Best Retire Poems

Is a Million Dollars Enough to Retire on?

By Elton Camp

We once thought that one who is a millionaire
Is a person who will never have financial care
But let’s say that you are getting ready to retire
Will this be enough to live on until you expire?

Assume that...

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Speak to me my muted heart
where went your rhyming ways
The voice of a hearts deepest hour  
in mysteries a soul explained

Is your rhythm lost or simply hiding
in the noise of life as it whines
expression tied by hopes revising
sweet serenity and peace of mind

You run...

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Misrule
Misappropriate
Mass-grave...

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Come sit with me, my dear old friend.
beside the fire. Where we will spend
a quiet hour, and  reminisce 
of days gone by when life was bliss.

And we will take a glass of wine.
I’ll toast your health and you’ll toast mine.
Our golden dreams to pure...

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What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic policy re-tirers. 
Keep the tire and the chairs, 
but let's...

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My pants are tucked snug beneath the socks on my feet.
I also wear gloves tucked beneath my long sleeves.
I wear a full facial mask of fabric that allows me to breath
and then I retire for the evening and go to sleep.
This isn't some fetish or...

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Number 42 Retire
Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42
Hang up your jersey, honey
No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson

Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere
When Jackie Robinson was brave enough
And brazen enough to try….

Major League Baseball had been closed to people of color
Jackie’s prowess, professionalism...

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Teach me to understand the fineness!
Wean me from boredom and laziness!
Manifest to me many times kindness!
I am your slave, but… please…
Don’t put me on my knees!

I love you, I love you my father and mother,
I strongly believe in the great mystery of yours,
Only you can...

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Packing up to finally leave her,
seven dwarfs getting a breather,
no more butler days,
enjoying sun's rays,
escaping Snow's screams and diva demeanor....

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Come along retire, travel with me
Be my love in places we've not seen
We'll travel around the  world our home
Roaming those valleys and mountains tall 

Our love won't wane only grow__untame
We will have all our pleasures anew
Every moment treasure  other
Whilst each day brings us...

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Woke up this morning with a dirty big grin
Must have really enjoyed the dreams I was in
With chickies galore
Naughties on the floor
At eighty years old, should retire my mandolin...

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Do you want to acquire your desires before you retire?
                                   ...

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Retire To Florida?

By Elton Camp

It’s for old persons with leathery skin
The refuge of every sort of has been

Doctors who can’t hear a heart beat
Butchers who no longer can cut meat

Store clerks who are too old to sell
Musicians now unable to play well

The thief grown too...

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Three snow days in a row have changed my mind
about retirement for me. I can never do it now. 
I am not ready and I frankly doubt I ever will be. 

I have written 83 poems, 6 stories too, danced 
with husband until I was...

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 LIFE'S END 

So they think you are old and shouldn't live alone,
maybe you're too frail to be left on your own
Can't manage your own money or live in your own home, 
apprehensive you give up and take up the tossed bone 
So many years...

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