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America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...

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Categories: 1962, america,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Brahman Nemesis
                             Brahman Nemesis

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Legacy of Penang
Back in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could hold
so listen while this wondrous time 
to you I now...

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Categories: 1962, culture, father, food, friendship, introspection, paradise, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma Winslet and Her Guest
It was going to be the best Christmas of the most spectacular, magnificent Christmases in the world.Certainly, the best one we had ever seen, for Grandma Winslet was coming from England which is big.
She used...

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Categories: 1962, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents, grandson,
Form: Narrative
Caseworker, 1962
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A social worker had...

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Categories: 1962, poverty,
Form: Prose



Premium Member JACKS AND THE BOOM BOOM ROOM
JACKS AND THE BOOM BOOM ROOM HISTORY AND SPOKEN WORD

Before the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco’s Fillmore District came to be, it was Jack’s.   A poppin’ groove organ funk soul jazz club...

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© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, history,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member I Never Told Him That I Loved Him
If memory serves me right it was one year before he died .Before he was killed that I last saw him with my eye.
From kindergarten
 (he was in first grade,  nine months older than...

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Categories: 1962, adventure, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, i love
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Maybe It Was Eleanor
Ever wonder where big ideas come from?

Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly, 
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted ever upward...
soaring to the heavens
as he cruises by
waving to admirers
in...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, feelings, history, international, philosophy, political, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hellboy's Fight Record
Hellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!


Date Opponent Location Result
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XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...

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Categories: 1962, appreciation,
Form: List
America After 1962
On June 25, 1962 prayer was taken out of school
It was like losing a ring's precious jewel 
If you look into America's history 
You will find that it is no mystery
From that date on we...

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Categories: 1962, education, faith, fear, forgiveness, history, inspirational, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member City Slickers In the Country
Old Jack is at it again, Great Grandmother says.
Her voice eases through a window as we reach shoes on the porch.
At least twelve pair; which is okay as she has eighteen children.
A variety of second...

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Categories: 1962, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Billy Pugh
Twas the night before sunrise
and all through the warehouse,
not a creature was stirring
except Elmer, the field mouse.

It was 1962
And times were hard on mice.
Elmer had eaten this month
only twice.

Away to the bin
he scurried like a...

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Categories: 1962, business, career, retirement,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Lazy Dream Mysterious Death
From the heart of green naïve village
surrounded by corps field, mosque, ponds, 
ancestral grave yard, school, college, 
madrasah (islamic school) etc he is

brothers, sisters with parents, a beautiful family 
with relatives, neighbors he had

learned person...

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Categories: 1962, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice
“The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice”



In the land of the dirty politician
Steely resolve was borne bidding
farewell to thinly veiled conceit and division
that particular brand of milk had long in the tooth turned sour
in her red-hot...

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Categories: 1962, courage, freedom, imagery, journey, love, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Walking Down the Streets of Another Levittown Today
At one time my neighborhood was new mass-produced little boxes made of ticky-tacky – all looking just the same*
Beautiful affordable, true suburban models, in mid-twentieth century they were truly quite the rage. 
But now the...

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, america, color, culture, discrimination, environment, old, today,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Oh So Short 2
I married in 1962 the biggest mistake of my entire life the marriage ended in 1973 I was now free to be me and never married again. But I have had my share of girlfriends...

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Categories: 1962, adventure, emotions, eulogy, growing up, how i
Form: Free verse
Robert Sherriff -Abraham
Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

Has anyone seen my old friend? Abraham

In the ever-turning pages of history, specific years stand like pillars, holding up the...

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Categories: 1962, anger, art, bereavement, celebration, color,
Form: Bio
After the Storm, Columbus Day, 1962
After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.

Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as his handsaw scritched against the tree
which had fallen diagonally across...

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© Deb Rhodes  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, angst, brother, childhood, family, growing up, sad,
Form: Free verse
Will America learn from your past mistakes
Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

My old friend 

In the ever-turning pages of history, specific years stand like pillars, holding up the weight of profound...

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Categories: 1962, adventure, age, anger, anti bullying, beauty, bible,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Crystal Magnificent Morning
Crystal Magnificent Morning

You should see LA 
In the crystal magnificent morning of continuing time. 
It is a magic that has to be seen to be believed, 
And yet, 
So few have truly seen the show....

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Categories: 1962, memory, lost, lost, magic, me, morning, sad,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Nations Medical Shame
Frank and Nada went together like pina-colada
Each half had dreams and brought laughs
He’d open doors and make real sure
That his Nada; he would truly care for.
He also had family from before
They cared for him. ...

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Categories: 1962, betrayal, care, for her, for him, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Russia Discovers the Moon - Invades Mars
Russia Discovers The Moon - Invades Mars 

Vladimir Putin and Mother Russia, co-authors of the universe
Inventors of the colors pink and red
Turned green with envy one day, thought about places to travel
So off they go...

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Categories: 1962, adventure, confusion, corruption, fantasy, history, leadership,
Form: Epic
Premium Member 'blood' Brothers Or 'Bloody' Brothers Under the Banner - Parts 1 and 2
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.”

“A strong man makes a weak people. A strong people don’t need a strong man.”
John Steinbeck (Nobel...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1962, political, brother, lost, people, brother, lost, people,
Form: Quatrain
Not Quite Gi Blues
Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days when I saw things
In stark black or white,
And me and...

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Categories: 1962, imagination, military, music, nostalgia, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Pele the King of Football
The king of football was born on October 23, 1940 in Tre's Coracoes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The king of football full name is Edison Arantes do Nascimento
The king of football career started as a teenager by...

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Categories: 1962, appreciation, bereavement, celebrity, funeral,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things