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Premium Member Mirror Image - Octogenarian Plus
MIRROR IMAGE – Octogenarian plus

Now 
Here he comes
Master of the mansion –
       complete with wrinkles, gas, cataracts, arthritis –
His mental package stuck in 30s fashion

The first chore was getting out of bed
Getting straight    
Then into his...

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Categories: octogenarian, life,
Form: Free verse
The Absent Minded Octogenarian
An octogenarian visited his doctor
'I think I'm getting senile” he said
The doctor replied “I don’t think you are senile
Let’s look for a different diagnosis instead”
“But I keep forgetting to do up my fly”
The old man said “After I’ve been for a pee”
The doctor smiled and...

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Categories: octogenarian, funny
Form:
Octogenarian Wedding
( Hum to the tune of "Get me to the Church on time!"

The old guy's getting married to a fat virgin,
Ding dong, the wedding hearse does shine!
That's what he gets for perving!
Get him to the morgue on time!

The old man's getting married to a fat...

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Categories: octogenarian, farewell, funeral, grandfather, nonsense,
Form: Ghazal

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Octogenarian
Octogenarian

I would love to be an Octogenarian,
Now that I'm seventy-nine.
What joy to be an Octogenarian,
An Octogenarian will suit me just fine....

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Categories: octogenarian, age, joy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member An Octogenarian
He's eighty years old
An octogenarian
A very full life
Must be doing something right
to last that long on this earth
...

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Categories: octogenarian, life,
Form: Tanka

Book: Reflection on the Important Things