Best Twenties Poems

Thinking back to my teenage years
 my early twenties, falling in love 
was so easy. 

Truth was a tightrope 
of winks and smiles, 
of the promise of tomorrow 
and today was just fine.

Youth 
in its wondrous ignorance 
sees art were cans of paint 
on a...

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Flirting flappers
Whipper snappers

Prohibitions
Big restrictions

Legs are showing
pearls are Swirling

Charleston’s harking
Lovers sparking

Dancing Lindy
With Miss Mindy

Jitterbugging
Afterwards hugging

Raccoon coats
Rowing boats

Bathtub gin
Fun never ends.
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Roaring Twenties

Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.

The day begins with boring continuance:
Of routines, platitudes, and goodwill gestures,
While accepting a life of...

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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 Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“can you spare me a ***?”—
And the stock market came dow-w-w-w-w-w-n!

It’s A Nineteen-Twenties song, the decade didn’t last...

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Back in the rip roaring days of the twenties
Free sex was available and there sure was plenty
While doing the Jelly Roll
Girl's parts they would show
And men started flashing their twenties

© Jack Ellison 2013...

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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 Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“can you spare me a ***?”—
And the stock market came dow-w-w-w-w-w-n!

It’s A Nineteen-Twenties song, the decade didn’t last...

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Fringe on edge of a dancing flapper’s skirt
Provocative and playful, enticing and tantalizing
Encouraging other women 
To dare be more modern,

Bob their head, dance in public
Changing the world
One woman at a time
Who is willing to normalize bawdy

Usually found in the bigger cities
Two or three years 
Before...

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A silk Rose, you caught my eye
But you hid your thorns of shattered glass
I grew wiser because of you...

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Back in the rip-roaring days of the twenties
Free sex was available and there sure was plenty
While doing the Jelly Roll
Girl's parts they would show
And men started flashing their twenties...

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In the 1920’s a hundred years ago
There was so much slang, it danced to and fro.
The cat’s pajamas meant a marvelous thing
Something terrific, an idea that could swing.

Whoever created it is probably gone away now.
But it meant something exciting, great. Don’t have a cow.
Another 1920’s...

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Sassy and sultry from the twenties
Not these twenties, those twenties.
She shows an arrogance unseen for a century.
I am in love with her pearled quail feathered headdress.
Vibrant and alive, she wows me in the best of ways.
Her art deco owl oversees her unique awesomeness.
I feel pride...

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He was born young, I mean really young
His hair was curly, fluffy and beige
His skin, for milk and fire a bridge
His eyes, orbs of fiery passion 
Favoured was he by Aphrodite and Adonis
He is he that is moulded by time and endless time of daydream.

Bite...

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 Haha, must be funny,
How I had substantial dreams for my early 20s,
I believed I would have an excellent life!
With a good job, 
And possibly even a hubby.
Now in my mid-20s,
No job and no income to woo.
Dreams postponed and placed on hold.

I only have my...

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The widow still in her twenties and tender 
Can an account of her glamour render:
Jesus Christ, just her temporary darling 
She, sure to later catch a man with pounds sterling!

Hers is a prison with loosening chain
After six months:
The dotted with pains 
And tolerable don’ts.

Even with...

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I was in my twenties
When I met a guy,
His heart so real
Like a diamond inside.
He used to tell stories, and I would laugh,
As if he would do anything to make me smile.
We shared tears and happiness,
The tears were mine,
For my heart was like a dry...

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