Best Eighty Poems

When I’m eighty…
I will be sweet to everyone.
I’ll think only about positive things.
I’ll smile a lot with my toothless smile,
And I’ll wear emeralds and diamond rings.

I’ll get up late if I want to.
And I’ll eat anything I like.
I’ll watch cowboy movies and play the piano.
I...

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no longer virgin
Rocky Horror Picture Show
saw it at midnight...

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Do the right thing even if you get criticized for doing it.  
If you are absolutely convinced you are right...reconsider! 
Setting a goal is the first step toward reaching it. 
You will never enjoy having something you stole from someone else. 
Say “no” to...

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Fair-weather friends on a cloudy day
     Dank, useless phrases paving the way;
     Medication, digestion, unhappy sounds.
     Like, un-like television and geriatric frowns.
     Dinner's fish;
     Breakfast...

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Eighty-eight keys of ivory
Create the story of history
From requiems and waltzes
To rhythm and blues,
From dirges and ballads
To pop and rock,
How amazing! What stories are told
By gifted musicians and eighty-eight keys.

In our music room
Eighty-eight keys are played
When I am happy
When I am sad
When I am melancholy
When...

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Eighty Today
by Bob Moore © 7 Feb 2022

I’m 80 today
I don’t know why
the years have got away
and time it did fly

I’ve had a good life
and done lots of things
but where did the years go
they must have had wings

I’ve lived and I’ve loved
and I’ve travelled afar
seen...

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Raccoon with knowing eyes stares at me from across the room.
He is darling!  Brought home from an estate sale.
Hanging from a limb, accusing me, chastising me, all powerful.
I wish I knew who painted him.  

He is unique, one of a kind. And he...

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On Being Eighty

Do not smile and pat me on the head
Because I’m eighty
Do not treat me as though I were a child
Because I’m eighty
Do not assume that I am 
Not as bright as you
Or that my opinion doesn’t count
Because I’m eighty
Do not talk about me...

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On My Eighty Fifth Birthday

Another Birthday…I’m still alive
Never thought that I’d survive
To the ripe old age of Eighty Five!
But here I am…feisty still
Even though I’m over the hill!
Don’t count me out...Don’t ring that bell
I’m still here and raising hell!

Had a few blimps along the way
But...

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When I was 20, I met  men a plenty
And I made a match with as many
As I could
And all the while my face split
With snotty trails of my travails

When I was 30, I quite dirty
Ran down the aisle in pure white
Trying to fight
Off the...

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Eighty-eight is the number of keys in a standard piano.
In every key is a different sound that races.
Get high with God as you pluck each key.
Heavens above will rejoice when you sing 
  with your notes of praises.
Three times the number of alphabets
 ...

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Eighty-eight pounds of plastic
Have been found inside a whale.
That’s quite a lot despite the fact
Of its enormous scale.

It’s not enough to worry over
Straws we use in drinks,
For what about the other stuff
That’s ocean-tossed and sinks?

Environmental warnings
Do not resonate with most.
For future generations, then,
Some creatures will...

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It was Christmas way back in eighty two
Head in hands not knowing what to do
All I see is a door
Never been here before
Do I take the next step and walk through

As I sit here and trawl through my life
From five years old, full of strife
The...

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May nine nineteen eighty was great, 
Being the day of his calling; 
Brother Eduardo Manalo
Had received the noblest blessing.

The day of his ordination
Signaled his rise in his duty; 
His exceptional performance
Was seen inside the ministry.

He became an assistant dean
For Evangelical Studies; 
Doing all his divine...

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over eighty but still smiley and spry
he met each new day with joy in his eyes

he loved to golf and he loved to bowl
both were his fun and fulfilling goals

one day playing golf with his skilled swing
he scored below par - his favorite thing
he rushed...

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