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Best Retirement Poems

Below are the all-time best Retirement poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of retirement poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member From Now On - Reflection On Retirement
From now on 
Mornings will never be the same

How fortunate I feel
Can’t take it for granted
Everyday I am thankful
Not rich but enough to get by

Free...

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Categories: retirement, change, future, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Quiet Place That I Sought
 When I was down in the dumps
I longed to be away from the din of the world
And a quiet place I sought

Nature has always...

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Categories: happiness, peace, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rusted Gate
Rusted, but well oiled and continuously in use, heaven’s gate. 

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Categories: image, retirement,
Form: Verse
Wild Birds and Nutsy
Wild Birds and Nutsy

There still is beauty in the lengthy life,
Tho no longer glamorous corporate strife,
Grief and relief fall on first lonely days,
Staring outside at...

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Categories: age, appreciation, retirement,
Form: Sonnet



A Cheap Watch and a Cake
You sell yourself for money
Hour lunch two coffee breaks 
To punch a card at 5pm
For a cheap watch and a cake
You live on autopilot 
A...

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Categories: retirement, anger, angst, business, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Little White Lie
My sister once had a dream, that was driving her crazy.
It seemed so real, but it was very faint and hazy.
She thought it was real...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retirement, brother, dream, memory, remember,
Form: Light Verse
Retired
Strolling around town 
At prohibited time 
Ignoring the church bell sounds
While I see people hurrying 
Down the sidewalk
On their way to work 

Think maybe I'll...

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Categories: age, city, freedom, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Pinnacle To Cynical
From Pinnacle to Cynical 

When we were young
We had our dreams
But, in our future we would find
That many times along the way
There were mountains, we...

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Categories: retirement, adventure, allusion, change, future,
Form: Rhyme
Procrastination
I’m thinking about thinking about retiring
     Not sure when that will be
I know I need to make a change
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Categories: humorous, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Punctuated In Time
Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe

Ambidextrous clock with appalling...

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Categories: retirement, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
New Future of the Internet
New Future Of The
Internet


Cable cost are up
too high
You turned to the
internet and so have
I

My Youtube channel
is the way to go
Now I can even make
video shows

I...

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Categories: retirement, business, career, film, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Talking Trash
The alarm clock brushed my teeth and then forced me to drink orange juice.
As I looked out the window, a cement sky was pulling down...

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© Luke Irwin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retirement, me, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Better Day After All
A Better Day After All

A ring of the phone announced
A holiday call to say “hello” 
The news from working days,
Days sometimes bringing nostalgic yearning,
That feeling...

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Categories: blessing, retirement,
Form: Free verse
So Words Become
So words become; the order of the day
and order of the day becomes
the soldiered meaning of all work and play,
the ever present, beating drums.

Then words...

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© Tom Hitt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retirement, allegory, allusion, death, introspection,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs