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Retirement Loneliness Poems

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


Alone
Alone in this world
Alone in this society
Alone in love
Alone in life
Alone in fatherhood
Alone in my time of need
Nobody to help me
Nobody to care about what...

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Categories: loneliness, anxiety, dark, depression, father



As Long As the Sun Shines
As Long as the Sun Shines

In truth, this retirement game is not all it seemed
When, at most, I’ve achieved just a few of my dreams
And...

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Categories: loneliness, feelings, happiness, hope, introspection,

I'M Just Alone
I am only one, just alone
I have no family, no one
I have no work, no house
I have no kids, no spouse
I have had everything but...

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Categories: loneliness,

The Waitress
The Diner was brightly lit
Made to look like the sixties
Under a thin veil of the seventies
She came over
Meatloaf special tonight
She looked tired
Long past retirement age
She...

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Categories: emotions, feelings, loneliness,

Premium Member The Squeal
Standing on the crest of my life
Reached with punch and some fire
Wonder I still, what the squeal 
Of the gate closing be like
Carrying as it...

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Categories: emotions, introspection, loneliness, nostalgia,



Depression Is a Spirit Troll
The worst part is waking up
With wispy, fleeting, figments of anxious dream
Looking at the clock and realizing
It doesn’t matter what time it is anymore
Then there’s...

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Categories: depression, loneliness, retirement,

It Showed Up
Didn't see it, creeping in door
at first, wasn't bothered much
chill appeared, quite pondered
emptiness, a painless touch.

Daytime now resembles dusk
no birds welcome light of morn
bad news...

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Categories: loneliness, age, depression, emotions, grief,

Premium Member Saturday Night
It's another Saturday night
ending this week
as started
alone again.

I came here
almost two years ago
to my retirement hermitage
but oddly,
and often uncomfortably,
shared with my hurt kids,
mental and physical...

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Categories: age, health, loneliness, meaningful,

Is Today Actually Tomorrow
Woke this morning, thought, might take a shower
     it's 9:00 am already, will eat lunch in a few hours.

When I dust...

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Categories: age, change, loneliness, lonely,

Premium Member Wrinkly and Gray
I am very young in spirit, never weak: guess my actual age?
I keep a positive outlook by avoiding negativeness and rage!
Twenty years from now, I'll...

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Categories: loneliness, absence, age, america, emotions,

His Time Has Come
He walks about in the night, with veined arms and blood stained claws,
Running from the ghosts haunting his past , escaping death's jaws.

The healing factor...

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Categories: loneliness, age, allegory, dark, life,

Never Noticed
He was a mild mannered man,
a Clark Kent type
He was never noticed at work,
although he never missed a day in his life
Each morning, he exchanged...

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Categories: death, loneliness, lonely, longing,

The Loneliest Man
how quiet it must have been
for you, michael collins...
how calm it must have seemed
for you, michael collins...
how tranquil you must have felt
up there alone
with no...

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Categories: celebrity, loneliness, memory, night,

One Man's Retirement
In Oxford we watched for three months
the old man, his leg in plaster,
lean against the wall outside the building
where the Simon people cared for him.

He...

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Categories: addiction, depression, england, loneliness,

One Man's Retirement
In Oxford we watched for three months
the old man, his leg in plaster,
lean against the wall outside the building
where the Simon people cared for him.

He...

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Categories: addiction, depression, england, loneliness,


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