Best Old Poems
Below are the all-time best Old poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of old poems written by PoetrySoup members
Getting Old Is Getting OldI've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter,
my mission each hour: relieving my bladder.
When I was a youngster, I had no...
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Categories:
age, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old HouseSeven generations walked through your door,
Which stood so strong and always welcomed in.
You said goodbye when boys headed to war,
Two soldiers lost to battles they...
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Categories:
old, childhood, family, house, memory,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
old, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
GrandpaThe old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.
He gazed upon a little...
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Categories:
childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form:
Couplet
I Want Your Seeds**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel...
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Categories:
adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Sailing the Seas In a Pecan TreeThe wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...
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Categories:
adventure, old,
Form:
Rhyme
October SkiesWe are apples growing on our parent's tree, planted by our grandparents from the apples of our great-grandparents ~ author
October skies still reflect in your...
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Categories:
old, age, anniversary, autumn, grandparents,
Form:
Lyric
This Song Is For My MotherThis song is for my mother
Let her hear me cry
I couldn’t bring myself to write it
‘Til this darkened day arrived
A song about old promises
Made...
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Categories:
old, angst, death, dedication, depression,
Form:
Ballad
If Ever I Don't Know"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
...
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Categories:
old, age, daughter, father daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
BlissIgnorance is definitely a description of bliss
Look at Washington if you don’t believe this
They are never on target, they always miss
Their biggest decision is whose...
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Categories:
politicalold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
old, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form:
Monoku
Categories:
old, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Shadow of MeIt was a long time ago, in another age
Where the shifting of the wind
Knew where I began
A place so far away,
Somewhere distant, in childhood...
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Categories:
age, love, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Ghost ValentineAn old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.
A storehouse for so many...
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Categories:
old, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Couplet
Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyWhen walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can then see rainbow hues
thus...
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Categories:
old, age, appreciation, happiness, hope,
Form:
Rhyme