Old Mistersilent oak tree sentinel guards my yard
I call him Old Mister
he drops acorns that try to grow new oak trees
they land in a cinder piles, planting themselves
In a few weeks tiny oak leaves form.
If you gently pull them out of the cinders
You will see a tiny oak tree growing out of an acorn.
I pulled twenty...
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Categories:
old, tree,
Form: Free verse
KL Cool Cat Rahul and Panto Pant
Rat a tat tat..from the off…doff my hat to that.. rare..great hair and flair pair…the cool cat and crazy cat..
Teasing twang…of the Pant and anti Pant thang..the genesis of a genius nemesis it brang..tomfoolery along with duelery schoolery.. pleasing tang of yin and yang..
Whole shebang rang of..sublime Pantomime..our hearts sang…pangs for the young gun in...
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Categories:
old, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Meeting Old FriendsWhen you meet with old friends
After months, even years,
There is comfort in having
No need to switch gears.
For the groundwork’s been set
And the basics are known,
So there’s just catching up –
How the grandkids have grown!
But most likely you’ll talk
About health or its lack
And the surgeries done
On the hips, knees or back.
There’ll be notes to compare
About...
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Categories:
old, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
now that I am oldwhen I was young, I remember hearing people say
all old people want to talk about is their bowel movements
Now that I am old
that’s all I want to talk about...
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Categories:
old, age,
Form: Light Verse
A Short Rain
A practice kiss with her hand
Misses body, heart
The droplets like her fall —
She amasses their death
Even inside, outside
Let rain go no further....
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Categories:
old, care, dark, kiss, lost,
Form: Blank verse
Heavenly Host
Fading away as the days
dwindle down to a dismal few
I'm still grinning
what more can I do
my head's spinning
eyes dimming hair thinning
but if the devil's in the details
he drives a hard bargain
and if heaven's like a five-star hotel
with 'Welcome' on the mat
remember when beginning
your final innings
there'll be no winning
when you're up at bat
...
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Categories:
old, age, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Old Shaftesbury WomanConcrete dust drifts like sand across a coastal path.
An old woman battered with facial features that hung on her face,
Disconnected and hanging.
She leans forward in her blumonge, waterproof, unwashed nylon flares from Matalan.
They ruffle in the wind as she looks out withdrawn onto the A350.
Her gaze is muffled by a sheen of...
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Categories:
old, character, class, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
There's No Fuel Like an Old FuelShe took a stroll one moonlit night
in search of lumps of anthracite.
She knew that coal could soothe her soul:
one moonlit night, she took a stroll.
Insomniac, anaplasty
coal soothed her soul: but she knew she
would need, to get her nostrils back,
anaplasty. Insomniac,
obsessed with smoking magic weed,
to get her nostrils back, she’d need
a plastic surgeon – but the...
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Categories:
old, health,
Form: Quatrain
300 years oldl listen to music everyday
it takes away my bodies pain
from rustling leaves to thunder storms
to soothing sounds, l love it all
Music is the Art of man
just like a poet but sounds its plan
if it has, connective heart
and reaches mine, we'll never part
l read it's written about despair
but only instruments do l care
17...
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Categories:
old, music,
Form: Rhyme
OLD STORIES COMING BACK
I remember when our children were children…and we were younger as well…
In a time they believed everything we said…oh the jokes and stories we would tell…
We could tell them the moon was made of cheese, fool them with card and magic tricks
and when we told stories around the campfire..they would sit and listen…transfixed.
One of my...
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Categories:
old, family,
Form: Rhyme
New And Old DreamsDreams, new and old dreams, we all dream
We all dream of chocolate and ice cream
We all dream of monsters, bandits and angels
We all dream of good, bad guys and devils
That’s where nightmare comes into play
We all dreams of better days in May
When the temperature is cool, welcoming and warm
Spring fever brings hope, something new and...
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Categories:
old, adventure, angel, blessing, cute
Form: Rhyme
OLD HUSBANDMy old husband, married so many times, making a big giant army with his loves.
Loves that must follow all his rules, or he will cause them to feel blue.
My old husband, has a way of making everyday a special day, that makes me chuckle, with his attention to detail.
My old husband, is such...
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Categories:
old, america, environment, i love
Form: Rhyme
A Strange PairThere was an old man from Fargo,
With a wife whose name was Margo.
They were quite the pair
Neither had much hair
They traveled the world with no cargo!
...
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Categories:
old, fun, hair, humor, husband,
Form: Limerick
Chirps on a WireGrowing old
things loved and cherished come and go
phone calls- text messages thinning
tossed aside in a world of folly and frost-
Growing old
in a world that keeps getting colder
hard faces-hovering over graying steps
cobwebs in the corner of an empty nest
Growing old, another funeral procession -one friend less
life becoming endless blue eulogy-nothing more nothing...
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Categories:
loss, old,
Form: Lyric
When did I get oldwe are all drones on the freeway today
hardly any excitement this side of the bay
then two crazy racing drivers head our way
They whip past me, one yellow, one gray
Youngsters I think rolling my hazel eyes
Unsure actually, their windshields dark as spies
But they drive like maniacs, like I did at twenty-three
When did I turn into old...
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Categories:
old, age,
Form: Rhyme
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