Women Nostalgia Poems

Ohio and Kent State
were far away from Australia.
But like America, the Vietnam war
hung like a noose around
the collective neck of the Nation. 
We were fired...

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I stare at the nostalgic art
It is straight out of the fifties
When women were dying thei hair
Turquois to match their turquoise car and luggage
Or pink...

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After college graduation,
Oh, so many years ago,
I traveled throughout Europe,
All my youthful seeds to sow.

With my friends, I took a ferry
To a popular Greek isle
Which...

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Couched in the season,
by a fireplace ablaze.
The winter with it's snowy soft edges,
tasted bittersweet
-since I reminisced once more
of just how pleasing it was
in the golden...

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I am a frozen bowl lady! A frozen bowl lady!
I will come at your call, to fritz your icies, Said Sadie.
We did not understand at...

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The midnight streets,
Are empty,
And the ladies,
Are filled,
With longings,
And croissants,

The moon,
Has lit,
Its candle,
From within,
And the songbirds,
Are filled,
With nostalgia,
And wine,

The autumn trees,
Are shedding,
Their leaves,
And the jazz,
Is shedding...

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Betty Grable and June Havner
Brought the Dolly Sisters to Life on the big screen
It was 1945

They should have both had top billing
Somehow John Payne sneaked...

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men wanted to court and marry her
women wanted to be her
Liz Taylor hypnotized us
USA claimed her though she was English
she personified glamorous gorgeousness
ultimate movie celebrity...

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A cup of coffee in the morning,
While the cat jumped over the fence.
The sun rising over the horizon,
Begining life’s quest with a six pence.

The smell...

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When I was six-years-young
The attack of the fifty-foot woman was born.
I saw the signs, of course, but could not imagine
Why anyone would be afraid of...

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How I love those movies of old
Stan & Ollie were slapstick gold
Harold the stuntman, extraordinaire
Fred & Ginger were dancing on air

MGM's lion had a powerful...

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Years ago, when men wore hats
And women heels instead of flats,
Who knew unsaturated fats
Were somehow kind of healthy?  

When TV’s were in black and...

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Dr Marcus said to Captain Kronos. You have to come quick!
Deaths all over the village, we are getting ancient, old and sick!
Kronos brought his hunchback,...

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It was an age when
bread was delivered
by a baker in a horse and cart
and carried to the house
in big wicker basket,
and the milkman left bottled...

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From my mother, I've learned to savor the present,
To be relaxed and at ease,
To be kind and considerate to all those I meet,
And to keep...

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