Best Fiftieth Poems

Welcome to the over-the-hill gang.
We're so glad you're finally here.
We know it's a wee bit scary
knowing old age is near.

It's now perfectly acceptable
to be in...

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Wedding Anniversary

        On fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
     Couple booked a lovely suite in hurry.
 ...

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We gathered for our thirtieth class reunion at Lydia's Smorgasbord.
I'd avoided such past events since in school I was largely ignored!
But my spouse proclaimed we...

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To celebrate a fiftieth anniversary,
a convenience store is dispensing coffee.
The best thing about it is that it’s free.
It’s hot, fresh, and with a flavor variety.
Twelve...

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September, I‘m asking you, “please don’t come.” 
I can’t take the heartbreak every year.
I need something to make me numb.
Let me see if I can...

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During their courting days into her limpid eyes he would gaze.
When in his arms his many charms set her very soul ablaze!
The sweet nothings once...

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LOST IT

trying to remember
what I forgot –
what was it
i forgot to forget to remember? …
now where was i?

forgot your name
getting old
your face is familiar
our fiftieth...

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Somehow I knew it would be amazing. The romantic I found in you kept my fantasy hopes anxiously high. First smiles, first long stares and...

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That summer your dad died 
and we brought your mom
to stay a few weeks 
‘til she moved to the nursing home 

we drove east to...

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Fifty Cent, the rapper, sang
“Get Rich or Die Tryin’.”
Fifty-fifty: half a chance.
Over fifty:  dyin’!
Golden is one's fiftieth anniversary.
Soft ****: the "Fifty Shades of Grey"...

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Twenty-nine years ago my heart gave up on me 
Just sixteen days following my fiftieth birthday, 
attacked like a ton of bricks, suddenly, on a...

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Winter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and...

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This August's our fiftieth anniversary,
so off to la belle France,
for our summer vacance,
my first-born and gran-kids to see-
Sun,siesta,Sauvignon....mais oui !...

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There’s a man across the ward from me with a hearing aid that whines,
‘Old age coming on you see, I’m only seventy-nine.
Me hernia’s shot, and...

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My spouse and I attended my thirtieth class reunion at Lydia's Smorgasbord.
I had avoided such past events since in high school I was largely ignored!
But...

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