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1950S Poems - Poems about 1950S


Premium Member 1950s Luncheonette Counter
noisy luncheonette 1950’s fast food men in suits and ties women in cotton dresses wearing high heeled shoes none unchaperoned counter closed on Sundays family day everyone in church...

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Categories: 1950s, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
A 1950s Lancashire Life
So you want to hear a story, first of all there is no morning glory. Your feet touch the floor its cold as ice as is the water, what a surprise. With sleepy eyes you look for your clothes, best thing just follow your nose, they are the same ones you have had on all week. Don't...

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Categories: 1950s, child, growing up,
Form: Free verse



A View of New York In the 1950s
(Dylan Thomas, Oct 1914 – Nov 1953) I as one who has never touched the shining Big Apple – as ruthless then as it's ruthless now – gaze at its romantic pictures moving on my TV screen depicting New York's glistening streets of the nineteen fifties, the decade Dylan died there. Screaming lights and busy marquees dance in the sparkling, winking streets; cars hopeful and...

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Categories: 1950s, new york, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Days of Long Ago
Where have they gone- those days of long ago- when life was simple- more predictable? When friends and family talked face to face- eyes flashing in the sun-...

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Categories: 1950s, family, life, memory, old,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dancing In the Fifties
Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat; full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore, while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet to music slow and fast on the dance floor. Each Saturday, we'd all go to Hi-Y, where classmates gathered to have fun and dance. Most partnered with their special gal or guy- that music of the fifties did...

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Categories: 1950s, dance, fun, high school,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Simple Pleasures
It's early 'fifties- a group meets in field of grass, though barren, bare- a break away from city streets to share some wholesome country air. The cars behind are parked to wait as couples sit, while others stand; they're here to hear, appreciate a roving five-piece country band. No matter that the grass is tall, this place can offer them some time away from weekday...

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Categories: 1950s, fun, memory, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Duck and Cover
beware atomic attack! 1950s civil defense duck and cover drills Bert the turtle showed us the way flash of light - duck and cover!...

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Categories: 1950s, childhood, memory, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member School, 1950s
A curious cocktail of odours greets us as we move in from playground to corridor, to cloakroom, to classroom. Beeswax fragrance: freshly buffed parquet. Brasso smell: base metal turned to gold. Jeyes Fluid: vapour killing vile germs. Such alchemy starts our day with clean slate. Playground cacophony left behind. Now each sound has discipline, has purpose. First bell: registration shall begin. Next...

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Categories: 1950s, bible, education, faith, religion,
Form: Free verse
Remembering Tv of the 1950s
Remembering TV of the 1950s By Elton Camp About TV, this little account is told From when I was twelve years old Because it was along about then When TV fascination did begin The programming choices were few The channels we received were two A massive antenna was the only way There existed no cable system to pay A flat lead-in thru the window threaded The...

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Categories: 1950s, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Early 1950s In Jacksonville Fl
Wafting on the morning breeze, During manufacturing Our whole town enjoyed the scent. Maxwell House Coffee. Freshness permeating air. Aroma percolating. Infusing memories of… Grandma’s coffee pot. June 3, 2012 Dane Ann Smith-Johnen...

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Categories: 1950s, childhood, nostalgia, places, social,
Form: Dodoitsu
Teenage Love 12: Teenage Lovers of the 1950s
It was the 1950s and all teen lovebirds back in the day were the greatest couples in America. These people were way before all people who were born in the 1980s were born, even me. It seems that both teen lovebirds (a teen boy-turned elderly man and a teen girl-turned elderly woman) fell completely in love with each...

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Categories: 1950s, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, on
Form: Epic
Premium Member In the 1950s Parents Were "all Shook Up"
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Categories: 1950s, dedication, music
Form: Epigram

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