Short Retiring Poems

Poems should be about cheery things
  
    Like Putin's death and Biden's retiring...

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This day is done and rest I must,
Let us lie the night together
Secure in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust....

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For evermore I will repent
For not having saved a cent
For my retiring aging years.
For spendthrift ways I am in tears...

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Sunset’s smile fades as it paints
The bellies of evening clouds
Before drawing dusky shades
And retiring for the night....

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The Bath

Calmly, she cleanses
her body in my presence
before retiring
manifesting her beauty
to kindle my interest....

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Laverne and Shirley
their fame in the main had come early
retiring at twenty
they had thought their residuals would have been plenty....

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John John loved my “Brickles and Beturds”
Finally I'm officially a champion of words
It's made me giggly
This honour so scriggly
Was thinking of retiring but I'm driven by scerdes...

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Backward
Bashful, Reversed
Retreating, Inverting, Retiring
Bigot, Rear End; Progress, Frontage
Advancing, Developing, Growing
Cultured, Civilized
Forward

written August 23, 2021...

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I took seven xanax
and just before retiring to bed
I secured a plastic bag around my head.
As you read this now, I'm most likely dead.
I most likely died very peacefully.
The best way to die is to die in your sleep....

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To end the day
play a quick chess
blitz as to enjoy.

Round robin game
with three friends
ending at twelve.

Life seem so
simple, yet enjoy
as friendship game.

Retiring to bed
oh, what a day
under Your sun....

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Kenny's retiring, no more touring for him
Perhaps I could take his place, still got vigor and vim
No one would know
Attending a show
Absolute millions from this charade I could skim


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Thinking of retiring my limerick pen
Replacing it with a hoity toity pen and then
If y'all get on your bikes
And take proverbial hikes
Maybe I'll just go back to writing limerick gems


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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A retiring sun appeared cut in half,
As pinnacled rays of light,
Through breaches in the clouds,
Formed a radial lattice,
That was projected through the twilight,
Gave me a feeling of nostalgia,
For a time when things were all right....

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The Toy Chest
Where the Toys are, We love the best
In which, We play with, being of Earnest zest
For they, over the Others, had passed the Test
Making Us, an Interest, in them, decide to invest
Upon retiring them, to the box, for Eternal rest...

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Solo in matter
Companions in the navy desert
Rioters co-ordinates far stretched below
National flags depicts dual
The evening rota completed
Observing, chaperoning constantly
Bond as if brothers
Evaluation upon ombré sky
Retiring peacefully then....

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old man
retiring
with slight dementia
horny 
with sturdy sled
and little to offer

looking for attractive
young female and/or male
with good body
compassionate
needing little
season greeting

send photo 
off season
between
January and October
to Santa Claus
Saint Barts...

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Orange and yellow, brown and red,
Colours abound in this Autumn season.
The sun still shines, but the air is crisp.
October temperatures change without reason.
Before us lies the Winter we dread,
Ending our Autumn, all too soon.
Retiring its reign, with the full harvest moon....

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long day wraps up
the clouds roll in
gilded by a retiring sun
releasing a sigh of relief

ultimately i'm thankful
for my many blessings
as i prepare to wind down
to recharge and renew

tomorrow
will be upon us
soon enough


AP: 3rd place 2025

Posted on March 16, 2025...

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Old moon was leaving; he said his goodbyes to creatures of the night.
Butterflies and moths felt sad, knowing they would now never see his light.
Luna moths decided to surprise him, and they turned brilliantly white.
To show their appreciation, letting retiring old moon see their bright....

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My friend and I were talking about retiring.
I chickened out. I like big money.
She put in her papers.
She is older than me by a year and a half.
I will miss her terribly but I cannot do it yet.
Two weeks at home was two or three days too long for me.
I will go out in a body bag when I am ninety-two....

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Sunlight in a blue sky
Dapples in and out of cottony grey clouds
Warming then soothing in turn
Two retiring humans under a tree
Amid a hundred shades of green
As a large yellow monarch
The king of insects
Glides and flutters by
With a sense of purpose and delicate grace
In perfect juxtapose.

(7/30/24)
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“Seventy-four is about apology,” said Ferdy. 
“Well apology and memory. 
If you have literary pretensions, it's about 
apology and narrative.” 

Ferdy's class sat there dumfounded. 
This was a little different from the usual class. 
“The only question left is 
how much apology is needed? when can one let up?”...

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From the help spilled forth customary whines
Moaned that their duties were fraught with deadlines
   That it couldn't be worse
   If they were in a hearse!
Time to exchange their complaints for complines





Note: 'Complines' are evening prayers traditionally
          recited before retiring for the night....

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Life invites deeply sacred purpose
when Love widely integrates
enlightened meaning
within co-invested minds,
passion,
from balanced bodies,
co-operating integrity
of healthy wealth's
most resilient potential

Life engaging 
deeply felt sacred mess
co-operatively owned and managed
EarthTribe clarifying purpose....

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Struggling to get out of bed,
The thought  of work fills me with dread.
If only I didn't have to go,
But if I don't no more cash flow.

I walk in the door and head to the clock,
Slide my card and start the tick-tock.
Another workday has begun,
I'm hoping it's a good one.

2016
I wrote this shortly before retiring....

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