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halloween party memory from 1974

my makeup was fabulously light green, lips ruby red
I fit in well with the theme, witches, warlocks and the undead
the blue I had sprayed in my hair glittered like starlight
when we entered the party, a gang began a quick fight

my witch hat was pointed at an odd funny angle
could I get a dance? Just one

Categories: 1974, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

1974

There's good and bad that happened in 1974-fifty years later nothing has changed

Categories: 1974, life,
Form: Monoku

Luanda 1974

Luanda 1975

It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters)
was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed
to rape, murder and pillage.
The Portuguese army had dastardly skulked away and
General Spinola was in Lisbon playing politics
Colonialism was over, but there was fear of its ending
when hatred had to be sated.
Among the white population, there

Categories: 1974, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

1974 Green Gremlins

Green Gremlins were all the rage in nineteen seventy-four.
I am not talking about creepy fat-headed full bellied tiny beings.
I am talking about cheap cars with a V-8 and four on the floor.
Everyone had one, so common, most of us were tee-heeing.

Painted a variety of colors, and riding in them made you kind of sore.
We wore

Categories: 1974, car, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

1974

His palette was every shade of grey
Jet black one end snow white the other
And never did a stroke touch the canvas
Before endless moments of pondering
Like a crow in a tree 
Surveying a frosted wasteland
Then swooping with purpose
Only when the prey was sure
I would watch in awe
Barely daring to breath
As the landscape took shape
In twists and

Categories: 1974, angst, anxiety, art, confusion,
Form: Free verse

May 1974

May 1974

Why do you need to waste your time today
Writing an elegy no one will read?

Add the half-cent to the cent
And text to shivering text
For you were born to text
And save-

But let her be 
She’s dead and gone 
She’s with her baby in the grave

Yet they were of a different kind
They didn’t text
Their lives they

Categories: 1974, anniversary, corruption, england, ireland,
Form: Elegy

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

Categories: 1974, analogy, appreciation, encouraging, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

1974

Israeli jets flying overhead,

Old folk quake in their bed.

Only practice runs they say,

Old folk remember that day.

When jets flew over before,

Turkey had decided to roar,

Old folk remember 1974.


© Dave Timperley 22 March 2017

Categories: 1974, fear, war,
Form: Free verse

Flying Over Vietnam, 1974

I flew,
a modern man in a steel bird,
with all the arrogance of
ancient Icarus, but my wings
did not melt nor I swoon.

I flew high, very, very high
over Asian lands and homes,
and below me, very, very far
down where the bombs fell
like the rains of hell...
I saw the face of the moon.

Categories: 1974, allusion, conflict, loss, remember,
Form: Rhyme

The Summer of 1974

It was the summer I would first choke
on second hand marijuana smoke;
I passed the swimming pool lifeguard test
and received my first real paycheck.

It was the summer I learned how to drive -
got my license on the first try;
And, by Saint Leonard’s pond I was blessed
with discovering what was up her dress.

Nixon had resigned;
I saw “The

Categories: 1974, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Hippy Love Chips 1974

hippy ... love chips How beautiful was it? 
The park by the beach with one caged panda and bedraggled peacocks...calling and flirting, as nature dictated 
Displayed by the sea 
Water 
Lake 

Filled with crabs loitering by the inlet flow 
Who waited patiently to secure our sausagemeat on a string 
And rose embaressed and wonky 
Clutching

Categories: 1974, family, nostalgia, beautiful, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

1974 Mystery Light

A big white did pace the ute,
no noise it made, what sort of a brute? 
it must still be there it never left,
next thing i knew we had a coppers arrest,
We  seem to have lost memory of the 
lights  leaving?

...1974 Mystery Light....

So we drove on the Moonie Highway,
Between Dalby and St George,
It was

Categories: 1974, adventureme, light, light, me,
Form: Rhyme

Madrid: Circa 1974

In mid-June's heat, we wait inside the bus, 
and everyone has said their last goodbyes.  
The Moorish boy I’ve come to know is sad.
 He says he knows I never will return.  

The bus pulls out (his face just fades away).
We pass through streets that now seem not the same
as those that we

Categories: 1974, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Blank verse