Retirement Blank Verse Poems

Ex-presidents

There was a man, not very tall, selling
pornographic pictures at a corner of a 
street
Once he had all the power, one could 
dream of, as...

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I reached retirement age a year ago,
but still I like to teach and so I do,
but three days now instead of four a week.
I start...

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To lost friends
I have opened the window and inhale the summer
Some of the cottages I see, made of stone and lime are empty, their owners...

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Sometimes I feel boredom settling in like dust,
Shrouded in the island of a single thought-
Works to be done and lying unfinished.

There are obligations one cannot...

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Allow me to tell you about my day,
it starts sometime around seven o'clock.
That is the time I begin to awake
as the light flickers through my...

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One needs to believe in good ~ not evil, 
our life is short then we go far away. 
Many believe in the heaven above, 
many...

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A Pensioner
An octogenarian - he moved to the retirement home
which promised all-year sun, blue sky, and sedate sea.

A grey, balding, and stooped figure, 
his gait...

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I walk through my rooms
taking notice of my stuff
I search for the energy  and memories 
of my youth 
and find dust and clutter...

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Open the door and let the fire in,
Only he will purify my soul.
Hold up your hand
And you'll say, " I'm Sorry, I still love you."

Talk,talk,...

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Mom and Dad are clear tonight
though both prematurely dead.
They don't know me as I am now,
their image of me has rigor mortis.

Mom worries about my...

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“This is ridiculous.” Said the exasperated cop
over the car-phone.
“How the hell, can a tree be up a tree?”
“Do we have a police code for this...

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Why does come the ripe age?

To count the evils of it one by one
upon your note pad or diary page
when you are alone?

To speak ill...

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Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Do you remember how
to tie a Windsor knot 
the way your father taught you
on graduation day
in eighth grade

the man who wore a tie 
twice perhaps...

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There are a lot of people like me 
neither rich nor poor, idling 
in the middle who have never wanted 
for anything in our lives.

We...

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