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Age Poems | Examples of Age Poetry

Age Poems - Examples of all types of age poetry to share and read. This list of age poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of age poetry. This list of works about age is an excellent resource for examples on how to write age poems.
Premium Member Unsheared sheep
Most are familiar with the stereotype of "an older woman who constantly gripes". We seldom here about "the older man complainer", in spite of the fact many are not sustainers.. Some aging men are petty, angry, full of...Read the rest...
Categories: age, angst, men,
Form: Rhyme

Man On A Roller Coaster Sonnet
It jolts and shakes as it carroms around, my joints seethe at the pressure exerted, it rips upward until high off the ground, I hear the excited cries of my kid. Oh, to be young, and has such a...Read the rest...
Categories: age, child, endurance, how
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Looking at My Hands
Looking at My Hands By - Roger White Pallid skin, once luminescent, now brown and stained like husks. Gaunt fingers, once straight, now gnarled and twisted like twigs. I lament where my hands have been is not where they...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, age, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Dementia
A cold summer morning, the snow should melt in less then two days. ,,Hah! We're here on trucks people c'mon let's do another race" We drove plenty of surroundings of trees, I felt the urge to sneeze. Covering...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
Permission
Permission to Pause Permission to Pause Reflect Revise and recheck Permission to take a deep breath We need it Retrieve it Get that ounce of air We all have time to spare Pause with...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse

Ew I wish I never touched your hands
The moment I lend you the pen you lost on your hand, I didn't need any rent. You loved me since the first day, I always just thought:,, kay" Cause I couldn't relate to any things you say, sorry really...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
I deleted twice maybe I should
I am making food. Please don't let the time slide. Can't you be more here? See there is to much to ask for I don't I see you I don't I am not sure I don't know I don't Haven't...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Lyric
Honestly mom, it's fine
Dad either way always says: ,,Crying brings you nothing" So why do you cry mom? To show me you are sorry? That I still don't know how to close my shoelaces and how to read fluently?...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
But you told me it's okay?
Infront the street we stood. Dad wanted to take food. The traffic light got red. I looked right and left. ,,stop" ,,I know dad, look the snow drop!" ,,I know you know" ,,Stop showing your tongue.", I felt my hands...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
The Greatest Honor That Can Be bestowed on Us
If only more knew that the two greatest honors, That can be bestowed on us, Is the one given to us, By children who adopt us, Giving their heart to us, And trusting us, Not to throw it...Read the rest...
Categories: age, appreciation, care, childhood,
Form: Didactic
Hidden santa
When I saw snow falling from the sky, I said: ,,hah!" And went outside without having socks on even if I hated to step on my shoes which were full with little stones. No jacket even...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
Dad do you love me because I love you
The pictures I crafted, I gave them to dad. The figures I built, I saved them for dad. The game I played with friends, I shared it to dad. The day my mom spit at me, I told...Read the rest...
Categories: age,
Form: Free verse
sykehus
Sykehus  The old hospital in the town center  stark and unpainted Dotted about in the near vicinity  Funeral homes look like pearls  around an elderly lady's neck   at every election cycle the promise  was to build a new Krankenhause  in a rural environment...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, age, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Too Close to the Edge of the Precipice
"I'm going down to the river gonna take me my rocking chair Going down to the river gonna take me my rocking chair And if those blues don't leave me Gonna rock on away from here" by George...Read the rest...
Categories: age, death,
Form: Couplet
16-5-2024
Repeating lies That’s juvenile Behaviour from the soul Be assured The smiles formerly the goal Evil eyes obscured Expect excuses but the reality’s my own While the fire grows afar let’s sit around a while...Read the rest...
Categories: age, change, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Age Poems

Read wonderful age poetry on the following sub-topics: 40, 50, 60, 70, coming of, different, enlightenment, exploration, funny, middle, new, old, romantic, stone and more.

Definition | What is Age in Poetry?


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