Best Old Age Poems
Below are the all-time best Old Age poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of old age poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Fought Old AgeI fought old age with anger
I fought old age with fear
I fought old age with denial
But still old age is here
I fought old age with...
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Categories:
old age, life, age, old, age,
Form:
Verse
Old Age KillsYouth is bliss
old age cruel fate
when was I born I've forgotten the date
I'm old as Earth,dying since birth
every action's in slow motion near cadavic still
ther's...
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Categories:
old age, death, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
old age, funnyme, age, old, age,
Form:
Couplet
Arrogance of Youthlook away
look away
when confronted with someone old &
pick the age at which someone becomes
unworthy of the same
cultural pulse
in which you find yourself beating,
for here in...
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Categories:
old age, life, beautiful, age, old,
Form:
Free verse
Paint Me the FuturePaint me the future,
Of a life without fear,
where my life has meaning as old age draws near.
Paint me the future,
With a different story...
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Categories:
old age, hope, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form:
I do not know?
On AgingRelentlessly the years go by.
As if it were an evil crime,
Defensively I bravely try
To fight the ravages of time.
As if it were an evil crime,
I'm...
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Categories:
old age, funnyage, old, age, evil,
Form:
Pantoum
Pointed PonderingsDay in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five,
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.
Lancing pristine white paper with...
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Categories:
old age, introspection, age, old, age,
Form:
Couplet
Old MaidIt took 44 years for me to marry.
When your my age that's kind of scary.
Thinking old age would get me first.
Or even something like dying...
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Categories:
old age, love, passion, me, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Gale In the Night“There were silver sparrows
feeding in the shadows
of bricker-bracken
on fresh pine nuts
from an old hope chest’s cones
Theirs were waning wings
tarnished in the window
of a bricked-up build
with...
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Categories:
old age, romance, sympathyage, old, age,
Form:
Free verse
Age, Old?Growing old loses sanity, brings to life real time
Permanent scars soon appear, days are long and dreary
A gift to some, age brings forth wisdom
Curse to...
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Categories:
old age, happiness, inspirational, upliftingday, age,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute To Corporal BucklesA hundred-ten year old soldier was interred in Arlington Cemetery today.
Corporal Frank Woodruff Buckles now sleeps nigh his comrades in sacred clay,
Awaiting that glorious morn...
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Categories:
old age, death, history, sadwar, age,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Loss of An Old FriendOld
Old is a key word
Old friend
Old friend come to the end
End
End is THE word
End of my old friend
End is REALLY the word
At first the news...
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Categories:
old age, death, friendship, lifelife, death,
Form:
Free verse
Doc VernonKokoda ‘s Doc Vernon
Doctor Vernon in 1942 was in New Guinea green,
He had been there looking after the native people,
A civilian went with the...
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Categories:
old age, adventure, age, old, age,
Form:
Ballade
Golden Age of SummerGolden age of summer,
spent in a small
Iowa town where
I used to slumber.
So many summers ago
spending magic moments
with my old pal shep
at the old swimming hole.
Rexall...
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Categories:
old age, nostalgia, age, old, age,
Form:
Rhyme
YouthI have reached the stage,
That fails to amuse to me.
It is the beginning of old age,
Or so it seems to be.
Like many-I often think it...
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Categories:
old age, lifeage, old, age, old,
Form:
Rhyme