Short Boomers Poems

Short Boomers Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Boomers by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Boomers by length and keyword.


Premium Member Duck and Cover

beware atomic attack!
1950s civil defense
duck and cover drills
Bert the turtle 
showed us the way

flash of light - duck and cover!
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member using tv like a radio

I do not watch TV
use it like a radio
listening to it
but rarely looking up
wonder if this is what other baby boomers do
I suspect it is

Premium Member Baby Boomers Gen X Gen Y Gen Z

Baby boomers, Gen X Gen Y, and now Gen Z
What will the next crop of babies be?
Will we start with A? Will they be boomers too?
Many of us want to know, especially Gen Z.
age
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Expressions of Swank

Oldies but goodies still turn my crank Perry, Deano, Nat and of course Frank Civilized crooners Before the “baby boomers” They were it, a pure expression of swank
Form: Limerick

The Falsetto Generations

I was one of the baby boomers
And we were raised differently
The subsequent generations
Have developed much more selfishly
They are the falsetto generations
Because they always go me me me
Form:


Premium Member Big Boomers

Once knew a lad from the boonies Could really belt out some sad tunies Made Elly May cry Big tears from her eyes Could also fart in tune with big boomies © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Eternity, the end game

Silent generation stay stoic, speechless, pout, watching time run out
Boomers shout while Gen X'ers rant
Millenials meanwhile, run fast, breathless, noisily  pant
Gen Zs the end now, run can't
Form: Englyn

Limerick Contest

Belt up.

    She was one of those old baby boomers
    Who was constantly spreading false rumours
    But she found all along
    What she said was quite wrong
    Now red faced, she stopped dropping her bloomers.
    4/ 30/ 2017
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Twenty Years and Rotsa Ruck

Where would the South Koreans be
  If the USA had left 'em high and dry by '73

And can you imagine West Germans' lives
  If America had cleared out by '75

But 20 years for the Afghans was just too long
  Who else think the Boomers got it wrong
Form: Couplet

Grocer's Store

A journey to the past,
For a weekly shop to last,
The grocer knew everyone,
When the baby boomers had begun,
We might get some biscuits broken,
Or an ice block, as a token,
Our olds did it on 2 quid per week,
Better times than this, they did seek.

We Survived

Here's an ode to make us laugh,
Boomers resilient to the last,
Survived  high school in the sixties,
Where we learnt cookery,
Girls did not have dicks,
Couldn't do woodwork, over it!
Instead, made a pudding of suet,
Fat, fat, fat, eating to rue it!

Premium Member Last of the Workaholics

Breaking news
the new generation
has cured that
dreadful disease
which afflicted most
baby boomers

Indeed
workaholics
are a thing of the past
mind you…
they’ve been replaced
by game-aholics
but let’s focus
on the positive…
workaholism is cured
and a thing of the past



AP: 3rd place 2020

Turned us on

Boomers from here to anon,
What turned us all on?
Our blue jeans of love,
Marched for peaceful doves,
Sun baking for brown.
Skin blotches do cast frown,
Our denim survives, 
Silvers staying alive,
So far, so good, I'm stating,
Freckles still proliferating,
Feeling young never grows old, 
We're boomers, do be told!
Form: Rhyme

The Alchemist Plumber

Heavy metals make you dumb.
Arsenic, Gold, Plumbum.

Those metals take from the dome.
Why not try nickle, iron, or chrome?

Chlorine, sulfur, and radon will take away your breath.
Carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen can make meth.

While mercury, zinc, and copper were known to the boomers,
lithium, silicon, and titanium were just late bloomers.

Were there rules

Okay, boomers, doing great,
We know it's never too late,
Rules can be bent, you see,
Rules shape society,
Archetypes we designed,
Thought control, never mind,
Divine love transcends all rules,
Despite what's taught in schools,
Fragments, these rules of men,
Specks in the universal zen,
Our souls light up to pray,
Okay, boomers, doing okay!
Form: Rhyme

Ah nostalgic nights

Ah, such nostalgic nights,
Twirled in skirt, wearing tights,
Music soothed our soul,
We sang along to Rock'N" Roll,
Jiving with our thunderthighs,
Supper, plates of fries,
Our tunes--"Mama Mia" too,
Does Abba mean much to you?
Part of "Kultcha" in our land,
Nostalgic nights, Karaoke band,
Good, clean wholesome fun,
Boomers in our setting sun!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bottom Line - Popularity

Bottom line's about popularity
  Achieved through division, polarity
    No chants of 'Learn, baby, learn'
    No yells for 'Earn, baby, earn'
  The sixties shouted 'Burn, baby, burn'  

  Fast forward to today, nothing has changed
  Just the issues and actors rearranged
    Screams for 'reproductive rights'
    'Defund the police' dogfights
  Aging boomers for Gen Z-ers exchanged
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poor Jimi's Dead

Poor Jimi's dead and his music used
to turn baby boomers heads.
A musical icon shills a new car.
Let me stand next to your fire.

Nothing sacred in the consumer world.
Those who once thought you a joke
use your songs to invoke what is left 
of a generations youthful fire.

I can see the Mother Teresa 
Depends commercial on the horizon,
and the Princess Diana, brakes.
Jimi, you're lucky it wasn't charcoal.
Let me stand next to your fire.

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