Best Getting Older Poems

" How old are you, professor?"* 

I turned around trying to locate the student who had
asked this unexpected question.

It was not hard to locate her. There she was smiling,
her hand up in the air.

" I am forty-two," I replied. " Why? "
 
" Would you...

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The sea is rough and I never learned to swim
So I won't push the boat out
I won't push the boat out
I shall stay on shore and have a feast
Of delicious happy thoughts and plans
For treats and pleasures coloured pink
With my extraordinary friends and swap stories
About...

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Getting Older

Young man sitting next to me on the bench I asked him,
Young man if I am sad what will you do? I will ask you to share your sadness.
Young man if I am cold what will you do? I will cover you with my...

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'Living with an angel
That's so true
She makes my life
Worth going through!

I'm getting older
But that's not sad
I'm eating ice cream
On a heating pad!...

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getting older
is scary I find too late
in this life
though can still scatter
dandelions to the winds...

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there are places and people in America that are scared to death
 of looking old and growing older 
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but filled with dread that you’re getting older
a man fears...

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He sits in the nursing home confined to a wheechair for the rest of his life, still able to think, a prisoner in his own body....

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When 
I listen to you, my love,
Complaining that older each day you get
And
That your beauty is rapidly fading away, 
I look at you with awe 

For
 
It is only then that I realize, how much  
More rewarding,
Beauty has become to you 
With
The passing of...

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Getting older is no fun at all
getting reminded to take your geritol
kids never visit only when they need money
they don't remember that you wiped their nose when it was runny
See, your kids are making plans to put you in a nursing home and throw away...

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Waking up, muscles ache.
Maybe it is dormant love 
Seeping out of bones....

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I know that I'm getting older
But I swallow a bitter pill
Since there are constant reminders
Hinting that I'm over the hill

I received a letter one day
Life insurance, it was about
It bothered me some when it said
Hurry up, time is running out!

Whenever we go to the buffet
They...

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I cannot see what is
directly in front of me.
I can no longer conceal
the hairs on my
chinny chin, chin.
My breasts still look fine,
but I can no longer
pretend those size ten
jeans are mine.
My hair is silver,
with a lovely shine,
but, grey hairs on
my eyebrows?? Oh, 
No, they're not...

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The Joys of Getting Older.

We may all be getting on a bit
But lets not forget for some more fortunate
 The joy of it

You don’t have to bounce up and down in bed no more
And when the Mrs says she has a headache
You know she has...

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The age aging.
The world changing.
The life leaving.
We are here,
suffocating.

Sure it's not the magic wonders anymore.
Sure it's not the same path we've to go.

People change,
People die.
The world and its fills cry.
I greet them goodbye....

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I used to make fun of my dad’s age…saying with loving youthful vigor
“How come you’re getting shorter but your ears and nose are so much bigger?”

Oh, Dad would try to make a witty comeback…but usually it would bomb.
(makes me wonder where I got my talent...

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