Best Old Woman Poems
Below are the all-time best Old Woman poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of old woman poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Old WomanShawled against
the damp night chill,
she waits
slumped low,
crumbled
in her favorite chair.
Old and tired
she waits.
Eyes, once bright,
cast a milky stare
blind to all...
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Categories:
old woman, age, death, old, woman,
Form:
Free verse
This Kind Old WomanThe vines stretched up the sides of her house
from behind the hedges, neatly trimmed
she'd been on that corner a long, long time
six decades before her...
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Categories:
old woman, absence, friendship, love, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old WomanThe old women
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
As an angel aged face.
As the radiance
Of the winter sun,
So is a...
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Categories:
old woman, old, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Knitted Memories
Nestled
in her old chair-
world outside her window
and indoor plants, a sign of life-
she knits.
Fingers
work their magic-
grant her moments purpose;
then reminiscing years gone by-
tears flow.
...
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Categories:
old woman, age, emotions, old, woman,
Form:
Cinquain
A Granny I Might BeA granny I might be
A granny I might be
But I can always see
My hair is growing grey
My shape is quite okay
I still love my fashion
I...
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Categories:
old woman, age, clothes, fashion, grandmother,
Form:
Sonnet
Not Too Old For BalloonsFebruary is her enchanted month
a time of birthday songs and refrains,
when an added year is but a number
so, what is her secret dream for today?
Whipping...
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Categories:
old woman, birthday, friendship, old, woman,
Form:
Light Verse
Too Late JeanetteThere was an old lady called Jeanette.
Who wiggled in line for a toilette.
She said, "I can't wait!
...
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Categories:
old woman, hilarious, old, woman,
Form:
Limerick
Who Is Your Neighbor
My neighbor, right next door, is an odd lady,
she is very old, sweet but seems quite lonely.
...
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Categories:
old woman, old, woman,
Form:
Couplet
An Old Woman's Saga of LifeShe leaned on her stick like the Tower of Pisa
Her bones, porous and brittle, might break any day
She’s all alone, her husband dead and gone
Her...
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Categories:
old woman, happiness, old, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
old woman, old, woman,
Form:
Haiku
FashionableWhen I was young
I could cut three holes
to wear a black garbage bag
as a mini-skirt over
torn fishnet pantyhose,
with fishhooks in my...
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Categories:
old woman, age, fashion, girl, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Assasinatedwe pulled into the station
I heard an infamous cough
as three men entered the coach
seated was an old woman
wearing an almond colored...
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Categories:
old woman, adventure, men, old, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Purple and I Learn To SpitA poem penned in '61; loved by all, a favourite of mine
Performed by Bella, my sweetest grandchild, when at the tender age of nine
...
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Categories:
old woman, grandchild, humorous, old, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lotus of the NileLotus,
a name given to her.
Someone highly beautiful,
the crowd would run to see her.
Astonished by her talent,
her movements were something new.
She was a rare form.
for...
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Categories:
old woman, africa, body, dance, history,
Form:
Blank verse
The VenerableAt this trembling staggering age,
Dear deprived mother of,
I don't know whom,
Struggling to survive,
And might be survival of,
Someone, older than you…
Vending toys, ball-pens,
Sun-screens...
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Categories:
old woman, inspirational, life, old, woman,
Form:
Free verse