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.
BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:04pm
Yesterday 11:04pm
Hometown Husk
I'm laying here in a hotel room
All my friends are busy and my dogs sleeping
Why did I come back here again
What more can this place give me?
I think about hitting you up
But I know that that is a terrible idea
I wrote you a letter before I left the city
And I'm laying here debating hiding it somewhere
And giving you detailed directions to find it
Like a game of pirates children play
But we're not children, huh?
And x doesn't always mark the spot
I'm laying here all grown up,
My fingers worrying the paper envelope
I came...
All my friends are busy and my dogs sleeping
Why did I come back here again
What more can this place give me?
I think about hitting you up
But I know that that is a terrible idea
I wrote you a letter before I left the city
And I'm laying here debating hiding it somewhere
And giving you detailed directions to find it
Like a game of pirates children play
But we're not children, huh?
And x doesn't always mark the spot
I'm laying here all grown up,
My fingers worrying the paper envelope
I came...
#friendship
#memories
#aging
#nostalgia
#separation
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javalini
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:49pm
Yesterday 4:49pm
DEMENTIA
her girls come braced
for the onslaught
ashamed that they
resent what's left
remnants pressed
between the sheets
reminiscent of julie
who married john
and birthed those girls
and held them
precious against
the onslaught
right up until
she disappeared
she breaks the surface
for an instant
when jessie mentions papa
but she's gone again
even before the story ends,
that brief spark futile in the gloam,
her sweet blossom spent
long before the stalk will die
for the onslaught
ashamed that they
resent what's left
remnants pressed
between the sheets
reminiscent of julie
who married john
and birthed those girls
and held them
precious against
the onslaught
right up until
she disappeared
she breaks the surface
for an instant
when jessie mentions papa
but she's gone again
even before the story ends,
that brief spark futile in the gloam,
her sweet blossom spent
long before the stalk will die
#love
#children
#illness #aging
#illness #aging
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LostViking
Lost Viking
Lost Viking
Poem Published
24th Oct 2020 7:11pm
24th Oct 2020 7:11pm
The Mass of Souls That I Have Loved
#sex
#death
#aging
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AaHarvey
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2020 10:48am
23rd Oct 2020 10:48am
Second sight
When you are young, you can only see the future.
When you are old, you can only see the past.
When you find yourself at the right moment in life,
You can look forward gladly, as well as being happy to look back.
(C)2020 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
When you are old, you can only see the past.
When you find yourself at the right moment in life,
You can look forward gladly, as well as being happy to look back.
(C)2020 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
#TruthOfLife
#memories
#LifeCycle
#aging
#SelfDiscovery
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AaHarvey
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2020 10:28pm
22nd Oct 2020 10:28pm
Groan (up)
Age is a shame when it comes to love.
It reaches a point where you just give up,
But the heart’s desire keeps setting on fire,
Every time you meet someone who lifts you higher.
I’m feeling too old to love her or flirt.
She desires another and I am left to hurt.
My heart wants to love whilst she just wants fun.
I wish I could, once more be young.
I want marriage. She wants to party.
I’ve had enough, while she’s just getting started.
I could be right for her as she is wrong for me.
She is so beautiful. She is my...
It reaches a point where you just give up,
But the heart’s desire keeps setting on fire,
Every time you meet someone who lifts you higher.
I’m feeling too old to love her or flirt.
She desires another and I am left to hurt.
My heart wants to love whilst she just wants fun.
I wish I could, once more be young.
I want marriage. She wants to party.
I’ve had enough, while she’s just getting started.
I could be right for her as she is wrong for me.
She is so beautiful. She is my...
#sadness
#love
#regret
#LifeStruggles
#aging
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
21st Oct 2020 6:50pm
21st Oct 2020 6:50pm
Weed(s) and Flowers, and Beastial Human Behavior
A day like any other
like any
in the way it came/went
before serving notice,
pulling breath as in the fashion
(that) we used to suck on
m.j. joint (or hashish pipe).
Faraway days, when I loved
the three of you, and still do.
(Diane, Kathryn, Gail......'69-'71)
(The three of you haunt me).
(Especially now that all such
likely love is gone forever),
heart broken and heart failed......
aching mind vapours signing
that death
is very real very real and
...
like any
in the way it came/went
before serving notice,
pulling breath as in the fashion
(that) we used to suck on
m.j. joint (or hashish pipe).
Faraway days, when I loved
the three of you, and still do.
(Diane, Kathryn, Gail......'69-'71)
(The three of you haunt me).
(Especially now that all such
likely love is gone forever),
heart broken and heart failed......
aching mind vapours signing
that death
is very real very real and
...
