Download or read book On Retirement written by Robin Chapman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade ahead, more than 80 million Americans will reach the age of retirement and face what Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser call “the unnerving question, What next?” Indeed, according to the Social Security Administration, the number of Americans sixty-five or older will nearly double between 2000 and 2030. As more people approach retirement, they too will wonder what lies ahead. This superb collection includes poems by men and women ranging in age from their fifties to their eighties and hailing from different cities, regions, and countries. The entire range of emotions and literary perspectives is represented here, whether the specter of death in Doug Anderson’s “Sixty One” or a sly grin in Roger Pfingston’s “Retired.” Each poet—whether retired or just contemplating retirement—greets the prospect of this new chapter of life differently. George Bilgere purchases the complete works of Verdi and extravagant silk shirts, while Denise Levertov contemplates life alone. Alicia Ostriker implores readers to “keep on fighting, keep up the good work,” and Alberto Ríos recalls a lost love. However we contemplate retirement, this volume will illuminate the careful thoughts of those who have faced these questions before us. Contributors Include: Werner Aspenstrom, Chana Bloch, Philip Booth, Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Daigon, Susan Elbe, Sam Hamill, Mark Irwin, klipschutz, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Richard Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Robert Pinsky, Carol Potter, Ishmael Reed, Claudette Mork Sigg, Ronald Wallace

Download or read book Peter Provided For Without a Pension written by Peter Pindar and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Helpful Rhymes for Senior Times written by Howard R. Stewart and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a collection of poems selected from a larger collection which Howard has been writing weekly since 1995. They were published in the weekly news- letter of the Atherton Baptist Homes. So many people have expressed their gratitude for the poems as a source of encouragement, joy and hope that Howard decided to publish a selected number of them. They address issues that confront seniors during the aging process.

Download or read book Retirement Clock Poems 5 written by Jim Bennett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if the clock ran backward? This is a volume of other times, of the cold war, of bomb shelters and nuclear submarines, of Formula One races at Watkins Glen. Sad and scary events in the United States, and a couple of Canadian tragedies too. Poetry is about experience. It has the power to deliver experience to you. Retirement Clock explores retirement, the past, and regret for the passing of time. If you are approaching or of retirement age, these poems will speak directly to you. If you have a friend or relative in that situation, it will help you gather a clearer idea of what they are going through. Retirement Clock includes 54 somewhat longer poems, including free verse, cinquains, multiple cinquains, rondeaux, rhymed verse, one lyric, one mirror, and a compound poem-chosen around a theme. As always, ambiguity may be present. You're encouraged to explore the multiple meanings. You'll figure this out, as these poems were written for you.

Download or read book Retirement a poem written by Thomas Stewart (of Naples.) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coming to Age written by Carolyn Hopley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers." Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years. Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of "growing old." And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before. To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.

Download or read book No Time to Retire written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems by Seniors written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Musings at Retirement written by Robert Simms and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's experience of the beginning of retirement is reflected in 90 days of poems. Each day's poem is sixteen lines. Poems range from the deeply spiritual to casual observations about life and traveling.

Download or read book Retirement a poem written by Esq. Thomas STEWART and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Older Now written by LELjr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Older Now: Poems is a collection of LELjrs most recent poetry. As with his first collection, Out of My Mind: Poems, the new book reflects on parenthood, romantic love, aging, memory, and mortality in their various expressionscontemplation, introspection, insight, and emotionas he has grown older. The poems are more inward-looking than the earlier ones. I am everyone I have ever been, he says. Yet as he writes in the title poem, he says I find myself in a narrowing space between memory and mortality, and I am not at all sure which way to look as he explores T. S. Eliots overwhelming question: Has it all been worth it? He hopes these poems evoked similar types of reflection by readers who are, will someday be, or know someone who is older now.

Download or read book Poems of a Pensioner written by Frank Hazel-Pilbeam and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dorsey s Real Poetry for Seniors written by Ed L. Dorsey and published by Noble House. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive collection of poetry reflecting upon spirituality, nature, growing older, present society, and change.

Download or read book The Poetry and Art of Retirement written by John Ledgerton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the survivors guide to retirement. John Ledgertons honest and refreshing backward look at his life and the way he has managed to make a triumph out of retirement is a must read for anyone who has just got the travel pass and is a bit unsure of which bus to catch in the momentous journey before them. Johns first book is a candid exploration of his own life and the way he has capitalised on his skills to enjoy living. It is a combination manual on, how to paint, how to write poetry, how to articulate how you feel, how to enjoy the world you live in, all rolled up into what constantly comes through as someone who says I am not going to lie down and roll over because I am retired, there is a lot more I can do and so much more to enjoy so share it with me and let me show you how. John Ledgerton definitely did it his way and if you pick up this refreshing book and let John guide you in what you may feel is a lonely and uncertain path into retirement I can assure you you will never walk alone. Good luck with the book John It gave me tremendous inspiration - Rog Roger Cliffe-Thomson Arts and Learning Coordinator DADAFest Liverpool

Download or read book Poems for the Older Crowd written by James Little and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems for the Older Crowd: The Terminally Mature By: James Little In his tribute to the older crowd, James Little’s collection of brutally honest poetry does not sugarcoat the “golden years.” Instead, Little portrays the life of a person growing older through a lens of acceptance and a peace at a life well lived. Written for the older generation, the poems are meant to provide a sense of community amongst the older crowd, reaffirming their value to society, durability to weather all they have in life, and to be proud of how far they have come.

Download or read book Before I Die written by Paul Sebastian and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Sebastian has spent fifteen years in a retirement community. The poems emphasize the fact that retirement should not be something to dread but a time when one will have the time to do all those interesting things that work and schedules previously prevented. Before I Die reveals the reality of the golden years.

Download or read book Poems in Retirement written by Thomas Murray MacRobert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: