Growing Old
...You’re only as old as you feel some say.
How will it feel on your eightieth birthday?
Everything’s quieter and harder to see.
Not everyone, just seems like it to me.
Portions are smaller as w...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, adventure, age, birthday, change,
Form: Couplet
The Fountain of Youth
...Juan Ponce de Leon, an explorer
searched for the Fountain of Youth
He thought it somewhere in Florida
'til somebody told him the Truth
You're as old as you feel
in your...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, journey, truth, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Turning Five Hundred
...Turning fifty ain’t all that nifty,
You might as well be turning five hundred.
You start get shifty, thrifty and whifty,
And you don’t act as young as you once did.
You know what they say, the ...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, age, birthday, celebration, change,
Form: Rhyme
Poppycock
...I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it
never loan money it never returns
If you do the same thing over and over
you're in your comfort zone
Fences make good neighbors
a thirty-foot...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Age Is More Than a Number
...A septuaginarian?! -- He doesn't look a day over 45
~ But he's wracked with pain
He hasn't changed a bit since we were in college
~ So what? His feet are on fire 24/7
Look! He has a ...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, age, pain,
Form: Free verse
Who Are They
...In an effort to make us old folks gay
They say seventy is the new sixty
I’m forced to ask you, who are ‘they’?
And who made ‘they’ the authority?
When they say sixty is the new fifty
How many ...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, age, humorous,
Form: Sonnet
Old As You Feel
...stop laying around
put the feet on the ground
listen to the newest sound
let you mind reel
ONLY AS OLD AS YOU FEEL...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, adventure, devotion,
Form: Light Verse
Young At Heart
...Young at heart
Well that’s a start
You’re only as old as you feel
Isn’t that the deal?
Well in my heart I feel young
But when all said and done
Being young at heart, let’s face it
Still means ...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, funny
Form: I do not know?
Youth
...I have reached the stage,
That fails to amuse to me.
It is the beginning of old age,
Or so it seems to be.
Like many-I often think it is unfair,
That our youth goes by so fast.
Though I am full...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, lifeage, old, age, old,
Form: Rhyme
Surprise!
...Surprise!
Look at the wrinkles
that cover my hand,
all veiny and puckered
unless I make a tight fist
and they smooth again.
The face in the mirror
doesn't look as it seems
when I'm not looki...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, life, old, old,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
How Old?
...Time--it moves like a scalded cat,
And I--I creep like a snail.
Like a long tailed cat in a lawn mower's path,
I am nearing the end of my tale.
Now, it's said that you're only as old as you fe...
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Categories:
as old as you feel, funny, life, time,
Form: I do not know?