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Best Old Timer Poems

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


Old Timer
some say  O..T
they have the key
be there don that
know where its at
this just reminder
repect the
OLD TIMER...

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Categories: old timer, adventure, education, grandfather,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Vultures Circling - Part One
I'd just checked out of a hotel in the town of Santa Fe 
Went to the store to collect supplies and went on my way
I...

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Categories: old timer, america, death, girl, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One Tolkien Over the Line
He was a writer, a fighter, an old-timer word rhymer
Always thought free verse was asinine
He was the queerest, the dearest, the tear in your beer-est
and...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old timer, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
The Ringer
What if age was determined
By the amount of life experiences you had
Would you be an old timer, seasoned
Or a young naïve lad?

Would you change the...

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Categories: old timer, faith, fear, inspirational, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Milton Creek - the New Sign
Leading his horse in the heat of the day
Been gone a long time but he still knows the way
Just a few shacks when he went...

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Categories: old timer, western,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Old Prospector, the Crazy Old Fool
The Old Prospector, The Crazy Old Fool

Folks said that nasty fool is a damn old bat
times the bastard knows not where he is at
Rumor is...

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Categories: old timer, crazy, discrimination, funny, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Island Hopping
ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out...

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Categories: old timer, war, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
The Evils of Drugs Part Ii

The Evils Of Drugs  Part II

One night I was in My Hotel room laying on my bed and
I kept tossing and turning all night....

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Categories: old timer, addiction, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Patina of An Old Cowboy
His skin like the patina of worn out leather,
burnt and cracked from many hours in the sun.
Across the wide plains in the hot Texas weather,
he...

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Categories: old timer, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living Legend
Craggy-bearded, old gent; 
cigar in-hand;
faded army fatigues,
thread bare from the years at war.

He sits, on a cold mall stool;
chats away with the passersby.
An old-timer
with more...

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Categories: old timer, character, hero, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
For Fans of French
I tell you of a friend who's so fond of everything french
She didn't call her a frenchie when she saw one on a bench 

Her...

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Categories: old timer, french, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Do It
I wanna do things to do no other woman have's before
I wanna make you cum so hard
That you would want more
The things I can show...

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Categories: old timer, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: ABC
Will You . . .?
Hark there kind sir, what brings you here?
A message for my lady, from Sir Lyle Gere
He penned these lines, for her gentle ear
Would you have...

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Categories: old timer, funnyme, old, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Wild Stickhorse Remuda
Ponytails and blue jeans 
Sat at Papaw's knee, 
Watching as he whittled 
On old branches from a tree. 
    And while he...

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Categories: old timer, childhood, cowboy-western, family, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Alzheimers Letter
Last week in paper I see story old nuns some die with Alzheimer in head, others still jolly old gals think good sharp things, making...

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Categories: old timer, death, humor, inspirational, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs