Retirement Career Poems

			

		I said when I was only ten
		I knew just what I wished to be.
		I now look back with no regrets.
		The choice to teach was right...

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PORTFOLIO CAREER

One could say I’ve had a portfolio career
Starting off researching in pharmacology
Slow solid progress, but make no apology
But no drug found to save mankind,...

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I WANT TO STRETCH
OUT MY LIFE
LIKE A LONG
LIMOUSINE
DISAPPEAR
OFF THE EDGES
OF A CLIFF
IN A SCENE
PUT MY TRUST
IN A THRUST
TO CHEATS DAYS
TO CHEAT DEATH
LIKE A HERO
WITHOUT HALO
DODGING...

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Senior Production Manager
(Retired at Fifty-six)
Miracle Man
7/14/2023

I never settled for being just equal to the rest,
for that would have made me average at best.
I always went...

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I will doff my ermine gown
and take off my kingly crown.
The day declines, the course is run,
on  fleece of gold reclines the sun.

I'll not...

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He was old and haggard, in the year nineteen twenty something
A tall lanky old man, with a worn out hat and a rusty ring
His squint...

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Time Past.

 I thank those horse owners today,
 that gave me a job and a place to stay.

 A bed in a barn or a...

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I was oh so foolish
I finally got my way
I scraped and stepped 
on people, just let them lay
a sociopath they called me
I could only grin
they...

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For hundreds of Moons
Save all the Summers,
You engaged young minds
One youth at a time
Teaching new students.

But that’s not all,
You mentored young
Teachers, with pride.
For many years.

Excellence,
Scholarship,
Legacy.

And...

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Can't tie shoes. Can't read aloud. Can't memorize Latin.
IQ test, panic, shyness. Confidence goes missing.

A corner turned. Ask, and you will receive.
College, city planner, romance,...

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Near forty years, I plied my craft,
Anticipated each new day.
Indeed, most nights, I would have laughed
To think that I’d just walk away.

I delved in magic...

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Retirement, helping with physically challenged
Thinking it through or just ignore it.
Chance provides an opportunity 
Such a sad place, lack of unity
Challenges waited patiently.

Physical challenged Adults,...

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When still young,                      ...

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On retirement all The Due proceed,
Because cars don’t their speed exceed;
In their pet jobs hope to succeed,
Sometimes sensible warnings don’t heed.
A solution to the riddles...

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Born in Madrid, in fifty nine,
A military Kid, 3rd of 7 in the assembly line;
They named me Michael, but I answer to Wedge,
A Master Sergeant’s...

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