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1970s Fashion

In the seventies lipsticks were beige, blah and nude
Dull, usually colorless and odorless, not to be rude.
Bright reds of the forties and fifties were passe’, out.
The lightest of peaches could be applied to a pout.

Women were expected to be straight up and down.
Twiggy at twenty, twenty, twenty, was paraded around.
Rubenesque chesty women were considered way

Categories: 1970s, fashion, women,
Form: Rhyme

When I Was Young 1970s

I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand

I saw commandos in the air armed and ready
I saw hostages freed in a raid on Entebbe

I saw water cannons and tear gas

Categories: 1970s, childhood, history, world,
Form: Couplet

1970s Cigarette Silvathin Ad

Women smoke to stay thin.
Men can get bigger.
It is okay.
After their weddings they can balloon up.
Women will tolerate it.
But women better get thinner and thinner.
The commercial writers of SilvaThin knew this.
They spread the propaganda
And women bought in.
Wanting to be thinner
and thinner
and thinner
and thinner
and thinner
and thinne
and thin
and thi
and th
and t
and 
an
a
…

Categories: 1970s, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Back In My Day

Back in my day we had the radio on at my house in early mornings.
We gardened in the summer and ate the food all year round.
It was so much more fresh and tasty than canned or frozen.
We shared the extra with the neighbors, and we knew their names.

Back in my day everyone could “mom” or

Categories: 1970s, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry

Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s

Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or

art appreciation connoisseur
admiring realistic enchanting
imaginary vista heavenly made
entices observer set foot
into picture frame to escape
night gallery twilight zone

outer limits of insanity
madding crowd,

Categories: 1970s, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Greasy Spoon

several formica red tables
glass shakers of pepper and salt
big plastic tomatoes I wanted to squeeze
and shaped bottles of sarson’s own malt.

netting on all of the windows
scratch marks from chairs on the floor
ashtrays with notches to rest cigarettes
and 'open' and 'closed' on the door.

menus upright in a v-shape
the 'royals' adorning the wall
food through the fog of

Categories: 1970s, appreciation, change, england, food,
Form: Rhyme

Duck and Cover

beware atomic attack!
1950s civil defense
duck and cover drills
Bert the turtle 
showed us the way

flash of light - duck and cover!

Categories: 1970s, childhood, memory, poetry,
Form: Light Verse

Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970s

(just in time for summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)

Amidst a raft of fellow (Brandywine Valley
     Y.M.C.A) resident campers
     who, didst excitedly quiver
donning a "NON FAKE" lifejacket

     coursing down swiftly
     moving Youghiogheny river
(evidenced by small hairs along spine),

Categories: 1970s, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

1970s University of Life

Nineteen seventies,  teenage years, never on my own,
end of school education, I’m now ready to do my thing
full of life, excess energy, over flowing with testosterone 
sampling alcohol drinks, karaoke, thinking I could sing,

working life, set hours, rules and regulations to adhere
payday, money in my pocket, things to buy, new clothes,
night clubs, late nights

Categories: 1970s, confidence, desire, feelings, growing
Form: Rhyme

All the Music - the 1970s

All the music done by ear
Hammered out by courier
Lyric carried all the cheer
While record shows the blow and beer.

~TH~  03/19/15

Categories: 1970s, addiction, drink, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme

Love Songs of the 1970s

All of the then-loving couples have been listening to all of the love songs from the 1970s, including the year 1974. Love has been in the air for all of the people back in the 1970s since the day doo-wop music was born and the British  Invasion began back in the 1960s. all of

Categories: 1970s, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, music, on
Form: Epic

Teenage Love 14: Teen Couples of the 1970s

The 1970s were the grooviest years for all of the teenage lovebirds-turned-married adults.
Young love has still been among all of the then-teen couples since the day disco music was
born. It seems that when two young people (a teen boy-turned-man and a teen
girl-turned-grown woman) first met while attending at summer camp, they were meant to have
been

Categories: 1970s, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, on writing
Form: Epic