Best Ripe Old Age Poems

Red roses true
Skies so blue
Lovers doing what lovers do
Chocolates and confessions
of eternal love
Building up hopes and dreams

I, behind the counter
At the ripe old age of...

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10~14~2016                     Oh, Yes Please Dare

Trust...

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He walked into my office, business in hand,
In denim baggy overalls, a plaid shirt, white painters cap, 
and grandpa's old white leather orthopedic shoes.
If I...

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I have a little something that I want you to see.
It’s a sample of great-grandpa’s secret recipe.
Blend of ingredients in the right combination;
hidden formula passed...

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joyful song filled my heart

courtesy of our family’s music man

even after mother passed

Dad was still strong and healthy

lived to a ripe old age

giving consent to...

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A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires

Hardened was his sad heart when a mere lad-
 Never a kind word, all seemed very...

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Many dictators come to a well-deserved fate
Brutally assassinated or dying at their own hands,
Consider these more recent promoters of hate
In third world countries and distant...

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You would think at this ripe old age of eight-six
Love and romance would no longer be foremost in my thoughts
Well that is so very far...

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When Searching Depths Of Mind Questions Its Own Sanity

Go to the green, green blades of grass
Speak and watch the sunbeams obey
There in the mountain top,...

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I used to claim, I'm just getting old til
a friend said, "no, seasoned", with a gentle scold.
It does sound better. I must admit, but am...

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Retirement Plan

Dr. James E. Martin
©February, 2013

Now that I’ve reached a ripe old age,
I sit on the porch and sip sweet tea.
Some may question the wisdom...

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On My Eighty Fifth Birthday

Another Birthday…I’m still alive
Never thought that I’d survive
To the ripe old age of Eighty Five!
But here I am…feisty still
Even though I’m...

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My intuition flew up to the sunrise today and saw my third eye looking on. It saw the bright 
oarnge poppies. It saw the setting...

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Last Of The First Elements

(H)  Hydrogen is sweet and gentle by design
A nucleus with an electric and positive charge
Found everywhere in nature at large

It...

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“Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain...

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