Poems about Aging
#aging
Poems about aging and the aging process. Poetry about what it's like to watch family and loved ones get older. Poems about aging includes everything from a midlife crisis, to our twilight years.
Spaceboy
Hey you, what are you looking for?
A star struck voyager on his way to Mars?
Hey you, what are you smiling for?
I thought we both were meant to sing the Blues.
And I’ve lost my mind again,
I must have flown far too close to the Sun,
But you were there by my side,
You took the wheels and flew me straight back home.
But Spaceboy you’ve got to go home,
Spaceboy, you’ve got to go on your own,
Spaceboy, you’ve got to go home ,
Time is running out.
I look back now now to the child I was,
Nothing seem to phase me in...
A star struck voyager on his way to Mars?
Hey you, what are you smiling for?
I thought we both were meant to sing the Blues.
And I’ve lost my mind again,
I must have flown far too close to the Sun,
But you were there by my side,
You took the wheels and flew me straight back home.
But Spaceboy you’ve got to go home,
Spaceboy, you’ve got to go on your own,
Spaceboy, you’ve got to go home ,
Time is running out.
I look back now now to the child I was,
Nothing seem to phase me in...
#LifeStruggles
#aging
#nostalgia
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finish line finished
the minutes
hours
days
weeks
months
years
pass by me like a Farrari
on the Autobahn with it's
gas pedal nailed to the
floor board
and I'm stuck in an old beaten
down Ford with one cylinder
going south, an oil leak, four
tires going bald and low
on air
hours
days
weeks
months
years
pass by me like a Farrari
on the Autobahn with it's
gas pedal nailed to the
floor board
and I'm stuck in an old beaten
down Ford with one cylinder
going south, an oil leak, four
tires going bald and low
on air
#fate
#aging
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Saturday Night
I don't know what it is
That you're trying to say
Your tears and strained emotion
Are standing in the way
If you want me to leave
It's all you have to say
Just a smile and a snarl
And I'll be on my way
Now you're trying to smile
Through all the snot and tears
You want me here with you
Just another Saturday night
That's all there is to us
A beer and a fight
And the ultimatum
And then the snotty I'm sorry
I'm sick of this
And sick to death of me
And my love has drained away ...
That you're trying to say
Your tears and strained emotion
Are standing in the way
If you want me to leave
It's all you have to say
Just a smile and a snarl
And I'll be on my way
Now you're trying to smile
Through all the snot and tears
You want me here with you
Just another Saturday night
That's all there is to us
A beer and a fight
And the ultimatum
And then the snotty I'm sorry
I'm sick of this
And sick to death of me
And my love has drained away ...
#aging
#bittersweet
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and no robin hoods
strange that I find life harder to understand than I did when I was a child I simply read beneath the
blankets or roamed in the woods, going home in time for tea, knowing for us they’d be no banquets ..
blankets or roamed in the woods, going home in time for tea, knowing for us they’d be no banquets ..
#aging
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Nobody Writes Me Letters Anymore
It’s almost a lost art of communication and expression
We used to transform our notions to paper and pen
Spent time and effort to convey thought and emotion
It almost seems almost extinct in these latter days…
We must reclaim and recall the flair of simpler times
When connection took patience and charm to build
And show those who matter most that we still care
By putting in the work worth of closer relationships
We rely on technology so much we’ve lost that gift
Because in such a fast paced world no one has time
And if we don’t...
We used to transform our notions to paper and pen
Spent time and effort to convey thought and emotion
It almost seems almost extinct in these latter days…
We must reclaim and recall the flair of simpler times
When connection took patience and charm to build
And show those who matter most that we still care
By putting in the work worth of closer relationships
We rely on technology so much we’ve lost that gift
Because in such a fast paced world no one has time
And if we don’t...
#technology
#aging
#art
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Abscent Pictures
Many frames are empty
memories seem to disappear
not much more to create
isolation is what I fear
Journey decades back
this wasn't the case
family and friends fulfilled my life
was in a much happier place
Now I'm old & tired
watching the days move by
not much more to live for
passing the time, waiting to die
memories seem to disappear
not much more to create
isolation is what I fear
Journey decades back
this wasn't the case
family and friends fulfilled my life
was in a much happier place
Now I'm old & tired
watching the days move by
not much more to live for
passing the time, waiting to die
#sadness
#loneliness
#rhyming
#LifeCycle
#aging
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Body
It will not wait,
for even small surcease
of all the taxes and the tolls
that arrowed time
demands my flesh to pay.
