Long Oldsters Poems

Santa! Oh, Santa! Please listen to me. It’s for Dragon! I’m begging you, please!
Dragon didn't mean to be naughty! He’s crying! He’s even down, on his knees!
Christmas is coming! He wants to be nice! Heaven...

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No one at home on Valentine’s Day, our lips were already locked.
Getting used to being alone, our plans would have left you shocked.
Back from vacation, the Basement Trolls came strolling in, our night was lost.
But...

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The seashore is a wondrous stage, for in the sun's delight,
I sit and watch a play unfold- it's there within my sight!

Those beauties, young with golden tans, demurely sashay by
In search of those admiring eyes...

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Rock-a-bye starlets where the Swan flies.
Like earthly Sun, your day will arise.
Bright shall you reign, before your light dies.
So shine in your cradle high in the skies.

Cygnus OB2, the place you dwell
cozily clustered in cloudy...

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No matter how big the war 
whether nation against nation or
two men in a bar, the result is the same: 
		loss.
In my lifetime nearly constant war, and even before. 
And that is just those involving...

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We Went To A Movie Today
By Rick Rucker

We went to a movie today, 
About two oldsters that had let it slip away,

They still cared about each other, 
But were living like sister, and brother,

They had...

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Topics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening to simply discuss the weather,
But now it's a litany of...

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the oldsters were the ones who were predictable
Aunt Marjorie would bring something to sell
If you said “no thank you” she would try to guilt you into it
“I will give them to you if you cannot...

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I clip on a leash so I can try to hold her back.
My old friend will prance all the way down the block and back.
She’s frightened of noise from the garbage truck.
And early morning before...

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Why can't I be the real me

Instead of putting on airs to impress

If I really didn't care what people thought

I could go to the mall in a dress

Right away I'd be labeled as kinda unusual

To...

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Why can't I be the real me
Instead of putting on airs to impress
If I really didn't care what people thought
I could go to the mall in a dress

Right away I'd be labeled as kinda unusual
To...

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I once thought, 
in fact I knew,
that I would live to be,
150.
In all my arrogance,
I thought it  was simply 
a matter of will.

I saw all those oldsters,
staggering around,
with their walkers,
dim eyes and 
fearful stares,...

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The world is changing so rapidly
I feel like a chameleon who has lost the race
I am changing as hard and fast as I can
And still I get left behind in swamps of confusion

Our children are...

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Summer Coming

Oh, I love the
summer coming!
This must be when
the oldsters said
”A new and better
land, lets go! 
Lets see some place
where 
all things grow and
take their space 
before our very eyes
and leave 
room for the
children too....

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Not gas, not oil, but leadership
  Yes, it's leadership pipelines we lack
    Young people coming up through the ranks
    For their mentors' devotion giving thanks
  
 ...

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Our phone has rung six times in an hour. 
The same speech. 
A robot offering us senior services. 

We have asked them not to call us. 
On call four they said we would be taken...

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My lifetime friend, I feel so odd.
I'm not insured for acts of God.
Everything, it seems, is lost or gone.
I can't feel the ground I stand upon.

Today, we oldsters sat down to look
inside your yellow paged...

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Dog is lying in the shade, his butt under the car’s tire
I bask in the sun, loving the Vitamin D
Wind picks up in a savage way
Shiny coral leaves dance in a macabre way
Dead, they forgot...

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Proms are cancelled all over the world
Graduations? Not this year
I feel so sorry for the seniors

Both kinds of Seniors
The oldsters because they are vulnerable
The young ones because so many of their dreams are cancelled

No prom
No...

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Wise man of Charlotte enjoys his wisdom which is known.
We respect this paragon whose power mimics a king on a throne.
Although not of noble birth, he is revered throughout the land.
We know of his exploits...

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