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Passionate about my HobbiesI am in love with my many retirement hobbies
Passionate about cartooning, painting and poetry
Intensely enthusiastic when I am playing in my art studio
Also thrilled with peanut butter cookies and twinkies
Loving refried beans and salsa heated...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
They Said it Would be Easier
I’ve been working hard
out there in the yard
at least from eleven until two
With a two hour brunch
then coffee, then lunch
and maybe a short nap too
But only on days
when the sun’s golden rays
aren’t too hot or...
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Categories:
humor, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
what now, little man?what now, little man?
51 years on the chain gang, tell me
how did that work out for you?
nobody said it would be easy,
I'll admit I sometimes play the fool
your sole desire was to fit in
it started...
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Categories:
age, retirement, work,
Form: Rhyme
Retirement is a Whole New PerspectiveI have heard of a lazy day
Now I live them daily
Doing little to nothing at all
Looking at piles of things I could sort
But I don’t.
Retirement is a whole new perspective
A world unbeknownst to me until...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
retirementI used to plot and plan and scheme
Now I take days as they land in my lap
Expecting nothing
Anticipating less
Experiencing little
A locust shell of my former self
Retirement has turned me into a contented sloth...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
I'm retired and live in a small, mobile homeI'm retired and live in a small, mobile home,
about 5600 miles from the outskirts of Rome,
about 7200 miles from the waters of the Ganges,
and about 5100 miles from Machu Picchu, in the peaks of the...
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Categories:
retirement, 12th grade, age, funny,
Form: Light Verse
dragged into retirementI was dragged into retirement with my rear end bumping against cinders
It was the last thing I wanted to do; except maybe die.
But God spoke by giving me ailments that convinced me I had to...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
losing chancesMindless tv
Constant dull drone
Not a test pattern but nearly as boring
I am no longer living a human life
My recliner is my coffin
I die a slow death
Sleeping on the couch
Losing chances...
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Categories:
age, retirement,
Form: Free verse
I vowed to never retireI will never retire I vowed
To relatives, strangers, any old crowd
God heard me and laughed; He would have it His way
Pulled the rug out from under my health, I am retired today...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Rhyme
full of eager happinessI am full of eager happiness
Retirement has grabbed me by the hands and danced with me
Every day is a joy
I can do what I want, when I want
I have eliminated all of the have-to’s,
My life...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
The End of a Chapter
The final bell had sounded. Happy kids
fled halls and classrooms, out those double doors.
I heard brief conversations: “Call me soon” . . .
“Hey, let’s go swimming” . . . “Catch ya later, Dude!”
They’d...
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Categories:
feelings, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
LIFE OF A SHOVELI REMEMBER MY CREATOR
A GREAT BIG BURLY LAD
I WAS SENT OFF TO THE HARDWARE STORE
TO DO THE SAME JOB AS MY DAD.
A YOUNG CHAP CAME A BOUGHT ME
HE TOOK ME TO THE SITE
HE MADE...
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Categories:
funny, goodbye, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Leaving Work Me BehindMay 2024 was the month I knew I would never work again.
Pneumonia in January and February convinced me to retire.
I had given my notice back then; school would be out May 28th.
My seventy-second birthday was...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
still in my pajamasYou are still in your pajamas he arrogantly said
You bet your cheeks I am I replied to Old Fred.
This is day six for these bad boys, never say die.
I love being retired and this is...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Rhyme
adoring retirementSpontaneous me adores retirement
Daily I resolve to make no plans
I do not get into a car, I drive nowhere
My husband loves to shop, so he does the shopping
I do not do the laundry
I do not...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Retirement Poems
Definition | What is Retirement in Poetry?
Poems Related to Retirement
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