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Eighties Poems - Poems about Eighties

Premium Member Acid Washed
acid washed blue jeans hang on the rusty clothesline in the morning sun ...

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Categories: eighties, age, america, autumn, introspection,
Form: Haiku
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 nostalgia from t-shirts to CDs and vinyl Reaping the customer whirlwind for Boy George and Eurythmics tracks some smart Alec from head office said “This is no time to Relax!” the mullet headed...

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Categories: eighties, funny, music, nostalgia,
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...

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Categories: eighties, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Favorite Movies Were Eighties
Lydia in 1988’s movie Beetlejuice was my first Goth experience. Winona Ryder did a fabulous job of making Goth feel normal. I adored everything about her character. The best movie character since Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Gave me a feeling of hope in the upcoming movie makers. I waited years and years and years for another...

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Categories: eighties, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Every Day Is Sunday Eighties Style
Once was a vibrant community but that was yesterday... Then the Coronavirus came along and took it all away. Our freedom we took for granted, nor did we live in fear. But now we are paying the price with everything we hold dear. Generations are dying and more grieving is yet to come. How many will be left when this...

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Categories: eighties, change, death, environment, health,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Living It Up In the Eighties
Learned to drive in 1980; it became a must. The car I bought soon broke down; “Another One Bites the Dust!” With two kids by ‘81 - plus work. My tired bones! “Start Me Up” kept being sung by the Rolling Stones. “Hungry Like the Wolf” was I; what future would be mine? Prince knew back in ‘82 how...

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Categories: eighties, family, growing up, history,
Form: Couplet
Grief of the Eighties
1980 With deep sadness, I heard the awful news, My favourite stand up comedian Richard Pryor, It was June 9th while being in a drug-induced psychosis, He poured rum over his body and set himself on fire. 1981 It was cold December everywhere was covered with snow, I was living in Ayrshire, Scotland, on the 24th day, Everything was in order, all was...

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Categories: eighties, memory, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Eighties
Time traveling Delorean He-Man and Hulk Hogan Eddie Murphy and Eurythmics Excellent Bill & Ted I want my MTV! Girls just wanna have fun Huge hair and van Halen Thriller, and Tom Cruise, totally! I Love Rock n' Roll E.T. Phone Home Sixteen Candles to St. Elmo's Fire 10/12/18...

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Categories: eighties, appreciation, fun, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Acrostic
The Eighties
Inches to dimes running out of time. Money, space, and a broken place are the only times I remember her face. Tonight I need your sweet caress and playing piano in the dark keep circulating through my sound cloud, and I just want to write poems to 80's music. Go back to a time before...

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Categories: eighties, dance, growing up, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love In Our Eighties
It isn't a secret I'm still in love with the ladies Gorgeous females are most definitely my frailty Could stop anytime But sex drive is prime It's even tougher when we get to our eighties!...

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Categories: eighties, age,
Form: Limerick
Eighties Shadies
Eighties Shadies There once were two fine Southern Ladies Both sisters and late in their eighties By day who were prim Come night hit the gin And skinny-dipped down in the shadies. ©deborah burch~11.19.17 (Limerick)...

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Categories: eighties, freedom, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Eighties Edge
The Eighties Edge Life today is nothing but “No” “No.” “No this”, “No that” wherever you may go. The sign says, "This campus is smoke free." Who owns the very sky and air we breathe? Consider things around back in the Eighties, big wheel trikes and shoulder padded ladies. We walked on planes like going to the store. Now you bare your naked...

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Categories: eighties, age, change, community,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Nineteen Eighties
The nineteen 80's Early eighties was my sweet teens, as I could see every thing in greens, College canteen and vegetable patties, Oh my youthful eighties ! Remember those days of bunking classes, late night parties and clinking of glasses, Old movies and handsome heroes, Exam days and highly probable zeroes, Writing letters was then an art, No mobiles, postages also not that smart, Interactions and...

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Categories: eighties, blessing, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembering the Eighties
Way back in the eighties decade when the computer wasn't as ace that was when the pc era began then we lived at a quieter pace The first space shuttle came to be man entering into the great unknown the cold war came to an end some peaceful seeds were sowing The Berlin wall came down east and west became as one famine in Africa...

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Categories: eighties, life, memory, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Eighties
My daughter wondered how things differed Back when she was born, Aside from styles of music Or the clothing that was worn. We didn’t have computers then. “What did you do?” she gasped. We researched in the library, A concept she’s not grasped. We had no cell phones. “How’d you reach The people that you called?” We used a land line or a pay phone; She...

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Categories: eighties, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

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