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Dotage Poems - Poems about Dotage


Neonate to Dotage
“Age merely shows what children we remain.” - Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --------------------------------------------------- charmingly weak, weakly charming begins life, begins cessation toothless smile, baby breath, wobbling charmingly weak, weakly charming true babyhood, true senescence depending, needy, demanding charmingly weak, weakly charming begins begin, begins ending...

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Categories: dotage, age,
Form: Triolet
Senectitude - the Age Before Dotage Arrives
So you think you’ve reached the age of maturity Even old enough to draw your old age security? Not so fast! Listen to what I have to say. Everyone hopes they will reach that day, Certainly it’s expected, that when retirement Thoughts begin to dominate, you’ll lament: It’s far too early for you to have reached the age That’s called senectitude! ...

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Categories: dotage, age,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member In Our Dotage
What do you dote on? Who do you dote with, if anyone? "Dote" is an old-time word for ruminate, to dwell on and within, to become absorbed by and with. Then there is also "antidote". Let's imagine that our massive events and entertainment media were to merge into an eventertainment industry, hypnotised and hypnotising to dote on negative events in which we explore ourselves and...

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Categories: dotage, adventure, caregiving, culture, engagement,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dotage
have no ego...

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Categories: dotage, confusion
Form: Footle
Premium Member Dotage
The present ,so easily we forget Our yesterday's,interred,remembered 'neath leaves of regret; Often exhumed,wahed bright with tears of delight; So clearly,our days past,we see For tomorrow,....may not be...

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Categories: dotage, life, nostalgia
Form: Verse



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Despond,despair then decline, Whilst wiser one recall: Days are numbered for us all. Inching ,ever unregarded, The relentless timebelt turns; Days are numbered for us all. Reminiscing days of old, Stories of yesteryear unfold; Days are numbered for us all. Here and there a fall,a stall, Ever onward is the call; Days are numbered for us all....

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Categories: dotage, death, introspection, people, time,
Form: Kyrielle

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