Best Septuagenarian Poems

" WHAT THE OLD SEE SITTING,
THE YOUNG WON'T SEE STANDING."
GOES THE FAMED PROVERB PIECE.
THUS GIVING TYRANTS EASE.

SO AFRICAN LEADERS
WED POWER,INFLICTING SCARS-
FOR THEY BELIEVE TO KNOW
BETTER THAN OTHERS WHILE OLD.

SO GROWS SEPTUAGENARIACY
BECAUSE THE OLD 
BELIEVE TO SEE
AND SEE SUPER-HUMANLY
WHILE INCREASING DEMOCRATIC MORTALITY.

"SO HEREIN LIE THE BONES
OF...

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The swish 
of our feet
‘neath the sheet, 

intermingling 
with our thoughts and 
the fleshly

lyrics of 
a night rain, ah I’d have 
never perceived that 

it would  
becharm us—
the septuagenarian!...

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Do colorful ducks get all my food
    a lot depends on my shifting mood
  If I feel sorry for a plain brown duck
    I might throw him more, to change his luck

  Does the best-behaved kid get...

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Septuagenarian Serenade
By Sy Roth


It wants to warble a fine tune
It wants to fill the night with a pleasing glissando
Rising and sliding into joyful jig

Instead, the brittle vocal chords are ill-defined wolves
Howling at a laughing moon, a dismal lunarscape 
Ripe with lingering pains engraved in time

A...

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