Short Seventy Nine Poems

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Premium Member Think Young

There was a man who at seventy-nine
Thought he was only twenty-nine
When asked his age
He'd go into a rage
Earth spins your birthday I think mine
Form: Limerick


Octogenarian

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.
© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member A Girlie's Cute Rear

Seen many splendid things in my seventy-nine years But the one thing that stands out is the girlie's cute rear If I lose my seeing My touchy and feeling Then I guess I might as well just call it a career © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Indian Blankets

In the quiet ebon of morning, Thoughts arrive as droplets from the sky. I’ve expended too much of my seventy-nine years, Waiting on a bus called someday; Now that the bus has arrived I discover, I don’t have the price of a ticket, Indian Blankets don’t populate my meadow, And my time for planting has passed.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Lorded By Rings

Seventy-nine and counting now:
I’ve got a little streak
continuing to close my rings;
obsession’s not yet peaked.

My wife says that I am possessed
by My Precious new watch,
that I’ve surpassed that Smeagol lad,
taken it up a notch.

But it’s no worse than poetry;
in fact, they’re both a win:
the one keeps dementia at bay,
the other keeps me thin.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Decorated Bathroom Walls

Seventh-eight water things
On the wall of a small bathroom
Or seventy-nine. Depends on which count I use.
Some people are overwhelmed.
Not me. I put them all on the walls.
If I take them down I will replace them.
With a giant wrap around mural
I have started it in my mind.
It will be just a tiny part of my legacy.
I like uncommon things done in uncommon way.

Premium Member beginning to feel like autumn

there used to be a bunch of clover in this meadow
I liked their bulb-like happy leaves
today all I see is scrub grass and giant holes
the holes are courtesy of my puppy
every time he is out here, he tries to dig to the earth’s core
above my head is a large rose-of-sharon-bush
although it will be seventy-nine at four
it is cooler this morning, beginning to feel like autumn

A Lady and Her Parasol

It’s nine forty one a.m. I’m on the computer
The sunlight covers the city this morning
While playing solitaire I paused and looked out the window
And there she was taking her morning walk

She did not see me but I smiled knowing how secure 
And tranquil she appeared 
It’s already seventy nine degrees here in the valley

So she has a parasol to keep her cool and she’s
Strolling with a slow gate so she’s even cooler
Then she knows
© Lara Wash  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Wrong Expiration Date

Wrong Expiration Date Written: by “The Protected One” 7/10/2018 I’ve modified or eliminated habits of late, Sudden Cardiac Arrest was not endearing. As I stood at the threshold of Heaven’s gate, I heard a choir singing and angels cheering. Then God breathed life into a broken man, And now I’m surviving on borrowed time. Seventy nine years has been my life’s span, At expiration date death’s bell will chime.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Seventy-Eight

Now that I am seventy- eight Standing long time_ not In the spring blowing snot a lot Wonder what seventy-nine holds Wonder if I will see the calendar turn Bring eighty to a fulfilled dream Wonder if I will have enough steam Just to get out of bed and make it up I really don't worry about those things God cared and brought me into the fold Even though Satan my life tried to control Open the calendar and see what it brings
Form: Rhyme

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