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I Was Never Going to RetireI 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...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Free verse
A Pirate in RetirementHe’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...
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Categories:
adventure, allegory, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Funeral Retirement PartyConstruction 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...
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Categories:
retirement, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Retirement DayRetirement after all these years, time has really flown by
My alarm is also retiring, no need to ask why
First thing on my agenda is a holiday to an exotic place far away
A change to relax...
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Categories:
loss, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
April Personal grooming Ending Daily Shaving in RetirementApril 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...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, remember, retirement,
Form: Free verse
The Alarm Clock’s DegreeYour 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,...
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Categories:
retirement, age, future, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Can't Get FiredI am not in school,
and I am retired.
I can’t get an “F”,
And I can’t get fired....
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Categories:
graduation, humor, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Where Rivers FlowSee upper reaches
The rivers look more the same
Through course flows to sea....
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Categories:
death, retirement, river, sea,
Form: Haiku
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...
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Categories:
angst, retirement,
Form: Senryu
Journey to the Right BrainOur 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...
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Categories:
math, poetry, retirement,
Form: Couplet
Guilty PleasureIt’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'...
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Categories:
age, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Retired---PS
I said when I was only ten
I knew just what I wished to be.
I now look back with no regrets.
The choice to teach was right for me.
Great news emerged, and I retired.
when I’d taught school...
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Categories:
career, poetry, retirement,
Form: Quatrain
The Ripening of Love(Oregon Coast, Oct. 2015)
The Ripening of Love
(for Carol)
The balance of power
Neither winning or losing, up or down
Even, harmoniously at ease,
Contented with whatever Life brings.
(1/31/24)
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Categories:
love, marriage, relationship, retirement,
Form: Free verse
If I had the TimeIf I had the time
I would make sculptures out of pencils
You are retired I said
Why don’t you have the time?
TV and computer games are stealing it he said.
I created a gorilla out of pencils while...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Light Verse
Retired - ITQFrom dawn to dusk, life's rhythm flows,
Children march, adults toil, time goes.
Household chores consume, days, time flows,
Elderly sit, watch, sigh, with vows.
This morning, hope rose with the sun,
A splendid day where dreams are spun.
Social media...
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Categories:
retirement,
Form: Quatorzain
Specific Types of Retirement Poems
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