Old Age Poems
These Old Age poems are examples of Age poems about Old. These are the best examples of Age Old poems written by international poets.
I AM TWO PEOPLEWho am I
I sometimes wonder
Yesterday I was young
Today I am old
In May I was a social butterfly
Come July I crave solitude
One year I am smart
The...
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Categories:
age, change, feelings, identity,
the mule in GazaThe mule in Gaza
Slowly, on delicate legs, the last mule
in Gaza, pulling a cart carrying old
mattresses, broken chairs, and small
shrouds of children to a resting...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age,
now that I am oldwhen I was young, I remember hearing people say
all old people want to talk about is their bowel movements
Now that I am old
that’s all I...
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Categories:
age,
After a Writing Workshop About the Body
This is not my body.
Not the one that used to tell everything
to anyone—
I mean everything,
like I thought it might get me somewhere
closer to known.
I sat...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, women, writing,
Heavenly Host
Fading away as the days
dwindle down to a dismal few
I'm still grinning
what more can I do
my head's spinning
eyes dimming hair thinning
but if the devil's in...
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Categories:
age, how i feel,
gratitudeGratitude
He is not here today, the mantle he wrapped
around his bony shoulders, when there was a chill in the air
is carelessly flung on the sofa
A zephyr...
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Categories:
absence, age, atheist, birthday,
On Growing OlderOn Growing Older
Sometimes my steps are steady,
Sometimes my hands shake.
Sometimes my memory falters,
And I make some sad mistake.
Sometimes I hear you talking
But I do...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, blessing, body,
The New Superpower 2050I am the voice of time —
The whisper of centuries long silenced,
And today, I thunder:
The Earth has turned. The meek now reign.
In the year 2050,
China...
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Categories:
age, birth, celebration, change,
Don't CountWhen you grow extremely old,
accept what can't be controlled.
You must think philosophically
every time you need to pee.
Years and nighttime trips? Don't count -
too hard...
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Categories:
age, humor,
At the Risk of Sounding Crazy, There Are Deities at the Roller Rink
They knelt behind a photo booth humming
hymnals to a tooth-
decayed brand of gen X truth—
old gods' wants reclaim the youth.
...
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Categories:
age, analogy, destiny,
When did I get oldwe are all drones on the freeway today
hardly any excitement this side of the bay
then two crazy racing drivers head our way
They whip past me,...
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Categories:
age,
Be still in a digital ageIt’s a timeless art to sit still
Be an old geezer
One who bore nine children
Or a private who fought Hitler
Or be an indoor cat, jailed...
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Categories:
age, depression, history, humanity, loneliness,
Too Young To Get Old
I'm really much too young to get old
Something's drastically out of whack
I'm still this handsome, charismatic stud
Why's my body giving me flack?
A strange bump just...
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age,
cobwebs of dreamsThe Cobwebs of Dreams
It was a sunny day, perhaps to clear
I thought
Mother sat in the kitchen sunlight, making her white hair into a halo
I asked...
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Categories:
age, allusion, angel, best
Gnarls Knurl the Grip to Fight
after "Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas
Age can not scour away the furrowed gnarls time obeyed,
Nor mask the snarls, gouged...
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Categories:
age, old,