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Retirement Absence Poems

These Retirement Absence poems are examples of Absence poems about Retirement. These are the best examples of Absence Retirement poems written by international poets.


Could have Should have
I could have been their time,
It should have been their time,
With the kids now in their own time,
And retirement giving them the time,
To take their...

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Categories: absence, age, analogy, angst,



ex presidents
Ex-presidents

There was a man, not very tall, selling
pornographic pictures at a corner of a 
street
Once he had all the power, one could 
dream of, as...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, abuse, adventure,

Never Get It Back
Those few hours in the morning, when you’d like to be forgiven
You never get them back
Those few hours in the morning, when you want to...

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Categories: absence, depression, destiny, how

Self Isolation
I am writing this as vivid as a candlelight dancing in the dark ~
Portraying shadows of my greatest regrets.
There’s a battle going on around the...

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Categories: absence, courage, farewell, international,

Premium Member The Book of Life
Wherein this life I do  my thoughts  rehearse
Therein is found  my unique chapter and verse
This finite  earth may be my physical...

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Categories: absence, farewell, goodbye, retirement,



Stone
Hidden under the honeysuckle
and hibiscus
Lies a stone.
And as I sit, drinking a gin and tonic
Looking over the spent plates
where crusty bread
fried calamari, which is a...

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Categories: absence, america, art, beautiful,

Premium Member Wrinkly and Gray
I am very young in spirit, never weak: guess my actual age?
I keep a positive outlook by avoiding negativeness and rage!
Twenty years from now, I'll...

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Categories: absence, age, america, emotions,

The Colliers Son
Mother and three siblings to keep,
bread winner, man of the house,
at pit head, down into the deep,
to extract coal like a sucking louse,
 
twelve hour...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, boy, career, courage,

Half a Couplet
It's couplet time but I am shy one person short of a couple.
If I don't find a partner soon, I'm going to be in trouble.

I...

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Categories: absence, adventure, retirement,

Premium Member Preterition
Retirement day came for the most responsible employee of the company 
Thirty years of waking up each morning at 5:00 a.m. in the morning
Making routinary...

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Categories: absence, celebration, humor,

Burning Passion Turned Fire
Here comes the stormy fire,
Burned out my desire,
Racing against my chest, my hearts pacing,
Beating the pulse to a pulp, draining me dry,
Now’s the time to...

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Categories: absence, goodbye, retirement, romantic,

Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro 
So you do know Fidel Castro? I think I do
that was the name of the mess boy, the one who 
had to do...

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Categories: absence, humorous, retirement,

Cards of Life
CARDS OF LIFE

We ought to be proud that we're still here,
For many did leave us  within months or few years 
they showed up;
Surviving nine...

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© Clay More  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence

From the National Poet of Slovenia In a Language People Understand - the Ruins of the Ancien Regime
Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.

He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss...

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Categories: absence, allegory, analogy, animal,


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