Short Forties Poems
Short Forties Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Forties by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Forties by length and keyword.
Forties Party
A
high tea-
eaten off
American
cloth...
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Categories:
forties, childhood, nostalgia, social,
Form:
Lanterne
Cinqku#21
Roasted
chestnuts on
bonfire embers-
forties recollections
alight...
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Categories:
forties, childhood, nostalgia,
Form:
Cinqku
Forties Child
Inkwells in desks with lift up lids
Tables written out with old pen nibs...
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Categories:
forties, childhood, education, nostalgia,
Form:
Bio
Forties Summer
Winding brooklets fill narrow streams
into rivers of my childish dreams....
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Categories:
forties, childhood, nostalgia,
Form:
Crystalline
Forties Playtime
Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm....
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Categories:
forties, childhood, nostalgia, school,
Form:
Cinquain
Aromas of the Forties
Sour
milk in summer,
damp clothes in the fall,
wollens lightly scented,with white
moth balls!...
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Categories:
forties, nostalgia, people, political
Form:
Cinqku
Live Now
a
forties
pop pastiche-
tomorrow we
die.
Ekphrasis after..... I was a rich man's plaything by Paolozzi...
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Categories:
forties, art,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Last Weeks of Winter
The Last Weeks of Winter
sun sets
later
temps. hover in forties
rain and snow fall frequently, spring
comes soon
...
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Categories:
forties, winter,
Form:
Cinquain
Turning Fifty--
Boldly stepping out of the forties
Got my tude on and wearing my hat
Head held high, nose in the air
Look up!, look out, fifties everywhere...
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Categories:
forties, adventure, fantasy, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Meat & 3 Veg
Traditional Sunday lunch
Of a forties child-
Mother's succulent roast beef
With Yorkshire pudding,
Gravy,spuds,carrots,
Cauliflower.
Cheese !...
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Categories:
forties, food, nostalgia,
Form:
Epulaeryu
Ww Ii
a tapioca pudding
a rose hip relish
toated bread & dripping dips
evaporated
milk with tinned pears
home brewed beer
Cor !
A English forties menu...
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Categories:
forties, food, nostalgia, places
Form:
Epulaeryu
What's He Like
B orn again,from above
R everes his one(&only) love
I n England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N ovel verse...his 'street cred'...
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Categories:
forties, people
Form:
Acrostic
Acrostic Bio
B orn again,from above
R everes his one(&only) love
I n England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N ovel verse...his 'street cred'...
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Categories:
forties, poetry,
Form:
Acrostic
Verse Freed To Initial
B orn again,from above
R everes his one(&only) love
I n England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N ovel verse...his 'street cred'...
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Categories:
forties, people, word play,
Form:
Acrostic
Good Old Days At Play
FORTIES PLAYTIME
Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm.
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...
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Categories:
forties, childhood, nostalgia,
Form:
Cinquain
A Toxic State
A FORTIES CHILDHOOD
Feelings ,then
were not shared but
held back, within.
A reservoir of emotions
controlled, withheld...
until death ,shatters
the dam....
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Categories:
forties, emotions, family, farewell,
Form:
Bio
valiant detectives
a throwback from the forties
he stands under a streetlight
waiting for the ripper
ripper has spotted him
is not about to lurk tonight
both wise, one horrible
a killer...
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Categories:
forties, irony,
Form:
Free verse
In Love With Art and Music
I am in love with my own art
cartoons painted in neons
that show up under black lights
also in love with music
classical, folk, jazz, seventies,
sixties, forties, gospel....
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Categories:
forties, art, music,
Form:
Free verse
The Willies
Can surely remember back in the forties
Female drivers were a real rarity
My sisters took the wheel
So petrified. I squealed
Still remember to this day, it gave me the willies...
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Categories:
forties, scary,
Form:
Limerick
Babe Ruth's Game
This is about baseball America's game
Been a fan since the forties, sure isn't the same
The shift, the relievers
The staunch believers
But the game's not the same, whatta shame...
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Categories:
forties, baseball,
Form:
Limerick
The Katzenjammer Kids
How many remember the Katzenjammer kids
A comic strip from the forties when I was a kid
Made me chuckle a bunch
Chomping on Sunday lunch
Their silly antics made me pee in my crib...
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Categories:
forties, memory,
Form:
Limerick
Sunday Lunch
Traditional Sunday lunch
Of a forties child-
Mother's succulent roast beef
With Yorkshire pudding,
Gravy,spuds,carrots,
Cauliflower.
Cheese !
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...
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Categories:
forties, food, nostalgia,
Form:
Epulaeryu
Katzenjammer Kids
How many remember the Katzenjammer kids
A comic strip from the forties when I was a kid
Made me chuckle a bunch
Chomping on Sunday lunch
Their silly antics made me pee in my crib...
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Categories:
forties, cool,
Form:
Limerick
The Katzenjammer Kids
How many remember the Katzenjammer kids
A comic strip from the forties when I was a kid
Made me chuckle a bunch
Chomping on Sunday lunch
Their silly antics made me pee in my crib...
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Categories:
forties, memory,
Form:
Limerick
World In Turmoil
The forties was a frightening decade in World History
thousands of youths were forced to go to war
to fight the evil that rose in Germany and Italy;
who was the worst dictator Mussolini or Hitler?...
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Categories:
forties, war,
Form:
Rhyme