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Old Timers Poems - Poems about Old Timers

Old Timers Poems - Examples of all types of poems about old timers 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 old timers.
Premium Member Prospecting for Gold
... Prospecting for gold in a mosquito-infested ravine The junior explorers all mighty keen to prove their skeptics curmudgeony scolds And sure enough, they return all gap-too......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, adventure, children, humor, success,
Form: Quatrain
Bengaluru Now, I Witness You!
...Silicon city That pulsates, Both day and night, The Tech Capital And the sky, veiled With urban haze And dense, sprawling cityscape. Grey city of its Gridlocked roads Surrounded by Toweri......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, anxiety, appreciation, city, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Kids Sled
...We kids sled past the home of so-long-ago. We kids wear snow-black boots and warm mittens. We kids sled, on a cold sunny day, across the Vale’s backyard; Old-timers let us kids sled ......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, childhood, winter,
Form: Verse


Premium Member Jim's Glimpse of the MerWoman
...Jim had only glimpsed the gorgeous merwomen once But he never forgot her gray-eyed stare She had bored pinpricks through his surprised eyes Was her hair real or imagined? Jim recalled coral, st......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member senile stork
...Senile Stork is out of control again He brought a full sized eight-year-old to the newcomers They were irritated to the max Why don’t they retire that old bird? It is not easy getting rid of th......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member New Sort of Wave
...A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch. B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight. C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun. D - esigns creati......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, allusion, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Corner of the Bayou in New Orleans
...Old timers say there’s a corner of the bayou in New Orleans Where booby footed pelicans and pink lovebirds are seen in a totem made along with turtle who has a needle nose and wildly colored chame......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dying Breed
...Old timers, history;4th/5th generation The friends we knew, now just memories A forgotten world past, new bringing AI, technology; what is it we become The past barely existing, rotting away L......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, absence, change, conflict, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mismatched Sock Puppets
...What do you do with a mismatched sock? Asked my dear. The puppet squad a laughed when they heard this cheer. Their googly eyes went round and round, in a wild way. “We want some new friends by the......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thankful For Baseballand Babe Ruth
...May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life that have, for us, thus far accrued… and to begin each day with a word of thanks… and thoughts of gratitude. Today I’m thankful for ......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, baseball, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Clotheslines
...The old timers complain nowadays, about how modern technology. Is stealing away all their secrets and, selling everyone's privacy. Information is left up for grabs, exposed for all of the wor......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Square Root of Beirut
...The Square Root of Beiruit    Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit The squate root of Beiruit No it isn’t fair, so they’l......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At the Third Stroke
..."At the Third Stroke. It will be four, four, and 40 seconds, precisely." "At the Third Stroke. It will be four, four, and 55 seconds, precisely." Old timers like me can remember when time was vo......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, grandfather, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oap Hiku
...old-timers tea dance- everyone skip-jives in slow-motion......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, age, dance,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Pope Lick Monster of Floyd Kentucky
...Legend of goat man of pop lick trestle prominent in the stories of mountain folk blue grass anomaly seen by a few chilling bluegrass spotters who become hypnotized some local hillbillies affect......Read the rest...
Categories: old timers, myth,
Form: Free verse

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