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Best Boomers Poems

Below are the all-time best Boomers poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of boomers poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Last Good Days of Innocence
We were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes, 
there had been wars throughout...

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Categories: boomers, people,
Form: Free verse



Bomb
all governments
                       ...

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Categories: boomers, age, america, angst, change,
Form: Concrete
My Least Favorite Things
To the tune of.. “These are a Few of my Favorite Things“.

Bass boomers spreading their mis’ry in traffic
Craving attention and driving me spastic,
Not caring an...

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Categories: boomers, funny, me, light, green,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Music Dies
“The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost - They caught the last train for the coast
the day the music died, and they were singing Bye...

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Categories: boomers, music,
Form: Couplet
Unleashing the Devil
Lord give me strength, but most of all I need understanding,
this old world has gotten crazy, unstable, and so overwhelming and demanding.
Things that you know...

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Categories: boomers, lifeold, me, old, drug,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Dwm Senior Dance Days
“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boomers, 12th grade, age, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cousin Johnnie-F
We were children of the 50s and early 60s, first of the boomers.
Our parents knew of wars and more wars, much lack, and hard work.
They...

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Categories: boomers, childhood, cousin, family, love,
Form: Quatrain
The Reunited States of America
Dark clouds on the horizon the hour is quite late.
    As I ponder my destiny and wonder my fate.
The foundation of my...

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Categories: boomers, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member No Protest No War!
No War No Protest!

Colors of red, green, black, and white 
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boomers, courage, hope, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Customs To Getting Old
abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,

Customs To Getting Old  ©


There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is...

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Categories: boomers, abuse, age, discrimination, health,
Form: Epic
The Way I See It'
Things have really progressed since my childhood,
Some changes are tremendous, some just no good.
When we baby boomers were young TV has just begun,
It came after...

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Categories: boomers, faithchildren, parents, prayer, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poor Jimi's Dead
Poor Jimi's dead and his music used
to turn baby boomers heads.
A musical icon shills a new car.
Let me stand next to your fire.

Nothing sacred in...

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Categories: boomers, funny, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yea Baby On a Universal Scalerole and On Its Entity, U Know the Rest
Hi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets, 
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me...

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Categories: boomers, betrayal, corruption, education, future,
Form: Free verse
Senior Citizens/Our Future
Life sucks
And guess what
It only gets worse
Years of hard work
And bosses you hate
No pension plan

Now Social security check is always late
No medicare 
Or decent housing
Nursing...

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Categories: boomers, angst, health, life, social,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her...

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Categories: boomers, age, appreciation, grief, remember,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs