Short Eighties Poems

During the Eighties,
Van Halen ruled the airwaves...
OU812!...

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acid washed blue jeans
hang on the rusty clothesline 
in the morning sun  
...

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eighties hair big hair
parachute pants
natural gas
weeping
disease
death

inspired by the pass contest...

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Originating in Montreal 
In the early eighties starting small
Cirque du Soleil 
Is a worldwide ballet
A sensation unmatched to this day...

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cannot get hair teased any higher?
Okay then, let’s spray it with color.
Neons are good, we are heading toward the skate barn.
You look punky, woman, in the zone...

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Two days in May, the extent of our summer
A couple in the eighties, what a bummer
It just ain't right
Quite a plight
Need a little chat with nature's mother...

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Two days in May, the extent of our summer
A couple in the eighties, what a bummer
It just ain't right
Quite a plight
Need a little chat with nature's mother...

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Simon Le Bon English singer who rocked the eighties
Three Ivor Novello Awards British Academy, maties
Duran Duran's lead singer and lyricist
Flair for poetry my favorite empiricist...

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I watch angel miracle stories on my TV
with a host I dislike
but the stories are terrific
It is an old show, from the eighties.
But do angel stories ever go out of style?
Not for me...

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Men have radar when it comes to pretty ladies
It keeps on keeping on, though still in our eighties
Thought by now
Be grazing with cows
Like a hard-charging bull, I snort and roar daily...

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It isn't a secret I'm still in love with the ladies
Gorgeous females are most definitely my frailty
Could stop anytime
But sex drive is prime
It's even tougher when we get to our eighties!...

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Pet droppings on upholstery
Roaches (they freak me out most preposterously)
Elevators that stall out 'tween floors unexplainably
Jello, most eighties music,  bigots, irresponsibility
Insincerity fencing for popularity...

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Got a new car for my spouse, what a great trade!
A friend said, bet it was the best trade you've ever made
Now, now, ladies
I'm in my eighties
Don't bother kicking me there, it's been dormant for years...

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Well here and now, I'm gonna come clean
There'll be no mistaking exactly what I mean
I love the young ladies
Though I'm in my eighties
Waiting to do battle with my anxious submarine


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Alien woman has fallen to earth in a surprise move.
Luckily, it is the eighties, and she gets on her groove.
Others do not notice, she fits in and is pretty much unseen.
I think that it helped a bunch that it was on Halloween....

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Eighties Shadies

There once were two fine Southern Ladies
Both sisters and late in their eighties 
By day who were prim
Come night hit the gin
And skinny-dipped down in the shadies. 

©deborah burch~11.19.17

(Limerick)...

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You guys will all probably think I'm crazy
Feel like tripping through fields of daisies
Prance around with flair
With a couple in my hair
It's all gone downhill since I reached my eighties


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Sixties Manson Beatles Connection

Helter
Skelter

Seventies Know it all

Lippy
Hippie

Eighties Favorite Pet

Yuppie
Puppy

Nineties Kyoto Protocol

Pollution 
Solution 

Two Thousand Twelve Election 

Barrack
Back



Footle Fun Contest

First attempt at this form....

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Great-grandma Gerty of the family Grim
Threw around threats, controlling them
Threatening to cut them out of her will.
If they drank, smoked, danced or used a pill.
In her eighties they thought it won’t be long
But she is one hundred and two now, still going strong....

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The eighties ignited a hair bomb
With Siouxsie And The Banshees
Cyndi Lauper and Platinum Blonde

With enough Final Net and a thorough tease
Your hair would stand up to the stiffest breeze




11/01/18

Remembering The 1980's Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Michelle Faulkner...

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Time traveling Delorean
He-Man and Hulk Hogan
Eddie Murphy and Eurythmics

Excellent Bill & Ted
I want my MTV!
Girls just wanna have fun
Huge hair and van Halen
Thriller, and Tom Cruise, totally!
I Love Rock n' Roll
E.T. Phone Home
Sixteen Candles to St. Elmo's Fire

10/12/18...

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being 'sixty' was
nearing a...
retirement age

and the sixties
were fun just...
as the seventies

were mainly a
pleasure and now
the eighties are 

almost less than
closer to what they
coffffhrrrmmmph

might be but that's
life on the edge of
adventure     : )


len



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The purple moment of the canvassed dome
Pink pastel orgies like Miami in the eighties 
A figure sits insignificantly on the periphery
To be of her dream is to need to be seen 
In the drunken painter's delusion
If she weren't so high there'd be no coral sky
To chart our own dreams by 

August 9, 2018...

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Music in her heart
Beating so strong
Lyrics in her heart
Jubilation in a song

Her sweet memory on the rocks
People seen on her locks
Voice of Eighties recalled
Fame of Twenties unfold

Cara, a face in a melodious tongue
Simplicity in her lang
Irene, "What A Feeling" in a smash prance
What a healing in a Flash Dance!...

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(In memory of Micheal Jackson)

An icon he was, Our king of
Pop
Rising during the Eighties, to
the Very top
Making himself out to be, the 
cream of the crop
Carrying on for his Public, as
if he couldn't stop
Like, he for Our undivided at-
tention, wished to shop
Only to leave Us, at age 50,
causing for Our hearts to drop...

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