Mamie Poems

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 of...

Merwoman Mamiue

...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 ...

Mama Bullfrog

...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...

Knowing Mamie

...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.
...

Fleas Chickadees Chimpanzee and Mr Paul Klee

...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...

Let the World See

...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, 
...

Wilma Flynnstone Flip

...*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,...

Remembering the 1950's

...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...

You Get To Choose

...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...

Beautiful

...in my blooming past
grandma was a beautician
who valued my words




Dedicated to the memory of my late paternal grandmother, Mamie Regulus....

Decade - Ence

...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...

To My Pal Mamie

...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...

The Fifties Were Really and Truly Not All That Square

...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...

Greenwood Island

...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
...

Treasured Jewelry

...
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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