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Retirement Elegy Poems

These Retirement Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Retirement. These are the best examples of Elegy Retirement poems written by international poets.


Pele the King of Football
The king of football was born on October 23, 1940 in Tre's Coracoes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The king of football full name is Edison Arantes do...

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Categories: appreciation, bereavement, celebrity, funeral,



April Ninth Four Score and Eleven Years Ago
How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated...

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Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,

Unable To Bid Papa Goodbye
Nonagenarian father afflicted,
his body electric awry
with congenital heart failure,
before long twill bid existence bye
whose physical well being -
corporeal essence inevitably will die

unavoidable manifest destiny...
accompanied into...

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Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,

Labor Day 2019
Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or...

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Categories: america, appreciation, celebration, dream,

Uncle Mack
Old Uncle Mack had a long life,
seen alot,
racism and civil rights,
picked cotton in a hot summer field 
for a man who didn't care for him.
He...

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© Mark King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black african american, life,



The Gardener
He spent the golden years in his
garden growing vegetables like weeds.

With a Midas-like touch, instead of
gold, everything turned green.

Spring, summer and autumn, something 
about growing...

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Categories: death, father, loss, winter,


Book: Shattered Sighs