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Speakeasies Poems - Poems about Speakeasies

Speakeasies Poems - Examples of all types of poems about speakeasies to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for speakeasies.

Premium Member 1920 TO 1929
...I am the roaring twenties And the cotton club. I am Al Capone and his Thugs. I am the rise of Joseph Stalin. I am the age of science And penicillin. I am Walt Disney a......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, history,
Form: Rhyme



Insecurity
... Insecurity. Bled me dry. The seed. Root. Ghosts in my soul. Invasion. Laughter at speakeasies. Bubbles in the champagne. Surfaced, too quickly. Whether on my right, Or, left of you. ......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, change, confusion, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feathered Enchantment
... In a room that once commanded great respect, stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation. There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings and laughter rolling through the rows of seat......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Holy WindStorm
...These are post-revolutionary gay '20s, without pre-revolutionary SpeakEasies, replaced with ListenHard to global climates of LeftBrain dominant despair. Margaret Meade encourages invites urge......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, culture, health, native american,
Form: Political Verse
prohibition
...i have a pear shaped mandolin depression era that has surely sinned in speakeasies in the '30's because my fingering has never been so beautifully dirty......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, muse,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Roaring Twenties
...Roaring Twenties Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs, With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast; And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink, And a memory in-between t......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, america, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
LEAVING CHICAGO
...Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks over Chicago. It's a layover in the sunlit limbo of the hope isl......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, places
Form: Free verse
Runny Mascara
..."So what will you do without me?" he asks, I will become Jezzebel, like all the other forgotten women of romance movies, huddle in the back alley ways of notorious speakeas......Read More
Categories: speakeasies, introspection, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse