ellenbailey.com/

This website is dedicated to Ellen Bailey and is a repository for her unedited and unpublished poems, odes, and lyrics. Most of her writings are religious and inspirational in nature but some are funny and humorous.
We hope you will find these poems inspiring and entertaining. New entries are added periodically so check back often for updates.
Ellen Bailey was born in Puritan Mines, West Virginia, a small, close-knit community of hard-working coal miners. The town is located at the southern tip of the state amid the beautiful Appalachia Mountains. She has lived there her whole life and has seldom ventured beyond her roots.
She wrote her first poem when she was in the third grade; it was a poem about the country of Holland.
She has been a regular contributor to the Williamson Daily News, a local newspapers, and a great many of her poems were first published in its columns under the name of Matilda Ellen Brown, her maiden name.
Ellen is a God-Fearing woman with a wonderful sense of humor. Both of these traits are reflected in the type of poetry she writes. She draws upon her life experiences and her belief in the Bible for the inspiration for her poems.




My Younger Days

by Maya Angelou
 
When I was in my younger days,
I weighed a few pounds less,
I needn't hold my tummy in
to wear a belted dress.

But now that I am older,
I've set my body free;
There's the comfort of elastic
Where once my waist would be.

Inventor of those high-heeled shoes
My feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a nine now,
But used to wear a seven.

And how about those pantyhose-
They're sized by weight, you see,
So how come when I put them on
The crotch is at my knee?

I need to wear these glasses
As the print's been getting smaller;
And it wasn't very long ago
I know that I was taller.

Though my hair has turned to gray
and my skin no longer fits,
On the inside, I'm the same old me,
It's the outside's changed a bit.
 

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