Best Old Poems
Below are the all-time best Old poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of old poems written by PoetrySoup members
Getting Old Is Getting OldI've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter,
my mission each hour: relieving my bladder.
When I was a youngster, I had no...
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Categories:
age, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old House
Seven generations walked through your door,
Which stood so strong and always welcomed in.
You said goodbye when boys headed to war,
Two soldiers lost to battles they...
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Categories:
old, childhood, family, house, memory,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Old Lady"bag of bones"
I wonder if when you look at me
You can't bring yourself to like the vanity
Lost somewhere inside...
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Categories:
old, age, beauty, blessing, judgement,
Form:
Verse
Just an Old MemoryShe’s just an old memory of a younger man’s dreams
An image of love hard to find
I can still see her eyes, taste the joy of...
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Categories:
fantasy, lost loveheart, old,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
old, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Grandpa
The old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.
He gazed upon a...
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Categories:
childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form:
Couplet
I want your SEEDS**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel...
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Categories:
adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Sailing the Seas In A Pecan TreeThe wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...
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Categories:
adventure, old,
Form:
Rhyme
October SkiesWe are apples growing on our parent's tree, planted by our grandparents from the apples of our great-grandparents ~ author
October skies still reflect in your...
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Categories:
old, age, anniversary, autumn, grandparents,
Form:
Lyric
This Song is for my MotherThis song is for my mother
Let her hear me cry
I couldn’t bring myself to write it
‘Til this darkened day arrived
A song about old promises
Made...
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Categories:
old, angst, death, dedication, depression,
Form:
Ballad
If Ever I Don't KnowA friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
...
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Categories:
old, age, daughter, father daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
BLISSIgnorance is definitely a description of bliss
Look at Washington if you don’t believe this
They are never on target, they always miss
Their biggest decision is whose...
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Categories:
politicalold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
His Golden Essence
The oyster shell
...
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Categories:
old, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form:
Monoku
Folly Of Autumn's Fog
A coloratura rises
...
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Categories:
old, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Shadow of MeIt was a long time ago, in another age
Where the shifting of the wind
Knew where I began
A place so far away,
Somewhere distant, in childhood...
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Categories:
age, love, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Ghost ValentineAn old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.
A storehouse for so many...
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Categories:
old, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Couplet
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys - a collaboration with Robert Lindley
When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can then see rainbow hues
thus...
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Categories:
old, age, appreciation, happiness, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Speak of it notSpeak of it not,
think of it not,
lest regrets may
cloud the failing light,
and weariness
a shroud becomes.
This little thing,
once proud in love and lust,
now hides its...
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Categories:
old, age, dark, death, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Where The Heart ResidesLike open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea
Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...
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Categories:
heart, love, me, old,
Form:
Personification
Cosmos ConfiguratorWhen I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...
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Categories:
fantasy, space, old, star,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Special RoseShe sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...
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Categories:
grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form:
Narrative
What Lurks WithinWhat Lurks Within
I picture in my mind an old colonial room,
With a door to the garden where my flowers can bloom.
A window in the...
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Categories:
imagination, places, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Alana DulcitaOnce in a forest, a long time ago,
there dwelt a young maiden, bright, sweet and fair.
Flowers she wore in her long wavy hair,
and each day...
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Categories:
fantasygirl, old, sweet, water,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Three MessengersOld and ugly and well married is the visage
that I carry, and yet, there is another world
that keeps opening up its magic door.
It sends me...
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Categories:
allegory, old, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Bury Me In My Jeans"I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years,
Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers.
When I come to the end of the trail,...
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Categories:
me, old,
Form:
Rhyme