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Forties Poems - Poems about Forties
Forties Poems - Examples of all types of poems about forties to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Verve
...Oh, the 1990's, songs by Seattle grunge, and boy band's romanticism. Daughter was a cheerleader beauty, blonde effervescence. Petite strength, with her smile of enthusiasm, tossed up in adoles......
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Regina Elliott
Categories:
forties,
7th grade, 8th grade,
Form:
Free verse
valiant detectives
...a throwback from the forties he stands under a streetlight waiting for the ripper ripper has spotted him is not about to lurk tonight both wise, one horrible a killer......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
forties,
irony,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Skiing Sonnet
...The sun beats brighter than it did last month, with mercury up in the low forties, my time is running out for winter fun, March is such a bittersweet time to ski. Brown stains in the snow still l......
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David Welch
Categories:
forties,
imagery, light, seasons, sports,
Form:
Sonnet
My Warrior - Legend
... a gentleman from a grand, but time-worn oil-painting, unbelievably handsome in his forties, immaculately dressed in a formal grey suit, from the backdrop of a luscious tea-garden on a mountaine......
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Malabika Ray Choudhury
Categories:
forties,
inspirational, pride,
Form:
Narrative
taking a break
...taking a well deserved break in the forties on a high construction beam above New York where the twenty-seventh floor will someday be we did not dare annoy the guys next to us none of us wearing ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
forties,
work,
Form:
Free verse
Nicky's Road Kill
...Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home. A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the forties. But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox an......
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Robert Ronnow
Categories:
forties,
death, dog, flower, mother
Form:
Free verse
BYLINY the form
...BYLINY: a nostalgia form'that which happened ' ADOLESCENT SCENES during the Forties I was just a lad growing up was not so bad Summer evenings lengthened long clambere......
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Brian Strand
Categories:
forties,
childhood, nostalgia,
Form:
Bio
Time Machine
...Time Machine I sometimes wonder about migration, is there a moment when doors are closed and the bus leaves the station Sorry folks, the country is full. One of the reasons people from Pakistan ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
forties,
august, creation, england, flying,
Form:
Blank verse
I Have To Look Younger By Tomorrow
...I have to look younger by tomorrow my hair is being dyed right now I plan to stop at a pharmacy will buy some make up have not worn any for years not sure I can make myself up any more plan to ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
forties,
age,
Form:
Free verse
Lessons Learned From the Tennessee Valley
...Lessons Learned from the Tennessee Valley Spoiled have we become!? When you look back from whence, we have begun, the provision of profit to our young, that sheltered them fro......
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Martin Braun
Categories:
forties,
abuse, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
College-League Baseball Sonnet
...Small stadium built in the late forties, minor-league once, but has been left behind, built with girders and backless, wooden seats, a local relic of an older time. The players look so young, bar......
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David Welch
Categories:
forties,
america, appreciation, baseball, imagery,
Form:
Sonnet
Quite An Experience
...Quite An Experience They said the Philippines and Thailand We're both Third World countries Yet the glittering business centres In Manila and Bangkok were superb Among the world's finest in desi......
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Nick Armbrister Jimmy Boom Semtex
Categories:
forties,
future, technology, work,
Form:
Free verse
Detective Cats Frighten Me
...these unconventional cats who are dicks forties detectives to you out of comic strips make others nervous anyway me go by their last names, like Marlo or Spade interrogate usual suspects under......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
forties,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Seasons Dance Embracing Life Mystery
...Written: June 25, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ April noises and dawn heart roused me, A symphony of awakening, yet I felt misery. Confusion li......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
forties,
analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Pencils In September
...I smell like pencils in September. After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived. You stared me in the eyes......
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B. Joseph Fitzsimons
Categories:
forties,
3rd grade, america, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
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