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| short poem for retirement: The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog Alicia Suskin Ostriker, 2014-01-15 This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers—in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word. |
| short poem for retirement: The Joy of Not Working Ernie John Zelinski, 1993 Advice on achieving success and satisfaction in life away from the work place. |
| short poem for retirement: Falling Short Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, Andrew D. Eschtruth, 2014-12-01 The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from government and employers to individuals. For this reason, Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth have written this concise guide for anyone concerned about their own - and the nation's - retirement security. Falling Short is grounded in sound research yet written in a highly accessible style. The authors provide a vivid picture of the retirement crisis in America. They offer the necessary context for understanding the nature and size of the retirement income shortfall, which is caused by both increasing income needs-due to longer lifespans and rising health costs-and decreasing support from Social Security and employer-sponsored pension plans. The solutions are to work longer and save more by building on the existing retirement system. To work longer, individuals should plan to stay in the labor force until age 70 if possible. To save more, policymakers should shore up Social Security's long-term finances; make all 401(k) plans fully automatic, with workers allowed to opt out; and ensure that everyone has access to a retirement savings plan. Individuals should also recognize that their house is a source of saving, which they can tap in retirement through downsizing or a reverse mortgage. |
| short poem for retirement: How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free Ernie John Zelinski, 2009-09-16 Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end. |
| short poem for retirement: The Prophet Kahlil Gibran, 1923 Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time. |
| short poem for retirement: Myths of the Mirror D Wallace Peach, 2013-04 Twenty years past, the governors plotted murder. Ruled by avarice, they imprisoned the winged dragons of Taran Leigh in the black cells of a stone lair. Tormented by spine and spur the once peaceful creatures howl, immense webbed wings beating beneath iron bars. Those who raised their voices in protest were banished--skyriders, the men who rode the dragons--vanished to the distant mountains of the Mirror.Now, Treasa, the daughter of exiles, seeker of secrets, dreams with the lair's dragons, her heart torn by her love for the winged creatures and a man who masters them. She must choose her path with care. The lair's black -garbed riders sense the dragon's growing savagery. Yet one, Conall, longs to grasp their power, subdue them and soar, unaware that winged flight, merged in harmony, is his for the asking. Then, a curved talon rends Conall's flesh and dragon scale, rattling against white ribs and the world shifts. As hearts once parted bind, Terasa and Conall join forces to fight for the dragon's freedom. Alliances form, old myths are revealed and new myths are born. |
| short poem for retirement: My Favorite Inspirational Poems, Stories, Songs and Prayers Ted Baxter, 2012-09 This book stresses the importance of living an inspirational life. The book discusses 36 of the best places to find inspirational material, and it shows 155 of my favorite inspirational poems, stories, songs and prayers. I grew up under humble conditions. Since childhood I have used inspirations to live a happy and fulfilling life. It has permitted me to work and to obtain three university degrees without any external financial support, have a very successful 37 year professional career, and a very happy and fulfilling retirement. It permitted me to retire at 60 years old. At the age of 78 years old, I am now looking forward to a new career in book writing with God's will and inspiration. Everyone needs inspiration to live a happier and more fulfilling life. Inspiration has permitted me to do things that I could not have done otherwise. I can not imagine living a life without inspiration in it. It's a kind of life that I would not want to live. I benefited a lot from writing this book, and I can not wait to have other people read and benefit from the book. In this book I encourage my readers to write their own inspirational books. |
| short poem for retirement: The Complete Poems James Hursey, 2017-03-18 From the Introduction: Just words of course, all just so many words. But words strung slyly, judiciously, and always lovingly one after the other in due order and in such a way as to entertain, sometimes astonish, and, the poet hopes, occasionally enlighten the literate, or even otherwise, reader; all cast in diverse poetical schemes ranging from the formal classical pentameter of Milton or Tennyson to unformed lines to satisfy even the postiest of moderns; but in fact most of the lines herein actually - can it be? - scan, and many - oh no! - even rhyme, sometimes obviously, sometimes merely hinted at in surprising ways, recalling Wallace Stevens's remark that one writes poetry out of a delight in the harmonious and orderly; one will find here blank verse, heroic couplets, a touch of ottava rima, numerous sonnets of various styles, even, just for fun, a limerick and a finicky double dactyl; also some rowdy cowboy poetry and other diverse schemes nearly as numerous as the pages herein. |
| short poem for retirement: The Task William Cowper, 1810 |
| short poem for retirement: Cusack's edition of The Expostulation, with explanatory notes William Cowper, 1901 |
| short poem for retirement: The View from Cold Mountain Hanshan, 1987 |
| short poem for retirement: Sir Thomas Wyatt and His Poems ... William Edward Simonds, 1889 |
| short poem for retirement: Love Poems Alexander Pushkin, 2017-02-01 One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as 'I Loved You', 'Night' and 'I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting', pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today. |
| short poem for retirement: "At the Shores of the Sky" Paul W. Kroll, Jonathan A. Silk, 2020-10-12 Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today. |
| short poem for retirement: Munsey's Magazine for ... , 1904 |
| short poem for retirement: The Poems of William Cowper William Cowper, 1870 |
| short poem for retirement: Poems of William Cowper, Esq William Cowper, 1824 |
| short poem for retirement: Poems Samuel Rogers, 1860 |
| short poem for retirement: Poems of Passion Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1886 |
| short poem for retirement: Never Forget the Difference You've Made Happy Retirement!, 2019-06-07 Never Forget The Difference You've Made - appreciation gift. 🎁 Need a unique retirement gift? This notebook is an ideal gift idea for someone who is retiring and who you want to appreciate! 💼 It can be your boss, coworker, your employee, family member or a friend. It is also a perfect thank you gift for nurses, doctors, teachers, principals, army, professional women and every person that made a difference in anything they did! 🎀 Let them know that their hard work and dedication has not gone unnoticed! ✍ When you retiring you get plenty of time for writing notes, ideas, brainstorm, bucket listing, capturing thoughts, creative writing, planning or journaling, so it makes this journal a better gift idea than any occasional card! 🔧 Specifications: ✔ Layout: College Ruled (no margins) ✔ Dimensions: 6 x 9(15.24cm x 22.86cm) ✔ High-Quality soft matte cover ✔ Cover color: Never Forget The Difference You've Made Yellow Flower (High-Res) ✔ 100 pages/50 sheets ✔ Paper Weight: 60lb text/90 GSM ✔ Pages are numbered ✔ Perfect binding ✔ Made with Passion ✔ Make sure to check out the other retirement gifts 🎁 by clicking on our author's page! 🔝 Scroll up and click 'buy now' to grab one today! ❔ If you have any question - contact us: SupureCreatives@gmail.com ⭐ If you haven't had a 5-star experience with us or your product, we will do whatever we can do to fix that! All our products are tested and loved by us, we love our customers and your 100% satisfaction is our top priority. |
| short poem for retirement: THE WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS , 1860 |
| short poem for retirement: Father's Day Matthew Zapruder, 2020-01-15 As seen in the The New York Times Book Review In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation. —The New York Times “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the limitations of poetry to enact meaningful change in a world spiraling into callousness; yet despite poetry’s supposed constraints, Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Zapruder’s new book, Father’s Day, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. |
| short poem for retirement: The Poets and Poetry of America Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1873 |
| short poem for retirement: Friendship's Shadows Penelope Anderson, 2012-08-06 Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction. |
| short poem for retirement: Wings of Fire Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari, 1999 Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, The Son Of A Little-Educated Boat-Owner In Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Had An Unparalled Career As A Defence Scientist, Culminating In The Highest Civilian Award Of India, The Bharat Ratna. As Chief Of The Country`S Defence Research And Development Programme, Kalam Demonstrated The Great Potential For Dynamism And Innovation That Existed In Seemingly Moribund Research Establishments. This Is The Story Of Kalam`S Rise From Obscurity And His Personal And Professional Struggles, As Well As The Story Of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul And Nag--Missiles That Have Become Household Names In India And That Have Raised The Nation To The Level Of A Missile Power Of International Reckoning. |
| short poem for retirement: Warning Jenny Joseph, 1997 Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older. |
| short poem for retirement: Poems That Make Grown Women Cry Anthony Holden, Ben Holden, 2016-02-25 ‘A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need’ The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women: what poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Meera Syal, and Joan Baez to Olivia Colman, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting and thinking are admired around the world. |
| short poem for retirement: Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language John Longmiur, 1864 |
| short poem for retirement: Living Name Mark Halliday, 2025-03-20 Living Name is a collection of essays on American poetry written by an expert practitioner of that art. Poet and critic Mark Halliday turns his attention to the work of poets who interest him because they create convincing voices of people dealing with the everyday. Instead of trying to survey the vast variety of modern poetry, Halliday considers an idiosyncratic selection of poets he finds compelling for their originality of style and exploration of human possibilities, including Walt Whitman, Kenneth Fearing, Kenneth Koch, Robert Pinsky, Rachel Wetzsteon, Tony Hoagland, Claire Bateman, and Dean Young. Each essay includes thorough close readings of individual poems, reflecting a commitment to the idea that a poem as a work of art needs to be appreciated as a unified whole. Halliday’s writing is judicious and meditative but not overly scholarly or academic. A long piece at the beginning of the book, “Poetry and the Rescue of Particulars,” argues that poems often attempt to reclaim the details of our usual routines from the chaotic confusion and noise of daily existence. The impulse to write a poem, Halliday believes, often stems from the notion that representing in poetry a sliver of human life keeps it in the world, as a trace of the vanishing moment is retained and endowed with some form of lasting reality. Throughout Living Name, Halliday enacts the allegiances that have driven his criticism for many years: to listen for genuine voices in poetry; to study whole poems, not merely passages; and to look for intelligent efforts to illuminate truths of human experience. |
| short poem for retirement: Munsey's Magazine , 1904 |
| short poem for retirement: The Late Poems of Meng Chiao Jiao Meng, 1996 Late in life, China's Meng Chiao (A.D. 751-841) developed an experimental poetry that anticipated similar landmarks in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and avant-garde form but also for its dimensionsa truly major work, perhaps the most radical in the Chinese tradition. Renowned translator David Hinton gives us the first volume of Meng Chiao's poetry to appear in English. |
| short poem for retirement: The English Poetic Epitaph Joshua Scodel, 1991 Readers interested in English literary history, cultural poetics, comparative literature, the history of attitudes toward death, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts will find The English Poetic Epitaph fascinating reading. |
| short poem for retirement: Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing J. Thomas Rimer, Jonathan Chaves, 1997 This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays. |
