Best Eighties Poems

Learned to drive in 1980; it became a must.
The car I bought soon broke down; “Another One Bites the Dust!”

With two kids by ‘81 - plus work.  My tired bones!
“Start Me Up” kept being sung by the Rolling Stones.

“Hungry Like the Wolf” was I;...

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The Eighties Edge

Life today is nothing but “No” “No.”
“No this”, “No that” wherever you may go.
The sign says, "This campus is smoke free."
Who owns the very sky and air we breathe?
Consider things around back in the Eighties,
big wheel trikes and shoulder padded ladies.
We walked on...

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My daughter wondered how things differed
Back when she was born,
Aside from styles of music
Or the clothing that was worn.

We didn’t have computers then.
“What did you do?” she gasped.
We researched in the library,
A concept she’s not grasped.

We had no cell phones. “How’d you reach
The people that...

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The nineteen 80's




Early eighties was my sweet teens,
as I could see every thing in greens,
College canteen and vegetable patties,
Oh my youthful eighties !

Remember those days of bunking classes,
late night parties and clinking of glasses,
Old movies and handsome heroes,
Exam days and highly probable zeroes,

Writing letters was...

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Time traveling Delorean
He-Man and Hulk Hogan
Eddie Murphy and Eurythmics

Excellent Bill & Ted
I want my MTV!
Girls just wanna have fun
Huge hair and van Halen
Thriller, and Tom Cruise, totally!
I Love Rock n' Roll
E.T. Phone Home
Sixteen Candles to St. Elmo's Fire

10/12/18...

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The hair now had bright colors
With music, came a rap craze
The style of dress was so different
Things changed in so many ways

Malls had become the hot spots
As video games made the scene
There was an actor in the White House
And a scandalous beauty queen

There were traders...

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Eighties Shadies

There once were two fine Southern Ladies
Both sisters and late in their eighties 
By day who were prim
Come night hit the gin
And skinny-dipped down in the shadies. 

©deborah burch~11.19.17

(Limerick)...

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Way back in the eighties decade
when the computer wasn't as ace
that was when the pc era began
then we lived at a quieter pace

The first space shuttle came to be
man entering into the great unknown
the cold war came to an end
some peaceful seeds were sowing

The Berlin...

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It isn't a secret I'm still in love with the ladies
Gorgeous females are most definitely my frailty
Could stop anytime
But sex drive is prime
It's even tougher when we get to our eighties!...

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What it look like, home?
Mofo been messin’ with my chick.
Cat thinks he slick.
He cuttin' me to the bone.
I want to see him alone
I got to hit him with my stick.
Ain’t nobody gonna mess with me.
‘Cause I am number one, you see!
So what’s been shakin’ with...

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1980
With deep sadness, I heard the awful news,
My favourite stand up comedian Richard Pryor,
It was June 9th while being in a drug-induced psychosis,
He poured rum over his body and set himself on fire.

1981
It was cold December everywhere was covered with snow,
I was living in Ayrshire,...

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Lydia in 1988’s movie Beetlejuice was my first Goth experience.
Winona Ryder did a fabulous job of making Goth feel normal.
I adored everything about her character. 
The best movie character since Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Gave me a feeling of hope in the upcoming...

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Once was a vibrant community but that was yesterday...
Then the Coronavirus came along and took it all away.
Our freedom we took for granted, nor did we live in fear.
But now we are paying the price with everything we hold dear.

Generations are dying and more grieving...

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Inches to dimes running out of time. Money, space, and a broken place are the only times I remember her face. Tonight I need your sweet caress and playing piano in the dark keep circulating through my sound cloud, and I just want to write...

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Should'a been born in the early 80's
Rock n Roll, Motley Crue, Kiss, Joan Jet,
I wear bandana's and my hair in a hot-as-hell poof
Metalica shirts and skinny jeans,
Leather pants and cut up Tee's,
My nails are done in black and hot pink. 
High boots and high sneaks,
I...

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