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Zimmer Frame Poems - Poems about Zimmer Frame


Limbo

...Limbo 
Hunched over and holding a Zimmer frame 
Limbo
Waiting for a call that is never - ever going to come 
Limbo 
The day draws nearer as the blinds on the window begin to shut sealed 
Limbo ...
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Categories: zimmer frame, absence, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?

Living for the Future

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Though curved like a question mark, 
she walks without a Zimmer frame. 
Will she ever veer from 
the narrow, 
nonsensical 
dirt road? 

She earns,
mopping, scrubbing, laundering, and curryi...
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Categories: zimmer frame, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFriday Night Check-Ins

...Friday Night Check-ins


The days have been calm and collected.
The guests have been happy, content.
The weekday staff scurry out from the hotel
To avoid the upcoming eve...
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Categories: zimmer frame, age, england, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTom Cunninghams Cunning Marmite Conspiracy - An Ice Cream Gran Special

...It’s dreadful, a disaster, it’s a terrible calamity
Housewives going frantic for the thing they seek but cannot see
Supermarket workers helping those who shout the most
Try their best to find a ja...
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Categories: zimmer frame, cat, grandmother, hero, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Captain Tom

...We say goodbye to Thomas Moore
Whose diligence raised funds galore.
This national hero rose to fame
Whilst pacing with his zimmer frame.

26.01.2022...
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Categories: zimmer frame, hero,
Form: Epitaph



Premium MemberWhen Nursery Rhymes Attack

...A Compendium

Whoops a daisy, Auntie Maisie’s lying on the floor
She just put on my roller skates she won’t do that no more
No one knew that she was there until we heard her squeals
What ...
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Categories: zimmer frame, humor, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCovid Walk

...thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she waits for me
  securing covid masks amidst...
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Categories: zimmer frame, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Gardener

...The Gardener 

She’s twenty-three and he’s eighty-six
He walks with a Zimmer, she watches Netflix
He has a mansion and a Maserati car
She has her diamonds and uplifting bra

They have a garden...
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Categories: zimmer frame, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberAs Easy As A-B-B

...FINDING LOVE IS NOT AS EASY AS ABB 

It’s hard to find love in your twilight years
I've got a blue rinse,
but still seek a prince!

It’s hard to find love when you’re past your best
I’ve got a...
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Categories: zimmer frame, age, humorous, love,
Form: Rhyme

Do Not Mockthe Zimmer Frame

...Do not mock the Zimmer frame

Do not mock the Zimmer frame and those crutches two.
As both of them are useful, they are, I’m telling you.

Had I a Zimmer frame, a few months ago.
My dead leg wo...
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Categories: zimmer frame, best friend, funny, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Growing Old

...What are these on my nose?
They're also hooked on my ears,
Oh of course it's my glasses,
So I can see things near.
What's that creaking noise?
It sounds like rusty hinges,
Oh of course it's my ...
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Categories: zimmer frame, age, growing up, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Zimmer Frame Races

...On the starting grid for the zimmer frame races
Ready to put themselves through their paces
No cheating girls -  don’t go tying shoelaces
Or there will be embarrassed  red faces

Lined u...
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Categories: zimmer frame, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Pensioners

...Pensioner

There are problems in the land and you are a pensioner,
austerity is like a sweat horse blanket that doesn’t dry.
Medicine old people needs are getting more expensive,
and come to thi...
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Categories: zimmer frame, satire, old, people, old,
Form: Blank verse

Glorious October Sunday

...The Last Sunday of October. 

Vilamoura marina on a glorious October day, tourists gone home
leaving the promenade for us elderly to walk sedately along it.
I saw an ancient lady walking forceful...
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Categories: zimmer frame, health, holiday, hope, life,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things