Retirement Addiction Poems

In the tapestry of life, memories weave their threads, and the echoes of past workplaces linger like faint perfume. Seacrest, with its morning shifts and...

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Since retirement
I have gradually become more disappointed
with watching
and listening
to performers,
to on-screen entertainments,
to emotional yet disembodied hypnosis,
to vicarious fascinations
now suspiciously corrupt

Performance watching
becomes a cheaply vacuous substitute
for...

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What a friend you had in me,                  ...

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MY GENERATION SISTER
love isn't a blessing,its a damn halacus 
I could tell right by the look on her eyes. 
She has grown round ,her hind...

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I am happy to be a retiree in Winter,
It couldn't have worked out better,
With need to feel bitter,
When it starts to get colder.

I can go...

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I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor.
Ah, zeal of crossroads drove an interconnected strand.
Oh,goodness, how my initiative has flustered.

If we communicated then we...

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I can't imagine what it must be like,
With no excuse to retire,
Never seeing a time for the boss to take a hike.

I can't imagine what...

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In Oxford we watched for three months
the old man, his leg in plaster,
lean against the wall outside the building
where the Simon people cared for him.

He...

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In Oxford we watched for three months
the old man, his leg in plaster,
lean against the wall outside the building
where the Simon people cared for him.

He...

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Watch me walk through the sadsands of stupored time 
trading youth for aged ashes, suredness for shyness
knowledge for retirement, candor for cowardice, 
diligence for dunceness,...

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Just received a message of love
From a dear sweet soul on the Soup
It blew me away, brought a tear to my eye
To feel such love,...

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