Pensioned Poems - Poems about Pensioned

...We may not look forward to being old, But there are perks for those of us who get to be old, Which is a perk in itself. If you become old enough to be pensioned off, That gives you more perks......

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...Do you know what it’s like To be required no more, To be put out to grass, To be kicked out the door, To know your work’s ended, No more will be done, To be slung on the tip, Pushed aside by t......

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...Sing a hymn for Georgie Radford Who used to build ships on the Clyde Watch them launch down the slipway With a worker’s quiet pride. His last job was the giant carrier, The one they put in moth......

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...Finnegan’s horse heard on the grape vine The local mafia were in a bit of tizzy Trying hard to find who was leaking Deepest secrets to the local bizzy Nobody suspected Finnegan’s horse As he tro......

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...Time and Change There's an old abandoned farmhouse I passed the other day, With broken down old stockyards and a shed of rotting hay. Thistles growing cornfield high among the......

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...The Martin family lived in a rented house across from us, and some of the kids were forced to sleep in a converted bus. There were thirteen kids ‘hell raising’; every one I got to know, but the tw......

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...I was working up Loch Valley logging for a local mill; camping in a make-shift hut I built half way up a struggling hill. I worked till lunchtime every Friday, then came in from the scrub, spendin......

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...Word-Worker Thee procurement and collection Of this smattering of letters No matter your predilection For future employment of type setters To criss and cross all the tees and eyes Paying clo......

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...It’s vast and its infinite, it never ends It goes on forever, no corners no bends Planets are specks in the void that is space Stars are the glitter that keep them in place I passed all the t......

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...Fair Hilda, pass, I pray, that flagon. I now must face my final dragon. Valkyrie, deny not mead, the stuff Of courage. To be courageous is enough. Whence courage comes what do I care As I approa......

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...Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore Nay! I do not wish to see... Past hyphens and inverted commas Lies and more catastrophe Ambidextrous clock with appalling brevity The second ha......

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...OLD AL Off we go to the pub to see Alice Cooper in his own tribute band. How can this be? ......

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...When I was three foot tall I could fly. Now that I've reached near six and descending things have become more, grounded. It wasn't an aeronautical event or some Newtonian physics explanation, or even......

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...A Message Our old captain was pensioned off, he had been the master on the same ship for ten years and at sixty five he didn´t know where to go as his whole life had been the sea. The first of......

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...A bullet ended life: Another pensioned wife, And little children who Recall a suit of blue, And father they once knew.......

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