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Old Abc Poems

These Old Abc poems are examples of Abc poems about Old. These are the best examples of Abc Old poems written by international poets.


gratitude
Gratitude

He is not here today, the mantle he wrapped
around his bony shoulders, when there was a chill in the air
is carelessly flung on the sofa
A zephyr...

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Categories: absence, age, atheist, birthday,



smoke
The Wardrobe 

I opened the wardrobe door 
There they hang, suits and trousers
worn so long, looking pale
copies of my figure
This can't go on, in a...

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Categories: absence, anger, break up,

the accident
the accident 

When crossing the street, cars had stopped 
to let him cross in respect for his age
He was thinking of death; he hoped it would...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, art,

Nazi time
Nazi time

Uniformed men with ice blue eyes, marched
Up and down the street, bomb fell, earth shock
And I was two years old
An officer with steel rimmed...

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Categories: abuse, april, art, birthday,

cobwebs of dreams
The Cobwebs of Dreams

It was a sunny day, perhaps to clear
I thought
Mother sat in the kitchen sunlight, making her white hair into a halo
I asked...

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Categories: age, allusion, angel, best



after the concert
After the concert

Now, in the afternoon of my life
My thoughts are about love and romance
These pesky things are disturbing 
My tough exterior makes me soft...

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Categories: absence, adventure, art, august,

winter of discontent
Winter of Discontent

Cloudiness has settled in the sky
An act of unpalatable truth of the kind
A summer sun easily hides 
Old dwellings are full of cracks...

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Categories: absence, adventure, age,

Noli me tangere
Noli me tangere

The elderly man with sad brown eyes
Sat on the terrace looking at the sea
Unable to face up to his many failures
He fantasizes and...

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Categories: abuse, age,

the old horse
My old horse 

I had been into town 
Horse and cart
Bought two bags of chicken fodder
Going back to the farm, there are a few steep...

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Categories: adventure, africa, age, america,

the cake shop
The Cake Shop
There was a small cake shop near the bath-house
If I had money, I would go in there for a coffee and a cake
the...

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Categories: adventure, art, best friend,

ghosts
Ghosts. 

I knew of a man who believed in ghosts 
but he didn’t believe in resurrection, 
he believed in dying as an end of all activity 
that was conscious. 
But...

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Categories: absence, adventure, age,

a hand cart and a ring
A Handcart and a Ring 
 
A man I knew had a handcart and became self-employed
I often saw him in the town with a load of parcels...

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Categories: 2nd grade, absence, allegory,

the watershed
The Watershed

There was a time when 45. I thought life had passed me by
I had spent too much time seeing the night train leave.
Through the...

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Categories: age, anti bullying, best

sink bucket
A sink bucket
Today I forgot to buy milk, drank black coffee 
it is easy to remember the past shines like jewels
It was the winter of 1952,...

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Categories: america, anger, autumn,

the end of everything
The end of everything

The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been
the master...

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Categories: age, art, books, break


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