Best Retirement Poems
Below are the all-time best Retirement poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of retirement poems written by PoetrySoup members
FROM NOW ON - REFLECTION ON RETIREMENT
From now on
Mornings will never be the same
How fortunate I feel
Can’t take it for granted
Everyday I am thankful
Not rich but enough to get by
Free...
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Categories:
retirement, change, future, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Happy RetirementMy most beloved teacher
For the past three years
You have taught me lot of things
Though most of the time
The subjects you taught are a bit...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form:
I do not know?
On Your Job RetirementYou are a very precious treasure more than a golden gem
Working so hard for many years serving your fellowmen
You shared your knowledge, strengths and whole...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Did The Years GoRemember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...
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Categories:
age, old, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rusted Gate
Rusted, but well oiled and continuously in use, heaven’s gate.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...
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Categories:
image, retirement,
Form:
Verse
Wild Birds and NutsyWild Birds and Nutsy
There still is beauty in the lengthy life,
Tho no longer glamorous corporate strife,
Grief and relief fall on first lonely days,
Staring outside at...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, retirement,
Form:
Sonnet
RetiredStrolling around town
At prohibited time
Ignoring the church bell sounds
While I see people hurrying
Down the sidewalk
On their way to work
Think maybe I'll...
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Categories:
age, city, freedom, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
From Pinnacle to Cynical
From Pinnacle to Cynical
When we were young
We had our dreams
But, in our future we would find
That many times along the way
There were mountains, we...
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Categories:
retirement, adventure, allusion, change, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Punctuated in Time
Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe
Ambidextrous clock with appalling...
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Categories:
retirement, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Talking Trash
The alarm clock brushed my teeth and then forced me to drink orange juice.
As I looked out the window, a cement sky was pulling down...
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Categories:
retirement, me, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
ProcrastinationI’m thinking about thinking about retiring
Not sure when that will be
I know I need to make a change
...
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Categories:
humorous, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
New Future Of The InternetNew Future Of The
Internet
Cable cost are up
too high
You turned to the
internet and so have
I
My Youtube channel
is the way to go
Now I can even make
video shows
I...
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Categories:
retirement, business, career, film, grandparents,
Form:
Free verse
So Words BecomeSo words become; the order of the day
and order of the day becomes
the soldiered meaning of all work and play,
the ever present, beating drums.
Then words...
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Categories:
retirement, allegory, allusion, death, introspection,
Form:
Quatrain
A Better Day After AllA Better Day After All
A ring of the phone announced
A holiday call to say “hello”
The news from working days,
Days sometimes bringing nostalgic yearning,
That feeling...
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Categories:
blessing, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
Is Today Actually TomorrowWoke this morning, thought, might take a shower
it's 9:00 am already, will eat lunch in a few hours.
When I dust...
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Categories:
retirement, age, change, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
UNWOMANNEDHere, I dwell in no man's land,
On the flip side, there's men unwomanned,
They can be a miserable band,
Desperately seeking a hand,
I read their profiles for...
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Categories:
feelings, love, men, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
NineseventeenpmAs the second hand ticks away my breaths
a half-clad moon catches my eye.
Was a time when I might've seen
the ghost of half-eaten melon,
but I'm older...
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Categories:
age, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
My Final Curtain - for The Last contest(((Foreword added 27 November 2019: I often think that if I need to explain one of my poems then it is in some way lacking.......
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Categories:
death, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
I Will Go To Jail Instead of A Nursing HomeDuring lunch I announced when I retire I am going to go to jail.
What?
Jail, I repeated. I will rob a bank or something.
The three others...
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Categories:
grandparents, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
Changing ViewsWhen I was young and clueless,
If retirement appeared
Somehow upon my radar
I would think it pretty weird.
But if I gave some thought to where
My future self...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
I've lost a step or twoI've lost a step or two, or maybe three
My memory isn't what is used to be
It takes me forever to get going...
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Categories:
age, fear, loss, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
Ex Worker Bee
I used to be a worker bee,
And as far as I could ever see,
Would never have the sunshine time,
To sing a song, to pen a...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form:
Light Verse
FlowThey didn't rush out to greet him
When Father time made his call...
They traded house and picket fence...
For one room down a long hall
like soldiers standing...
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Categories:
emotions, endurance, retirement, seasons,
Form:
Lyric
Love In A Time Of Corona COPYRIGHT A S Deo
I
Love in a time of Corona is best
Expressed between a loyal couple
We have time on our hands, rest
Cannot be overdone, neither should sex (Love-makin')
II...
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Categories:
retirement, bible, blessing, children, discrimination,
Form:
Verse
artless dissipation - WDJ30 January 2021
The prodigy has turned prodigal
Making silver spoons out of gold medals
While the hearsay deepens about clandestine meetings
I fix myself a plate of pity...
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Categories:
identity, life, retirement,
Form:
Lyric