1973 Poems - Poems about 1973

January 1973

January 27, 1973

I was sitting in the barracks
yelling and screaming echoed through the halls
sirens blaring, horns blowing, fireworks popping;
the war was over

Hawaii's Night Sky 1973

I was driving to my grannies country home after the end of a dinner invite with friends in town, about 40 miles away.

There was news of the oddity prior to my first visual contact, that entertained my youthful glassless eyes for the near full length of this drive and that thing be an unobstructed view.

I'm

Fifty Years Ago Today - 1973

Fifty years ago today
     an attack was well underway
     On Yom Kippur, October 6
       Israel was in a fix

     Egypt had invaded the Sinai
     Syrians climbed down the Golan Heights
   

August 25, 1973

We watched the barefoot children in green yards dart through shadows, playing their childish games. We saw their innocents and we knew that they were not us.
 
Through open doors and windows, we saw them staring blankly at their flickering screens. They were sitting so close yet ignoring each other wishing they could be us.

There

Novem: Affects Ix In 1973

*Image of Novem by IMDb.

Novem: Affects IX in 1973

Nine college students record music
at some sheltered hideaway place.
They're killed in a van mishap,
on the way back to school.
Yond thirty-one years,
their songs recalled.
Sometimes fame
comes too
late.

2022 November 10
*3rd Place*
A November Nonet
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 November 21

*HMS

Anti-Poem Prom Night At Lax 1973

Anti-Poem – “Prom Night At LAX 1973”

(Poet’s Instruction: Before reading this anti-poem, kindly go to YouTube and play Muzak: “Stimulus Progression.” Music can also be heard at my Facebook page under Stark Hunter. If possible, kindly play it in the background as you read.)


nine flags cologne boy 
gunning a green ’71 ford torino
lapping up black

A Quartet of Short Poems From 1973

A Quartet Of Short Poems From 1973

(1.)
 A Newer Vision, Of Paradise Lost

I went blindly into the haze
Left the purple gloom behind
If human life be but a maze
What does love do for mankind?
R.J. Lindley, 1973


(2.)
A Clear Vision, Of Death's Positive Hand 
 
Altars of purple robed kings
Swollen with their stolen wealth
Yet one day they too,

A Scary Night In 1973

I was certainly a nervous mother
left on my own with a one year old child
my husband had gone on a business trip

noise startled me, one after another
imagination had gone quiet wild
squeaky back door let out a teeny rip

I was terrified as mother and wife
my back doorknob was moving with a whip
nothing about my hot feelings

1973 Hits

Dawn, Angie, Glori and Dale —
model citizens led the way
to their stage, all the rage
for seconds in time.

cool of Dawn Dolls —
icons of the seventies,
for teeny-tiny bills
a girl could own a million.

smaller in stature,
much harder to detail,
the manufacturers tire
of the dwarf-sized dolls.

these Topper Toys
with copper joints,
knees that morphed green
like fingers wearing cheap rings.

authenticity from 1970

A Prayer From October 1973

A Prayer From October 1973
Written: by Tom Wright

I thank you Lord,
for the opportunity of speaking with you this morning.
For life and what it will hold for me this day.
Whether trials, heartaches, or disappointments,
may I emerge a better person from this day than yesterday.
Proclaiming aloud the wonderful news that Jesus Christ,
my redeemer, still lives in my

The Class of 1973 and 1974-

3 long years ago;
I first entered these, marble walls;
Now with glory and honor pride;
Invested in me we go down in history;

Alum, alum, alumni;
Who am I, whose am I to decide;
I now cry cause the future in my eyes;
What does the world have in store…
For the Class of 1973 and 1974;

On through the day we celebrate;
We

It Was 48 In 1973

Waiting, 
For someone that's never there
Looking
Thru imaginary air
Hoping
But nobody really cares
Talking 
To friends who never dared 
To pay your fare.
.
Dreaming
But your dreams have seemed to morph into nightmares
.
Little man, how big are your dreams?
Big man, your so much smaller than you think.
The eleventh hour is raining down on you it seems
And at the end of

Poet Heart, 1973

 Poet Heart, 1973

In the bittersweet, luscious years of youth,
the poet heart sought the quintessence of truth.

Life was arcane, confused and ambivalent,
sometimes exciting, sometimes quiescent.

I used my passion for meditation,
and my wild days faced immolation.

I moved from the grand and flamboyant,
to seek out the real and relevant.

Growing a poet heart, not tactile,
having ideas that give

New Year 1973

Evening found me sitting in the kitchen, feeling down,
my parents and my elder brothers all out on the town.,
leaving me to babysit, a dull end to the year,
too old for early bedtime, legally too young for beer.
Ken McKellar on TV with Moira Anderson,
too much for a young lad to take, so put the radio on.
Radio

- A Meeting With a Ghost - 1973 -

Several years of my childhood I spent with my aunt and uncle
who lived in an old rectory in Northern Norway
It was a hard time, much work, little food never time for play or entertainment
My aunt and uncle were strict, we had to work for food

When I had some time to myself, I spent time at

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