Poems About Aging by Top Critiquers
#aging
Her
Poem Published
10th May 2024 00:45am
10th May 2024 00:45am
f**k It
I look in the mirror
Where did life go?
Passing by like a hurricane
Blowing out my windows
The lines around my eyes
Speak stories I cannot hide
The memories I’ve forgotten
And my innocence that died
I wonder what will become
Of this life I lead
All these desires fluttering
Inside of me
Maybe I should play it safe
Calm down and chill
Spend today
Not planning my next thrill
Who am I kidding, my wicked smile
Always gives me away
Fuck it
Tomorrow’s another day
Where did life go?
Passing by like a hurricane
Blowing out my windows
The lines around my eyes
Speak stories I cannot hide
The memories I’ve forgotten
And my innocence that died
I wonder what will become
Of this life I lead
All these desires fluttering
Inside of me
Maybe I should play it safe
Calm down and chill
Spend today
Not planning my next thrill
Who am I kidding, my wicked smile
Always gives me away
Fuck it
Tomorrow’s another day
#aging
#SelfReflection
#TruthOfLife
251 reads
26 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
29th Sep 2024 12:30pm
29th Sep 2024 12:30pm
Minutes & Seconds Are Passing Us By
My one wish is to stop the hands of an enemy we call time
Time will age
Time will heal
Time will drag
Time will kill
No one has any idea what will happen in the next second, but only time will tell
Time will age
Time will heal
Time will drag
Time will kill
No one has any idea what will happen in the next second, but only time will tell
#aging
#dark
#death
#minimalist
#philosophical
106 reads
10 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
2nd Jun 2021 2:30pm
2nd Jun 2021 2:30pm
I AM STILL LEARNING
DISCOVERY
I use to think
I knew it all until
someone asked
me a question.
When I swaggered down
the steps of the university
with my BA in my hand,
the world said, "Sit down
and I'll teach you the
rest of the alphabet."
WAKE-UP
It has been a wonderful
journey since the day
I realized how wonderful
it is to be a continual
learner in the never
ending School of Life.
I'm still learning to live
every day admiring the
beauty in the garden
of life where I have been...
I use to think
I knew it all until
someone asked
me a question.
When I swaggered down
the steps of the university
with my BA in my hand,
the world said, "Sit down
and I'll teach you the
rest of the alphabet."
WAKE-UP
It has been a wonderful
journey since the day
I realized how wonderful
it is to be a continual
learner in the never
ending School of Life.
I'm still learning to live
every day admiring the
beauty in the garden
of life where I have been...
#fate
#aging
#luck
#dating
#responsibility
613 reads
2 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
2nd Jul 2018 7:58am
2nd Jul 2018 7:58am
the color of dreams
kaleidoscope dreams lie
they color my dreams hopeful
in patterns and shapes that delight
they soothe me in my twilight hours
then I awaken to gray
gone are the azure blues of the oceans I love
that I will probably never live near
and the greens of the forests that feed my soul
that I've not visited or seen in fifteen years
the colorless flavor of my world is depressing
I live in the country it's beautiful and quiet
it can also be lonely
my passions are red hot while sleeping
then I wake to a bed...
they color my dreams hopeful
in patterns and shapes that delight
they soothe me in my twilight hours
then I awaken to gray
gone are the azure blues of the oceans I love
that I will probably never live near
and the greens of the forests that feed my soul
that I've not visited or seen in fifteen years
the colorless flavor of my world is depressing
I live in the country it's beautiful and quiet
it can also be lonely
my passions are red hot while sleeping
then I wake to a bed...
#love
#LifeStruggles
#aging
826 reads
20 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2024 10:26pm
3rd Nov 2024 10:26pm
WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING
They say when you have something else, that you've never had before. DUE to the fact that there was no real commitment, and consistency of honesty and truth and trust. But yet you were willing to give it a chance, just to see how much of the words hold TRUTH. 🤨 FOR it's true what they say, knowone is sent to you by chance 💕 or accident 😞 FOR it is the cycle of life. Yet soon you will find out the truth, when we encounter someone, who doesn't have the ability to understand, the true meaning of real communications. Between a woman and man or man to woman who is going...
#aging
#fatherhood
#LifeCycle
#LookingForLove
#motherhood
45 reads
0 Comments
deliabear
Debbie
Debbie
Poem Published
26th Nov 2023 12:15pm
26th Nov 2023 12:15pm
A Mangled Mind
The night seized prisoners of sleep.
Even those with the mangled minds.
Put to slumber the mutilated memories.
Their persistence will be sure to further torture me.
The dark enveloped and swallowed her yearn to weep.
There is ecstasy of quiet
after her disillusioned screams
I wish her bed was a prison of a cocoon.
To metamorphosis back in time.
To the days she had a healthy mind.
Those days are gone, vanished, never to return.
