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Geriatrics
Geriatrics Poems - Poems about Geriatrics
Carny Day
...Its wet and drear in London dear, the pomp in on full trope Though hope is gone, not dead for Jesus is the only hope! Its foolish to trust in others; dopes.' In robes and words In fear and force, ......
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Joe Maverick
Categories:
geriatrics,
angst, appreciation, dark, education,
Form:
Rhyme
On Coining An Acronym For the Neologism 'Occult Microaggresion'
...On coining an acronym for the neologism 'occult microaggresion' 'OM' is right, But might get the Buddhists backs up.... OMA, WTAF? What about OMA? Its German for granny, but I've no objection......
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Huw Sherlock
Categories:
geriatrics,
irony,
Form:
Light Verse
Another Sunday Morning
...Another Sunday morning Crouched in the beam of headlights Steam coming off coffee and breath Fumbling to pin race bib to pants A romance Of sorts; this dance I’m addicted to Those magic numbe......
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Kim Hyde
Categories:
geriatrics,
appreciation, happiness, motivation, race,
Form:
Lyric
Cocky's Happy Ending
...So what did happen to old Cocky, Swearing away, profanity? We gave him a new abode, A cage in a nursing home, Old Cocky struck it lucky, Full of parrots, like he, Cocky believed in sharing, Ol......
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Julie Grenness
Categories:
geriatrics,
age, bird, character, giggle,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is Just a Dress Rehearsal For the Real World
...ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS;... AND SO HE PLAYS HIS PART... LAST SCENE OF ALL, THAT ENDS THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY... ......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
geriatrics,
future, life, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Pearls Beneath the Harbor
...Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe so......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
geriatrics,
people, places, world war
Form:
Haibun
Twilight Zone
...The Twilight Zone In the nearest town and close to all amenities such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife and went to look at an elderly people’s hotel where people of a certain age get......
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Categories:
geriatrics,
age, allah, analogy, angel,
Form:
Bio
The World of Geriatrics
...Grumpy Elderly people Ridiculously fussing over nothing Inventing crazy stories Attempting to get over bed rails Trails of body waste on the floor Repeating questions over and over Insisting on being......
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Peggy Caulfield
Categories:
geriatrics,
people,
Form:
Acrostic
Retirement
...Geriatrics plays this Puzzle now. I dance, but stumble into a waxed window without anything but nakedness. Coarse is your tongue and dry are my interests in you. Once an icon, I'm prepared t......
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Ian D. Campbell
Categories:
geriatrics,
angst, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Seed
...Seed before dawn Youth and adolescence by day Adulthood and geriatrics by evening Seed before dawn again!......
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Terri Wright
Categories:
geriatrics,
introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
I do not know?