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Codgers Poems - Poems about Codgers

The odd codgers
... For Craig's : Blue cheese and old pickles contest 15.03.2025 In the background the Ukraine War and Europe’s dilemma whether to rearm to defend itself or go to the table to discuss a peace treat......

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Categories: codgers, age,
Form: Haibun
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
...A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits, (and cries out long day's journey into night, no...not for Eugene O'Neill), but rather being distributed in their respective bins at Wegmans Under t......

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Categories: codgers, adventure, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Age Gaps
...Cranky crusty Codgers Skeptical scornfully scowls Youthful yearning Yonkers Heartful happily howls Spurned spiteful Spinsters Graying gracelessly grumbles Marvelous merry Maidens ......

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Categories: codgers, age, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lamenting Missed Rolls in the Hay
...Upon well-worn barstools, tales two codgers tell, Deep in drink, their stories swell. Reflecting how the eons have flown, Strengths once had, now overthrown. "Ah, beauties chased, both bright a......

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Categories: codgers, drink, friendship, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE QUEEN OF POOP FIGHTS BACK!
... Some numpty bad mouthed my soup style I’ve taken a break for a while But I won't be deterred From writing about turd And subjects some others deem vile I’m producing book numbe......

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Categories: codgers, anti bullying, how i
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Texting
...Young geeks, txt with lightning speed, Old dudes, lol, trying hard to find the next key to text, w/e our asl may be, we are trying to convey, our feelings, imho, in a cryptic language. Codgers ......

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Categories: codgers, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Magic Ocean
...I recognize your vivacious gaze A saffron blaze as speckled as the sun And how you framed your lips I despise having to say goodbye Thus, our ethereal realm is descrying. caused by......

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Categories: codgers, analogy, appreciation, dream, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Fog and Sea
...A mackerel sky fillets the village then hides it in a breezeless blear. Heads poke out of net drapes sniff and fish behind trawling curtains. Shopkeepers brace for wet dog splatter and spray fr......

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Categories: codgers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bygones
...The fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers Once rivaled those of Roy Rogers But when Trump came on Those standards were gone Trigger got stuffed with old codgers......

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Categories: codgers, america,
Form: Limerick
Acorns and Oaks
...Coffin dodgers and nursing home lodgers, wrinklies, pensioners and plain old codgers. A drain on society, archaic models of piety, bed blockers, youth knockers, paragons of sobriety. But is all......

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Categories: codgers, age, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who First
...Who first thought to eat cornbread with chili? And who first thought to add ketchup to fries - Who first thought to put that bell in Philly - And who first thought that yeast could make bread rise......

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Categories: codgers, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Fog and Shale
...A mackerel sky fillets the village then hides it in a breezeless blear. Heads poke out of net drapes sniff and fish behind trawling curtains. Shopkeepers brace for wet dog splatter and spray fo......

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Categories: codgers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Game
...World Series, back in '56, Against the Brooklyn Dodgers, Will always be remembered And not just by some old codgers. For the Yankee pitcher did what none Had ever done before Or since - a pe......

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Categories: codgers, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old People Magazine Please
...I used to love People Magazine Which may be why I am still getting it Delivered to my house thirty years later I stare at the strangers on the cover Flip through pages about people I do not kno......

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Categories: codgers, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow Learners
...Why do some of us Live longer than others Why do we outlive Our younger sisters and brothers Did they die younger As they had wiser brains And us old codgers Needed to remain This puzzles......

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Categories: codgers, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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