Thirties Poems - Poems about Thirties

...Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm was a book and a movie in the thirties Way back in the day, actually past my day, into my mother’s day. If you do not know who Shirley Temple is, please look her up. She......Read the rest...

... There was a lady in her late thirties She loved juicy gossip and kitty parties Kids were two, an older boy and a younger girl Naughty devils but the lady’s whole world The lady was......Read the rest...

...In this life I've seen several people die. It used to really haunt me and I would ask God why. The first time I was just a teen so many years ago, I was in the middle of giving a massage to a pe......Read the rest...

...You hear them always screaming out how they have no need for a man, they have their jobs, their own money and alone they can proudly stand. They’ve bought into the idea that women are no differe......Read the rest...

...Vargas pin up girls of the thirties intrigued us, delighted us, incited us then along came Barbie, reinforcing that women are beautiful, almost as delightful as the automobiles they sell......Read the rest...

...Nearly fifty years ago His life came to its end And I lost a much loved And respected old friend. Born cruelly disabled, Paralysed by surgical knife, A calculated risk in the hope Of a mor......Read the rest...

...my daddy loved corn meal mush mommy didn’t, she had eaten too much of it during the depression of the thirties I watched him cook it because I loved daddy he gave me a taste with butter and m......Read the rest...

...AI. man An important city was bombed a hundred times during the long horrid night I read one person was killed; how amazing is that The newspaper report does not ask questions. I have a ment......Read the rest...

...III. “Excuse me m’am,”he did call out, “It looks like you could use some help.” The woman looked up cautiously, if she feared him, he could not tell. “And what if my husband should come, see ......Read the rest...

......At first he said, “It’s okay, babe. I work hard, I deserve my play. For several years he managed it, played to the masses in the pit. They lived the high life, best they could, for a good w......Read the rest...

...Games not straight Toffs on horses still killing foxes. Boris parties while we put nans in boxes. Chancellor won’t pay his rate. I tell you now, the games not straight . Palace pay......Read the rest...

...Not pied but a piper of a different sort, Partakers tend to frequent cuff and court. He seldom leads prefers to follow, Decorates flesh while insides hollow. And slowly lets his ways go sh......Read the rest...

...She is grayscale my students said. They are used to people being in living color. She is vintage, I explained. We were all grayscale back then. In the covered wagon days? No. In the thirties, for......Read the rest...

...I could not do what you are mandated to do every day on society's justice bench, weighing retributive justice against restorative healing. I cannot look with any comfort at police and correc......Read the rest...

...I was in the shotgun seat in 1960 Lansing Michigan headed straight as a harddrive through ghettoizing "Negra Section" hunting down our commercial whitebread heavenly ThriftyAcres Wanna be a ......Read the rest...