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Nineteen Twenties and Flappers

Fringe on edge of a dancing flapper’s skirt
Provocative and playful, enticing and tantalizing
Encouraging other women 
To dare be more modern,

Bob their head, dance in public
Changing the world
One woman at a time
Who is willing to normalize bawdy

Usually found in the bigger cities
Two or three years 
Before they arrive in the small towns
Maybe never arriving in the Bible belt at all.

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 4/17/2020 10:30:00 AM

Loved this charming verse. Like Anne and Ilene, I too love flapper duds and dancing. In fact any type costume will do. It's like playing grow up Panagiota Romios xx

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/17/2020 3:01:00 PM

I have so many dress up clothes it is frightening.

Ann Gilmour

Date: 4/16/2020 10:04:00 AM

I have always wanted to be one too. I once went with Frank to a fancy dress ball and I was dressed as a flapper and he was dress as Al Capone, hahaha... it was such fun and I felt so at home dressed as a flapper, as if I had been there in another life. Loved your poem Caren. With kindest thoughts Ann xx

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/16/2020 7:15:00 PM

Thank you Ann. I have dressed as a flapper at least four times.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 4/15/2020 2:46:00 PM

oh, i think it would have been great fun to have been a flapper, caren!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/15/2020 7:42:00 PM

I am so there with you Ilene!