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Elder Poems - Poems about Elder

Elder Poems - Examples of all types of poems about elder to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for elder.
Premium Member As We Grow Older
...Growing older is a carousel of highs and lows, each spin a memory, each turn a change. It’s the morning ache in places you never thought could hurt, the pizza you once devoured now a restles......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, age, old,
Form: Free verse



Insurgents
...The day has just dawn and the infidels are all over the lawn, they are setting up tents in the field and continue to ignore the written deal, the widows and single women are at their mercy and I watc......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, absence, abuse, character, earth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lunar Knight
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A protector of the night, so strong and so brave, it keeps the darkness at bay, from the shadows it saves. With its light as its armor, it stands guard with might, m......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mystic Under the Bodhi Tree
...A most beautiful day The Son of Suns, shining brightly on us all Not hot yet, but bright. A million butterfly’s swarm Lighting on and around Myriads of flowers surrounding. See them in such......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, adventure, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Into Better Times For Living
...Times for living Times for dreaming Resting between times. So do our days pass As we were taught to expect Earth connected; Earth bonded. ......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, adventure, creation, dream, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Third Wind
...1st wind, childhood 2nd wind, jobs, career 3rd wind, elder life. ___I___ Many do so wonder... After exhausting what there is in business Politics, l......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
The Final Stage
...We save some money, if we can, So when we’re up in age, We’ll have enough to get us through That final “elder” stage. To me, that always meant that I’d Be set for life to spend On all the thi......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On The Right Trail To Right End
...Do I remember when... Better breezes blew Cleaner waters flowed Teasing memory so... For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you? Softly now, in your own silence… hear them… ‘Are......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, age, dream, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Yesterday - Ephemera
...Letter of the past, Now a treasured piece, Letter of gone years, Now a keepsake. She wrote it to show her love, She wrote it to tell me how proud she was of me, It had words from the depth of......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, death, grandmother, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Cats
...Do you have pets, she asked, during our chat. Yes, I replied, we have two cats. My wife turned and said with a laugh, Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Over the years, we have found, t......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A time to reflect
... Now, being a senior citizen, Is it too late for me to reflect on, What went wrong in my life? Born and brought up in a family, Where morals and values played their role, I learned to call......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, 5th grade, children, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nursing Home memories - Room mates I
...Old Harry, Hungry Elder Harry was happy Excited to eat, like a child versus old Cookie was first stuffed, eagerly eating Following was rest of his dinner Pasta, was told First, sharp loud......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, age, character, engagement, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
...A crumbling cabin, a jungle deep, An old soldier trudging by, Imagining he heard, in the breeze, A ghostly, wounded sigh. This elder sat 'neath a mangrove To ease his creaking bones, His une......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, death, dream, loneliness, war,
Form: Rhyme
Starlit Yearnings: A Daughter's Tale
...In the quiet corners of her soul, she sighs, A girl in need of a mother's embrace, Longing for arms to comfort her as she sobs, Yearning for love that's magical, consoling and much. She gazes a......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, longing, lost love, mother,
Form: Free verse
The demon of second chances
... It worked in the recesses the nooks and cracks of the darkness. It’s shapeless meandering form intent on its work It’s slither of arms and tentacles wrapped around the soul It’s tortures fi......Read the rest...
Categories: elder, poems,
Form: Free verse

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