Best Elderly Poems
Below are the all-time best Elderly poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of elderly poems written by PoetrySoup members
HumanityIf we don’t feel with our hearts, we don’t belong
If we don’t see as one, the world is wrong
Beyond the wars and the hate and...
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Categories:
elderly, life, peoplechild, lost, child,
Form:
Couplet
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
elderly, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
LonelinessPeople milling around I do not notice them,
my face is turned to hide my loneliness,
Am walking in my own despair
No one else intrudes...
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Categories:
elderly, loneliness,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
elderly, giving,
Form:
Free verse
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be BawdyCOME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...
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Categories:
elderly, giggle, jobs,
Form:
Limerick
Mother - POTD
shade of vermilion encompassing sky at dawn,
pure fragrance of delightful jasmine in summer,
luminous dew drops quivering on lotus leaves,
an almost-forgotten melody from my childhood!
all these...
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Categories:
elderly, dedication, devotion, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Imagine ThisYou wake up to commotion, throw on some clothes.
Outside you see some bloody bodies piled on the street.
People are screaming, running in all directions
away from...
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Categories:
elderly, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Dont FadeNOTE: This poem means a lot to me for it brings back memories of my childhood. My father, a WWII veteran was, in my...
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Categories:
elderly, children, family, life,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
elderly, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
My Piano KnowsMy piano sits alone a lot of days,
Waiting for someone to come along who plays.
Usually that someone is...
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Categories:
elderly, devotion, happiness, holiday, musicchristmas,
Form:
Verse
All About CeciliaMiddle child of seven siblings and has had a troubled childhood
It has made me a stronger person, just not easily understood
Had a baby at seventeen...
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Categories:
elderly, introspection, life, me, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently...
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Categories:
elderly, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins SwishA WISH FOR ALL FISH
Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark,
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...
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Categories:
elderly, fish,
Form:
Free verse
The Makeover - Still Weeping
Still Weeping
Original poem - Verse - June 8, 2013
Many came with flowers,
rainbows of roses and lilies,
solemn people came and went.
And then it was quiet,
the white...
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Categories:
elderly, death, family,
Form:
Sonnet
Pearls Beneath the HarborOur bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward...
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Categories:
elderly, people, places, world war
Form:
Haibun