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1940S Poems - Poems about 1940S

Boots, Love, and alien diplomacy
...Boots, Love, and Alien Diplomacy My love is five five, a sturdy delight, With eyes like warm coffee just kissed by the night. His hair oh, it's brown, but wait, there's a glint, Silver like sta......

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Categories: 1940s, blessing, family, father, for
Form: Other
A Closet Full of Peanut Butter
...55 plus years of marriage down the drain She watches it spin and spin It is too much to process the pain Her mind usually a flurry No longer a need to hurry Her Husband departed on that swe......

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Categories: 1940s, change, loss, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Orwellian World
...It was sometime during the 1940s George Orwell wrote the acclaimed novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a book exposing a societal condition of pure hell. The policy of draconian control has never meant ......

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Categories: 1940s, political, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Classic Reel
...in the 1940s many movie comedies dealt with heaven hell, reincarnation, the devil, angels, body snatching I get a channel called Classic Reel with my Roku The movies shown are from the 30’s, 40’s,......

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Categories: 1940s, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Grandma
...I remember my grandma’s house Spending so many hours with her She always had that one special chair No one but her was allowed to use She always told stories of life in the old world And I would......

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Categories: 1940s, family, grandmother, memory,
Form: Free verse



Black People in Entertainment
...When we watch movies from the 1930s, 1940s, and1950s and into the 1960's and see black americans mostly playing domestic servants I am offended by it, by the lack of opportunity they had, the lack of......

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Categories: 1940s, america, race,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend! I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ......

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Categories: 1940s, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust. Six million irons, disjointed from their ores Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils. The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing Were uncouple......

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Categories: 1940s, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weekend Memory
...Late 1940s England the square was packed & the high street full meat&veg seemed plentiful market barkers drew the queues with jokes impromptu shoppers filed neat& f......

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Categories: 1940s, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marks and Sharks
...peter marks, rhymes with sharks, warns the people To be sharp.? Your life he wishes I note to save.? He advocates 'a new stab' in three months its to be Made.? I thought in the (dark winter) exers......

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Categories: 1940s, age, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood Sex
...CHILDHOOD SEX (for D.P.) Oh, where is she now, love of my life, the woman I adore? (I was five that summer, and she eighteen–— in my childish heart of hearts, I had promised to marry, knowing n......

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Categories: 1940s, childhood, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Served He Fed His Fellow Man-
...Early 1940s 13 years before my birth On the seas during World War II My father served as a Navy chef That's when the waves Did wave And the banners windley gauge Sailor at sea......

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Categories: 1940s, analogy, appreciation, character, engagement,
Form: Light Verse
The Cliffs of Sand and Sea
...The music is her breath, or…wind… into the open bottle. The songs of folk-lore. *** Around her bon-fire, embers sear the sleeve, of her Hoodie; The sparks are as red as the bl......

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Categories: 1940s, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
There Was a Crooked Man
...There was a Crooked Man There was a Crooked Man in His Heart He had hate in His Mind He had no Plan On care for a better World Others Who also Hated loved Him He held up a Cross to Them He......

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Categories: 1940s, discrimination, fear, hate, political,
Form: Quatrain
Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Samaria, Babylon
...I The historical record shows many intimate connections between Arabs, Muslims, Hebrews and Jews, and Babylon. The nation we equate with Israel began as tribes in the deserts of Arabia. Some of them......

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Categories: 1940s, bible, history, jesus, jewish,
Form: Prose Poetry

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