Best Aged Poems
Below are the all-time best Aged poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of aged poems written by PoetrySoup members
Middle Aged White GuyHow do I shed the label
of a white oppressive man
Do I listen to the message
of Obama's "Yes we can!"
Perhaps I'll go out marching
With women...
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Categories:
aged, angst, racism,
Form:
Quatrain
Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
aged, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled...
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Categories:
aged, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
THE MALE MENOPAUSE - please feel free to join in the collaborationTed’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -
It’s the male menopause...
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Categories:
aged, age, body, humorous, men,
Form:
Limerick
An Omen Of The Taste Of Twilight
Vanished
is the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how...
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Categories:
aged, angst, animal, death, fate,
Form:
Free verse
THE MISSIONARY AND THE BUM
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...
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Categories:
aged, faith, friendship, love,
Form:
Prose
The Irony Of Fate
In a moment of juvenile jealousy
he envies his red rival
with its intimate and greedy embrace of her angels’ share
of honey and vanilla spice
as wet...
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Categories:
aged, age, desire, fate, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Ode to Mum
Brown paper memories she puts in my hands
Twine roughly tied in a bow slightly askew
Part and parcel of a humble life once led?
My defiant eyes...
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Categories:
aged, inspirational love, love, mum,
Form:
Ode
RegretWhy I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart
On a moonless night, he approached
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...
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Categories:
aged, angst,
Form:
Free verse
The Train
POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...
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Categories:
aged, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
His Golden Essence
The oyster shell
...
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Categories:
aged, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form:
Monoku
SEX AFTER 40(WARNING SIGNS)
You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...
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Categories:
aged, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet with a Priceless Pen I am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.
I often hear...
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Categories:
aged, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form:
Couplet
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication seriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist,...
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Categories:
aged, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
In Your Ruins
I'm lost at sea and weary
...
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Categories:
aged, love, love hurts, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun That Parts The Clouds
Through frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds
needled and re-stitched
with threads of time and love and hope..
and still — a rosy dream bleeds
the...
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Categories:
aged, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...
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Categories:
aged, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Memories and Mourning
Trickle tender tears - those that take their time
born to bathe and baptize bereavement;
dew drops cling to fragile petals of forlorn feelings ~
aged and alone
sentiments...
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Categories:
aged, bereavement, emotions, grief, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
Beyond the BreakersCalm, cobalt seas beyond the waves beckon
Baby Boomer surfer responds
he stands upon his nicked, red board
placing his precious cargo on its deck
tired arms paddle to...
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Categories:
aged, farewell, sea,
Form:
Free verse
our colour of yellowThe lake was still sleeping
a light mist rose above,
a weathered dock could be seen,
its aged wood; full of memories.
The air crisp, breeze light,
trees majestic; watching...
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Categories:
aged, happiness, inspirational, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
My maa touches my poemsMy aged mother
she can't understand English...
feels my poems by touch
she touches the words
her frail fingers caressing...
smile in wrinkled face
'write a poem for me'--
'all the poems...
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Categories:
aged, motherinspirational, poems,
Form:
Senryu
-Untitled-
A gentle tickle belies the sadness
as the corner of my eye swells and my vision blurs.
The beauty and the joy fading from my mind,
the "what...
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Categories:
aged, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem for MichaelMyself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision
to respond to you
our multi-versed
mathematical...
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Categories:
aged, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
INHUMAN MALICE
A father of six he was in his early forties,
struck by cancer
toiling to provide for his children
with
no property
no land
no animals
but a loyal old...
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Categories:
aged, evil, world,
Form:
Narrative
A Short Fleeting Moment of HappinessI saw her sitting in a wheel chair,
crippled, mute and almost hairless,
over pumped with chemotherapy,
and aged more than she really was.
Yet I prefer to...
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Categories:
aged, love,
Form:
Free verse