Best Elderliness Poems

The Right Gift. 
When he was fifteen, a man, he had packed his bag
ready to join the merchant navy. His mother had two
parcels in her...

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Skin cancer and Ayn Rand 

So another sunny day is sinking into the sea I sat in the sun 
for a while but it got...

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Ancient Hamlet

Houses around me are emptying, the old reaching 
the age of dying, are passing away.  A timeworn man 
went missing on Monday he...

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Chemist Shop 
At the entrance of the pharmacy a dead sparrow,
no one seemed to notice this tiny death.
The bird just lied there with folded wings...

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The Wait
The wave of sleep washed my up on the bleak shore of the awake
half remembered dreams vanished and left behind a blank canvas.
I was...

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My Phizog
Strange what one remembers?
after looking through Playboy magazine and skipping
the dreary articles written by it founder
I came across this quote: “every man over forty...

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My Phizog
Strange what one remembers?
after looking through Playboy magazine and skipping
the dreary articles written by it founder
I came across this quote: “every man over forty...

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To love the self 
My neighbour has four small dogs in the night if they hear 
a cat they bark to protect their owner warning...

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Old men and red wine (Portugal)

In the bodega old men drink red wine (never white)
They are proud of their elderliness and solves 
The worlds many...

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The number of years, the length of life is meaningless,
   the days, months, years on earth, our decline;
all the stages and chapters of...

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Passing misgivings
 There are moments in once elderliness when
the flowers of the mind, the silver of remembrance 
is but a cracked black  & white...

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The old sea-gull

The old one-legged sea-gull
sat on my roof near the chimney
if felt the cold, scanning the sky.
Once it had been the captain on the...

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Nostalgia 
The heat is unusual even the olive grove 
looks tired, old trees gasping waiting for 
sundown. Yet the evening is still hot and 
no...

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A lady’s dilemma  

Her mind and body are restless
she is in her late-middle-age 
a difficult time for a woman.
Her long relationship with a well-off...

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Appreciative
  
Six o`clock 
In the morning
Is the best time
To get up when it is summer
Stay on the terrace
Inhale the air
Before it gets hot
Make a...

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