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Famous Growing Older Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Growing Older poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous growing older poems. These examples illustrate what a famous growing older poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...he heat-switch - all's
on the shift inwards - colours
bunch into their deeper shades
here's where the year gets used
to growing older and for 
the first time with nowhere
desperate to go (and nothing
to prove) admits what it is
and strolls in a blithe sort 
of way towards all hallows...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg



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IV four

There are things I've given up on
like recording funny answering machine messages.
It's part of growing older
and the human race as a group
has matured along the same lines.
It seems our comedy dates the quickest.
If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare's jokes
I hope you won't be insulted
if I say you're trying too hard.
Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live
seem slow-witted and obvious now.

It's just that our advances are irrepressible.
N...Read more of this...
by Berman, David

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