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Best Thirties Poems

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Premium Member Grapes I'D Rather
I just got through viewing
The "Hot New Poems List"
With the names of those I know
and some I guessed I've missed

I breezed right though the first...

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Categories: thirties, anxiety, appreciation, desire, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member April Flirts With Spring
April first drives up in a new Lamborghini,
Everyone knows it is one of her foolish tricks
She will be driving a beat-up pickup farm truck
In thirty...

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Categories: thirties, april, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Aging Process
Many years ago, when we were all young,
We really thought life, would be so much fun.
While playing dress-up, trying on mom’s stuff,
Putting on make-up, we...

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Categories: thirties, age, childhood, children, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Regrets
Form: Infinite Dot Thirteen Verse Is a rare form of poetry, where by the poem is made up of thirteen lines and within the poem...

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Categories: thirties, life,
Form: Classicism
Reduced To Tears
Now that I am in my sixties,
I look back on my life like the Sinatra song.
I was working and busy until a few years ago,
but...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thirties, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lament of My Life
How regretful was I
To see my dead body from the sky
How regretful indeed
Why, with utmost sorrow, did my spirit bleed

In my early thirties was I...

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Categories: thirties, death, life, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Religion Or Spirituality
Some choose religion as their sacred home for worship and prayer 
others choose spirituality, "it seats the noumenon of their soul " 
 
From very...

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Categories: thirties, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Old Flossy
Old Flossy
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia

It was there on Sharpen station, ....(ranch)
west near Adavale i'd be. 
Back in the early thirties, 
worst drought you'd ever see. 
Five...

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Categories: thirties, adventureold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories
As the years pass by me
I have more and more of them
The memories, both tragic and joyous
Fill my heart up til’ it feels so full

There...

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Categories: thirties, appreciation, childhood, divorce, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Collective Guilt Lm
‘What good´s permitting some prophet of doom? To wipe every smile away …’


The orator grins at his drunken audience through make up and mask

Opens the...

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Categories: thirties, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part One
Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members...

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Categories: thirties, satire,
Form: Free verse
The New York Yankees
The New York Yankees have made winning a tradition.
They’ve won for years despite periodic transition.
Since the twenties, the Yankees have won many a game.
Their yearly...

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Categories: thirties, dedication, sports
Form: Rhyme
Reflections
When I think of all I've done
Plans that kept me on the run
I kind of wonder every day
How I pissed my time away
In my thirties...

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Categories: thirties, angst, depression, feelings, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Un-Beetable Bug
THE UN-BEETABLE BUG


Simplicity, elasticity, beauty in the thirties,
not like some sedans, ugly and beastly

This popular car and it's history from the past,
from it's World War...

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Categories: thirties, age, art, beauty, car,
Form: Couplet
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thirties, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs