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Aging Poems - Poems about Aging

Aging Poems - Examples of all types of poems about aging to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for aging.
Premium Member Aging rocks
Aging rocks fall into the sea; the tides erode all norms over time. ...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Aging Ungracefully
Crappy, crepey skin What a shape I'm in Is it inherited though Watch out daughters for The warning signs or It will slip up on you so Fast as speeding car Superman by far Get on it keep it at bay Whom am I...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Aging and Eating
Fats and sugars and other such we pack our stomachs with too much; the result is an expanded waistline duplicated by a rear not far behind....Read the rest...
Categories: aging, word play,
Form: Ghazal

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Premium Member Falling With Leaves of Autumn
The leaden cloud-covered sun relentlessly starves the summer harvest- strangling its life-giving light to wield the death of all filaments and assemblance of living green. Leaves plot their fate turning into a fiery protest of orange, yellow, cinnabar, and tawny...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, autumn, change, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Entropy
The older I get The weaker and slower And more tired I get (with, from, of) And the less I care (about, for, to). When I was younger I guess I saw this coming, At least I saw it in old...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, life, old, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative



Fine Aging
Age like fine wine Gets better more Handsome with time....Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, beauty, time,
Form: Than-Bauk
AGING OF A MAN
A man only grows old when he no longer dreams, then he decreases....Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, allusion, dream, men,
Form: Monoku
Seeds of Life
a seed is planted in the garden watching it push up slowly through the wet soil green shoots rising in the spring rain she holds the baby in her arms softly cooing in the blazing heat of summer...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, family, garden, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time
What is time if not an elusive, capricious thing? We want more of it—but with more of it, we age. And if we age, we have less time. What an elusive, capricious thing—time is, ...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, anxiety, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Angst of Aging
I never thought much about growing old While challenging the idea of “getting” old A well-aged wine or cheese has merit A well-aged man has wrinkles and nose hair ...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aging fun
I used to walk with such a sprightly pace, Now I shuffle slow, like I am in a race... With a turtle. My steps, they take their time, Each creak and crack a rhythmic rhyme....Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age,
Form: Rhyme
Unconscious Bias: I Have Fallen in Love with My Past
In the quiet hush of morning light, He stares at her with tender eyes, A face familiar, yet out of sight, In the fog where all memory lies. Her voice, a melody he once knew, Now stirs something deep inside, A...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, cute, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Chair
In his old leather chair he sits and blinks his eyes the off white sits on his hair like dust upon the mantle. A murky sea of bluish grey where smoking gave him cataracts but they still burn of yesterday the tobacco...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, bereavement, death, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aging
I age gradually as obstacles come on suddenly...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Two Old Gods
Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at. Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches Overhead, and crisscrossing the red and black pieces Upon their welcoming checkerboard. I...Read the rest...
Categories: aging, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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