Old People Poems - Poems about Old People

When little kids ask for stories Regale them of our lore and its glories. Listening with rapt notice Tales of champions and menaces. One and all exclaim with awe Hearing about our Gods. They don't die Live within us and fly. Burn like...Read the rest...

faded oil portraits in gold patina frames hide on gallery walls...Read the rest...

I have a former neighbor, an older female friend, who clearly does most thinking from the other end.. Many a time I should put my phone on mute. Today she called chuckling, criticizing Blinken's tie and suit.. Failing to...Read the rest...

Aged man walks on the busy street Beyond his ability to cross Cane in hand, old friends he needs to meet Delayed by rain, worried about loss Earlier, he fell into a hole Finding out he damaged his right leg Good...Read the rest...

I felt like a book very tired old and worn out needing rest on shelf....Read the rest...

"Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house; can you hear the whispering? " ...Read the rest...

They wend their way through Sunshine City Cobblestoned, sloped, and Old World pretty; And lined with colorful, homes in glad unity, Streets linked heart to heart, in deep affinity. Up one crooked path, and down to the river, As rosy...Read the rest...

The exaltation of my depression controlled my free will Sensing the elusiveness of a thing called Love feeling the high and the low of it I expected the low to go away but it didn't Only a lingering memory...Read the rest...

It sucks getting old wouldn't you say. You wake up tired almost everyday. Your joints hurt, your muscles ache. Pills for arthritis you now have to take. Your bones begin to creak and crack. Can't stand up straight cuz you're...Read the rest...

Youth is strong Yet foolishly wrong The wisdom of the gray hairs Is truest love It's been here before It's opens doors Relist in the wrinkles of it's arms Allowing the lips of wisdom Kiss those heart beating promises Glorify see trough the...Read the rest...

Growing old is as they say a part of life It can cause you strife It can cause discourse It can even cause remorse Growing old can be a delight That can have the wisdom to make things right That can...Read the rest...

scarecrow Joe is sliding off his pole not enough cognition to fulfill his role lost his balls and his jacks to the ruthless Taliban stumbling to Oz down a bloody brick road...Read the rest...

The children in the park See the old, gray-haired woman Every afternoon. They watch her. She is always sitting in the rocking chair On her porch, sometimes reading, Sometimes knitting, Sometimes just rocking, half asleep. What they don’t know Is that she...Read the rest...

We start out with our tiny feet inked,                               to show our paper footprints.                  ...Read the rest...

She rose from the table moving slowly to the sink. This was not her favorite time, too much time to think. Her body moved from memory now, the right bit of dish detergent, she...Read the rest...