| short poem for retirement: Narrative Gerontology in Research and Practice Kate de Medeiros, PhD, 2013-12-19 What is meant by narrative? How can one elicit a narrative or analyze it in research? How can narrative work best be facilitated among older adults? This is the only text to provide comprehensive information about the applications of narrative approaches in community and long-term settings, writing in the virtual world, and such individual work as journaling or poetry. The book explores the theories of narratives across many disciplines, research practices and analytical strategies, and applications in work with older adults. It has been written by a prominent researcher of the narrative construction of self in old age, whose studies have been funded by the NIH, the Brookdale Foundation, and the Alzheimerís Association, among other related achievements. The book brings together a unique blend of interdisciplinary perspectives and practices not found in other books on life stories, autobiography, and/or narrative approaches to understanding oneís experiences. Specifically, it focuses on the myriad theoretical underpinnings of narrative, provides a developmental history of narrative use in gerontology, and details various ways to use narratives in a variety of research settings. Each chapter includes step-by-step guides on who to analyze and report on, and how to write up narrative data. It also discusses ways to incorporate narratives in varied practice settings such as writing workshops in retirement communities, individual writing projects, and others. Key Features: Offers a ìhands onî research tool that guides the reader from theory to research to practice Describes the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative with older adults Illustrates how narrative gerontology is fundamentally different in practice than narrative research with younger participants Addresses the breadth of available narrative methods and how to apply them in a research settings Designed for use in qualitative methods, service learning, and gerontological research courses. |
| short poem for retirement: Worshipful Company of Fletchers James Tate, 1995-12-01 Masterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his Selected Poems. |
| short poem for retirement: The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih Wang An-Shih, 2015-03-17 A selection of poems by the ancient Chinese poet and statesman Wang Ah-Shih, translated by David Hinton. Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure—not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although Wang had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political power, he took the responsibility of serving the people seriously. He rose to become prime minister, and in this position he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian social reforms to improve the lives of China’s peasants. Once those reforms were securely in place, Wang retired to a reclusive life of artistic and spiritual self-cultivation. It was after his retirement, practicing Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism and wandering the mountains around his home, that Wang An-shih wrote the poems that made his reputation. Short and plainspoken, these late poems contain profound multitudes–the passing of time, rivers and mountains, silence and Buddhist emptiness. They won him wide acclaim in China and beyond across the centuries. And in Hinton's breathtaking translations, Wang feels like a major contemporary poet with deep ecological insight and a questioning spirit. |
| short poem for retirement: Regarding Wave: Poetry Gary Snyder, 1970-01-17 The title, Regarding Wave, reflects a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.' Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs––the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.' Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe…” |
| short poem for retirement: The Dash Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson, 2012-04-10 Presents the full text of, and commentary on, the poem The Dash, exploring how it has inspired people to make a difference, respect others, and show love and appreciation. |
| short poem for retirement: Field Study Chet'la Sebree, 2021-06-01 Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem I am society’s eraser shards—bits used to fix other people’s sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet’la Sebree attempts a field study of herself. Scientifically, field studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree’s control over her own field study unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers—Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom—that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. “Even as I accrue these notes,” Sebree writes, “I’m still not sure I’ve found the pulse.” A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America—sometimes all at once—Field Study throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific study like no other. |
| short poem for retirement: 101 Fun Things to Do in Retirement Stella Rheingold, 2016-10-31 The Perfect Retirement Gift, or Simply a Great Read for Anyone That Loves Life and Laughter! No more morning commute, no more idiotic bosses, no more stressful deadlines! You are now officially off the clock and the world is your oyster! |
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SHORT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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SHORT definition: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. Learn more.
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short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
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short /ʃɔrt/ adj., -er, -est, adv., n., v. having little length or height: the shortest boy in class. extending only a little way: a short path. brief: a short time. abrupt: surprised by his short reply. …
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SHORT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
He is short for his age. the shortest day of the year Life's too short to worry about the past. The movie was very short. You have done a lot in a short space of time. a short burst of speed I've …
Short note 7 Little Words - 7LittleWordsAnswers.com
4 days ago · Since you already solved the clue Short note which had the answer QUAVER, you can simply go back at the main post to check the other daily crossword clues. You can do so …
SHORT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SHORT definition: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. Learn more.
Short - definition of short by The Free Dictionary
short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
short - definition and meaning - Wordnik
noun Linguistics A short syllable, vowel, or consonant. noun A brief film; a short subject. noun A size of clothing less long than the average for that size. noun Short trousers extending to the …
short - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
short /ʃɔrt/ adj., -er, -est, adv., n., v. having little length or height: the shortest boy in class. extending only a little way: a short path. brief: a short time. abrupt: surprised by his short reply. …
