Retirement Education Poems

In halls of learning, wisdom's crown,
Stood a dad with love profound.
His days of guiding minds are done,
But memories bright, they'll still be spun.

With patience vast...

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When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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Am I really the only one thinking outside the box,
When it comes to pension costs,
Regardless of whether people are able to work or not,
With some...

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Pakistan is at the moment in a grip of a quagmire led by all the institutions that have been most shamefully compromised by greed of...

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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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Welcome to the World of Retirement!
There are no more Monday blues.
You wake up late wondering... what to do?
No student data, 
No coworkers to avoid, 
No...

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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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Retirement where you think of the many blessings,
Days with relatives and friends, enhanced and precious.

Dinning and walking with relatives,
Good to know they are well-cared for...

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Educated as a young woman,
Became a teacher through choice.

Enjoyed teaching for many successful years,
As a retired teacher I received a lovely certificate.

Photographed with the Director...

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Don’t need new sneakers
‘cause you’ll never find your feet
Don’t need no lock ‘n’ key
You got the worst house on the street
You gambled everything
And got busted,...

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Dear Franklin St. Four,

We have not met
but, no,
I'm not hoping to take money
or assets
away from you.

Quite the contrary.
Your rental building,
with four residential second and third...

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For those who agree that love is success
and hate is failure,
some admittedly unsolicited advice
from low-income and retired voter trenches:

1. Do not only run as AntiTrumpian.
Trumpianism...

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In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.

But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in...

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(for M.T.) 

Some days you wake up
You look in the mirror
You’re afraid of the fire
Afraid of the furor
Your heart skips gaily 
Over each error
Like the...

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Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given...

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