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Eighties Poems - Poems about Eighties

Eighties Poems - Examples of all types of poems about eighties to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for eighties.
Premium Member My Best Mechanical Friend
...My Best Mechanical Friend You pester me with the slightest errors. You bing and bong Giving me night terrors. I want drive along And not listen to musical scarers. It’s three degrees and yo......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Van Halen
...During the Eighties, Van Halen ruled the airwaves... OU812!......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, music,
Form: Senryu
From the Still of the Night
... In the still of the night, I become intoxicated with the moon's soft light, the view of Roxy Anne, City Lights. Whispers of the wind caress my lampogen, I let her back into my......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Bart
...Of all the tales I've heard And all ballads that I've read It's one scary little word That keeps sticking in my head And unlike any other This sets all tales apart I'm here to tell you brothe......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, betrayal, evil,
Form: Ballad
There Goes Another Eighties Music Revival
...The sudden eighties music craze, had gone beyond the norm, the local supermarket, was swept along by the storm, as more and more of the shoppers, joined in with the revival, filling up on nosta......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, funny, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member straight out of the fifties
...This frog is straight out of the fifties How can you tell? He is a beatnik. How so? He plays bongo drums. He has a lava lamp. I think they were from the sixties. And fringed vest jacket. Th......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member watching tv angel stories
...I watch angel miracle stories on my TV with a host I dislike but the stories are terrific It is an old show, from the eighties. But do angel stories ever go out of style? Not for me......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my favorite Christmas Shows
...Christmas is not Christmas without certain shows on my TV Rudolph and Frosty from the sixties, are two I have to see. A Christmas Story from the eighties always makes me laugh. Christmas Vacation ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
They Want To Make You Hurt, Part I
...They told me back when I was young to conserve water for the Earth, wash your clothes less, take short showers, or else the whole planet would hurt. They said not to use that hairspray, that wou......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, environment, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member skating eighties style
...cannot get hair teased any higher? Okay then, let’s spray it with color. Neons are good, we are heading toward the skate barn. You look punky, woman, in the zone......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transitions, II
... this year mid-fall feels like mid-spring in the Deep South highs in eighties breaking records shorts and flipflops still worn daily forecast warning— cold front’s......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, autumn,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Welcome Home
...When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran, my shyness showed, yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly spoke the words, "The war never goes away." All these humanity destroying......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simon Le Bon
...Simon Le Bon English singer who rocked the eighties Three Ivor Novello Awards British Academy, maties Duran Duran's lead singer and lyricist Flair for poetry my favorite empiricist......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, appreciation, celebrity, character,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Lone Lady
...LONE LADY At corner of room sitting on a stool, Lone lady leisurely knitting wool. Has society left her as old fool ? May be her hobby or just ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Twin
...Twins 40 years ago I let go of the twin that lived inside of me My twin was a nice person and feared upsetting anyone hence he had no opinion relying on me being called unpleasant names. He wa......Read the rest...
Categories: eighties, absence, beautiful, break up,
Form: Blank verse

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