Long 1940s Poems
Long 1940s Poems. Below are the most popular long 1940s by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long 1940s poems by poem length and keyword.
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
1940s, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Hold the Phone
Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
1940s, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
1940s, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nationalist Committee Problems
A problem for more successful Nazi leaders
during the early exterminating 1940s
was what would they be
should they no longer have any reason to war against
the soon to be extinct Jews.
Yes, they were a nation of Aryan...
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Categories:
1940s, earth, health, humor, success, usa, vanity,
Form:
Political Verse
My Dad In Quotes
When playtime was over my tiny hands tediously picked up Tyco toys, a fistful of three at a time. "Atta girl," my dad would encourage. This daunting task was heroically spared when his master hands...
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Categories:
1940s, appreciation, bereavement, blessing, childhood, dad, eulogy, funny,
Form:
Prose
The Barefoot Days of Summer
The Barefoot Days of Summer
By Elton Camp
When I was a child in rural Alabama during the 1940s, going barefoot during the summer months was still a general practice, especially for boys. It was feasible...
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Categories:
1940s, childhood, childhood, child, childhood,
Form:
Narrative
Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Samaria, Babylon
I
The historical record shows many intimate connections between Arabs, Muslims, Hebrews and Jews, and Babylon. The nation we equate with Israel began as tribes in the deserts of Arabia. Some of them were allies, some...
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Categories:
1940s, bible, history, jesus, jewish, people, places, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Remembering Old Time Telephone Service - a Short Story
Remembering Old-Time Telephone Service
By Elton Camp
Only a few decades ago, the wireless telephones that have become so much a part of our lives were inconceivable and remained so until the advent of Star Trek...
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Categories:
1940s, history, house, house,
Form:
I do not know?
Boots, Love, and alien diplomacy
Boots, Love, and Alien Diplomacy
My love is five five, a sturdy delight,
With eyes like warm coffee just kissed by the night.
His hair oh, it's brown, but wait, there's a glint,
Silver like stardust, a celestial hint.
A...
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Categories:
1940s, blessing, family, father, for him, kiss,
Form:
Other
The Banshee
Once, inside o' an Irish family's Derrygoolin farmhouse in the 1940s,
A boy named Anthony heard the woman whose word is death, himself, foreseen.
When the reaper's cloak appears to those who choke,
And his cowl upon ye'...
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Categories:
1940s, death, dedication, fairy, family, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
The Potato Miner
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Tom sat fer-nent the table within a smoker's chair
A table pot of pra-tes and bacon quivers there
The cook an apron dirty wipes the grease and clears her throat
She cooks her husband dinner the...
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Categories:
1940s, family, night, home, home, horse, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Black People in Entertainment
When we watch movies from the 1930s, 1940s, and1950s and into the 1960's and see black americans mostly playing domestic servants I am offended by it, by the lack of opportunity they had, the lack...
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Categories:
1940s, america, race,
Form:
Prose
If You Don'T Grok This
If you don’t grok (1) this does it mean
That I’m too smart and you’re not keen
Enough to even cut a cabbage,
Contemplate a simple adage?
If you don’t grok this who’s to blame
The pen, the paper, ‘Pudding...
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Categories:
1940s, friendship, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Kindheartedness
Kindheartedness
Ellen had a lot of experience in washing nappies, six bairns in less than eight years. William
Chapman had a lot to answer for. Everyone knew, or thought they knew, what poor Ellen had
to...
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Categories:
1940s, people
Form:
Narrative
This Orwellian World
It was sometime during the 1940s George Orwell
wrote the acclaimed novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
a book exposing a societal condition of pure hell.
The policy of draconian control has never meant more
than it does now as political...
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Categories:
1940s, political, war,
Form:
Rhyme
A Closet Full of Peanut Butter
55 plus years of marriage down the drain
She watches it spin and spin
It is too much to process the pain
Her mind usually a flurry
No longer a need to hurry
Her Husband departed on...
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Categories:
1940s, change, loss, love, marriage, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
The Golden Fertility of the Harvest
He is the sinking of the final red orange sun of the glowing summer
Warmth no longer oozing and seeping into the pores as I lie bare under the skies
Jeweled dewdrops on the morning...
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Categories:
1940s, faith, hope, music, mystery, nostalgia, peace, red,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pa Honks the Horn With a Tree For Christmas Morn
Pa Honks the Horn With a Tree for Christmas Morn
...
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Categories:
1940s, christmas, tree,
Form:
Shape
Pride of American Cousin
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The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day
The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away
Are you allowed to dance tonight Jackie's hall we all can sway
It's a ceili Band...
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Categories:
1940s, mothermother, dance, home, dance, day, home, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Marks and Sharks
peter marks, rhymes with sharks, warns the people
To be sharp.? Your life he wishes I note to save.?
He advocates 'a new stab' in three months its to be
Made.? I thought in the (dark winter) exerscise...
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Categories:
1940s, age, character, conflict, courage, education, grandfather, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cliffs of Sand and Sea
The music
is her breath,
or…wind…
into the open
bottle. The songs
of folk-lore.
***
Around her bon-fire,
embers sear the sleeve,
of her Hoodie;
The sparks
are as red
as the blood
of a burst
aneurism.
Thus...
she could have
a "broken heart".
The sparklers
in their hands,
the...
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Categories:
1940s, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust.
Six million irons, disjointed from their ores
Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils.
The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing
Were uncoupled from their hives through Reichsbahn.
However, a tensed, stale...
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Categories:
1940s, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Weekend Memory
Late 1940s England
the square
was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful
market barkers
drew the queues
with jokes
impromptu
shoppers filed
neat&...
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Categories:
1940s, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
A Noble Fir For Christmas Morn
At first sight of first snow colour
Scrapbook memories stir with folk within
Where spirits of love, caring, and sharing were
Whispers of our life we shared, brings wet tears that blur
Of the old farmhouse toasty and...
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Categories:
1940s, home, imagery, memory, snow, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Love Jesus and Keep Stealing and Hating
We accept the GREAT Grace of Jesus, works of pure love
So we get eternity and so much else
Does it mean we defend those who steal and hurt others
again and again and again and again (only...
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Categories:
1940s, allusion, america, anger, child abuse, christian, jesus,
Form:
Verse