Best Decrepitude Poems

"...though nothing can bring back
the time of splendor in the grass
of glory in the flower..."
---Wm. Wordsworth

"...in sickness and in health/
'til death do us part..."

Your mortal...

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I love my rusty dusty car,
the most entrusted car, by far; 
a sort of hey! Come out and play, 
both here at home and far...

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You can take back my adulthood
          I don't want it anymore
     ...

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It Sits There


It sits there,
like the old Chevy in the driveway,
empty, but for memories
of better days.

Days of running hot
on roads of steaming passion,
squealing tires speeding
the...

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Spare me ill-considered thoughts
and tales of the enlightened sage
whose very basis of belief 
arose in palpable assemblage
one late summer evening
while listening to his ringing ears,
as...

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OLD FOLKS

Gone those elder-respecting days -
An ancient could well topple over
As uncouth youth speeds around him

The Walmart express departs
My God!
Look what’s been left behind –

A...

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Why isn’t human history taught as  part of our still evolving creation story?

How could our great ecopolitical drama not continually refine nutrients of language...

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Every day held the promise of a new adventure 
 with a myriad of new and exciting discoveries  
   unfettered by the...

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He left this world as he entered, helpless
On the edge of darkness gasping for air
While I soundly slept unimagined in my bed

Got the call in...

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Dear old she! –
The sun is tanning and battering 
Her skin,
Greying her hair, fading her beauty;
She’s gone frail!
Youth has fled her, and hence decrepitude
has befriended...

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A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery...

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Broken bleeding heart
Tattered torn soul
Mind in shreds blowing in the wind
Like so many scraps of muddied linen
Blank eyes hiding an eternity of sorrow
Clenched fists with...

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Green-back addict
Ambition is the keys to unlocking all the doors. Enthusiasm or courage can 
possibly put an end to world hunger. But let’s be honest,...

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Once I was young, 
now I'm an oldie;
Once I was shiny, 
now I'm all moldy....

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It was as if constrictive vigilance 
And tactical resplendent barbarism 
Could transform monumental avarice 
And endemic ruthless kindness 
Into something wholesome, glorious 
But this was...

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