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1980S Poems - Poems about 1980S


The Arcade
Saturday morning It's a beautiful day Walking towards my favorite hangout A local arcade Tons of video games to choose I find what I like A action-shoot I add somes coins in And off I go Shooting aliens left and right Gaining high score I haven't lost a life yet My score goes higher I have a audience They're all impress I've reach the final boss Time to get serious I'm sweating, I'm...

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Categories: 1980s, childhood, freedom, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1980s childhood
1980s childhood Haikus Tech-free Nature's performing Batteries not included childhood playground My bike Pink banana seat A basket full of daisies Warm wind on my face Saturdays Cartoons and breakfast The sky our only roof top Street lights call us home ...

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Categories: 1980s, childhood, summer,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
I saw a man die who took a stance I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance I saw the boycotts and the embargoes I saw trafficking in human cargos I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil and gold I saw a woeful deficit in the Third World I saw a royal prince and princess in a carriage I saw...

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Categories: 1980s, history, world,
Form: Couplet
Inquisitive
Inquisitive On this at at this time I feel what is missing It rarely shows itself but does now Why I don’t know? The very rare feeling missing is this That I have no family of my own No blood lines to continue my lineage My parents are dead and I’ve no siblings Nor do I have and children of my own Not...

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Categories: 1980s, absence, family, imagination, lost
Form: Verse
Flying Haiku
They let me loose, fly/Upside down in that aircraft/Rewind to that time Incident Report 74399 2020 JIMMY BOOM SEMTEX...

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Categories: 1980s, flying, remember, teenage,
Form: Haiku



Remembering the 1980s
Regarding fashion,Punk set out to gauge The style of hair and clothes which would outrage. John Lennon's voice was silenced at this time; Mark Chapman was convicted for the crime. A technical development unfurled Which launched the first PC into the world. And Cable television could diffuse A twenty-four hour coverage of news. Professor Rubik came from Budapest And introduced a spatial IQ test. To...

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Categories: 1980s, birth, death, fashion, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembering the 1980s
When I look back in time, I recall the 1980’s; I fell into the Rubik’s Cube and still have not escaped. Not even upon hearing of, John Lennon’s killing, could I escape the thing, in fact, it kept me from diving into a mournful funk. I celebrated “ET’s” visit by treating myself; I bought the video,...

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Categories: 1980s, appreciation, happy, meaningful, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1980s the Start Of
In this day of corporate illusion One only the historic can counter, Soon one day the culture of delusion Will reign as all those whom encounter, When all passed away in resolution The problem written into the annals, While those that are left fed on pollution The results of educated finals. One's cultural genocide of blindness Simplicity with common sense destroyed, Yet the poet’s truth...

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Categories: 1980s, angst, day,
Form: Free verse
Teenage Love 15: Teenage Lovebirds of the 1980s
Young love had finally made its way back into the 1980s and all of those teenage lovebirds back in the 80s were so "totally gnarly." The 80s was when MTV made its TV channel debut, the first cell phone was invented, and when a lot of people were born in that decade, that had included Julia Stiles (born...

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Categories: 1980s, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, on writing
Form: Epic
Teenage Love 2: Teenage Lovers of the 1980s, 1990s, and the 21st Century
All of the then-teenage lovebirds have been in love with each other since the day disco died, even back in 1980. This type of love has been around the teenagers-turned-adults since the day the cell phone was invented, MTV first went on cable TV, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, the summer Olympics were in Los Angeles, California, Barcelona,...

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Categories: 1980s, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, romance,
Form: Epitaph

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