Best Back In My Day Poems

Back in the day when kids could just play
Without the fear of being stolen away,
We would be out at almost first light
Only in for our meals until it were night.
Football and cricket both in their season,
Just to be out was a good enough reason.
You could...

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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...

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REMEMBER WHEN WE PLAYED WITH SILLY PUDDY,

COPYING THE SUNDAY CARTOONS.

WE STRECHED IT, ROLL IT, BOUNCE IT,

WE SHOWED IT, TO ALL AND WHAT IT COULD DO.


BOY!, DO I MISS IT.

WONDER IF I CAN I STILL GET IT.

I'LL HAVE FUN SHOWING WHAT IT CAN DO,

PLAY WITH IT,...

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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...

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Steps, where are they leading?

When opportunity is fleeting

And our healths slowly retreating

All our ambitions are competing

 

Weighing out all our priorities

Fitting in with the majorities

Fighting with our insecurities

Can we go back to the simple please?

 

Back to the times our minds were clear

When there wasn't...

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There’s good wishful thinking
And bad thinking wishful
But I’m betting wishing
Good things to good people

There’s good dreaming hoping
And rough roads awaiting
And I hope the dreamers
Aren’t out for themselves

I’m real good at believing
When I know that it’s truthful
But I know that it’s nothing
To fake out yourself

On this...

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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...

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Beauty before me, ante-cedes youth.
Dissonant with discontented shapes.
Happy, supportive family, a burden.
In the eyes of partner, I am lucky.

As with the ones, I've bourne three;
My girth is an enigma, I bear alone.

Grapefruit, avocado, tomato, French.
Dress warmer with hot cocoa, spiked.
Spike down ball, do a victory...

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Moses urged Pharaoh, "Let my people go!"
Pharaoh said, in so many words, "Hell, No!"
   Moses continued pleading
   Pharaoh was not conceding
"Let's talk it over a fresh cup of Joe..."...

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Back in the Day
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

It was back in the day of buggy and horse
Long before cars were made,
That a small farm boy, too young for the fields
Stayed home at the cabin with me.
Since this young boy who stayed was...

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Let bygones be bygones though bygones bite on
Blessed to have had good times it’s life it went wrong
though it hurts good memories
to the end they’ll always be 
my friends and never enemies 
mean the most I’ve ever meet

Maybe I had to blank it out cus...

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With this virus locking us all in
Kids all at home making a din.
Like headless chickens in a stew,
No one knows just what to do.

The old ones should take care,they say,
They can't look after themselves.
Back in the day we did alright,
Especially when things got tight.

We were...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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