Mamie Poems - Poems about Mamie

...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 of......

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...Who can control the gold guppies the fishwisher did ask. Merwoman Mamie said she might be up to the task. She had raised some children – mermaids and mermens. Pretty soon she had the gold guppies ......

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...Dainty toad girlie gave a cha-cha-cha Her dress was lacy, and her lashes were tah-dah You have so much lace! Said her potential mother-in-law She was persnickety though, this mother of Thaw. Th......

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...Mamie has a rather shabby coat, it is a mainstay We all know it; green with tassels, a bit scraggly It was her mother’s coat, she will never get rid of it It still smells like her, she tells us. ......

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...In magnificent memory of Vee See’s zaniest chimpanzee Probably discussed by merry monkey’s chipping chickadee Readily and aptly apparent by three who seldom agree Incredibly supping with Mamie, Ma......

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...Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket, to let the world see, the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy, who was lynched in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, ......

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...*Image of Mamie Surfeuse by Pinterest. Wilma *Flynnstone Flip Crazy chick half out of her gourd, chose to surf the ironing board, hair curlers wound up, tube ride earns gold cup,......

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...Baseball cards and hula hoops Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse Mamie and Ike in the White House American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll Elvis the Pelvis, Nat Kin......

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...Motivated by growth,  So it's hard to lose. Incremental progress,  Yeah that's the move.  Little by little,  Start expanding your views. Little by little,  Start enhancing your m......

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...in my blooming past grandma was a beautician who valued my words Dedicated to the memory of my late paternal grandmother, Mamie Regulus.......

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...Back in the fifties America seemed much calmer McCarthy's commie blacklists Sputnik's shocking launch Ike's wife Mamie so sedate That pre-historic hairdo World War Two over We needed some ti......

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...You are going home--to Jesus--your life will soon begin! Earth's ties will then be severed--and Heaven entered in the precious blood of Jesus that washes white as snow. He'll bring you safe to......

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...The Fifties were really and truly not all that square Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she......

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...I had a dream my Dad and I We're hunting out on Greenwood Island Along a trail of peppervines Where memories and sea birds hide Dawn is breaking, we head back Through the morning mist we pass ......

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... I have her nineteen fifties' Trifari fine costume jewelry, which I hold dear, since my sweet mom bequeathed it all to me; when worn or touched, I feel her presence near. The rit......

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