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Best Old Fogey Poems

Below are the all-time best Old Fogey poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of old fogey poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member While Its Yours
Is it fair that youth is beauty
That the best we can ever be
Is before we are twenty three
Why can't a wrinkle be sexy
Who says grey...

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Categories: old fogey, age, funny, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme



After Dinner Childhood Parlor Game
let me take thee dear reader rabbit alas and alack 
on an imaginary carpet ride whisk king ye dis family back 
rheumy eyes started to...

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Categories: old fogey, adventure, age, brother, kids,
Form: Rhyme
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans...

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Categories: old fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
No One Around My Shoulder(My World Has Gotten Colder)
I am awake
                      ...

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© Bart Jonas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old fogey, introspection, me,
Form: I do not know?
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans...

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Categories: old fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Good Enough
this old car gets me from point A to B
it may not be new with modern luxuries
but it is still good enough for me
so please...

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Categories: old fogey, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Me Creature of Comfort Bah
Me... creature of comfort? Bah

Once again mine lock, stock
and barrel trade in balderdash
finds yours truly (i.e. me)
to type poem frisson a$$ off
as dentures chatter and...

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Categories: old fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Family Trip

They are off in their CRV, for fun, swimming and sand!

Grandma, the old fogey , however, must stay on land.

Writing poetry to unknown people.

Some who’d...

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Categories: old fogey, family,
Form: Rhyme
Damn Anticipatory Anxiety Affliction
Damn anticipatory anxiety affliction...
trumps volition (mine) to don employee hat!

Until the grim reaper
whisks yours truly away
common joe just biden his time
chronologically old fogey
(albeit boyish looking...

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Categories: old fogey, 12th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things