Retirement Poems
Retirement Poems for the young at heart and the time when you wonder how you found time to go to work! These are free for your non commercial use.
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Retirement Poems
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Always Remember This:
You don't stop laughing because you grow old,
You grow old because you stop laughing.
And boy do you need a sense of humor at this stage!
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Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved the earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson
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Age [along with retirement] appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
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Retirement Poems
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Retiring has been a surprise,
As I never thought I would
Find so very much I want to do
And discover that I could.
Do it all along I mean
I never had the courage,
To ride pillion on a motorbike
And have very little baggage.
My vitamins and minerals
Must have done their stuff
As really on the whole
I am very,very tough.
So, get out and enjoy my friends
Before Old Father Time turns up.
Sing like you've never sang before
And drink like never before out of lifes cup!
Maggiemay
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I can read and write and paint.
Can even aspire to be a saint.
Left alone,
I could travel, teach and tutor.
Share guide and mentor Someone.
You my friends can remain blind
And kind
Or see in me a New find
Making again a difference.
Ramasami Natarajan
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Retirement Poems
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You can now live by this motto:
Didn't care yesterday.
Didn't care today.
Probably won't care tomorrow.
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Above all, it is a mistake to retire too late in life
because you don’t get another chance to do it right!
There are great experiences that come from
The joy of not working.
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