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Old Timers Poems - Poems about Old Timers

Premium Member Baseball In Heaven
...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ......

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Categories: old timers, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun
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......

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Categories: old timers, adventure, children, humor, success,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member 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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: old timers, grandfather, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oap Hiku
...old-timers tea dance- everyone skip-jives in slow-motion......

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Categories: old timers, age, dance,
Form: Haiku

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