Short Old Poems

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Premium Member Old Beat

Skip the
Old beat that
Sounds in your head
That tells you cannot strive
Your dreams












2-7-2016
Form: Cinqku


And the Old Man Walked On

snow on his head
fire in his bottom
hot potato in his mouth
thorns in his feet
preparing for marathon
with teenagers

Regular Old Poet Me

Reaching
Each
Goal
Unsuccessfully 
Learning
Adapting and
Reading

Over
Lines
Doubling my

Mistakes
Each Time
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member old age is yell

my fingernails are treacherously filthy
not merely dirty
disgusting
they have hardened and yellowed
old age is a yell
age

Premium Member Elderly Addicted Feline

He dreams of better days despite the fog. The banging, clanging awaits, to be catnip silenced.
Form: Kimo


The Old Rocking Chair

Midnight, glow of a pipe and squeak of the rocking chair, made me feel at peace
penned 6 November 2016
Form: Verse

Am Not Old Am Better

its just age 
that in time fade
i still have my goals
no ready to unload
i can go on  forever
am told
AM NOT OLD AM BETTER

Premium Member give me the old days

give me the old days
communication was king
in this day and age
cell phones replace relatives
tvs are never turned off

Premium Member OLD HOUSE MEMORY

dust drifts through doorway of the aging house floorboards singing old secrets to the settling sunlight
Form: Kimo

Wisdom

The old women
sold flowers 
at the promenade

“Buy a flower you can’t 
smell them when you’re dead”

wise old woman…

Premium Member This Old Book

73
So this
Old book
On poetry
Said
That
Free verse
Will become
The future
And its all
I write
So I got it right?
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Fossilized

There are things in this sphere
that are painfully clear.
My memory has fled
bottom's like lead.
Alas, old age is here.
age
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Before and After

Prior to my retirement the fog was out there
                                                          ~ Now it is in here
Form: Monoku

The Old Well

Our old well
is all petered
out, only
memories of
drawing water
many summers
ago, still
     remain.

wrote 12-1-08

Old Age

Cherry Blossoms Bloom
Turns green in a few months 
Withers to orange
As the leaves fall to earth
As I too wither with it
Form: Tanka

Truelove

even in old age
i'll be kissing you forever
beneath twinkling stars


Song: Forever And For Always - Ed Sheeran
2.9.19
Form: Senryu

Premium Member It All Depends

You can bet I didn't forget

So you know that I got 'em

It all Depends but in the end

They call me Soggy Bottom
Form: Rhyme

Obsolescence

Because things ... 
Fade whenever obsolescence,; 
Because forever, just a myth. 
I thought  .. 
Spill my heart now in flower.

Old Fool

been around the block
non stop
love music hip hop
from old school
still played guitar blues
some say am cool
an am a
OLD FOOL

Old World Charm

Old tis. But ugly?
No human facade
This town displays!
What stares back at me
Each shop front from out
Lures in; always.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Senior Moment Tb

A Senior moment 
         
              By arched trellis 
              Quaintly kissing 
              Neath mistletoe
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Emagi Price Old Old Story

Jonathan Price 'THE OLD,OLD STORY'

            GOOD    NEWS
       __________  __________
      )____old___ & __new____(
Form: Shape

Old Mill Building

vacant building burns
fire reaches up to sky
so hot steel frame melts
old brick structure collapses
people say it's about time
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Best of British Old Style

A savoury kedgeree
Lancashire hotpot
A prime beef wellington pie
With pan haggerty
Spotted-dick pudding
Real ale
Cheers!
Form: Epulaeryu

Old Block New Block

you know this is so
came out the getto
where was down low
now i shop
for a better friend lot
not the old block
iITS ANEW BLOCK

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