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1920S Poems - Poems about 1920S

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Premium Member What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
... The house came with ghosts. Not the subtle kind, either—no wistful sighs or cool drafts, just full-blown poltergeist tantrums. Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m., spectral remnants of old a......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A stream of consciousness about slippers and tea maybe
...Scooter in hand and not quite picking up my heels through the smulchy (not a word) leaves I'm just thinking about a room of my own (an actual one, although the book I have unfinished next to my be......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, anxiety,
Form: Bio



Madame
...The bric-a-brac shop waits on Rue Nationale. In a sleepy French town. It opens at ten, And closes at one, Till three. Then on till seven in the evening. Madame opens the shutters Before going ......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, devotion, french, friendship love,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Roadside Poetry
...Well, I suppose that I am again revealing my age, But I grew up when Burma Shave signs were all the rage! Could it be that those 'masterly creations' sparked my poetic bent, As I soaked up a tad o......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Human Limitation V Imagination
...Sailboats horses and carts and canal transport Whale oil lighting and candles, salt to preserve Meat, limited sanitation and available running Water, all are part of a formerly more static society......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, education, endurance, environment, for
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Glory of the Knickerbocker
...Knickerbocker Glory There's a story How it got it's name It originated in New York In the early 1900s', so I've heard talk. After a Hotel painted pink and cream Gave rise to the Knickerbocker G......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
After Covid19, If There Is An After
...I You will not be flying very far for the rest of 2020 Say goodbye to globe-trotting entitlements The airlines are flummoxed: they need you; you need plenty Of leg room (Finally!) Six whol......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, angst, change, confusion, endurance,
Form: Didactic
How His Grandparents Met, Part I
...It was back in the 1920s that Harold Welsner brought his fiancé home, to show the family his lovely Sandra, blue-eyed beauty, auburn hair, and small bones. He wanted to show he Colorado, his g......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, anger, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Narrative
Riveting Thread
...Riveting Thread Riveting designs of antiquitity Recovered ruins of the distant past Mix and match with modern taste Adaptations and variations Cropped tops High waisted pants Shoulde......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, age, culture, flower, hair,
Form: Free verse
The Story of Possum, Legend of the Riverland
...There is a story from Renmark in the Riverland Of a man in the bush as his legend began He was a shearer from New Zealand in the Depression Who came to Australia in the 1920s for shearing sessions......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, community, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Winter's Lantern
...The snow on the ground is aglow at midnight A sheet of moonlight Like a sketchpad with shadows Stretched from tree limbs furiously penciled in, A speakeasy dance floor from the 1920s Mobbed ......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, moon, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
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 the rest...
Categories: 1920s, america, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
Halloween Senryu
...tease of wicked night mimicking a Hallow's scheme-- dressed as Clyde's Bonnie Halloween Senryu 16 Oct 2017 ---Bonnie Parker ( Bonnie and Clyde) was history's most nototious robbe......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, evil, halloween,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Coop
...The People's Coop is a warm inviting place, for some a reading and meditation and arts practice and performance space, for others a place to ride sleek bicycles with self-and-other improvement......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, change, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Sonata of Galuppi
...(Baldassare Galuppi was a music composer in 18th century Venice. Johann Pachelbel came a little earlier. Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette were vaudeville artists and on-off lovers in Paris in......Read the rest...
Categories: 1920s, music,
Form: Rhyme

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