Short Middle Age Poems

Short Middle Age Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Middle Age by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Middle Age by length and keyword.


Premium Member Clerihew Fontana

Agentinian Lucio Fontana
had a  limited art formula
He became signficant in middle age
his monochromes were all the rage
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Middle-Age Spread

A bulging belly balefully belies
the vanished vigour of youth;
happens to most of us.

- - - - - - - - - - -

19 November 2018
Form: Kimo

Chassy

Middle age woman from Tallahassee
believed she was something very classy.
Finger rings
Brooches, things
But time had warped her hourglass chassy
Form: Limerick

Stationary Duties

A stationary front has no movement, slothed humans has no inspired movement.

Middle age humans ignore the duty, everyday has a newlywed duty.
- Loverboi

Middle Age

is that time of life When you are but torn between "Why Not?" and "What For?"
"Senryu on your own existence" contest by Marvin Celestial
Form: Senryu


One a Day

By Angeline Vine 

In the midst of someone's middle age
it was discovered that one a day
could help 

Except it really depended on what
one accepted as 'middle age'

A Man

A man is an inferno in his youth
But in middle age a
Crisis threatening to engulf him in flames errupts 
Do not fear the fire my friend!
You're the eagle and the sky belongs to you
Form: ABC

Rainbows

Rainbows of lightning
Amber gold
Topaz sun sighted
Colors glow
Egyptian magic
All I know
Honey-green static
Through window
Middle age mountains
I behold
Blue frigid fountains
In my soul

Middle Age Issues

. & if I had a penny for every time I lost my house keys ........................................... there'd also be a jar full of coins that I would have to search for .
Form: Shape

Middle Age Dread

I
just
walked
back into 
the kitchen
for some juice
and then walked 
out with a sandwich, 
a glass of milk, sweets
and the TV remote 
that I lost when
I last went in
my kitchen 
an hour
ago
Form: Shape

Vagaries of Time

When we are young, time seem so slow.
"Please, hurry up, I want to grow!"

In middle age, it races by.
"I need more time!" is what we cry.

Now we grow old, it drags again.
"When will I have release from pain?"
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Lost Triplets

Live with wife, Cathie, and our middle age son Scot Lost triplets with his former wife, both totally distraught Like a shot to the heart Depression off the chart Broke up their marriage, never got over the shock
Form: Limerick

Middle-Age Musings

You Tube fame,
reality
stars who
infamously
infiltrate our youth
and promote
success
for being
nothing
more than shrewd
salespeople
who market one thing:
themselves, anger me ‘cause
I
was born just too soon.


9-29-19
Form: Verse

Premium Member Criminally Sane

I guess I once was a juvenile delinquent. Then I became an adult delinquent. Now I'm a middle age delinquent. Soon enough I'll be a senior citizen delinquent. When all is said and done and it is all over I'll just become a dead delinquent. Ha Ha.
Form: Burlesque

Premium Member Sleeping On the Floor

Was fine when
we were twenty,
bones supple,
and anywhere
was pleasure
as long as we
were together.
But middle-age
has a few rewards,
like this new
king size bed
with my side,
your side,
and high enough up
that bones
don't groan
when we disembark
in the morning.

Young Uns

I am the stereotype of a middle-age lady with grey hair
Working as a preschool teacher

Wearing mumu dresses in bright  colors

A Sunday school teacher wanting to make it a full-time job

To whittle myself a new profession

I'm not the brightest crayon in the box
But, I know I can do it!
Form: Bio

Breaking Up

we could trade tit-for-tat, hurt for hurt
keep fueling the anger flame
or look in our own cracked mirrors
note the middle-age faces
and recognize that by blending our lives
we brought a lot of troubled history together
mercy, forgiveness, grace
ultimately love
is the only memory 
worth keeping

Middle Age

Granted I was exhausted,
nothing more than usual. 
An innocent toddler staring at me
in a concerning manner, says
 “Wow…your eyes are old.” 
Laughing uncomfortably, I slightly coughed. 
The next fifteen minutes was spent lifting my eyebrows 
hoping to smooth my worn, wrinkled forty - two year old eyes.

Our Family Tree

Strong 
Dark
Resilient
Ebony 
Towers
Spreading up through history
Budding off new members like leaves
Hoping to make it through seasons
Birth
Adolescence 
Middle age
And the cold of winter
With white hair on our heads like snow
Until we fall to the ground 
And join our roots
In the ground below
Form: Prose

Middle Age

She learnt the art of forgetting
                       spring bloomed tulips on her lips
                              cherry ripened to redness on her lips
                                     yet within ,shattered pieces of mirror
                                                      fail the young teenage girl.
© Ash Aroma  Create an image from this poem.

Gone

Where has it gone? 
The spring of our youth...
The autumn of middle age rapidly steals away our mobility, 
and the harsh winter of old age pounces on us like a cat on a frightened mouse.
We have so few moments on this earth... Like dandelions in an open field, 
we sway in the breeze for a few days, and then we are gone.

Middle Age

I'm free but imprisoned
I should be happy but I am not
I laugh but I want to cry
I continue but I want to stop ...
I want to be real, but I keep pretending
I want to go far, but I'm stuck
I do not know if it is me or my middle age that is making me feel this way
broken in half, one part want to live and  the other seeks to give up ... 
and rest forever
© T. H.  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Quote To Life

In youth we can do all things.
In middle age we can still dream.
Seniors can only reminisce.
Date Written: 1/11/2023
8 Place

Middle Age

Now the mid-winter grind
Is on me, New York
Drills through my nerves,
As I walk
The chewed up streets.

At forty-five what next
At every corner,
I meet my father,
My age, still alive.

Father, forgive me
My injuries,
As I forgive
Those I
Have injured!

You never climbed
Mount Zion, yet left
Dinosaur
Death-steps on the crust,
Where I must walk.
Form:

On Night's Broken Stage

The dervish whirls—
deserts fable
over candles,
atop mantle fires,
wings for life.

Salient, a moth
labors over no lands,
exists in The Great,
extends her wings 
to The Wide,
middle-age night

to flutter near the floor,
flit in the rafters—
a lamp,
her vessel for ballet
on night’s broken stage.


© 2017 | June 13 | Wesley T Cutlip
Edited June 30
REVISED - July 7

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