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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 short, long, best, and famous examples for forties.
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, imagery, light, seasons, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, inspirational, pride,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, work,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, death, dog, flower, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, august, creation, england, flying,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, future, technology, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: forties, 3rd grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

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