60 Age Poems

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The...

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If we delay pushing back,
Telling others it is wrong to do that,
Putting on a hard hat,
Leaving a one bedroom flat,
Giving bodies less fat,
Chasing the money...

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(I wrote this poem when I turned 60…already somewhat old and gray
and now that I’m am 70…it’s still appropriate today.

I’ve lived through another decade with...

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Don't talk to me, 
Never will I hear 
For deaf was I, 
No melody, no extortion
Shall my old ears entertain,
So don't talk to me now.

Don't...

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Excited puppy; she’s no pup,
And yet she runs in circles ‘round. 
I know she’s younger in dog years, 
But her time comes, not long from...

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Flyover of no return
David J Walker

I remember
Approaching 40

Going 60 miles per hour
Reaching for the marker 

That might curtail the power
And avail a slower pace 

A...

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Young Again***

The true story tells of a boy
Whose near-death experience
Took him on a tour of heaven.
The movie trailer shows the boy
Unable to recognize a photo...

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At an approximate distance of 2 benches, you stood there, every day explaining how two negatives makes a positive. I remember, that day, ages ago,...

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When I was 14 yrs old...
     I never thought I would turn the magical 16...
      ...

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And suddenly, 50 was  here, all the music got
louder, all the drivers for younger.  My hair
was on a farewell tour, visiting the sink...

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New Math X a Equals Aging
David J Walker
 
You are only 21 once
You are only 22 twice
You are only 23 three times
And 24 by 4
Before...

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Two of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind              ...

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the year that was

January 

The world watches in amazement
Longest shut down in history
Watching it all in Korea
contemplating escaping the cold winter

February 

World watches as North...

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We were sitting in our 60+ sharing circle
on a rainy Tuesday afternoon,
grey and raw and dreary,
listlessly speaking of the need to downsize,
to transition to a...

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