Best Dotage Poems
Below are the all-time best Dotage poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dotage poems written by PoetrySoup members
Snow White and the Seven DorksA magic mirror told the queen that Snow White was the fairest in the land!
This put Her Majesty in a terrible snit and to the...
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Categories:
dotage, funnyhome, snow, home, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
My Uncle, My HeroA husband, a father, an uncle, a son
A soldier, a brother, a man and a boy
Never one or the other, united, just one
His boyhood was...
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Categories:
dotage, bird, hero, romantic, soldier,
Form:
Triolet
Mable - a Limerick With a Touch of Double EntendreTheir was once en olde boozer named Mable,
Who inn her dotage was sow unstable.
She was thee...
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Categories:
dotage, humor,
Form:
Limerick
My Old CatMy old cat lies beside me on the sofa asleep
She is sleeping soundly but opens an eye to peep
She is resting her weary old bones...
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Categories:
dotage, animalsold, cat, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Age Disparaged"The body, like the oak, is bent and gnarled,
The shallow-rooted mind is overthrown,
When we are near the evening of the world."
---From, 'Runes for an Old...
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Categories:
dotage, age, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The RantGone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would...
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Categories:
dotage, people, philosophy, political, society,
Form:
Didactic
Midsummer MadnessDull, dank depressing Summer Solstice. A pretty chesnut pony ridden by a little girl on
the pavement (sidewalk to our cousins across the Pond) wishing...
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Categories:
dotage, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
What Made Her Unworthywhat made her unworthy of love
was it because she couldn't live up to your ideal
that she lost her appeal?
You lived for the surreal
now too numb...
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Categories:
dotage, age, beauty, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Life In Retrospect and a Life Hoped ForThe years increased and agéd now—between
first birth and the burnt embers of my dotage—
I yearned and pined for a God-like machine
with which to vitalize my...
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Categories:
dotage, age, grief, life, loneliness,
Form:
Sonnet
Battle OnThere are times I thought I’d have to say
That my life was all but slipping away
When my heart and mind was numb and dead
When through...
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Categories:
dotage, inspirationallife, heart, lost, heart,
Form:
Verse
Gnarled Branches of a Jujube TreeA debauchery seed into an arid soil was the start of you.
Although your roots spread deep and wide in this uninspiring
patch of earth.
The growth of...
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Categories:
dotage, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Youth, the Fleeting Spring of Early LifeMy autumn approaches; with summer's end,
the burning embers of my aging dotage,
now sovereign, dominate and portend
...
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Categories:
dotage, age, autumn, god, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Doc-OlogistsThere's a legion of doc-ologists to keep us on our feet.
A glance in the telephone book reveals a list complete!
Seems there's an "ologist" to care...
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Categories:
dotage, funnycare, care,
Form:
Rhyme
Ka-Pwingforgotten sound
of a father's voice,
only a fond memory of English Leather,
faces of children
not one's remembered,
melancholia captioned,
while snared in long wars
bereft of true glory,
cordite charred, world...
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Categories:
dotage, father, memory, old,
Form:
Free verse
Remember MeREMEMBER ME
NOVEMBER IN AMSTERDAM
This must be
where fallen leaves
come to settle.
The two of us, not quite
in our dotage yet, feel at home,
anchored...
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Categories:
dotage, autumn, death, emotions, farewell,
Form:
Free verse