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Mild Side of LifeMaybe this is enough for me,
Reading, writing and literacy,
With craft and friends to greet,
Soon enough for coffee we'll meet,
No need for fuss and strife,
I walk on the mild side of life!...
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Categories:
appreciation, happiness, retirement, silence,
Form: Free verse
Retired doctor recalledCouldn’t leave yet,
One of them that I’d met
Moaning and screaming,
It feels like they’re dreaming.
Needed again,
Glad to give a refrain
But I’m now nearly eighty,
Active still though, matey.
Couldn’t say no,
Knocked up, asked not to go,
Help this...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Acrostic
let it rainOur farms are sick and starved and outgrown barns,
The earth is witted, breaking our spades
Tomorrow is stranded because today is wicked
Barking on our tears
These brothers of mine are strangers
They rage the sun in this part...
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Categories:
retirement, africa, anger, betrayal, brother,
Form: Free verse
Hot Damn
Retirement, aw yes, looked forward to this time
A cottage on the beach, that would have been fine
But instead here I am
Writing poetry, hot damn!
Met some really great poets, so sweet and so kind
...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Limerick
artless dissipation - WDJ30 January 2021
The prodigy has turned prodigal
Making silver spoons out of gold medals
While the hearsay deepens about clandestine meetings
I fix myself a plate of pity party, for I know nobody
I don’t even know myself
The...
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Categories:
identity, life, retirement,
Form: Lyric
Everyday is Saturday
The day my career came to an end,
all time became a blur;
the hours shrunk to a minute long,
the future, now obscure.
All clocks and watches lost their jobs,
alarms, no longer feared
When waking up to silent...
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Categories:
career, humor, retirement, time,
Form: Rhyme
On to Plan B
I'd travel the world
Trip the light fantastic
Spend quality time with my family
My schedule, so elastic
Brush up on my reading
Start a garden, plant seedlings
Exercise daily, religiously
Attend prayer services...
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Categories:
adventure, family, fun, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
age spotsGod shifts his weight and half an oak remains.
One soul must die; another life retains.
I stand a little shaky now.
raise my hand, put drops in my eye,
A sort of palsy visits me
I let...
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Categories:
retirement, age, appreciation, body, fate,
Form: Rhyme
STUDENT TEACHERA teacher
Just retired
Student now
Learning the books of life
...
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Categories:
retirement, truth,
Form: Free verse
Last Look
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:
retirement, school,
Form: Blank verse
A Cowboy Hangs 'Em UpHung up my saddle and its reins
Now I'll count the losses and gains
My reputation's got some stains
I've still got Texas in my veins
I got old with some aches and pains
My knees creak whenever it...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Monorhyme
Have I Finally DiedThe time has come to end this life of mine,
The time has come to leave everything unimportant permanently behind.
All of my rescues will be cared for and comfortable, as promised to me,
by a true...
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Categories:
retirement, self,
Form: Rhyme
Time to Rewire
When a person retires
It's time to rewire
The first thing to do?
Break your clock in two
No more 'early,' no more 'late'
No train to catch, no bus for to wait
And when...
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Categories:
humor, money, retirement, time,
Form: Light Verse
FlowThey didn't rush out to greet him
When Father time made his call...
They traded house and picket fence...
For one room down a long hall
like soldiers standing watch...
They take turns staring at the clock...
And wonder where the...
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Categories:
emotions, endurance, retirement, seasons,
Form: Lyric
The Five Day GrindYou wake up on Monday and crawl out of bed,
to begin a new week filled with unknowns ahead.
With a shower and coffee, you step up the pace
'til you're ready to join in that weekly rat...
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Categories:
humor, retirement,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Retirement Poems
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