Poems About: RETIREMENT

There is no sea here,
I see no sea;
This is the body of the desert,
The rich made faint blue, read more »

I know two people, who will be known as A & B,
It’s really amazing how so different they perceive,
A’s a complainer, he’ll drive you out of your mind,
B’s calm as ever, oh, did I mention that he is blind? read more »

Smirking Peter Costello wee Johnny Howard's heir
What his views are on others I do not much care
Since he is only courting the Conservative right
I would not trust him with my life though he is cunning and bright. read more »

He had to work hard for his living and life's not been easy on Sid
He used to lay pipes for contractors just one of the hard jobs he did
To support his wife Maud and raise their two children but now he ia all on his own
And he does not like for to dwell on the hardships in life he has known. read more »

Autumn-8 Paces
Original free verse - autumn-8 paces

(First) read more »

The end of anything comes rather easy,
Time is not like a clock, time is freaky. read more »

Oh! migrating bird,
In this branch
Thy hours are limited. read more »

And when retirement came, after fifty years down the mine,
Man and boy, man and boy, boyhood turned too soon into the man
As he had seen things that no teenage child should see, alas,
All there remained was husk, a shell, a dust-dry chrysalis read more »

he finally reached his golden years
wanted to leave his family,
thoughts and love to share.
so he sat with pen in hand read more »

Mr. Jiggs ran the grocery store in town. He never used
his name as an excuse for not being famous. No one ever
asked, 'Hey, Jiggs, did you want to be famous? ' It was
out of the question. Not so with Johnny, local mischief-artist: read more »

If you still believe that you can put off and wait...
For a date contemplated,
To be saved in your future.
And applied to a life enjoyed in retirement... read more »

For Immediate Release
Maud Rivers, IRM Magazine

Launch of New Magazine read more »