Elderliness Poems - Poems about Elderliness

...Not tonight my lovely I must stop writing about The women I met in my tumultuous youth that lasted into middle age touching the years of elderliness I do remember a woman In Taiwan She ......

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...the sad vicar The vicar walks in front of the funeral procession appears a bit wobbly, perhaps due to elderliness eyes are watery, and the smell of lotion is too strong  He lost faith years ago......

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...The wealthy couple who live on an island in the Far East but once a year, they visit Europe every year when I see them, they have changed Alas, I wish it had been for the better both are foll......

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...Autumnal The leaves on the big trees on the avenue begin to fall a giant vacuum cleaner that looks like a truck swipes up the leaves in the gutter The chocolate brown leaves on the still gre......

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...A lady’s dilemma Her mind and body are restless she is in her late-middle-age a difficult time for a woman. Her long relationship with a well-off man has made her economically safe but she......

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...Antique village Houses around me are emptying the old, reaching the age of dying. A timeworn man went missing on Monday, was found miles away, the local constabulary drove him back home. He ha......

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...The Foreigner What does one do when your pension is small? He lived in an industrial town in England not green and pleasant. Rows of brick houses, a tiny front yard too narrow for a car. He cou......

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...House hunting I´m looking for a flat in a small market town nearby. The lady showing me around ought to wear a chador. One of the features in the flat is a new dishwasher and other kitchen ......

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...Elderliness Closer and closer they came old women with faces made of lava and stinking volcanic mouths. Bodies of soil after years of drought, dead oasis simmered between thin thighs and ha......

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...The grocery/ wineshop Once when he lived in Faro (Portugal) and walking about he came across a grocer shop that was new in 1950. As window display a packet of washing powder, fossilized the na......

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...The old sea-gull The old one-legged sea-gull sat on my roof near the chimney if felt the cold, scanning the sky. Once it had been the captain on the outer reef and fought many a battle to sit ......

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...Appreciative Six o`clock In the morning Is the best time To get up when it is summer Stay on the terrace Inhale the air Before it gets hot Make a coffee Just being alive Elderliness is......

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...The number of years, the length of life is meaningless, the days, months, years on earth, our decline; all the stages and chapters of our life to elderliness, merely stepping stones to the h......

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...To love the self My neighbour has four small dogs in the night if they hear a cat they bark to protect their owner warning the unseen enemy to stay away. The dim dogs know what they are, for m......

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...Passing misgivings There are moments in once elderliness when the flowers of the mind, the silver of remembrance is but a cracked black & white film. Old age and wishes blend into a golden pa......

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