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Battle of heart and brainPot on the stove,
Boiling away,
I don't know what drove,
Me to this rage,
Life is always unfair,
Says my brain,
They don't care,
You mean nothing to them,
I can't control my thoughts,
They keep coming,
Small things, big reports,
She didn't pay attention,...
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Categories:
age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
PREMATURE MATURATIONThe trouble with aging
Is people believe it requires
A “growing up”
A period of maturation
(did I spell that right).
I’ve been around for
Three quarters of a century
With a foot in two millennia
And I still think Pharts are Phunny.
All...
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Categories:
age, fun, growing up,
Form: Free verse
THAT ACT YOUR AGE NONSENSE9/30/2023
I have heard this saying all of my life,
There is just no handbook, for any age!
I hear...
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Categories:
age, funny,
Form: Quatrain
PLEASE GOD JUST ONE MORE NIGHTGrateful you don't forsake me, God
when too tired to get dressed.
Illness is now overwhelming,
sometimes ... I get depressed.
My attitude's on the down low,
hormones are out of wack.
When seeing doctors, always hide
beneath wig ... or a...
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Categories:
age, faith, fear, old,
Form: Rhyme
You are EnoughYou are Enough
Even if the only tool
You had was a measuring cup.
Know that you measure up to enough
Even though you've been through
All kinds of stuff
Know that nothing goes unnoticed
And...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Free verse
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elfInk roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...
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Categories:
absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Got 'EmAs quickly as it came, oops now it's gone
You had it for a second but you couldn't hold on
But how could you hold on when it's fleeting?
Not many are learning but Aquarius is teaching
...
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Categories:
addiction, age, crazy, culture,
Form: Rhyme
THANKFUL FOR HAVING GROWN OLDER
May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.
Today I’m thankful for having grown...
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Categories:
age, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
GETTING OLDER
As I was leaving the doctor’s office he was dictating notes about our meeting…
I eavesdropped…because I can….
He said he’d just finished up a conference with a delightful 70 year old man.
I was glad he used...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Rhyme
HOT LINKHOT LINK
Tim Berners-Lee’s praises are sung
Back when the internet was young
The worldwide web, a phrase to use
Often abbreviated to triple w’s
...
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Categories:
age, england, internet,
Form: Clerihew
Adults talkingSkipping to the ending of the page, kids growing up too quick
No longer scared of dentist and being alone, no longer a kid
Caring far too much about being an adult, a poor young mind being...
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Categories:
age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
American GirlI'm an American Girl.
I believed in stories
with a Disney ending.
Picket fence dreams
and picked pocket realities.
Golden opportunities,
silver linings turned gray.
Live to fight another day,
try to find another way.
Don't...
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Categories:
age, america, angst, child,
Form: Rhyme
Aging Gracefullyleaves fall to the ground
aging gracefully like them,
wisdom comes with time
...
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Categories:
age, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
Dynamic reef flexion within the restless Earth Dynamic reef flexion within the restless Earth
Continental drift spelled birth
once spelled Pangaea,
in early geologic time,
a supercontinent that incorporated
almost all the landmasses on Earth.
While rifling through mine
treasure trove of poems,
yours truly chanced upon...
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Categories:
absence, age, america, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Time To Pull That PlowI tell myself to look away as I seek to avoid the truth
But even when I close my eyes I find that it’s no use
Seems there’s no escaping from the memories of my past
I...
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Categories:
age, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Age Poems
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40, 50, 60, 70, coming of, different, enlightenment, exploration, funny, middle, new, old, romantic, stone
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Definition | What is Age in Poetry?
Poems Related to Age
youth, maturity, life, old age, infancy, milestone, childhood, adolescence, wear and tear, adulthood, middle age, generation, millennium, era, epoch, interim, duration, lifetime, aeon, develop, mature, grow up, grow feeble, grow old,