Short Twenties Poems

in
twenties
art stylii-
did her legend
lie...

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A silk Rose, you caught my eye
But you hid your thorns of shattered glass
I grew wiser because of you...

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in
twenties
art stylii-
did the legend
lie


*as described by the NYT at the time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka...

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In his twenties band
Louis ' music fell from his hand,
The lyrics left his head
He used his voice instead-
Scat-singing then,baked his bread....

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He whom dwells therein that bottle is I.
An entire teen-hood just squandered away.
A foolish sot throughout my twenties; Aye!
Inching thirty, I'm found longing change's day....

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Paul Simon was an island
with his books and his poetry
                           to protect him...

In his twenties, Simon couldn't see
~ Poets, too, crave camaraderie...

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self confidence oozed out of her
she married and divorced two men before she was twenty-one
few women had that kind of confidence in the twenties
Marguerite is my grandmother...

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Oh me,oh my aren't we such sweet darlin' girls,don't  ya think
well my dears,from this perspective you make a very pretty pose
ain't it a shame,the roaring twenties were in black and white...

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Oh me,oh my aren't we such sweet darlin' girls,don't  ya 
think
well my dears,from this perspective you make a very pretty 
pose
ain't it a shame,the roaring twenties were in black and 
white...

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Prohibiting alcohol back in the twenties
Was doomed from the start, like prohibiting wedgies
Favorite stunt of mine
Game for it anytime
However, as long as there's no warm caressing...

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Surviving 
Paycheck
to 
Paycheck

Paycheckless

Overdrawn
	Again
There goes five twenties
I was saving for education

Spent
	Instead 
On a pair of underwear

My self esteem 
Ousts my stability...

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Back in the rip-roaring days of the twenties
Free sex was available and there sure was plenty
While doing the Jelly Roll
Girl's parts they would show
And men started flashing their twenties...

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When I was young and still in my twenties
Thought eighty was ancient, never thought eventually
I'd be older than dirt
Instead of a squirt
Just yesterday against the wall, I was tossing pennies...

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When I was young and still in my twenties
Thought eighty was ancient, never thought eventually
I'd be older than dirt
Instead of a squirt
Just yesterday against the wall, I was tossing pennies...

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Oh me,oh my aren't we such sweet darlin' girls,don't  ya think INTRO

well my dears,from this perspective you make a very pretty pose AMPLIFIED

ain't it a shame,the roaring twenties were in black and white CONCLUSION...

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knowing my feelings
use to be so hard
told that I had none
teens and twenties hard
later life mellow

feelings I know
understanding
I try to be
faith something else

too much lies
betrayal
no more trust

no fear
believe

what?...

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They
were in
their twenties
when their future
brutally ended.
On this chilly morning,
the snow had put downy wreaths
on the white crosses. I never
tried to count them. There are too many,
and it is not a large cemetery.
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Back in the rip roaring days of the twenties
Free sex was available and there sure was plenty
While doing the Jelly Roll
Girl's parts they would show
And men started flashing their twenties

© Jack Ellison 2013...

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Beautiful woman
Twenties or thirties
Schooling or career
Lovers and boyfriends
Best times of her life

Getting older
Gotten smarter
Beauty within
Stability

Golden years
Grandchildren
Gratitude

Tranquil
Wisdom

Time...

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Wind
on a 
warm summer
day.  Fir limbs sway
like a flapper from 
the roaring twenties.  The
breeze carries a resinous 
scent of pitch and earth, unleashing
a flood of memories thought lost to 
time.  The campfire smoke and embers still glow....

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Limerick: Once a lean Lecher in his nineties

Once a lean Lecher in his nineties
Wondered if he could relive his twenties:
He went on a diet
Of French fries and cutlet:
The Wench said it felt like rigor mortis !

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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So says Uncle Charlie, “I'm a bank robber of note”
Spent time behind bars, to a life of crime he did devote
Don't know whether I'm proud
Shouldn't talk about him out loud
Or keep him a secret, it was back in the twenties quite remote...

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We pennies are coppers
    Quarters, two bits

  We dollars are bucks or singles
    Five dollars, five-spots or fins

  Tens are (or were) sawbucks
    Twenties, doubly so

  We hundreds are C-spots or 'G's ~
    Who says we're 'all about the Benjamins'...

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He was born young, I mean really young
His hair was curly, fluffy and beige
His skin, for milk and fire a bridge
His eyes, orbs of fiery passion 
Favoured was he by Aphrodite and Adonis
He is he that is moulded by time and endless time of daydream.

Bite Size Poem no48...

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an automat whose orbs of light
reflect and touch the void of night

a refuge from the twenties’ roar
trapped in her thoughts without a door

a table, cup and gloveless hand
alone together in her land

a bowl of fruit that sits behind:
the 'still life' and her state of mind....

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