Pensioners, Come Tomorrow
What can it be if not ignited tension
Among retirees waiting for their pension
That weakly caters for their weekly ration
Their numerous legs, hundreds of suspension:
A carbon copy of the criminal’s in a police station.
Long, I’ve been watching their tired faces
And ceaseless circuitous paces,
All of them buffeted by the issued new orders
About which they wouldn’t tell
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Categories:
pensioner, anger, fear, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
A Pensioner
A Pensioner
An octogenarian - he moved to the retirement home
which promised all-year sun, blue sky, and sedate sea.
A grey, balding, and stooped figure,
his gait is far from firm as he walks.
Panoramic vistas, crushed-cardboard like hills,
frame the backdrop to his daily meanderings.
His dim and distorted memories mimic
the surrounding mountain range, hazily
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Categories:
pensioner, appreciation, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Halloween Parade
Teenage girls to the age of 18
Are renown as juicy and lean
Then Old Father Time
Commits an hate crime
Making them fat, wrinkled, and mean!
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Categories:
pensioner, change, halloween, journey, old,
Form: Limerick
Pinch An Ear
O help me! I've fallen
And I can't get it up!
I'm stuck here acrawlin'
Up a Double-D cup
Now don't let us dicker
I am over the hill
Just be a mite quicker
Slipping me that blue pill!
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Categories:
pensioner, autumn, endurance, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Dangers of Pensioner Dating
A seventy year old couple on a romantic date,
Were at a bistro eating seafood crepe,
Feeling so good, a kiss they sought,
Locking mouths their false teeth got caught,
And both sets fell onto the plate.
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Categories:
pensioner, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick