Best Forties Poems

Along narrow streets,carol singing
Boxes rattling,lanterns swinging

A stocking hung for Santa to fill
waking too early was a thrill

Chicken killed as a special treat
Finding  three-penny piece in our sweet

In England ,in our area at least this has not changed much in 60+ years
the 'chicken' maybe a...

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Anyone who has lived through them as I have,
Knows the Forties were the most memorial of all
Of the decades of the Twentieth Century
And surely the most vivid in recall.

Personally, they were the greatest of my life.
I was married in the year of Forty-One.
Then in March...

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~Lost are our beautiful starlets in the early forties
  In full garb, signs of their times, dancing tipping toe prancing their stance
  Contrasting our times, no cleavage revealed , but legs were bare

 For: Rick Parise 
Contest Name:  May I Have This...

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A
high tea-
eaten off
American
cloth...

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Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm....

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The Big Bands of the forties, I loved them all
Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, Arty Shaw and Les Paul
They were so smooth
And quite raucous too
Collected their 78s, I certainly had a ball...

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The best Christmas gift I receive each year
Is love, simply pure sweet affection
What could possibly be more cherished than that
It's the meaning of Christmas on reflection

Too bad this feeling doesn't last the whole year
What a joyous world it would be
Dream on little fellow, you're a...

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Freezing slides on sheets of ice
Balaclavsa snug;
Finger mitts,snow-balling bold,
Playtime in the cold.
Satchels,desks with lift-up lids,
Pen nibs and inkwells;
Five-stones,conkers in the yard,
Before the lesson bell...

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Five stones
   school caps
pooh sticks
  film flicks
short back
           and sides

mangles
 oil cloth
   braces 
 plimsole
dripping
           and toast

satchels
  school milk
cut-throat 
    razor
 coal fires
      and draughts...

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Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarre, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner
Stars of the forties, how many can remember
What century am I from
Was in love with every one
Much too young but old now and wearing dentures...

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Swimming in an outdoor pool, 
drinking from  a fountain,cool;

Swings and slides in childish fun ,
summer picnics in the sun;

A Sunday Brassband trumpet call,
in open spaces enjoyed by all;

Bowls and putting on the green,
in the Vale Park 'the 'place to be seen;

Leisurely strolls and chat,
forties...

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The ocean roars and waves do crash,
Endless blue, horizon smash,
A symphony of power and might.
A wonderland that's out of sight.

Sea foam dances, seagulls cry,
Seashells scattered, treasures lie,
Beneath a sun that's shining bright.
The ocean's beauty fills my sight.

But danger lurks in depths below,
The ocean's mystery, we'll...

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Winding brooklets fill narrow streams
into rivers of my childish dreams....

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We never thought of how smart we were 
or where life would lead us
as long as it liked us 
and then the baby was born,

scorn and derision
a black and white commercial
a break from the tedium
and talking of them
we couldn't be them when
we were too busy...

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Enough of being lazy all these years,
Get up and just do it!
It’s time to move your soul,
Get up and just do it!

Take your clothes off,
And look yourself in the mirror,
Hate yourself for those fatty layers,
Get up and just do it!

It’s time to change your habits,
Instead...

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