Short Back In My Day Poems

pain pain go away
don't come back on any day
leave with no delay...

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Needed technology to live - but how did they manage back in the day?...

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Who danced 'the Mash' back in the day
  ~ Still wears 'the Mask' forever and aye...

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all the girls bring one cigarette
discuss pain,drink gin
going back to school day....

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Let's go back to that day
when we fell in love with each other.
And i'll leave you there...

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wide open prairie

keeps secrets of it's wealth

buried within it's soil

for many seek and do not find...

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i confess
my eyes or wet
hard to  forget
how we were set
many friends
i never get again
we did things our way
BACK IN THE DAY...

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we would get down
to funky sound
 the cloths was gold
they never grow old
the rap was sap
we had hip talk to say
BACK IN THE DAY...

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Pieties performed, the mourners turn away;
Trying to forget that they'll be back some future day,
But will not have power to walk away....

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Back in the day we used to play
Spin the bottle both night and day
You know it was fun
but son of a gun
Why did you put that game away?...

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back in the day
we did thing this way
we ere a gang
that hang
around up and down
in our town
in my mind memrberies stays
thoses
GOOD OLD DAYES...

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Bubbly verbose bee had so much to say.
Ideas spilled out every which way
He was a motormouth back in the day
Fifty years later, he still has his say...

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back in the day 
you had to pay
no time for play
work  in the sun
it wasn't any fun
you have to do
what they tell you too
thoses baster
THE
SLAVE MASTER...

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He'd always chased the girls, back in the day
An embarrassing habit on display
Like his old pop
He couldn't stop
Because of what's in his genes, they would say!...

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' She asked how often I thought about her; I told her that I wasn't sure- because I had to think back to the day, I knew I couldn't stop. '


Alfredo Gonzales  (c)...

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When all worry and fretting has ceased,
in the North, South, West and the East,
we’ll look back on this day
and triumphantly say:
“’Twas a plague, but we conquered the beast."...

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Way back in my day, moms-to-be

Wore tents which made bumps hard to see

To hide them seemed good

Discreet understood

Now snug tops let large bumps hang free!...

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Moses urged Pharaoh, "Let my people go!"
Pharaoh said, in so many words, "Hell, No!"
   Moses continued pleading
   Pharaoh was not conceding
"Let's talk it over a fresh cup of Joe..."...

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I remember back in the day when everything was closed on Sundays and you could take a leisurely Sunday drive with your parents and not have to worry about being anywhere at any certain time...

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A summer day gone cold
She left my life today
This I could not have foretold
There is not a word I can say
That will bring her back to this day
Farewell my dear
This very moment I did fear...

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All of the leading doctors recommend Camels.
Well, dang it, if Camels are good enough for the leading doctors
I had better smoke myself some Camels!
Were we this gullible back in the day?
Yes....

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Way back in the day
I wouldn't get out my door
Unless I was looking great
Now I think at my age
It's great when I can just
Get out my door



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on March 19, 2019...

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Back in the day
Only fast girls could get laid
Young unashamed unafraid

Cute and candid
Running romancing
And chancing pregnancy 
Zip your lips cool your hips or baby
You could be mommy or daddy...

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Children correct adults now
That never happened before.

We knew better.
We’d have been slapped onto the floor.

Children say “No” now.
Like they have some say 

That never happened 
Back in our day....

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Silent Tears

As I reflect back on that day,
I cry silent tears,
As I think about tomorrow,
I cry silent tears,
As I pray for the world today,
I cry silent tears. 

Written by: Sarita A Milliner, 9/11/13...

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