Best 1959 Poems
1959A super seismic year
Eargasmically one to revere
Sweet pulsating sounds
Bebop starting to slow down
Yes! A new, brand new form from an "OLD"
A new form that is undefined but feels good to the soul
A new direction that's unclear;
Improvisation is supreme with creativity filling the atmosphere
1959
A year so...
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Categories:
1959, appreciation, beautiful, birth, black
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
1959, nostalgia, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Eritrean Softball Game - 1959ERITREAN SOFTBALL GAME - 1959
One painful hot, and Eritrean day,
More happenstance, than anything we'd planned,
Our softball field, was moulded in the clay
Of Africa, the time forgotten land.
Behind a chain link fence, they came to see,
We sailors of the Ocean having fun.
While they, ten hundred,...
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Categories:
1959, africa, arabic, black african
Form:
Sonnet
1959 Was My HeydayI retired gracefully, happily, knowing I could never be fully completely replaced even to this day.
I was slick, photographic, revered by so many, loved by a few, heavy, a bit conceited but in a good way.
Diligent children hid me in boots, closets, drawers, or moldy...
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Categories:
1959, 12th grade, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Personification
Matthew Scott Harris Born January 13th, 1959Thank ye immensely devoted sister Shari
for availing Shana Aubrey
an expansive plethora of blessedly
extravagant opportunities
wherein here anatomical fist-sized noggin i.e. grey
matter sponging up - less doable from me
the biological father, who validates
your doting, helping, kickstarting,
...
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Categories:
1959, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Elegy
1959In '59 the world was fine.
in yellow, childlike summertime.
There was Charlton Heston, being" Ben Hur"
Fidel Castro's ferocious slur.
brand new '59 Ford Galaxies
people on trains going "North by Northwest"
a man wanting to marry a man cause" Some Like it Hot"
and wars were cold.
Killers were...
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Categories:
1959, memory, time,
Form:
Free verse
1959Remembrance, you glance, glittering rise of
Rivulet moans. Voice cleared the chattering.
Body of bird brushing diurnal clouds.
Coming down and the stars to comfort you.
1-11-23, sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Bite Size Contest no59 Poetry Contest....
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Categories:
1959, bird, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain
1950 To 1959I am Eisenhower builds the
Interstate highway.
I am polio vaccine that
Saves the day.
I am the energy of civil
Rights.
I am the first transcontinental
Flight.
I am the Rosenbergs guilty...
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Categories:
1959, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter Sunday 1959Easter Sunday 1959
We were sparklingly modern
Petticoats flounced down the sidewalk
Boys wearing dark suits with clip on ties
Brother was reluctant
My cousin and I were delighted
Loving our new Easter bonnets and gloves
Lacy white anklets decorated our shoes
We felt pretty, and we were
We went up the church steps...
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Categories:
1959, christian, easter, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry
1959
Bozo the clown is ready to begin,
in Cuba, Fidel Castro starts his reign.
Buddy Holly meets a horrible end,
Charles de Gaulle is back on top again.
Motown now brings us a whole lotta soul,
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty warms up our heart.
TV’s Bonanza, Rawhide, Twilight Zone,
and The Untouchables...
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Categories:
1959, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
1959 Pink Cadillac With Tailfins1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars
A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it.
He had been saving money for four years.
1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
The boy was not old enough to drive it legally
So, he had his friend Randy...
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Categories:
1959, car,
Form:
Prose Poetry
February 3 1959February 3, 1959
plane crash Clear Lake, Iowa
the day the music died
...
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Categories:
1959, music,
Form:
Free verse
Questions For Archie and VeronicaWhy did Archie keep running after Veronica?
Betty was the nice one.
And she was blonde.
Why was Reggie’s mouth always drawn into a sneer?
Did they want him to look cruel?
Why did they want Jughead to appear stupid?
Oddly enough, I never questioned why
Betty and Veronica were both drawn...
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Categories:
1959, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
High Noon In Armadillo TexasIt’s high noon in Armadillo Texas Sheriff cat announced in her way.
Her sidekick, Deputy Mouse Whiskers smiled and decided to stay.
They strapped on cowboy hats, holsters, belt buckles and a gun.
It was 1959, when outlaws were arrested, and TV westerns were fun....
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Categories:
1959, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Quatrain
The Thresholds of TomorrowThe Thresholds of Tomorrow
David J Walker
It is 1959 and
the television
is my constant companion
Comforting me during breakfast
Praying at noon over meals
Saying good night before
Turning out the light sparkling
Over its ghostly screen
Flickering gray & green
Retreating into infinity
Speaking of the expanse and
The advanced...
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Categories:
1959, allegory, time,
Form:
Rhyme