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Retirement Light Verse Poems

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


Premium Member If I had the Time
If I had the time
I would make sculptures out of pencils
You are retired I said
Why don’t you have the time?
TV and computer games are stealing...

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Categories: retirement,



Premium Member My Little White Lie
My sister once had a dream, that was driving her crazy.
It seemed so real, but it was very faint and hazy.
She thought it was real...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brother, dream, memory, remember,

Premium Member The Ballad of Daphne and Jack, the Sequel
Gather 'round me, my dears,
I'll continue the tale
Of a princess and her pirate lover.
Of her crown unencumbered,
They pillaged and plundered
As they wandered the seven seas...

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Categories: adventure, humor, princess,

In Honor of Milt
Backhanded Apology
Copyright © L MILTON HANKINS | Year Posted 2022

Sorry if I upset you,
I really didn’t mean it
Actually, I meant it
Until I saw it upset...

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Categories: 11th grade, blessing, eulogy,

Premium Member Now I Knew What I Didn'T Know B4
Temples throbbing
  Heart pounding
     at capacity

Introduced very first day
  as 'Teacher of Perspicacity'

Did not know what it meant...
 ...

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Categories: scary, school, teacher,



Premium Member Coming Soon
Summer is almost over. 
Autumn is coming soon. 
Winter waits with snow. 


Date Written: 8/28/2021 
Bite Size Poem no19 Poetry Contest                 ...

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Categories: autumn, fun, seasons, snow,

Premium Member Chocolate Chip Cookies
Unicorns hiding under my big bed,                   ...

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Categories: food, friend, fun, mom,

Premium Member Immortality
Immortality is not for me                                          ...

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Categories: crazy, heaven, song, words,

Premium Member The Golden Years
Rain showers in the summer heat
Elevating the oppressive humidity rankles
The biggest reason it does not excite me,
It aggravates my painful arthritic ankles.
Old age would certainly...

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Categories: age, humorous, hurt, old,

Premium Member Elder Interest
Some archaeologists like to
date older women.










Thanks Ogden
7 words...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, emotions, feelings, humor,

Premium Member A Sea-Side Walk With Sincerest Apology To Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The sand and sea were calling us                  ...

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Categories: beach, dad, day, heart,

Premium Member Time To Rewire
When a person retires
  It's time to rewire

The first thing to do?
  Break your clock in two

No more 'early,' no more 'late'
 ...

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Categories: humor, money, retirement, time,

Premium Member Bring a Bodybag When I Am Ninety Two
My friend and I were talking about retiring.
I chickened out. I like big money.
She put in her papers.
She is older than me by a year...

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Categories: retirement,

Ex Worker Bee
I used to be a worker bee,
And as far as I could ever see,
Would never have the sunshine time,
To sing a song, to pen a...

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Categories: retirement,

Premium Member Who Knew
flipping baseball cards
in the flippin' school yard
pictures up, stats down
Drysdale, Koufax, Mantle, Spahn
or vice versa all around

retirement income source lost on the playground......

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: baseball, childhood, fun, games,


Book: Shattered Sighs