Retirement Allusion Poems

969 A Thousand Years of Ticking Time
David J Walker  

Mr. Methuselah
	A word please
It’s about time 
To reveal what you know and
When you knew that...

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Soft  rain  at window
           invites reflection retreat
      ...

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Homer’s Diner

Retirement closes afternoon eyes;
Dreamlike pictures of old desires arrive;
Transporting the willing consciousness
To a heaven’s far away hoped diner 
Where old friends arrive one by...

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	Grifters ... 
parasites of polite society
Practitioners of the long and short con,
two-armed trust bandits
prying open the window of retiring dreams
They tell some real tasty good...

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I may seem lazy, I may seem lame
I surely have myself to blame.

My past life a constant struggle
I shy away in my own bubble.

I don't...

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>Some people who have me
Really love me true.
Although I am not too sure.
That's what they ought to do!

And then there is those that have me...

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old post from last year.....

"Music Maestro," the conductor turns-
 The curtain rises and the ballet begins,
People sit on the edge of their seats-
Tasting the sweetness...

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So words become; the order of the day
and order of the day becomes
the soldiered meaning of all work and play,
the ever present, beating drums.

Then words...

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From Pinnacle to Cynical 

When we were young
We had our dreams
But, in our future we would find
That many times along the way
There were mountains, we...

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