Long Getting old Poems
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Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
getting old, marriage,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 81
“I do not know if he still lives in that cave or if he is even alive, but I can tell you where it is. I have never shared this with anyone but Jessica,...
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Categories:
getting old, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Time
Time
Did we think that time would always there for us?
An infinite amount of time to use as we please.
Never counting time.....and never thinking it would end
Did we ever doubt that someday time would be...
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Categories:
getting old, 10th grade, angel, anniversary, appreciation, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
I Can Win the War Without Destroying the World
I have been reluctant to write this poem
Because I don't want to disappoint anyone
from going to heaven
I have been reluctant to write this poem
Because it has been a heavy burden
Yesterday a little past noon
I...
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Categories:
getting old, absence, america, angel, community, death, faith, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent poem on your page ‘DIG DEEP’.
Hello Francis, how are...
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Categories:
getting old, humor, rap, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
Getting Into It
Where have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter to highest use
with least carbon-based effort/loss of reinvestment values,
And to...
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Categories:
getting old, earth, environment, health, humor, money, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Hey You
Hey you out there
Life hasn't been fair
I see you,
This is something true
On that street corner you stand
Need a hand
This corner is important at this point of time in your life.
So much strife
Do you...
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Categories:
getting old, angel, april, bangla,
Form:
Rhyme
Corner
Hey you out there
Life hasn't been fair
I see you,
This is something true
On that street corner you stand
Need a hand
This corner is important at this point of time in your life.
So much strife
Do you...
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Categories:
getting old, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be Continued: Night Thoughts
Go...away…
It comes a low mumble but I mean it as a scream
lying here on this creaky carpeted wooden floor it seems
I'm not going to sleep for while, getting lost with my dreams
not like they love...
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Categories:
getting old, night,
Form:
Free verse
Monoku Monday - Nov 2020
"Election Edition" posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians: like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)
debates are like steer horns a couple points with lots...
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Categories:
getting old, political,
Form:
Monoku
Customs To Getting Old
abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,
Customs To Getting Old ©
There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is not one of them
One has to be blessed with 65...
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Categories:
getting old, abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,
Form:
Epic
In Sorrow and In Joy
In Sorrow and in Joy
(For my wife Barbara)
By Franklin Price
01/18/2022
I - Looking Back
I'm looking back on year just past in sorrow and in joy
Thinking of the future and the thoughts I should employ
More than two...
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Categories:
getting old, anniversary, death, wife,
Form:
Couplet
Nature
Dear January.
I don't deny that there are days of beauty;
days of temperate tones and warm blue skies.
I don't think I'm confused; so allow me a bit of muse.
Perhaps it's me and my shortsightedness,
but when I'm...
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Categories:
getting old, january, winter,
Form:
Personification
Fishing and Watching
Joe.; Making friends can be Hard I'm told, with keeping them harder; than finding, where hens teeth are sold!
Andrea.. Maybe it's hype the bonding thing? Yet there seemed wot truth in listening
Joe..Specially when we're getting...
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Categories:
getting old, friendship, hope, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Standing Strong
Here I am looking at the sand
Here I am waiting on the man
Here I am standing up strong
Here I am absorbing the consciousness
embedded in the heart of the faraway land
I am waiting for ...
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Categories:
getting old, absence, america, assonance, city, community, courage, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Demons Dancing On My Chest
Demons Dancing On My Chest
By Angela C. Freeman
9/25/17
I am dying soon...you already know
You need to leave...you need to go
The longer that you stick around
The harder my heart starts to pound
It pounds out of...
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Categories:
getting old, addiction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, dark,
Form:
I do not know?
Allah Do You Know Me
Allah...Do You Know Me?
By: Angela C. Freeman
Dedicated to: Allah and Amondo Michael Cole
10/2/2017
Are you my God...I need to know
I’ve been full of darkness and so much sorrow
I had given up on life and love...
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Categories:
getting old, allah, boyfriend, confusion, emotions, feelings,
Form:
I do not know?
ABOUT A LETTER
ABOUT A LETTER
I was cleaning and re-arranging my
Precious book-shelves,
A lot came down, a lot went back after dusting
Off, much of such
Dust, but one blue heavy book caught my attention,
I am not of those who...
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Categories:
getting old, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Humble B Bumble - 12 - Bee Ware
Bee ware
My first week’s pay!
What am I going to do!?
I have never had this much honey beefore!
First of all, I will go to,
The joke shop and get me those books I saw.
I could do with...
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Categories:
getting old, funny, hope, love, money, sad, work, youth,
Form:
I do not know?
Tommys Christmas Wish
TOMMY’S CHRISTMAS WISH
Tommy was a wee young boy,
And asked mommy to write and
Ask Santa for a special toy
Tommy was only four years old,
And lived with Mommy,
As his Daddy,
Brad, had gone to Canada,
To find a job,
The...
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Categories:
getting old, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Age: My Wise Councelor
Oh, Age, my wise counselor,
My faithful friend, my ally
From the moment, I was born at that specific year
You and I inseparable have remained throughout space and time
Holding always hands as years were parading before our...
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Categories:
getting old, age, appreciation, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Joys of Getting Older
The Joys of Getting Older.
We may all be getting on a bit
But lets not forget for some more fortunate
The joy of it
You don’t have to bounce up and down in bed no more
And when...
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Categories:
getting old, age,
Form:
Verse
Great Britain In No Particular Order
In no particular order
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
But together Great Britain
I have never been to Scotland.
Wales or Northern Ireland as well.
That’s because I’m getting old.
And I’m not well, I’m ill.
Yet what I see...
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Categories:
getting old, break up, courage, together, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
The Spider and Me
The spider and me…
The spider and me…
In the garden that was called Garden of Love,
I was flying with a silver feathered dove.
I was dancing among a bunch of flowers,
I...
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Categories:
getting old, adventure, age, insect, metaphor, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter To My Unborn Child
LETTER TO MY UNBORN CHILD.
COUNTLESS TIMES I'VE CLOSED MY EYES TO SEE WHAT YOU'D LOOK LIKE
I IMAGINE YOUR SMILE AND THE SHAPE OF YOUR LIPS
EVEN WONDER IF YOU'D HAVE DIMPLE LIKE ME
I CRAVE...
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Categories:
getting old, birth, feelings, hope, longing, my child,
Form:
ABC