Best Ice Cream Soda Poems

He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full fledged printer 
earning a magnificent sum of eight dollars a week.
My wages were three dollars per week. 

Mrs. Miller found...

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We loved the lollipops, cracker jacks, and Holloway candy sticks.                          We adored the chocolate-coated ice cream bars and the tootsie...

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Before diving into the time machine for a nostalgic trip on my music video ‘Ring On My Line’ above, I invite you to read my preamble Sonnet below.

Ring On My Line -The Golden Era of Doo Wop, Retro Revival

If you've ever waited for a call...

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Summer swelter on an August night
You can feel the heat in the air
Carnival lights and cars in the grass
It’s time for the county fair
French fries and burgers
Candy cotton sticky fingers
Ferris wheels, spinning wheels
The memory still lingers
Dust on your shoes
As we walked holding hands
Kids fishing for...

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Driving through a small mining town
Angle parking in front of an old drug store
Memories flashed back to my childhood
Those days are gone forever more

Sitting on a stool at the soda counter
Large cherry coke for a dime
The place had its own kind of smell
A memory lost...

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Beautiful sunny days,
Shorts, tank tops, dresses,
Trips to the beach;
Burns, tans, and all that’s in between.

Ice cream, soda, games in the park,
Running around barefoot.
The days of Summer are finally here!...

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It is hot out here 
Don't tell me about a sweater
I think the sun is broken
Walking down the same asphalt sidewalks

Still the same faults as summers ago
Sunny silken shine to the sheen 
Sleek and shellacking was a 
Cadillac acting like a fact

High powered proper schemes
Have...

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A fairly simplistic approach is demonstrated by an individual acute angle and stresses are found in many evenly distributed lines. When the boom of the spray threatens a doctrine then blankets could fall meaning then that the orchestration of fortresses is reduced to a mere...

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Goodnight Mrs Calabash

I hope to see you again real soon
the time we spend together makes me smile
I try to keep it very simple with her
but I am in love with her all the while

it's just that I respected her man
he was a good friend of...

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Sometimes an old song or an old movie can revive memories
If only we were able to reach back
Recapture the feelings, the simple joys, the dreams
To reach back and touch the moments
That first ice cream soda from the corner drug store
Peeling open a pack of baseball...

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clutching at straws
heads touching they slowly sipped
a shared ice cream soda

John G. Lawless
9/22/2020...

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We Will Tell Each Other Everything
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We will not keep anything from each other
We will not have secrets
We will not lie to each other
We want our friendship to take flight
and soar like an Eagle
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Hey girl
What boy
Wanna go to the big cities
Ye...aah boy
Wanna go with me girl
Of...

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in an unfortunate circumstance 
full moon glacier kingo bulova green
With envy lazy lizard magenta 
Sea serpent stepping stones aplenty
 Quarry dawns foggy harbor rolling hilll
 an unfortunate circumstance 
Looking glass boundary
 Waters Plymouth Rock tornadoes 
Cookie crumbles melted ice cream soda
banana splits at the deep...

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Ice Cream, Soda,
               Delaware Punch!

Jumping, Jumping's , .... Double Dutch!

Ice Cream Soda,
                 Delaware Punch

Initials Spell...

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