Maturity Poems
Poems about Age, Aging, and Getting Old
by Michael R. Burch
These are poems about time, poems about the process of maturation, poems about aging and growing old, poems about life's journey and its destination.
There is also a collection of my early poems, many about getting older and aging, toward the bottom of this page.
Learning to Fly
by Michael R. Burch
We are learning to fly
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Stone
by Ken Ripley
We like to carve our truths in stone
Intending them to stay unchanged
As monuments to our belief.
But just as stone can wear away
By wind or water over time,
So all the pressures of the day
Are to those monuments a thief,
And turn all verities to crime.
Fatherless Father Figure (30-12-2018)
by Hendrico Valentijn
You share your words, I cup my ears.
You shed your shell, I catch your tears.
When life goes awry, wisdom gives bliss.
I hold your face, forehead graced with kiss.
My words are calm, warm, and tranquil.
I'm gentle, understanding; tell me how you feel.
You're unburdened, cumbersome no more.
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The Wise Man
by Ken Ripley
Who is the wisest of men?
Does he gaze at the stars or ponder the earth,
Reflect upon laughter and study our mirth?
Does he listen to sadness and notice our tears?
Does he grow wise with age, or age with the years?
Who is the wisest of men?
Does he seek to examine man’s rise from the clay,
Subject to inquiry the workings of day?
Is he familiar with science, attendant on art,
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What Inspires Love?
by Joe Cyr
What inspires love ?
Savoring fuller daily life;
sharing of tasks between a man and wife.
What inspires love ?
Annoying habits unheeded at last;
love returned, old lapses kept in past.
What inspires love?
when proffered heart gets like reply -
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Maturity
by Md. Kausar Uddin Ahmed
Maturity is not about your age,
Or how many books you’ve read,
Or how well you can argue.
It’s knowing
When to let go
Of people,
Of places,
Of patterns
That no longer serve you.
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What Inspires Love?
by Joe Cyr
What inspires love ?
Savoring fuller daily life;
sharing of tasks between a man and wife.
What inspires love ?
Annoying habits unheeded at last;
love returned, old lapses kept in past.
What inspires love?
when proffered heart gets like reply -
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The Ride
by John Stetson
Poetic and not lyrical, that's the circle of life and it's not spherical
Round and round and round it goes but the stop is one that no one knows
It's up and down and in and out, self confidence tinged with self doubt
It's fallin' in and fallin' out, line up to see what it's all about
Just to find it's not empirical
Now when I set out to plot life's course, I bet on ev'ry pretty horse
And, of course, they bucked and bridled
Til I found the seat of knowledge, intolerance and college
Was where I could not find it with both hands
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Icing
by Ken Ripley
The love of life to man is like
The icing on a cake —
Its inside may be beautiful,
But icing’s all he’ll take.
The Wise Man
by Ken Ripley
Who is the wisest of men?
Does he gaze at the stars or ponder the earth,
Reflect upon laughter and study our mirth?
Does he listen to sadness and notice our tears?
Does he grow wise with age, or age with the years?
Who is the wisest of men?
Does he seek to examine man’s rise from the clay,
Subject to inquiry the workings of day?
Is he familiar with science, attendant on art,
......
