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Retirement Poems | Examples of Retirement Poetry

Retirement Poems - Examples of all types of retirement poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for retirement.
Pill Caddy Days
No longer in the workforce big changes to my ways, not something I am use to my life, a brand new phase. Lots of time, but no money, a tricky lifestyle maze the months, they change, seem swiftly in my sedentary haze. Must...Read the rest...
Categories: change, retirement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Impermanence
The residents slowly amble toward the buffet, some using canes or walkers, a few sitting on scooters, ...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement, age, anxiety, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Reality
The residents slowly amble toward the buffet, some using canes or walkers, a few sitting on scooters, ...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement, age, change, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retirement
You have worked hard all your life now it is time to retire Go out and explore new things, surround yourself with what you desire You are now entering a new phase of your life where you...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Was Never Going to Retire
I was never going to retire. I will be dragged out in a body bag at ninety-two I told everyone. God laughed at my silliness. He made the drive more difficult, harrowing drivers who almost kill me daily. He...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Pirate in Retirement
He’s late-stage Charles Bukowski, Hunching gnome-like over the bar, With weary eyes, and scruffy stubble. It’s sure he must have seen some trouble. But he’s got plenty of cash in his pockets, Along with the keys to a stolen...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Funeral Retirement Party
Construction workers, fishermen, hands broadened, reddened cracks in the wintertime, teachers, office workers, a standing cashier feels aging in her legs, careers extended. Can it be just a few more years til they have freedom, to live on Social Security? Paying off mortgages, and children's student...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retirement Day
Retirement after all these years, time has flown by My alarm is also retiring, no need to ask why The first thing on my agenda is a holiday to an exotic place far away A change to relax...Read the rest...
Categories: loss, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
April Personal grooming Ending Daily Shaving in Retirement
April 4—Personal grooming… Ending Daily Shaving in Retirement When Sam Adams retired from the U.S. Department of State, he made five vows which he kept for years. first, he would quit daily shaving shaving once or twice a month second, he would never...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, remember, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Alarm Clock’s Degree
Your decree has expired You used to force me since I was a teen student You kept forcing me during 16 years of flying You ordered me to get up, to go, to work, To study, to eat,...Read the rest...
Categories: retirement, age, future, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can't Get Fired
I am not in school, and I am retired. I can’t get an “F”, And I can’t get fired....Read the rest...
Categories: graduation, humor, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Where Rivers Flow
See upper reaches The rivers look more the same Through course flows to sea....Read the rest...
Categories: death, retirement, river, sea,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Retirement Paradox
sleeping in at will languishing in the new thrill no jobs to fulfill take a peaceful walk listen to birds tweet or hawk call a friend to talk retirement is fun working is dismissed and done rewards have begun yet there are those times of...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, retirement,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Journey to the Right Brain
Our brains, the experts do opine, Have a left side, a right side, and a dividing line – But that daunting corpus callosum I fear to cross it - there to, here from. I started out upon a path...Read the rest...
Categories: math, poetry, retirement,
Form: Couplet
Guilty Pleasure
It’s that one cigarette, I allow myself after the wife leaves for work. The sixteen-ounce coffee I walk to the corner Bodega for every day, I’m not supposed to drink, okay. Maybe throw a donut in there or buttered 'Everything Bagel'...Read the rest...
Categories: age, retirement,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Retirement Poems

Definition | What is Retirement in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs