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| Advice in Abundance | Jay | |||
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Hate people who give advice ? Be careful; you may become one! |
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| A Feeling of Impotence | Albert Van Hoogmoed | |||
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There once was a time I was omnipotent, ..... |
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| Antiquity Blues | John Picksersgill | |||
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I get up in the morning and greet it with a sigh, Shuffle from the bedroom with hair and brain awry, ... |
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| A Poem For Those Over 30 | Author Unknown | |||
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A computer was something on TV From a science fiction show of note ... |
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| Beach Pic | Joe Pamanian | |||
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No, don't take my photograph! |
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| Clod Fight | DonL | |||
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What's going on? My brother Barry asked of me "Stick up your head, and tell us what you see"... |
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| Codgering | Darby O'Grady | |||
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Old men have daily schedules, too! |
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| Conjugal Telepathy | Ian Smith | |||
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Do you have friends who complete each other's sentences. |
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| Disco Diva | Samantha M Jones | |||
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No more disco dancing...no boppin' that's for sure ..... |
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| Doctor | Stephen Cree | |||
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My 94 year old granny is stone deaf. This one is for her. |
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| The Guru | ||||
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Well I have survived my second morning of jogging. "But the lungs aren't what they used to be, my esophagus is tighter than my arse." |
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| Edie Gonzalez | Gary Hogg | |||
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She had such a passion for living, you'd think the last thing she'd do was to die. |
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Fifty
Something |
Shirley Friend | ||
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“Do you know...what day it is?” “Nope”...said my beau. “What's today?” “Well! If you can't remember”, I cried “I'm not gonna say. Well aren't you gonna ask me?” I insisted with a few tears. “Alright”, he said...”you're fifty today... and you have been for three or four years”... |
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| For All The Girls! | Author Unknown | |||
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When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less..... |
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| Getting Old | Alan Billington | |||
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I think the poem echos the thoughts of a lot more people than just me |
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| Grannie's Trannie | Margaret Glendenning | |||
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Since Grannie tuned her trannie to a wee small hours D.J., She's learning, on an average, six new words a day! When she used her new found knowledge to express her point of view The pot plants all keeled over and the atmosphere burned blue! |
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| Grandma's off her Rocker! | Author Unknown | |||
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In the dim and distant past, When life's tempo wasn't fast, Grandma used to rock and knit, Crochet, tat and baby sit. ..... |
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| Growing Old Gracefully | Donna Vickodil | |||
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The backs of my arms are wobbly like jelly and I found the remote tucked under my belly.... |
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| How Am I You Ask? | Donna Vickodil | |||
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'll be fine when I lose a few hundred pounds and my cough isn't really as bad as it sounds.... |
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| How Areya Five O | Samantha Jones | |||
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I'd just turned fifty and had been on crutches for a while and the fear of old age loomed so I thought I'd turn it in to a joke. |
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| I Can't Remember! | Author Unknown | ||
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Just a line to say I'm living, that I'm not among the dead, though I'm getting more forgetful and mixed up in the head. ... |
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| I'm Fine Thanks | Jessie Morton | ||
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I can't remember me name and I can't remember me age, but I'm awfully good for the shape I'm in, I think? |
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| I'm Fine, Thank YOU | Author Unknown | ||
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There is nothing the matter with me. I'm as healthy as I can be. I have arthritis in both my knees And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze. |
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| I Remember Gender | Tad Lawson | ||
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Since retiring, I'm often annoyed By dilettante students of Freud... |
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| Keep Cool | Dr John Parker | ||
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My life is like a kitchen fridge. The analogy is frightening. How analysing this white good,gives insights so enlightening. |
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| Ladies over 80's Football Team Profile.... | Donna Lauder | ||
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This has to be every man's worst nightmare!..They hate it when us women play their sport!..Get a load of this then guys!...... |
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| Ladies Prayer | Puddlez | ||
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Now I lay me Down to sleep. I pray the lord My shape to keep. |
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| Little Rose | Paul Wilkinson | ||
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Little blue eyed Rose Sinclair, Stood shyly by the barber's chair While Mr. Fairclough trimmed the hair Of Rose's father, sitting there.... |
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| Me Swimmin' Days | Mick Fleming | ||
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Our starting blocks were wooden crates we rescued from the fire. Our lanes ropes were just some second hand part roll used barb wire. |
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| Mirror Mirror. | Bernard Shaw | ||
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It will affect you too sooner or later. |
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| My Explosive Woman | The Dreamaker | ||
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From G to XXX - the Dreamaker is a one of kind find. Read one of his silly whips... |
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| OAP
(Old Aged Paul) |
Paul Bearer | ||
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A poem wot I rote about when I got me disabled parking badge! Huh, what was the question? I'm OLD you know! |
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| Ode To A Mother-In-Law | Joe Earl | ||
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A face with a thousand wrinkles.... |
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| Oh Such Misery | Anita V. | ||
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There are days and there are days and they all have colours and moods .... |
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| OMIGOD | Bee Rawlinson | ||
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This was written for a friend who had a terrible shock one morning....... |
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| On Turning Fifty | Sue Taylor | ||
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Today I turned fifty. I feel really good. My body's still working quite well thanks. (Touch wood!) My hair's not too grey, my wrinkles are few, ... |
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| Out Of My Mind | Royce Koon | ||
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Beneath my brow a thought somehow ran off its track and won't come back... |
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| Reflections | Lucy Blades | ||
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The other day, I happened by chance, As I passed a mirror, to give it a glance.... |
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| Rusting | Gerald Bosacker | ||
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Eternal youth is dreams or lies ...... |
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| Saga Love | Bee Rawlinson | ||
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Love me when I'm old and shocking. |
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| Senior
Mirror Lately? |
Bob Wombacher, Jr. | ||
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Regretfully did I arrive, Attained the age of fifty-five. But helping counter my chagrin: Senior-discounts kicking in.... |
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| Senior Moment | Gin | ||
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Hope I remember to get up!! |
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| Supergran | Patricia Markey | ||
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I wish I was a Supergran, with super powers as well, You bet I'd make my presence felt, I'd come out of my shell. I'd buy myself some cargo pants, with pockets deep and wide, so I could hide all sorts of goodies, deep down there inside.... |
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| Talk Of The Devil | John Picksersgill | ||
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In deaths today I saw my name, No way I said and looked again ... |
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| That
For The Blokes |
Author Unknown | ||
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Now I'm old and feeble, And my pilot light is out, What used to be my sex appeal Is now my water spout... |
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| The Crackerjacks | Leighton B Watts | ||
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Old Crackerjack Mick was a mighty bloke of hale and hearty kin And he sired nineteen cowboys, not a cowgirl there within... |
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| The Fisherman's Tale | Paul Wilkinson | ||
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Okay, so fishermen have been known to stretch the truth a little...!!! |
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| The Girl You Knew | Joe Pamanian | ||
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The girl you knew at twenty two Who heard the vows you made,.... |
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| The Impossible Takes a Little Longer | Tad Lawson | ||
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I know my well-known erudition May explain why you gave me this mission... |
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| The Last Hoorah | Joe Pamanian | ||
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Well that was then and this, dear god, is now... |
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| The
Piddlers Lament |
John Rogers | ||
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I'm piddl'n and paus'n and paus'n and piddl'n And then I'm a-paus'n once more It's three in the morn'n, I'll be back before dawn'n And I'll walk that cold lavat'ry floor... |
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| The
Mammagram |
Shirley Friend | ||
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I was booked to have a mammogram, on a bus that comes around. I waited ten minutes at the stop outside the football ground.... |
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| The Menopause Blues | Stephanie Harness | ||
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Proof that life CAN be fun after the menopause!! |
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| The Mirror For Her | Marina Cuell | ||
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Ever looked in the mirror and wondered who is the oldie looking back?......Good grief there's an old person looking at me! |
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| The Mirror For Him | Marina Cuell | ||
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Ever looked in the mirror and wondered who is the oldie looking back?......Good grief there's an old person looking at me! |
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| Those Disastrous Ancestors of Mine | Rebecca Stone | ||
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Today we buried Great Uncle Ted. 'Died unexpectedly' the obituary read. How un-expected can people be, after all the old fart was a hundred and three. |
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| What I Found in My Desk | Carol Prince | ||
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A ripe peach with a ugly bruise, a pair of stinky tennis shoes, a day-old ham-and-cheese on rye.. |
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| WHEE! WE'RE GOLDEN AGERS | DrWryme | ||
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My mirrors all have wrinkled glass, my image lost its muscled mass, which wound up fat around my ass.... |
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| Where Was I? | Joe Pamanian | ||
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I may have been in the garden at the time... |
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| Wondrous Things | Author Unknown | ||
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There are recent rumors that Julie Andrews did a Senior Citizens concert. Ms. Andrews sang a song from the Sound of Music, 'Favorite Things'. There were a few changes to the words, so here's the new song. |
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| Young At Heart | Carol Prince | ||
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Another birthday over, yet I don't feel old... |
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