Long Elderliness Poems

The wealthy couple

who live on an island in the Far East
but once a year, they visit Europe
every year when I see them, they have changed 
Alas, I wish it had been for the better
both are...

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To love the self 
My neighbour has four small dogs in the night if they hear 
a cat they bark to protect their owner warning the unseen 
enemy to stay away. The dim dogs know...

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The Wait
The wave of sleep washed my up on the bleak shore of the awake
half remembered dreams vanished and left behind a blank canvas.
I was alone with the grey mass of viscosity framed by boredom.
and...

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Skin cancer and Ayn Rand 

So another sunny day is sinking into the sea I sat in the sun 
for a while but it got too hot I do not understand people who 
sit for...

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House hunting

 
 I´m looking for a flat in a small market town nearby.
The lady showing me around ought to wear a chador.
One of the features in the flat is a new dishwasher
and other kitchen...

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Nostalgia 
The heat is unusual even the olive grove 
looks tired, old trees gasping waiting for 
sundown. Yet the evening is still hot and 
no breeze soothes tired leaves. 
Every august I tell myself that...

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The Foreigner

What does one do when your pension is small?
He lived in an industrial town in England not green and pleasant.
Rows of brick houses, a tiny front yard too narrow for a car.
He could not...

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A lady’s dilemma  

Her mind and body are restless
she is in her late-middle-age 
a difficult time for a woman.
Her long relationship with a well-off man
has made her economically safe
but she is bored
thinks there has...

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The Right Gift. 
When he was fifteen, a man, he had packed his bag
ready to join the merchant navy. His mother had two
parcels in her hands asked him to choose one and 
not open it...

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The grocery/ wineshop 

Once when he lived in Faro (Portugal) and walking about
he came across a grocer shop that was new in 1950.
As window display a packet of washing powder, fossilized
the name of the powder...

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Chemist Shop 
At the entrance of the pharmacy a dead sparrow,
no one seemed to notice this tiny death.
The bird just lied there with folded wings and eyes
suitable closed, ready to be put in a coffin.
I...

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My Phizog
Strange what one remembers?
after looking through Playboy magazine and skipping
the dreary articles written by it founder
I came across this quote: “every man over forty is 
reponsable for his own face.”
at the time when reading...

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My Phizog
Strange what one remembers?
after looking through Playboy magazine and skipping
the dreary articles written by it founder
I came across this quote: “every man over forty is 
reponsable for his own face.”
at the time when reading...

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The number of years, the length of life is meaningless,
   the days, months, years on earth, our decline;
all the stages and chapters of our life to elderliness,
   merely stepping stones to...

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Autumnal

The leaves on the big trees on the avenue begin to fall
a giant vacuum cleaner that looks like a truck swipes up 
the leaves in the gutter

The chocolate brown leaves on the still green lawn...

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Ancient Hamlet

Houses around me are emptying, the old reaching 
the age of dying, are passing away.  A timeworn man 
went missing on Monday he was found miles away 
by the police who drove him...

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Old men and red wine (Portugal)

In the bodega old men drink red wine (never white)
They are proud of their elderliness and solves 
The worlds many problems; something about keeping 
your head down and work hard....

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Antique village

Houses around me are emptying the old, reaching the age of dying.
A timeworn man went missing on Monday, was found miles away, 
the local constabulary drove him back home.
He had tried to flee, didn’t...

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Passing misgivings
 There are moments in once elderliness when
the flowers of the mind, the silver of remembrance 
is but a cracked black  & white film.
 Old age and wishes blend into a golden patina...

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The old sea-gull

The old one-legged sea-gull
sat on my roof near the chimney
if felt the cold, scanning the sky.
Once it had been the captain on the outer reef
and fought many a battle to sit on his...

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