Short 1959 Poems

February 3, 1959
plane crash Clear Lake, Iowa
the day the music died
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Growing Younger
 
‘Artwork’ in progress and remember it takes lots of time to learn to paint like a child…


23rd  November 1959 - 05th October 2016 - ongoing...

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One brisk Saturday morn,
I left the house with glee

To find myself within the woods,
in perfect harmony


(Rosemont Pennsylvania: May, 1959)
Miss Annette’s 5th Grade Class
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School...

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Pink as a baby’s bottom.
Pink as 1960’s Bazooka Bubblegum
Pink as Barbie’s Dream House
Pink as a 1959 Cadillac with chrome tailfins.
Pink as a perky, pretty, popular, pizzazz-y petite preteen.
We nicknamed her “Pinkie” which made her laugh....

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1959 Pink Cadillac
Driven by my first boyfriend
He was fifteen
Those tail fins were really something!

And the chrome was dazzling!
Marvelously beautiful.
Amazing. We still speak of it.
Because I married him.

Wish we still had this classic car....

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Remembrance, you glance, glittering rise of
Rivulet moans. Voice cleared the chattering.
Body of bird brushing diurnal clouds.
Coming down and the stars to comfort you.







1-11-23, sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Bite Size Contest no59 Poetry Contest....

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It’s high noon in Armadillo Texas Sheriff cat announced in her way.
Her sidekick, Deputy Mouse Whiskers smiled and decided to stay.
They strapped on cowboy hats, holsters, belt buckles and a gun.
It was 1959, when outlaws were arrested, and TV westerns were fun....

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The Wall - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Here is the silence of death.
Two acres of cherished names, 1959 to 1975,
Moore, Johnson, Lopez, Jones……
stare back at your reflection from glossy, mirrored granite.
Screams are quiet now as fingers touch lost lives.

10/28/16...

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'Twas at the age of nine,
        In the year 1959,
        I undertook to build a ship,
        A bright red, plastic rocket ship,
        That housed a transistor radio,
        A cheap Japanese transistor radio:
          By whose dial I could magically go
          To Boston, New York, or Tokyo....

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DEATH OF A GYPSY QUEEN
They gathered round the dying place
to bid their queen farewell
the glow of every gypsy fire
left little more to tell
for round about each glowing flame
a bondage few could know
and when the queen departed them,
each gypsy felt her go.

True story, in Baltimore Johns Hopkins Hospital Camput
1959...

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rhythm 
      sound
       and round,
high then
        low
tapping feet
        on the go
fingers
      tapping
head
        nodding
...eyes
         close:
merry-go-round
beat
      on and on
then
        melody
swaying
    back 
    and
    forth

thoughts inspired by Dave Brubeck 1959 Jazz hit 'Take Five'...

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After the Movies
Valentine’s Day Night 1959

Curiously with a
slant of his face
my chin turned up
and then the embrace.

A teenaged kiss in
in his best friend’s car
while Johnny Mathis sang,
“Chances Are”

So close, so close 
as I nuzzled his cheek
he whispered “I love you” 
can we do this next week?

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
February 12, 2012...

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I only remember she was all white
                        with a black circle around one eye,
                        like a mole on the face of a beauty queen.
                        She was the Marilyn Monroe of dogs
                        and we named her Beauty.
                        
                                 Beauty 1959-1970....

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Wrinkled clothes won’t get smoothed out today.
On my Bing board, I’ll hang ten and sway.
To the oldies I’m groovin’.
Like a teen, I am movin’.
With the Beach Boys, I’ll surf U. S. A.!


  title--hit song by the Beach Boys, 1963
  Bing surf boards—first one produced in 1959


July 17, 2022
written for Lisa YY's  limerick contest    Placed 2nd...

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Why did Archie keep running after Veronica?
Betty was the nice one.
And she was blonde.

Why was Reggie’s mouth always drawn into a sneer?
Did they want him to look cruel?
Why did they want Jughead to appear stupid?

Oddly enough, I never questioned why
Betty and Veronica were both drawn like Vargus pinup girls.
Maybe because I was used to Barbie dolls in 1959....

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I see him as seventeen
With lots of dark black hair
Intensely fervent about life
An expert in many things

His car is a 1959 pink Cadillac with tail fins
Yes, that car!
He bought it for five hundred dollars
From a rich doctor, who wanted something new

He sees me as sixteen
He knows he wants something
But he is too innocent to know what
He gives me that smile, and I laugh
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The 1959 Sears Christmas Catalog is here
My sister and I are taking turns circling things we want.
Every page has circles, stars, hearts, from our pens.
We are supposed to be getting fifty cents a week allowance.

We figure this up.
In a year we should have $26.00.
We begin planning how we will each spend $26.00
forgetting for a few hours that we have saved $1.25 total this year....

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These are the toys you will need this year
It is 1959; my tv is near
Saturday morning, we’re watching cartoons
We all need perry puppet made of balloons

Mothers pick up their phones to order one
They are sold out, Christmas will not be so fun
Commercials convinced us kids in fifty-nine
Bending each eager innocent gullible mind

Commercials continue to work on me
Which is why I must turn off TV...

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I was physically born, July 1937
My meaningful life started June 1959, when I took Patricia Ann as my dearest wife.
My meaningful life ended 1:25 a.m., October 10, 2023, with her passing.
Patricia, is at another place, our spiritual place, where we will soon be together again.  May the journey be swift as my time here isn’t enough, without her.
Memories can’t satisfy my grief as her touch isn’t there for me.
Together… Forever. 
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1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars
A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it.
He had been saving money for four years.

1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
The boy was not old enough to drive it legally
So, he had his friend Randy drive it.
It was a distinctive car. I wish he still had it.

It would be worth a lot more than five hundred today
And I have been married to him for fifty years....

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B orn Elinore Harris
I influenced all of jazz
L ies unknown to you were told
L ove of music, your soul
I ncarcerated so young, for nothing…a bully
E veryone adores your- Lady Sings the Blues

H e manipulated you
O h so many nights you shone
L onliness found you
I  n clubs, unaware
D evestation to you, beware
A sad story in the end
Y ou died as Queen of the scene, but not in your own eyes


A. Green
Dedication to Billie Holiday
April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959...

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A great actor has died and is gone for eternity.
Jay North has died at the age of seventy-three.
He got up to mischief when he starred in Dennis The Menace.
We all have a little mischief in us.
He began starring in "Dennis The Menace" at the age of seven.
After living for over seven decades, he died and went to Heaven.
North starred as Dennis from 1959 to 1963.
It's sad to know that he's gone for eternity.


[Dedicated to Jay North (1951-2025) who died on April 6, 2025]...

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Listen to poem:

The Thresholds of Tomorrow
David J Walker

It is 1959 and 
the television 

is my constant companion
Comforting me during breakfast

Praying at noon over meals
Saying good night before

Turning out the light sparkling
Over its ghostly screen 

	Flickering gray & green 
Retreating into infinity 

Speaking of the expanse and
The advanced enhancements 
Of 1960 

When new math counts life by 
the numbers 1-0 

there will be no returning from
the thresholds of tomorrow...

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