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Elderly Poems - Poems about Elderly
Elderly Poems - Examples of all types of poems about elderly to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Growing up while Growing old
Archaic silence reasons with my soul Not the latest model, and not really a classic Just a girl who trembles with expectation When the sun regards my flowers with a smile, Sending her delicate shafts of hope Coloring each of...
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
elderly,
age, appreciation, december, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Blank Stare From A Rocking Chair
A breeze did slide in under eaves and stirred inside the air that grieves, my children grown my dreams have flown, alone I sit my rocking throne. My chair in front of window bare, I look… but husband’s soul...
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Susan Ashley
Categories:
elderly,
fate, grief, irony, life,
Form:
Kyrielle
When you are old
Wrinkles are souvenirs of life’s odyssey, the joy, the sorrows and its novelty. Quote - Poets Own When one’s elderly with an aging face And you're pondering on where time has gone Or from where wrinkles suddenly came from Winging supersonic...
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Beryl Edmonds
Categories:
elderly,
age, lost, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Elderly
The wrinkles of the elderly in Elmwood squeak sometimes. ...
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Matthew Herfurth
Categories:
elderly,
humor,
Form:
Free verse
Reluctant To Age
This can't be my age! I am still young at heart The life of a party Though hitting the bed by ten Gained a few kilos of weight But can fit into my youthful jeans Grew sluggish and shorter...
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Susmita Mukherjee
Categories:
elderly,
age, angst, change, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Knowledge That No One Wants
What I am, what you are not, what you need and what I want, that you do not have. The stars above do not pretend, Their light is truth that will not bend. But hearts, like mirrors clouded...
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James Mclain
Categories:
elderly,
12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Older Children That Yell At Their Parents
the walls hum with voices of a war no one sees. the dinner plates rattle as if asking to be smashed, and the dog hides under the table, eyes wide, waiting for the next explosion. they are lightning without rain, fireworks that never fade. they...
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James Mclain
Categories:
elderly,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Haunted by the Faded Days
It’s sad to see you now With trembling wrinkles, And somber gray hair… It feels like a shadow Has crept in around my thoughts, Pouring darkness over the moments, Destroying the peace that once was… It’s so very sad to see...
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
elderly,
change, christian, endurance, father
Form:
Free verse
Listen
There is a story in her eyes Listen to her, before she dies past dreary storms of pain and loss her soul’s been made whole by His cross there is a time for gentle words timeless truths serenade like birds listen...
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
elderly,
age, heart, inspirational, journey,
Form:
Kyrielle
The Elderly Prefer AI
Overheard a couple elderly gents Discuss artificial intelligence One said to the other If I had...
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
elderly,
age, humor, judgement, technology,
Form:
Limerick
AN ELDERLY ADVICE
On this faithful evening! I was very curious about, The issues and affairs of life. I was walking on the street, With thoughts of growth all over my mind. I came across a very old man, Who's old enough...
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Desire Obaroyeregbe Agbeyiwa Agidotan Ikoyo
Categories:
elderly,
adventure, blessing, deep, education,
Form:
Epic
wooden spoon worn smooth
wooden spoon worn smooth calloused hands’ enduring tool sleeps in a drawer...
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Robert Sidwell
Categories:
elderly,
age, metaphor, remember,
Form:
Haiku
The Elderly Man and His Speach
The elderly man we call leader Would shout as if our ears couldn't hear, Then whisper with the expectation We would agree to adhere to his Foreign invasion~ Ten million strong from every nation. Who was that girl, he could...
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Chetta Achara
Categories:
elderly,
political,
Form:
Political Verse
An Elderly Man Reclines
His wife dies. You have seen it all before, you can tell what will happen next. He will recline in the home that she has woven around him. He will let the ivy of their long years together coil around his somnambulant...
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
elderly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Graying Ponderings
Proverbs 16:31 (KJV) The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Our time has come to know the grief, Of losing friends, losing those things – we held...
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
elderly,
age, christian, death, death
Form:
Free verse
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