Long Retirement Poems
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An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
retirement, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Revolutionary AnthroMatriarchy
Those who get,
get more widely.
Those who want,
want more deeply.
Normal slow-grown inter-religiously co-invested evolution
is not survival of the wealthiest and strongest species,
but thrival of the deepest win/win fit
with least panentheistic disruption required
within,
whether we speak...
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Categories:
retirement, health, integrity, love, political, religious, science, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Our Earthcafe Coop
In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
retirement, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Indignation 1-6-21
How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
retirement, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's Notes
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
retirement, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!
Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...
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Categories:
retirement, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
When You Call the Lord -The Piroutte Style
~ When You Call The Lord ~
( Piroutte )
In Him find Love, Hope, Peace
In trouble call His name
He'll respond Your call
Come in heart, live in you
When you call the Lord is...
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Categories:
retirement, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Charming Patterns
When still young, ...
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Categories:
retirement, career, christian, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries Papa
Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
retirement, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Unforgettable Places - Acts
I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
retirement, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
The Mountain Goat
The noise aboard the motor boat reminds me that I was not alone
The high perspiration smell from the young couple sitting beside me
caused me to remember the green wood’s in Virginia and the squirrels
chasing each...
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Categories:
retirement, angel, courage, creation, friendship, leadership, love, missing,
Form:
Narrative
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...
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Categories:
age, health, integrity, relationship, religion, retirement, river,
Form:
Political Verse
A Stranger In the Soup Kitchen Spills the Beans
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let's call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbors...
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Categories:
retirement, poverty,
Form:
Prose
Mobile In Alabama
Those were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I...
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Categories:
retirement, beauty, dream, home, imagery, night, sleep, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...
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Categories:
education, humanity, life, philosophy, retirement, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
In Our Town
In my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses
incarnated all the green organic dreams
of the food righteousness brigade,
Eternal EarthDay worshipers
began pilgrimages with gardeners
and pet-owners
and parents,
to establish...
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Categories:
retirement, community, culture, environment, health, political, poverty, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Perspectives Miscellaneous
Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...
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Categories:
retirement, life, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Fibonacci
Inside Outdoor Voices
Just as honesty plants seeds of integrity
so too
vulnerability plants seeds of honesty.
My primary vocation
in this my gay grandfatherly retiring age
is to parent mindbody challenged adolescents
of diverse colors
as ecotherapeutically as possible
to optimize their and our wealth
of...
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Categories:
retirement, environment, family, health, love, mental illness, parents,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Night With Joe Bonamassa
Billboard named him the year finest blues musician.
Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician,
He was designed to be a famous musician.
His family owns a guitar store in upstate New York,
After years of practice, Bonamassa will...
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Categories:
retirement, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Mommy's Words of Wisdom
You are growing up right before my eyes, no longer the little girl, always on my thigh.
I have implanted a foundation as your parent to help you grow, but there are so many life things...
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Categories:
retirement, life, my child, truth, wisdom, youth,
Form:
ABC
She Wrote To Me
She Wrote To Me
My secret lover I left you 5 years ago I could not take it anymore I had
to fill my emptiness without you since I left I would cut out my heart...
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Categories:
retirement, dark, emotions, lost, love, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
WHEN SANTA CAME TO BENARTY
WHEN SANTA CAME TO BENARTY
Santa came to Benarty
One cold and stormy night
The snow and clouds that gathered
Made Santa ground his flight.
He landed behind the graveyard
In Dallas Doyle Park,
He came down with such a loud crash
He...
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Categories:
retirement, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Candidates For Success
For those who agree that love is success
and hate is failure,
some admittedly unsolicited advice
from low-income and retired voter trenches:
1. Do not only run as AntiTrumpian.
Trumpianism means no more or less than
AntiPolycultural HealthyWealth
of and for Restoring...
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Categories:
retirement, culture, education, food, health, humor, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I enjoyed going to school and was doing really well
Mom sang...
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Categories:
retirement, america, death, drink, drug, mother son, school,
Form:
Narrative