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Back In My Day
... Instead of thinking of my years to come, Or when my origin had begun, We should fix the world of now, And lets not ask how. Banded together, we have the key, To fix our society. To change the future. So we can say "Back in my day".......

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Categories: back in my day, age, death, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Dreaming
...As a child we watched George Jetson face-timing Mr. Spacely. We knew this would never come to fruition. Our stereo players took an entire end table. Videotaping was not even a future dream. Tap......

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Categories: back in my day, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Oh How Far We’ve Fallen
... I followed another rabbit hole this morning and stumbled upon this article from ‘The Atlantic. I won’t give you the author’s name, though I’m sure a quick search on google would reveal it. There wa......

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Categories: back in my day, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Republican or Democrat
... Like a hypnotized maniac on quaaludes and Prozac still trying desperately to get back to the nineties 17 not 19 still dreaming and scheming to find a way to become their great grandparent......

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Categories: back in my day, america, corruption, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BELLS
... From the smallest of handbells to bells that are heavy, bells of all types make a large bevy. Small bells are often the tinkling kind like decorative ones in some stores we find. There are ......

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Categories: back in my day, analogy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Bumps
... Way back in my day, moms-to-be Wore tents which made bumps hard to see To hide them seemed good Discreet understood Now snug tops let large bumps hang free!......

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Categories: back in my day, cute, remember,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Aliens of the Sixties
...back in my day we kids were terrified of the green aliens giant yellow eyes, long-reaching tentacles and pinching ways. they sneaked up into our beds and curled around us in our sleep. lying in wa......

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Categories: back in my day, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Game Boy
...back in my day we had to play there was not much else to do for a kid the climbing-frame was a tree or two if you were good enough to switch branches knees had to be grazed clothing torn......

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Categories: back in my day, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Going Way Back
...back in my day there was no technology nothing like nowadays the calculator was considered cheating in math class in my day girls got hauled into the principal's office for wearing their......

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Categories: back in my day, growing up, nostalgia, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 th......

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Categories: back in my day, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Age Is Experience
...Age Age is experience that’s what they say things were much different back in my day. You lived through the good and sometimes the bad, there was never enough time to be sad. We had very little......

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Categories: back in my day, allah,
Form: ABC
The Young and the Anxious
...The Young and the Anxious We are a new youth in an old world We are constantly told to calm down We are constantly told to relax Told of times “back in my day” From an older generation w......

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Categories: back in my day, age, anxiety, culture, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hollywood Squares
...HOLLYWOOD SQUARES most wouldn’t find names interesting, but I would draw squares representing student desks. i loved looking at the baby book of names, my mother bought, in my thirteenth year......

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Categories: back in my day, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mama Em
...My days were short but God has lengthen them; My body sometimes hurts, but that's because of sin-nature; God is such a beautiful King; Back in my day (I'm not that old); As a child you always had......

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Categories: back in my day, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Tragedy Is This Child Likely Exists
...In my bed I lay Here I want to stay Let my mind wander astray In to an ordinary day. My father persists ‘Up now, you will be late for school’ He greets me with another Breakfast to go. Pop......

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Categories: back in my day, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse

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