And with each passing day.
I see within my mirrorings
and hard against my will,
against my exorcising efforts
to stand things still,
there’s less of any body wealth
that once was mine.
for even small surcease
of all the taxes and the tolls
that arrowed time
demands my flesh to pay.
And with each passing day.
I see within my mirrorings
and hard against my will,
against my exorcising efforts
to stand things still,
there’s less of any body wealth
that once was mine.
#aging
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Holding The Line
Wading through the lies
A storm of deception
Like calculating Pi
An endless corruption
Focus on the center
Cling to the known
Stand fast against it all
Tall like a stone
Weathered cracks and fissures
More prominent and deep
Bear witness to the struggle
Of decades the will to keep
Fighting
One inch at a time
Enduring past all hope
Holding the line
The end closer
Than the begining
Muscles straining
Core failing
Going down
Fighting to the last
No more...
A storm of deception
Like calculating Pi
An endless corruption
Focus on the center
Cling to the known
Stand fast against it all
Tall like a stone
Weathered cracks and fissures
More prominent and deep
Bear witness to the struggle
Of decades the will to keep
Fighting
One inch at a time
Enduring past all hope
Holding the line
The end closer
Than the begining
Muscles straining
Core failing
Going down
Fighting to the last
No more...
#love
#illness
#aging
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A Passed Age
Seems like an age has passed
Slow days and faster decades
And though it's not really surprising
I'm still surprised that we haven't
Run into each other
Somewhere
In this huge city
In all these years
In essence I was just a boy
That last day
Now there's very little essence left
And I'm old and wrinkled
And it sets me to thinking
On those days that I think of you
That you must be old as well
But I simply can't picture it
My thought version of you
Remains stuck in the 90's
Just a girl in essence yourself ...
Slow days and faster decades
And though it's not really surprising
I'm still surprised that we haven't
Run into each other
Somewhere
In this huge city
In all these years
In essence I was just a boy
That last day
Now there's very little essence left
And I'm old and wrinkled
And it sets me to thinking
On those days that I think of you
That you must be old as well
But I simply can't picture it
My thought version of you
Remains stuck in the 90's
Just a girl in essence yourself ...
#aging
#nostalgia
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ON FORGETTING WHY I CAME IN HERE
i have lost the thread
am i slipping?
have i
thunk my last good thought?
will i be diminished,
short of mental funds,
in the cerebral hole,
unable to hold my own
or hold my pee?
will i shit the bed?
can i still masturbate
in the shower
or has that glorious multicolored ship sailed, too?
is that me now?
bald?
thin lipped and hollow boned?
i am thick
and i am thin
it makes no difference
old men nod...
am i slipping?
have i
thunk my last good thought?
will i be diminished,
short of mental funds,
in the cerebral hole,
unable to hold my own
or hold my pee?
will i shit the bed?
can i still masturbate
in the shower
or has that glorious multicolored ship sailed, too?
is that me now?
bald?
thin lipped and hollow boned?
i am thick
and i am thin
it makes no difference
old men nod...
#illness
#aging
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Senior Citizen Discount
#myself
#aging
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
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Sun Queen
Sun Queen
Oriental slant of her eyes
Gazes into corner of Parisian salon
As she reclines in baroque beauty
Upon arm rest of divan
Her scarlet tresses halo the regal velvet
With the radiance of a sun queen
Whose majesty rules over supplicant hearts
Conjuring designs on susceptible gents
With wit sharp as the scimitars
Of her eyebrows etched in fire
A single finger on her cheek bone
With thumb on chin
Far from a pawn in the chess match
That plays in her satirical theater
That with one word disarms suitors ...
Oriental slant of her eyes
Gazes into corner of Parisian salon
As she reclines in baroque beauty
Upon arm rest of divan
Her scarlet tresses halo the regal velvet
With the radiance of a sun queen
Whose majesty rules over supplicant hearts
Conjuring designs on susceptible gents
With wit sharp as the scimitars
Of her eyebrows etched in fire
A single finger on her cheek bone
With thumb on chin
Far from a pawn in the chess match
That plays in her satirical theater
That with one word disarms suitors ...
#women
#beauty
#aging
#sensual
#seductive
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