Best Senile Poems

The Senile Chemistry Professor

By Elton Camp

On retirement old Doc did belong
But he stayed at the job too long

Although his students it did amuse
When ionic and covalent he’d confuse

Carbon in organics is never found
To them had a very strange sound

The dean didn’t know what to say
But...

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There once was an addled old dog
Who thought he was some sort of frog.
He would sit by the pond
And croak out a song
Of his time in some distant bog.


TLH

© 05/15/2012...

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Diabolical 
Elderly senile man laughs
“Weed Be Gone” in hand...

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On a dark and stormy Winter night the air was full of yuletide idiocy, 
For Christmas was approaching with a greedy widening grin insidiously. 

Eggnog sloshed in decorated cups whose painted pretty elves,
Had sat all year combing cobwebbed hair atop the basement shelves. 

Aunts and...

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S ince I've gotten on in years,
E verything seems to have changed.
N ow when I walk into a room,
I t seems things have been rearranged.
L ittle things just here and there,
E xchanged, somehow made different.

M ost explain it easily,
E xcuse you, senile, Me?...

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(or, "Your Old Stomping Ground")

There’s a secretary that I know
whose husband recently died
But life somehow continues as before
She has to keep replicating the myth
that everything’s all right –
A savant of the copy machines
A mannequin in a megastore

There’s a child that I know
who goes to school...

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The evening dainty drizzle
Dances with twilight tinge
Descends in tumbling torrent 
Through the opaque night
Enwrapping enshrined
The squashed sordid sky
Waiting to unfurl wide in vain
The rain rinsed petals
Under dawning sun to paint
Ruptured rainbow charm.

The juvenile sparkling smile
Innate innocence configured
Cascades as care-free stream
In captivating youthful valley
For a while...

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-  cold
the sky is crowding in my thoughts they’re on - 
		
  		  
             they’re on - wind


they’re on	       
		   
 ...

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Senile Age
I am worst than the dirt
you step aside from,
so as not to get your shoes dirty,
more or less your mind.
I am old and senile,
a bald head
filled with rancid ignorance.
Ghosts and goblins has invaded,
becoming my pals.
A phenomenon of deceleration.
I became cloistered
from myself.
Nothing worth anyone’s effort.
So...

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An old man has trouble taking a pee
Nothing could be worse, it is plain to see
Unless it’s some other,
Like Uncle or Brother,
But, unfortunately, this time it’s me!

Written October 16, 2022...

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Sagely senile pipe-smoking sensuous Sal.
She was the matriarch of her coven, quite a gal.
But wait, a newcomer said. Isn’t she just an owl?
This caused a riot, many educated Wiccans yelled foul!

They chased the Newbie off, smacking her with a towel.
She was screeching and screaming with...

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Started Becoming Senile

After thinking about it for a while
Years of age had begun to compile
Often about it lied and prevaricated;
When I was born even post-dated;
Like all old people ended up senile.

Jim Horn...

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Loser walking on the road
Look at him and cry
That is enough to die
Jack-knife 
Parents old enough to be ancient
Lover of seven seasons
Wishes of love
Crazy old senile man
Hold him tight
Hug him
Jack-knife...

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“Open your mouth!” the old lady demanded.
He clamped it shut, not what she commanded.
“Hey! I am warning you!” she swiftly shrieked.
She was holding a toothbrush that clearly reeked.
The turtle’s head pulled back, in a simple disappear.
She was getting senile, the poor old dear!
She thought the...

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she tippy toed
as gently as she could
not wanting to disturb
forgetting where she was
and where she was heading to

locked in a distant dream
stopped dead in her tracks
in the midst of darkness
she opened the door
to let herself out
amused by the 
stillness of the night
the brightness of the...

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