Best The Great Depression Poems
The Great DepressionThe Great Depression began around 1930 and it was world wide.
It was so bad that about forty thousand people committed suicide.
It began when the Stock Market crashed on October the 29th of 1929.
The Great Depression sent many people to the unemployment lines.
The Great Depression lasted...
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Categories:
the great depression, grandmother, october, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Depression and HalloweenSometimes a great depression rises up from with in my being ...
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Categories:
the great depression, courage,
Form:
Free verse
The Great DepressionBorn in the latter part of The Great Depression
Don't know how my parents managed with eight dependants
I was the last in '35
But we all survived
Growing veggies in the yard avoiding senseless obsolescence...
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Categories:
the great depression, depression,
Form:
Limerick
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long thin legs, watching the sweat bees drone,
talking about poke salat—
how...
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Categories:
the great depression, age, america, appreciation, depression,
Form:
Free verse