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Best 1930S Poems

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Teenage Love 11: Teenage Lovebirds From the 16th Century To the 1930s
The origins of young love is going way back to the early 16th century and it'll stop at
the 1930s, even the Great Depression. This type...

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Categories: 1930s, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, on
Form: Epic



1930s Dirranbandi Mucky Eye Fix
1930s Dirranbandi Mucky eye fix

Coming back from bloody Cobar,
 where the dust storms used to blow,
came the mucky eyed with Sandy Blight,
as the mucky eyed...

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Categories: 1930s, adventure,
Form: Ballad
I Killed a Gangster
Until 1934 I was a barber, that used to be my profession.
Many people are suffering because of this Great Depression.
A Gangster walked into my shop...

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Categories: 1930s, anger, dark, death, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Notes On Sister Aimee
Ah the cake before the icing!!!!!! 

Notes:

Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian born...

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Categories: 1930s, angel, mother, religious, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
Carmen Lucia Ruby
Peter loved his wife Carmen Lúcia
                   ...

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Categories: 1930s, love,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Burma Shave
Alas, never seen along highways and byways anymore,
Was some very classic poetry that has become American lore!
'Tis sad that these masterpieces have vanished from the...

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Categories: 1930s, funny, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Los Angeles, Time Unknown
City across the water, night by violet aurora
Los Angeles, we're further south than I thought (than we should be)
I take a strewn-bark trail to get...

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Categories: 1930s, city,
Form: Free verse
Valentinesday
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 Valentines Saint Massacre Day was in Chicago the man played them a...

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Categories: 1930s, imagination, parody, people, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maybe It Was Eleanor
Ever wonder where big ideas come from?

Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly, 
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1930s, feelings, history, international, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Early Childhood Memory
The year was sixty-seven, mid July,
a summer's day, and Hucknall was the place,
I sat beneath a cornflower blue sky,
sun hat on head, and ice cream...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1930s, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Winners Risk All
Winners Risk All

Aware, after spending the day teaching
Reminiscing, remembering, reliving
And interpreting events reaching
The wizened children of my own age.

We of the 1930s and 40s
Seem to...

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© Ed Evans  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1930s, memory, old,
Form: ABC
Lanky S Chronicles
Lanky’s Chronicles

We meet a long-limbed white boy that said his family was owners of slaves.
He was a leggy ole boy and bony angular in his...

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Categories: 1930s, america, encouraging, film, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Concord House
There is a house on Nashatuck hill in Concord
with beautiful open spaces
It was built in the 1930s
and it has an Adirondack style porch that looks...

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Categories: 1930s, first love,
Form: Free verse
Presented Polite Priest To Our Parish
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Presented Polite Priest To Our Parish

There are many things that poems can contain;
Fragrant flowers which will flow in a spring rain;
Sky full of clouds and...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1930s, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Past and Present

Lots
of years
now have passed
since couples parked
to romance lovingly after their ride-
wearing dressy clothes 1930s style!
These days- replaced
with frayed jeans
cool tees-
done!


August 23, 2021

Contest: Double Tetractys 
Sponsor:...

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Categories: 1930s, clothes, fashion, men, women,
Form: Tetractys

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