#love
#regret
#death
#LifeCycle
#aging
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BeginningPoet
Poem Published
19th Oct 2020 9:55am
19th Oct 2020 9:55am
Things Change -
Once, I was not even
a conception,
no thought toward
my arrival
but I came
and things change,
each day
is a new beginning,
an ending
for all the yesterdays,
and things change,
moments brought
by sadness,
moments brought
with happiness,
change comes,
love and hate
can fill a lifetime,
determining
what path
one may choose
to follow,
things change,
I have lost my way,
I have found my way,
and things change,
so...
a conception,
no thought toward
my arrival
but I came
and things change,
each day
is a new beginning,
an ending
for all the yesterdays,
and things change,
moments brought
by sadness,
moments brought
with happiness,
change comes,
love and hate
can fill a lifetime,
determining
what path
one may choose
to follow,
things change,
I have lost my way,
I have found my way,
and things change,
so...
#birth
#childhood
#death
#fate
#aging
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oskar
Poem Published
15th Oct 2020 10:03am
15th Oct 2020 10:03am
the loss
the loss
I saw her leave
on the 8 o´clock train.
in the Saturday crowd
I saw her many time.
Stopped women
in the street
they were frightened.
In the morning
she was in my bed
I wished
she wasn´t there.
I saw her leave
on the 8 o´clock train.
in the Saturday crowd
I saw her many time.
Stopped women
in the street
they were frightened.
In the morning
she was in my bed
I wished
she wasn´t there.
#marriage
#holiday
#fate
#sleep
#aging
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
14th Oct 2020 7:01pm
14th Oct 2020 7:01pm
Sweet Death-Desert of Thee Age'd (Consent)
PHOTO: "Eye of The Monster", s.p. by dkzk2020
How, o how, is a Long Time
so fckn
short, (dear human'peoples)?
Intimate love/companionship
been gone
so fckn Long(time) passin' damn
quick.
Damnquicker than any wee fckr
can
i'magine.
10, 20, 30,40, 50, 60, 70..............
........& wow how holy shit,
o' Life Too motherin' Short.
Pass, pass, pass, passed away,
past so much, "future" nex-to-no'thing.
Heart fails.
!st mate (is) dead.
Belov'd...
How, o how, is a Long Time
so fckn
short, (dear human'peoples)?
Intimate love/companionship
been gone
so fckn Long(time) passin' damn
quick.
Damnquicker than any wee fckr
can
i'magine.
10, 20, 30,40, 50, 60, 70..............
........& wow how holy shit,
o' Life Too motherin' Short.
Pass, pass, pass, passed away,
past so much, "future" nex-to-no'thing.
Heart fails.
!st mate (is) dead.
Belov'd...
#death
#aging
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Ely
E.A.Rothwell
E.A.Rothwell
Poem Published
13th Oct 2020 9:40pm
13th Oct 2020 9:40pm
So soon I forget
So soon I forget
what I went to go get..
when I forgot
where I could find it...not...
...again...
what I went to go get..
when I forgot
where I could find it...not...
...again...
#memories
#WritingPoetry
#aging
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TimWombles
Poem Published
13th Oct 2020 1:11pm
13th Oct 2020 1:11pm
Old Grey Shed
As the frost grows on that old shed we built that summer
The weathered wood we've tried our best to hide
The warped floors creak and the faded doors squeak
But it's filled with all the treasures we left inside
I remember when that old grey shed was young
And the rotted boards were both sturdy and strong
We were both bold and brave, and we didn't behave
And the memories we made were never wrong
Chorus::
Cause that's the way life goes
There's nothing wrong with growing old
We do what we can
Then leave it for the...
The weathered wood we've tried our best to hide
The warped floors creak and the faded doors squeak
But it's filled with all the treasures we left inside
I remember when that old grey shed was young
And the rotted boards were both sturdy and strong
We were both bold and brave, and we didn't behave
And the memories we made were never wrong
Chorus::
Cause that's the way life goes
There's nothing wrong with growing old
We do what we can
Then leave it for the...
#children
#family
#memories #aging
#memories #aging
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
9th Oct 2020 9:09pm
9th Oct 2020 9:09pm
in (dreams of) that wild life preserved
gentle'men,
remember
as a teen
as a teen
how your balls
would ache
would ache
would ache
when thinkin'
about
that girl
you love,
who "doesn't" even know that i exist"....?
remember the ache for someone's touch ?
some one's love ?
so, the ache is gone now,
but
the pains of The Need are again what they were, ...
remember
as a teen
as a teen
how your balls
would ache
would ache
would ache
when thinkin'
about
that girl
you love,
who "doesn't" even know that i exist"....?
remember the ache for someone's touch ?
some one's love ?
so, the ache is gone now,
but
the pains of The Need are again what they were, ...
#heartbroken
#death
#FallingInLove
#aging
#hurt
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