Short Pension Poems

to pay your bills when on a pension often you’ll need an extension...

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Dennis Mansion 
tension gentian 
pension pinching

8/30/19
James Edward Lee Sr  2019...

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Fox in the henhouse

             retirement nesteggs eyed,

                bond market shakeup......

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Walter de la Mare
wrote poetry sans a care
With  pension from the Civil List
simplicity made his popularity persist...

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A spinster whom just earned her pension
Faced her fate with some apprehension
Though never a bride
She still had her pride
But old men can't jump to attention!...

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Tough times have fallen on the North Pole
   COVID-19's shrunk employer payrolls

So, the good Lord's invoked the grandfather clause
   To increase the pension due Santa Claus...

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Happy retirement to me,
I got my first pension check this week,
and I take great comfort in knowing,
that I never have to work again,
unless social collapse comes,
then it's back to square one....

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George Outram ' ANNUITY'

       PAY
    =======
   | pension   |
   |  divi        |
   |  salary    |
   |   pay       |
   |   wage    |
   |  benefit   |
   |   dole      |
   ========
      SLIP...

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I'm a bit concerned about the medical profession
Though I understand the importance of each scheduled session
But in the back of my mind
Can't help questioning it, I find
Mostly affects those most vulnerable on pension...

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IN MEMORY OF CENTURION 
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS 
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN 
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS GRACED 
BY A MURDER OF CROWS
AND GRIEVIOUS LAMENTATIONS
IN THE NAME OF FAIR ISHTAR
DAUGHTER OF SIN AND SHAMASH...

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Sensuous spiral staircase
Tension touching terrace


Naughty naked nuisance
Pretty poignant pension


Madly moving mission 
Dreary damn decision


Spicy story succinct
Dismal dreary distinct


Mingle motive misty 
Brazen broken beauty




Leon Enriquez
19 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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Quiet
Lone
Morning
Time to ponder
Sermon of Sunday
Seed planted with faith returns more
God bless my seed so that I can feed four children well
On small salary and small pension from government received for husband's 
death in the war

(Inspired by Brian Strand's contest. Edward Hooper's "Automat".)...

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The art of decision
Crafted with precision,
A right amount of tension
With just enough suspension
And so very little convention
Will yield apprehension
Mixed with contention
And some derision
With a true vision;
But your invention
Requires attention,
And did I fail to mention
It will increase your pension....

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11.	I CAN LIVE

I’ve outlived
the winter’s
allergies
and depressing rains
in a human zoo

I can live
my retirement too
without pension and
medicare:

the wheelchair
doesn’t frighten
I can live

uncared and unknown
survive broken home
the numbness of the
arms
the  pain in the
neck

and inflation too...

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Dream comes true now
Feel joy fling endow


Answer the question
Dazzle the pension


Zoom poignant intent
Cheer musters content


Zest frames the tangle
Sight moves sure sparkle


Live laughter lovely
Prize dazzles clearly


Embrace the sure flood
Let quest greet warm blood




Leon Enriquez
08 June 2015
Singapore...

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In a blanket league 
Of succession'
He took away all my shame
Absolved all my confessions'
There was no need to blame
He subtly eased my pain
He did it once again
He accepted my 
Unmitigated surrender
Then He opened His widow pane
To resurrect my Spirit again
And then with a pension
For dispensation 
He graciously let me in

GF...

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dang plank driver.cadiver dawg.log truck burnin left of course.worse still was bill 
bradley,an over paid caddy.daddy dearest must have beard us.lust that he 
isnt,pension plans in hands,dandylions fightin over which is worst.cursed that 
they are,your a star if your trouble.luck on the hubble.no psychic ability out there.to 
all liberals....

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A tangled view, with fighting inclination
Bloodshot eyes cut through, so they can see
Once a champ with hopes of a big comeback
A title fight is where he wants to be

Fists of fury, though slowed down since youth
A pension he will have, if not a prize
A wheelchair awaits the aged legs of the fighter
If all permits, by round three he doesn’t die...

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A tangled view, with fighting inclination
Bloodshot eyes cut through, so they can see
Once a champ with hopes of a big comeback
A title fight is where he wants to be

Fists of fury, though slowed down since youth
A pension he will have, if not a prize
A wheelchair awaits the aged legs of the fighter
If all permits, by round three he doesn’t die...

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I received a golden hello
But nothing of banking I know

On commodities, the future I bet
For large bonuses each year,to net

Too soon the 'bubble' has burst
Of course,everyone else,has come off worse

But I do not reap what I sow 
They gave me parachute payout & pension to go

Global finances,crash into debt
Yet still I have no regrets  ...(yet !)...

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I don’t need too much in life – 
A book, a bench, a breeze,
Some friends and family for support,
A bagel and some cheese.

Of course, the extras add a lot – 
The coffee, ice cream, beer,
The pension I can live on from
A long, fulfilled career.

As time goes by, I realize
There is less that I desire
And very little, therefore,
That I actually require....

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The old soldier reflects
During a two minute lull.
Shiny medals worn
On clothes drab and dull.
Wearing a red poppy
With feelings of regret and pride.
Teardrops for comrades
Who died by his side.
Now begs for pennies
On the city streets
Looked down upon
By some that he meets.
Waiting for a pension
Promised years before.
One more statistic
A hero of war....

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No light at the end of the tunnel.
Just a steam train with its lights on. 
The clock on the wall not moving 
Yet the years are passing on.
No pension to pay for electric.
Just a blanket to snuggle at night.
Memories of parties and people 
Long gone out of my life.
The family have filed me under care home
And visit me bit like going zoo.
Old age is not recommended
you're  better alive than dead...

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I dream another
dark towered city
that masks the sky, glistens
like diamonds in moisture
and loves the rain at night.

With my muddy eyes,
I grope, chilled,
wish for familiar warm
small spaces alone.

I dream the pension-granter
decides it's time for me to die.
My muddy mind races through that
looking for ways to combat the terror.
Bound to happen sometime I dream,
considering painful options....

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there was en explosion
     confines were shattered
a decade of change
     revolutions that mattered

awareness was key
     a political dancer
freedom and peace
     love was the answer

i remember those years
     and the great apprehension
of arriving at sixty
     and getting a pension

no need to have feared
     nothing better depicts me
than to say I have loved
     my swinging sixties...

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