Best Octogenarian Poems

MIRROR IMAGE – Octogenarian plus

Now 
Here he comes
Master of the mansion –
       complete with wrinkles, gas, cataracts, arthritis –
His...

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( Hum to the tune of "Get me to the Church on time!"

The old guy's getting married to a fat virgin,
Ding dong, the wedding hearse...

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An octogenarian visited his doctor
'I think I'm getting senile” he said
The doctor replied “I don’t think you are senile
Let’s look for a different diagnosis instead”
“But...

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Hanging high in the autumn's ebon sky,
A Harvest Moon is so majestic to this beholder's eye!
Rays gently caress God's good Earth far below.
Vast is the...

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I can remember as a child
thinking then, snows were very deep,
that train trestles could touch the sky
and dad stood at least ten feet high.
With little...

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I Don't Want to Live This Life

(Change of pace equals review of book
long out of circulation,
but eyes experience immediate hook
so perhaps...take a look
and best locate...

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Poor octogenarian Darrell,  
At Niagara with his young bride, Carol,     
The love struck old geezer,     ...

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Boast brownies baking
in dirty palm oil bacon fat
Sugar-coated swine vanilla cupcakes;
pineapple upside down snout snacks,
so coconut phone hasty ...
Sound-byte puff pastry

Flour-face teflon pan — ...

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So Edward Kamanzola was born on the Christmas Day
The year 1943 and this was declared a rare luck; 
And fortune was expected to trail his...

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Its south Florida but it could fool you
The sun is ascendant, bright, but its expected
Warmth didn't penetrate the cold blowing bracing wind.
I know, can’t get...

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Its silhouette is not quite clear
His eye balls look bigger than the socket,
The skin wrinkled like unkempt octogenarian,
Malnutrition is a perpetual visitor,
Ribs conspicuously bent and...

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James
Church, writing, tennis, playing with great grandkids
Brother of John, Gene and Florence (all deceased)
Lover of my bride, Marie of 64 years, son Larry, daughter Pam
Who...

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The Octogenarian 

I am an octogenarian – did I spell it right?
If not, must be weak eye sight.

Means I'm getting old
Or at least that is...

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just moments ago, a dawning realization
     arose within this sol son begat
from ma late mother
     and octogenarian...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV


NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done...

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