Retirement
Poems to Help
Here are a few poems about retirement and
retirement party verse for retirees (to add to the
retirement quotes and
retirement sentiments) who want to retire happy, wild, and
free.
One of
Many Funny Retirement Poems
Happy retirement days are here at last.
The days of toil and stress are long past.
I worked almost all my life so that I can play.
Do I want to go back to work?
Absolutely, no way!
- Dave
Erhard (COPYRIGHT
© - Used with Special
Permission)
An Inspirational
Retirement Poem
Bill Hagen, work is now past
you
Allow me these words to say
You are now free as a bird,
Today is your retirement day.
-
Dave
Erhard (COPYRIGHT
© - Used with Special
Permission)
Another Poem for
a Retiree
Here's to Mark
A great guy to whom we say goodbye.
We will miss his charm and presence ... no one has
to ask why.
We will miss his creativity, his humor, and his
smile.
But we are sure that Mark will use these traits to
make his retirement worthwhile!
-
Dave
Erhard (COPYRIGHT
© - Used with Special
Permission)
Two Retirement Poems That Are Not
Teacher Retirement Poems
I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
- Sir Walter Raleigh
Youth, large, lusty, loving-
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with
equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman (1819-92), U.S. poet. Youth, Day,
Old Age and Night.
Four Teacher Retirement Poems
about Money
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
- Lord Byron
Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
- Robert Frost
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of
Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- Hilaire Belloc, "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse,
1923
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains
with care,
Their bones with industry.
- William Shakespeare
A Retirement Poem by W.B.
Yeats
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
- W. B. Yeats
Two Retirement Poems of Many
Retirement Poems by Longfellow
It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Within"
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth,
To some good angel leave the rest;
For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Retirement
Poem of Several Funny Retirement Poems
That Depicts
Old Age in a Positive Light
"Written in a Carefree Mood"
Old man pushing seventy,
In truth he acts like a little boy,
Whooping with delight when he spies some mountain
fruits,
Laughing with joy, tagging after village
mummers;
With the others having fun stacking tiles to make a
pagoda,
Standing alone staring at his image in the
jardinière pool.
Tucked under his arm, a battered book to read,
Just like the time he first set out to school.
- Lu Yu (12th-century Chinese poet)
One of the
Retirement Poems by William Butler Yeat
When You Are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
- William Butler Yeats
Retirement Poem
about Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
as if, one by one, the memories you used to
harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the
brain...
No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on
war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have
drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by
heart.
- Billy Collins
A Retirement
Poem Mentioning the Importance of
Friendship
An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labor, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
- James Thomson
Retirement
Verse That Does Not Make Great Retirement
Poems
Retirement is the time of your life
for you to be
all that you planned to be.
To live life for the moment
to live
happy, wild, and
free.
-
Dave
Erhard (COPYRIGHT
© - Used with Special
Permission)
An
Inspirational Retirement Poem
The origins of this Irish Poem about
retirement is unknown:
May you always have work for
your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer
you.
- Irish
Retirement
Blessing
Retirement Love
Poem
The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
An Early
Retirement Poem
I call the following retirement verse an "
early retirement poem" I discovered it on the
Internet while searching for anything related to my
international best-seller
The Joy of Not Working.
The creator of the poem Van Tu practices The
Joy of Not Working better
than I do!
The Joy of Not
Working
I spend the whole early
morning
In bed
Listen to light music
Daydreaming on and off
I leisurely take a long hot
shower
Scrubbing myself from top to toe
Enjoying my excellent
Health
I go for a slow walk after
lunch time
Admiring the lovely flowers in the sunshine
Along the way
I ride my bicycle all over
town
The cool breeze blowing in my face
Transports me back to sweet
Saigon
When I was a carefree
innocent teenager!
Those who know don't work .
. .
( COPYRIGHT
© by Van
Tu
-
Used with Special
Permission)
For More Retirement
Poems See:
Coming Soon
- More Funny Retirement Poems
- More Teacher Retirement Poems
- Principal Retirement Poems
- Retirement Poems Jokes
Are You Afraid
of Retirement?
Think Retirement Is a
Drag?
Purchase the
World's Best Retirement
Book That Has the Most Helpful Retirement
Advice Available to Help You Retire Happy
Through These Direct
Links:
Copyright 2010 by
Ernie Zelinski,
Author of
The World's Best Retirement
Book
All Rights
Reserved
|
