Retirement Goodbye Poems | Examples
These Retirement Goodbye poems are examples of Goodbye poems about Retirement. These are the best examples of Goodbye Retirement poems written by international poets.
I REMEMBER MY CREATOR
A GREAT BIG BURLY LAD
I WAS SENT OFF TO THE HARDWARE STORE
TO DO THE SAME JOB AS MY DAD.
A YOUNG CHAP CAME A BOUGHT ME
HE TOOK ME TO THE SITE
HE MADE ME WORK FOR HOURS ON END
MORNING NOON AND NIGHT.
MY BLADE IS GOING RUSTY NOW
MY EDGE HAS GONE TO POT
MY SHAFT THAT ONCE WAS RIGID
IS GOING SOFT AND STARTING TO ROT.
I KNOW MY DAYS ARE NUMBERED
I'M PASSED MY USE BY DATE
COULD YOU TAKE ME TO THE FOUNDRY PLEASE
TURN ME INTO SOMETHING MORE ORNATE.
IT'S HARD WORK BEING A SHOVEL
I WANT TO RETIRE.
Wherein this life I do my thoughts rehearse
Therein is found my unique chapter and verse
This finite earth may be my physical home
In spirit I live within this timeless tome
As tired faculties begin to ebb with age
My legacy will still live upon the page
Dispelling my moments of deep,dying gloom
The welcoming web nurses my verse volume
Let it then clear and stark become my epitaph
So that my poems stand as my autograph.
What emerges from reading between the lines?
The splitting of the physical from the divine.