Getting Old Poems

These Getting Old poems are examples of Old poems about Getting. These are the best examples of Old Getting poems written by international poets.

We have this weathered old steamer trunk…it’s been with Deborah and me
for as long as I can remember…since we became a family.

Since that moment all

© Jim Yerman  

   When you can no longer bend down to pick something up
       or take your best gal

© Gershon Wolf  

A child as grows enjoys rainbow of joys, 
Many a marvel in a wondrous world, 
Joys mingling with toys getting bouncy buoys,
A world of birds

© Aniruddha Pathak  

we know more now than we knew then
.
we were younger
smiles came easy
and memories were made
like spun cotton candy
and one pony carousels
.
there were fewer reasons to

© wayne tolbert  

The Pleasure Remembered.
I saw her in a cafe yesterday; years had not been kind to her
her hair was matted, her skin was dry, and her

© Jan Hansen  

You are getting on, old fruit
Too obese to wear your new suit
Your face resembles a wrinkled prune
Old age is showing on you too soon,

What has

© Shirley Hawkins  

It Never Gets Old
We do; 
It doesn't.

The caring that fills the deep dark
The warmth that flows
From self to self
The deep, dear chains of love
Forged from

© William Masonis  

My old husband, married so many times, making a big giant army with his loves. 
Loves that must follow all his rules, or he will

© Janine Balistreri  

Growing 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

© Anthony Biaanco  

It seems that I am getting old and grey,
my body's also slowing down its pace.
But, I've still much to do, and much to say.

It seems

© Christine Watts  

If you want
To go out
Have a drink
Shake a leg

Take a bet
Take a chance
Win or lose
Have a dance

I don't really care

I don't care
All that much
Come and

© Robert Harwood-Stamper  

Before midnight ticks, I turn to my 
    interior world ,
One that cradles myrhh
of reminisces  and sagas,
Allowing breaths to inhale the

© Nette Onclaud  

They say age is just a number, 
but its much more than that.
Now everything I eat or drink
just somehow turns to fat.

I used to kick

© Francine Roberts  

Why is Old Age so Lonely? Why is it such a bore?
Why because you're getting Old no-one wants you anymore
 As a Mother and a

© Rosemary Syvret  

                   while getting things done
  

© Heidi Sands