Short Octogenarian Poems

He's eighty years old
An octogenarian
A very full life
Must be doing something right
to last that long on this earth
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Octogenarian

I would love to be an Octogenarian,
Now that I'm seventy-nine.
What joy to be an Octogenarian,
An Octogenarian will suit me just fine....

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President Beji Caid Essebsi
The octogenarian who by a miraculous gamble in policy
Fancied he restored enduring stamina
Escalated power to preside over poor Tunisia....

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Poor octogenarian Darrell,  
At Niagara with his young bride, Carol,     
The love struck old geezer,              
In order to please her,
Plunged over the falls in a barrel....

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VALENTINE NIGHTMARE

An octogenarian swain
Went down on one knee, in some pain.
His proposal rejected,
He was feeling dejected.
Then couldn’t stand upright again.
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  Kissing babies and shaking hands
  A candidate’s boon and bane in most lands

    In the USA, though, it’s hair-kissing and the shaky hand
    of an octogenarian on whom one party is taking its stand
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From his mishandling Afghanistan
     to Chinese weather balloons

  From pooh-poohing inflation
     to 'afraid-of-Putin' palpitations...

  Joe Biden has proved for once and for all ~
     Octogenarian presidents need a new pair of balls...

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Every job has special words
  You don't know them, you're a nerd
To get ahead you walk the walk
  You'd also better talk the talk

Gathered 'round the water cooler
  Manager so hip, I couldn't fool her
This job's a bit more than what I'd bargained for
  ~ An octogenarian boss conducting jargon wars...

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An octogenarian visited his doctor
'I think I'm getting senile” he said
The doctor replied “I don’t think you are senile
Let’s look for a different diagnosis instead”
“But I keep forgetting to do up my fly”
The old man said “After I’ve been for a pee”
The doctor smiled and then replied
“Not opening your fly before you start, that’s senility”...

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baby i'm
trying to sleep
but the earth keeps
moving under my feet

soberly
standing since
second round finding
my found is off the ground

grinding
my teeth in
disbelief with no
relief in sight for the wary

never
varering
off course but
all sorts of acourse

what do
you mean you
uncaring octogenarian
but wait i'm not there yet so

get upset later
catch me another time...

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James
Church, writing, tennis, playing with great grandkids
Brother of John, Gene and Florence (all deceased)
Lover of my bride, Marie of 64 years, son Larry, daughter Pam
Who feels old in body, young in spirit, yet ambitious though an octogenarian
Who fears snakes, earth quakes and inadvertently stepping on toes
Who would like to see Israel, my book as a best seller, and another flea market
Resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tate...

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Up there on a broom
in the Halloween sky
Is it a bird?  
Is it a plane? Is it--
  Bela Lugosi?
  Nope ~ It's Nancy Pelosi



______________________  
Bela Lugosi was a star of
old b&w horror movies...
For non-Americans, Nancy 
Pelosi is the octogenarian
Speaker of the House (of
Representatives), a power-
ful woman. For Americans,
she is either a praiseworthy
leader or a target of intense
ridicule, depending on one's
political views....

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I can remember as a child
thinking then, snows were very deep,
that train trestles could touch the sky
and dad stood at least ten feet high.
With little legs standing in snow
Like twin stalagmites stacked and cold
certainly seemed deep, in my eyes.
Same could be said for train trestles;
Standing beneath them looking up,
It wasn’t hard to imagine
them touching that enormous sky.
Today standing somewhat stooped,
my octogenarian dad
remains that giant in my eyes....

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