But the candle of my love for her continues it's fight to burn.
Even those with the mangled minds.
Put to slumber the mutilated memories.
Their persistence will be sure to further torture me.
The dark enveloped and swallowed her yearn to weep.
There is ecstasy of quiet
after her disillusioned screams
I wish her bed was a prison of a cocoon.
To metamorphosis back in time.
To the days she had a healthy mind.
Those days are gone, vanished, never to return.
But the candle of my love for her continues it's fight to burn.
#aging
165 reads
6 Comments
Ahavati
Tams
Tams
Poem Published
5th Jun 2024 6:30pm
5th Jun 2024 6:30pm
Blame it on Age
Choose your words wisely
I’ve heard more times
than can count
Yet, each one we choose
equals one less sound
we’ll ever make
We are wells
running out of ink
or quills
whose tip frays
There’s only so much
it can write
and so much less
we’ll ever speak
Choose your words wisely
For they may be your last
I’ve heard more times
than can count
Yet, each one we choose
equals one less sound
we’ll ever make
We are wells
running out of ink
or quills
whose tip frays
There’s only so much
it can write
and so much less
we’ll ever speak
Choose your words wisely
For they may be your last
#aging
380 reads
28 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
29th Apr 2023 1:55am
29th Apr 2023 1:55am
Growing Old Comes With Baggage (It's Unhealthy)
feel so tired ~ can't sleep
body aching all over
old age catching up
body aching all over
old age catching up
#myself
#aging
#senryu
377 reads
7 Comments
Solomon_Song
Poem Published
13th Aug 2024 8:21am
13th Aug 2024 8:21am
QUESTIONS OF DYSFUNCTION
#aging
#men
#rhyming
#sex
#women
135 reads
3 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
15th Oct 2024 6:44am
15th Oct 2024 6:44am
Retrogenesis
She taught me not to fear death
It’s just part of living
Now every time that I go and visit her
My soul hurts and heart sinks
She’s waiting to cross that bridge
Gone are the stories she used to tell
As far back as 1936
All the great details she could recall
Are now but soft flashbacks of mystery
I kiss her cheeks and forehead
Her smile and childlike eyes know who I am
The skin on her hands is paper thin
Soft and warm under blankets
Fighting the impending cold and darkness
An internal silent battle is raging ...
It’s just part of living
Now every time that I go and visit her
My soul hurts and heart sinks
She’s waiting to cross that bridge
Gone are the stories she used to tell
As far back as 1936
All the great details she could recall
Are now but soft flashbacks of mystery
I kiss her cheeks and forehead
Her smile and childlike eyes know who I am
The skin on her hands is paper thin
Soft and warm under blankets
Fighting the impending cold and darkness
An internal silent battle is raging ...
#aging
#family
#grief #parent
#grief #parent
205 reads
19 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
28th Oct 2024 9:52pm
28th Oct 2024 9:52pm
Retiring Minds
Trump's a freak for speed, like his Nazi muse,
and mien apples plummet close to the plan
whereby injustice lights a public fuse
to stroke the puny ego of a man
willing to extinguish millions of lives
in the service of nostalgic notions
cherry picked from the dubious archives
of baby-boom perma-fry devotions
who wouldn't trust people over thirty
when they were protesting a war
the establishment made down and dirty
like a coked-up big business Wall Street whore.
The decades didn't alter morality
as much as...
and mien apples plummet close to the plan
whereby injustice lights a public fuse
to stroke the puny ego of a man
willing to extinguish millions of lives
in the service of nostalgic notions
cherry picked from the dubious archives
of baby-boom perma-fry devotions
who wouldn't trust people over thirty
when they were protesting a war
the establishment made down and dirty
like a coked-up big business Wall Street whore.
The decades didn't alter morality
as much as...
#aging
#LifeCycle
#nostalgia #vanity
#nostalgia #vanity
97 reads
0 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
6th Aug 2024 11:27pm
6th Aug 2024 11:27pm
huff & puff...& pass out
he put trick candles on my cake
brought it out...singing wildly off key
grinning with childlike glee
{it's his way...}
I had my suspicions
but kept them to myself
& played along
giving it one good long blow
getting them all out in a single puff
& watched with sadness
as his face creased into a mask of guilt
when I erupted into a spate of vicious coughing
{par for the course...
it was to be expected}
his profuse apologies muffled by their volume
I shook my head fiercely & waved it off ...
brought it out...singing wildly off key
grinning with childlike glee
{it's his way...}
I had my suspicions
but kept them to myself
& played along
giving it one good long blow
getting them all out in a single puff
& watched with sadness
as his face creased into a mask of guilt
when I erupted into a spate of vicious coughing
{par for the course...
it was to be expected}
his profuse apologies muffled by their volume
I shook my head fiercely & waved it off ...
#aging
#confessional
#family
125 reads
14 Comments
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