Retirement Limerick Poems

Cream Rises, Work Smarter 
Miracle Man
8/28/2024

When doing any job, work smart, don’t stop
My mothers advice, “Cream rises to the top”
Her advice seemed sound,
and to it...

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Be seen and not be heard
What old folks as wisdom served 
Till they are alone
In retirement home
They regret saying those words

For children grow up to...

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We might as well stamp license plates
Government work makes us inmates
When assigned tasks inane
In asylums insane
We'll search for retirement dates...

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Retirement offers things new
I'm shouting a hip-hip yahoo
If what you’re feeling
Comes from a glass ceiling
Stop squealing and just say I'm through!

Retirement offers a lift
With no...

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Now retired and set for this life
I'll hang in the kitchen with wife
Am I paranoid?
She seems so annoyed
It scares me when she grabs a knife...

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an actor he was typecast

a soldier hit by a blast

but as of today

he's out mowing hay

farming a dramatic past.
...

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At eighty-seven well past my prime
Can you believe it no long can rhyme
Even Shelly and Keats
Have hung up their cleats
Each had hoped for a life...

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The time on the hands of the clock
  It's all yours now, every tick-tock
     Wisely you may use it
 ...

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retirement close, Arthur sadly wonders, 
                    ...

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dog catcher ferguson jeeves

found a new job raking leaves

since he turned eighty one

neighbors now have more fun

he's no longer spreading fleas.
...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of passing
Is immediately distressing
Tis human to think negative a natural...

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Retirement, aw yes, looked forward to this time
A cottage on the beach, that would have been fine
But instead here I am
Writing poetry, hot damn!
Met some...

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Pay no attention I'm a bit off line
A bit off centre it could be the wine
Or might be my arm pits
Or maybe my bollocks
Perhaps it...

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Lived in a retirement community for 8 years
Happiest time for we two and a bunch of peers
Had to move away
A very sad day
It's not been...

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A spinster whom just earned her pension
Faced her fate with some apprehension
Though never a bride
She still had her pride
But old men can't jump to attention!...

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