Best 1950S Poems

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...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

.


                        ...

Read more of this work...

(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...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...

beware atomic attack!
1950s civil defense
duck and cover drills
Bert the turtle 
showed us the way

flash of light - duck and cover!...

Read more of this work...

Where have they gone- those days of long ago-
     when life was simple- more predictable?
      ...

Read more of this work...

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...

Read more of this work...