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Old Poetry - Examples of all types of poems about old poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Growing Old with Her
The age has bloomed on my face, from the alternate timelines I play Inside my head hoping that 1% chance comes true Some lines come from the joy that floods my face and leaves a specific...
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Post Skriqt
Categories:
old poetry,
age, growth, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Got a Minute To Write
Could I have written novels How about short stories... Perhaps non-fiction could have been my forte True adventures, riveting biographies... Really, I don't think so;...
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
old poetry,
books, humor, old, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Nature
Standing on a cliff, it feels as if you are a cloud, high above the world. Lush forests can be seen, full of every creature and plant. Rivers flow, winding through the valleys, bringing life in the...
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Sam Sallow
Categories:
old poetry,
muse, myth, mythology, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry Sees Us Green
If we senesce in plain sight, ...
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Alkas Poetry
Categories:
old poetry,
allegory, allusion, life, literature,
Form:
Epigram
Longing Train
when eld whistle blows sleep ghostly train alarming ...
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Alkas Poetry
Categories:
old poetry,
allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form:
Haiku
Never Satisfied
Younger wanting to be older Older wanting to be young Child wishing to be bigger Bigger wishing to be thinner Teen wanting a clearer face Clearer face wanting a better body People lamenting bad hair days Bad hair days replaced with no...
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Mark Toney
Categories:
old poetry,
desire, future, old, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Caedmon's Face
Caedmon’s Face by Michael R. Burch At the monastery of Whitby, on a day when the sun sank through the sea, and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free, while the wind and Time blew all around, I paced that dusk-enamored ground and...
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Michael Burch
Categories:
old poetry,
angel, christian, england, old,
Form:
Verse
Old Harmonica
playing reveries, the childish harmonica of the young ancient ......
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Alkas Poetry
Categories:
old poetry,
allegory, allusion, childhood, dream,
Form:
Senryu
Concerning Poetics and Reposts
*****I've decided to repost some older poems and provide some background and poetics, or my mindset of why I wrote these poems or perhaps what inspired me to write some of them. Many of these...
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Categories:
old poetry,
old, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Old Barn
There’s an old barn down the road from our house. It’s bent and bowed and one windy day away from completely succumbing to its aged disrepair. It’s midsection is stretched and swollen. The barn doors...
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Krista Parker
Categories:
old poetry,
anxiety, deep, feelings, identity,
Form:
Personification
The Life Is
The Life Is … The Life Is … When I was young, there was no pain, The only pain was to complain. When I was young, I did not care, Just as long as my love was there. When I was...
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Pashang Salehi
Categories:
old poetry,
allusion, angst, life, old,
Form:
Masnavi
Not Today
Not Today When memories begin to fade when I break promises I’ve made and life no longer seems so gay I shall be old, but not today. For I have children I must hold and many stories to be told and much...
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Susan Jeavons
Categories:
old poetry,
age, change, future, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Oblivion
Your lovely name will sink into oblivion Your pretty face will lose its charm And all your moves and gestures that were accurate Would be uncomfident and clumsy You were the reason of human death They sold their souls for...
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Alisa Balaieva
Categories:
old poetry,
fate, feelings, loneliness, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Thou Hast a Heart O Silver
Heart o Silver, doth thou dither? About the stars, or planets blither? O grateful gods, become so weary, Heart o silver, hast left thee teary. Glaciated by wind and storm, Nevermore, thy heart be warm....
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Laura Simm
Categories:
old poetry,
blue, grief, heart, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Laugh and Cry
7/11/15 Go ahead laugh and cry And if you'd like to ask me why Don't let time pass you by You have to try Regardless of if you want the whole thing or less than half the pie Remember you can't...
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Dalton Ogletree
Categories:
old poetry,
old, poetry, rap, words,
Form:
Rhyme
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