Fogey Poems - Poems about Fogey

New from dyslexic temple mount

...New from dyslexic temple mount...

of one mortal university 
undergraduate built in madly
the brainchild of one Forest Hadley
an a Ford able game paid top dollar
after being purchased by Milton...

Categories: fogey, absence, abuse, adventure, angel,
Form: Free verse

Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024

...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document

Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...

Categories: fogey, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse

Family Trip

...

They are off in their CRV, for fun, swimming and sand!

Grandma, the old fogey , however, must stay on land.

Writing poetry to unknown people.

Some who’d love to toss her from a steepl...

Categories: fogey, family,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Damn Anticipatory Anxiety Affliction

...Damn anticipatory anxiety affliction...
trumps volition (mine) to don employee hat!

Until the grim reaper
whisks yours truly away
common joe just biden his time
chronologically old fogey
(alb...

Categories: fogey, 12th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Free verse

Me Creature of Comfort Bah

...Me... creature of comfort? Bah

Once again mine lock, stock
and barrel trade in balderdash
finds yours truly (i.e. me)
to type poem frisson a$$ off
as dentures chatter and gnash,
while still i...

Categories: fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Jalopies

...An old man in Buffalo

Got toes of unwanted glow

He kicked the banger

On a cliff hanger

Waited for a truck to tow


Antique or dear jalopy

The bloke was on ecstasy

Smoked gum from...

Categories: fogey, fun,
Form: Limerick

Not Fake News This Just In

...FROM BIKINI BOTTOM TIMES...

...Spongebob Squarepants...what...atoll...?
plunged into where,...no way...toilet bowl...
supposedly, when the ghostly hand ex-toll
ling praise from his late creator...

Categories: fogey, absence, anger, angst, character,
Form: Free verse

Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One

...Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperb...

Categories: fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One

...Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperb...

Categories: fogey, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

After Dinner Childhood Parlor Game

...let me take thee dear reader rabbit alas and alack 
on an imaginary carpet ride whisk king ye dis family back 
rheumy eyes started to water from nostalgic clack
until reverse time warp registered ...

Categories: fogey, adventure, age, brother, kids,
Form: Rhyme

Good Enough

...this old car gets me from point A to B
it may not be new with modern luxuries
but it is still good enough for me
so please just let it be

my old lazy boy chair may look worn
but it is cozy and...

Categories: fogey, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme

While Its Yours

...Is it fair that youth is beauty
That the best we can ever be
Is before we are twenty three
Why can't a wrinkle be sexy
Who says grey hairs are icky
Contact lenses are too tricky
Comfort and eas...

Categories: fogey, age, funny, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme

No One Around My Shoulder(My World Has Gotten Colder)

...I am awake
                                                    there is no sun
                                                   Continue to arise
                                                ...

Categories: fogey, introspection, me,
Form: I do not know?