I Am An Old Codger
Improving our status requires hard work.
An abundance of years has made us old.
Majority of school mates have gone on.
And accelerating days increase our speed
Newly reborn by accepting Jesus as my personal savior.
Only as old as we feel.
Liar, liar, pants are on fire
Death has it’s eye on us.
Cozy was not synonymous with old.
Objective in life,
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Categories:
codger, age, life,
Form: Acrostic
Old Codger
Get thee hence! Get thee hence!
Away the riffraff from my fence
Ye've rattled window and rattled doors
Till there's no peace upon the moors
The hallowed folk have left their graves
To rid themselves these noisome knaves
The tyrants peal rings through my head
Till any room for thought is dead
I'd rid myself this fearsome bane
If I had not a limp
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Categories:
codger, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Old Codger Crotchfield
Old Codger Crotchfield of Livermore
Knows of no child he does not deplore
When kids trick or treat
He throws them pig's feet
The next day raw eggs cling to his door
Written 10/17/22
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Categories:
codger, humor,
Form: Limerick
Old Codger and Baby Bunny
So, this bunny was really hungry I guessed.
The old weathered snail was testy in his nest.
That bunny was trying to steal our carrots he said.
This old codger was wrinkled, older, should have been dead.
That baby bunny must have been hungry to dig.
I said to this old codger, whose hair should have been a wig.
He is
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Categories:
codger, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Lonely Codger Lament
Not too many who will mourn for me
For I haven't got a grand history;
So I hope some in Heaven’s choir
Will sing for me when I expire.
[not me, just musing last night]
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Categories:
codger, death,
Form: Rhyme