Nostalgia Clothes Poems

This fashion is in, that one is out
    narrow waists with baggy knees
  Wide lapels and razor-thin ties
   ...

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I'm my day the Army
Was very frugal with our kit.
Whenever possible if seemed
They recycled every bit.
My Greatcoat had certainly 
Been around for a while;
It was...

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Hush!
Discreetly they be. Clandestine
Journeying a void voyage,
Made for each other
Madly in love.

Might be
A pin drops silently
Mind is a culprit.

Yesterday slumbers on a bed of thorns.

Hush!
Sweaters...

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1955’s American woman ran outside in the mornings to talk.
With their neighbors. One or two of them might possibly squawk.
They would hang their laundry and...

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See the girls on the corner 
In tight tanks 
And micro minis
Popping gum
Locking eyes 
Driving boys wild
See the sunlight 
Outline their curls in gold
Memories of...

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Trying to hold back but the tears won’t let me

Drop dead gorgeous 

My queen is too deadly, in her white dress they can’t help but...

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There used to be a time when I had lost all hope

I gave up on love and burned my happiness to ashes 

Broken to the...

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Hula hoops and pedal pushers
Baseball cards and Slinkies
Penny loafers and bobby sox
Pony tails and a dime jukebox

Where are all the fads today --
But for video...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Rock that 
top hat 

bought at 
Target

11/23/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2019...

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Everyone seems ashamed of their nudity
I blame it all on the mayor of prudity
BUTT if she weren't so plump
she'd be flashing more rump
and more men...

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back of his closet
polyester leisure suit
winner dance moves parked



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on July 23, 2018...

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columbo
trench coat and cigar
adjusts rabbit ears



posted on July 4, 2018...

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dad in flannel shirt
right hand holding pail of smelts
lit smoke in other




AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 3, 2018...

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hemming bell bottoms
summer radio blaring
   to seventies tunes



posted on June 6, 2018...

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