Back In My Day Poems - Poems about Back In My Day

phones used to be for phone calls back in the day my day the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties Now phones include word games video games, emails, reference books text messages, voice mail, websites Terms we did not know yet back in the day My day In 1964 I would have never believed that I would someday use a phone like George on the Jetson’s...

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Whenever I would go to my mother, Regardless of the bother, Prices of sweets, housing, jobs, Dangers on the street, or other bits and bobs, She would give me advice so bold, Before taking me to the land of old. Back to the days when she was a child, The days in which...

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I was five, crossed the road to climb a massive oak tree and fell flat on my back amazing I managed to get up again in comparison kids today are kept on a leash and rightly so AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 8, 2025...

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Written By: D. Collins 2/15/25 We all did grime to survive back in the day. Some go caught up, while some of us got away. I place no judgement on whatever it takes to eat. By Any Means Necessary, put toys under the tree. Back in the day snitches didn't exist. A bid in Angola was a slap on the...

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When I was a child Princes and knights rescued girls And women who were also called girls Back in the day Boys were boys Men were men Girls were girls Women were girls too Girls waited for big brave men to save them They rode up on horses and carried swords They fought battles and slashed up dragons They saved us girls In the seventies old girls...

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there was a milkman when I was a child he brought fresh milk to our doorstep every morning left it there in a little metal box that had the dairy name on it there was also a bread man in the fifties If we were lucky we might get the white cupcakes They were uniform, frosted with sweet pink icing we...

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Back in her day, she had been a pliable kitten they said Wondered about speaker’s sanity, had he landed on his head? Two pairs of amber eyes followed me as I wandered from room to room. I halfway expected these two to push off on a broom...

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how was school for you back in the day, Grandma? Well, I could barely read my own writing The wagon wheels hit every single bump along the Oregon trail. Why didn’t you ride in a car or a truck? He asked me. All we had were covered wagons back then. We had to throw out granny’s organ though; it weighed...

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How was it back in the day? The second-grader asked me. I knew by now he thought I was at least a hundred and three. We rode in Conestoga wagons for months, I told him. Threw pianos out too. Ate whatever we could find, lots of raccoon and opossum stew. Panned for gold when we got to Califor-eee-ay. That's how...

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Before Matilda, before Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, When I was a child, there was Pippi Longstocking, full of danger. Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden were my mystery go-to books. You could not rouse me from their adventures with grappling hooks. I discovered Jo March in Little Women Christmas Day 1964. Robin Hood and Little John I was soon also...

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Grandma wore petti-pants, a form of straight bloomers to exercise class. Back in the fifties, you had to wear dresses, to cover your….. In grayscale, these housewives bent, grunted and gave a big reach. The days before work-out-clothes, women were daring to say the least....

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Back in the day Teachers did not go to the bathroom Until lunch or after school There was no texting No phone calls to the office Asking for a teacher bathroom break Back in the day we pretended that teachers never went to the bathroom Now teachers carry cell phones. One teacher texts “can someone give me a bathroom break” about every six minutes. The...

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Back in the day we had a maypole on May Day We created May baskets out of doilies and construction paper I loved adding bits of ribbon, aluminum foil and glitter. We decorated them like Valentines boxes. Filled them with tiny candies popcorn and violets. It was fantastically fabulous, and I loved it! Why did I have maypoles and May baskets? Was...

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These young people of today; what will become of them? They are so open, so free-spirited, so annoyingly risqué. I had no words for my prissy uptight great-great aunt, so I kept mum. Then I found a provocative photograph of her back in “the day”. I said to my mother “have you ever seen Aunt Minnie like this?” My mother...

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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...

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