Best Old Person Poems

When my hair was blonde I did not see
I looked pretty close to age one hundred and three.
Why people crossed the street wherever I’d be
Was...

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I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Every time I sneeze or cough

Either my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires!

Shouldn't be a big surprise

It's a definite sign we ain't no young chicken...

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My life hasn't been easy 
I've experienced much pain. 

As a young child, I had a some- 
what of a normal childhood. 

I didn't have...

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                On Faith


       Faith...

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" 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....

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All Chevy drivers are dangerous; they cannot drive.
I search for a few minutes, finding the Chevy emblem.
Watch stealthily, sure enough he cuts in front of...

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The Poem is dedicated to nine innocents who has lost their lives in Israli attak on their 
humanitarian aid. 

Docility, a living destitute of Anthropomorphism.
Recency,...

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“I don’t know.
It’s been just one of those itchy
dry skin days 
where you know somethin’ has to happen
but it ain’t;
at least not chet.
I was expecting...

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Lord, hear my plea and my prayer,
I surrender my life to you;
wipe away my fears and tears, as I am broken.

I cannot face today without...

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It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is...

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As I sit with my friend and try to speak
To find the right word so often seems bleak.
You see as an old person you do...

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HAZARD ON THE STREET

She really shouldn’t drive
That old person hair so white
She doesn’t know what to do
Such a sad pathetic sight!

Car horns blow behind...

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The absence of death's fear in the heart of an old person is a sign of wisdom!*










© Demetrios Trifiatis
      06...

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    An old women bent over her shopping cart,
         she is a solitary recluse,...

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