Farewell Age Poems
These Farewell Age poems are examples of Age poems about Farewell. These are the best examples of Age Farewell poems written by international poets.
dance, divine
a stroll …
just a stroll … like any other
numberless now, the times this path
had taken her to the wood -
the dark, deep wood where her
memories...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, beauty, life,
Charleston MermanWe were vacationing in the state of
palm trees and seashore in September's
mild loveliness.
Me, a sexagenarian widow,
hobbled by arthritis in my knees.
As my family enjoyed the...
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Categories:
age, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Last Organ GrinderYou can always hear the jangling sound,
Of the organ grinder as he makes his way around.
He's out there in the rain or sun,
And everyone looks...
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Categories:
age, childhood, culture, farewell,
CautionCaution
Coal and violets strewn among your bone
Frosted the night, icy glaze of patient fire
Bending and breaking as a knead
Stammer and as tremor, shallots sake
We...
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Categories:
age, divorce, farewell, love,
The Age of ManThe Age of Man
We carried on
The age of man
Till moon of tin bore
An electric sun
And all machines
Shone bright and clean
Keeping silent
But wanting more
Till the...
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Categories:
age, computer, culture, eulogy, farewell,
Today Im Fifty ThreeGentlemen, I’m fifty-three!
“Now, can I still climb a tree?
Atop tree raise hands with glee
Repeating “Atop thee, Gee!”?
An Apt Gift for this Birthday!
Yet, for biggest cash...
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Categories:
age, allusion, celebration, humanity,
Zen Death Haiku ViiiZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Had I not known
I was already dead
I might have mourned
my own...
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Categories:
age, allusion, analogy, angst,
Zen Death Haiku ViZEN DEATH HAIKU VI
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes of light
briefly illuminating the void.
—Ouchi Yoaka,...
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Categories:
age, analogy, angst, animal,
Zen Death Haiku VZEN DEATH HAIKU V
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
A cat in heat
can't catch a mouse? —
pathetic!
—Kinpu, loose translation...
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Categories:
age, analogy, angst, animal,
Exit StrategyTo prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled
echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale
silent sacred pause
for Earth's final soliloquy
Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,
healthy
and disturbing relationships,
elegantly excruciating ecstasy
Leaving...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, death, grief,
Everything FadesSalubrious salutations, new age
gradually old made voyage,
Living was perfunctory and now it’s stale,
Can the memory sway?
You yelled but no one heard,
Maybe tide was...
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Categories:
absence, age, blessing, courage,
ForsakenA haggard bit of burnt toast
long since bruise-colored
forlorn, it keeps to itself
'midst crumbs indeterminate
...
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Categories:
age, eulogy, farewell, lonely,
With You Friends, I CommemorateAkanji Michael Oluwasayo,
Celebrate today, it's yours
Darling, you must not stop
Keep pushing, aiming top
Even when you forget notch
Keep an open eye to watch
The mile window of...
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Categories:
1st grade, africa, age,
Ex Machina Tempores - Repthis last step...
protruding veins under the skin,
the other imperfections
and these eyes,
from distance.
scaly is the word for it,
brittle skin.
it's not good,
evokes the relentless of time.
it...
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Categories:
age, farewell, time,
Marguerite's Last TangoMarguerite is dead, Hey!
Slipped and fell on her head, Hey!
Though near eighty-four,
She traipsed 'cross the floor.
Now she's all done and said, Hey!
Marguerite knew the song,...
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Categories:
age, dance, death, death