The Great Depression Poems - Poems about The Great Depression

...55 plus years of marriage down the drain She watches it spin and spin It is too much to process the pain Her mind usually a flurry No longer a need to hurry Her Husband departed on that swe......

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...the 1934 model 40 B Fordor deluxe sedan idled outside the gas station Inside was Clyde Barrow, who was robbing the place His moll, Bonnie Parker, sat inside the car, holding a shotgun these noto......

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... I read a poem about a mother, a saintly mother, who, with knotted and veined hands, crocheted blankets and booties and mittens for grandchildren, who made lemonade ......

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...[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart,......

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... Happy Number 110, Dad Thanks to you I can recall Life before the Internet and the shopping mall I remember your office a cabinet, desk and chair Open the window ......

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...They say we struggle til we die, If that's the case I don't want to fight to stay alive, Feels like a crime, Stealing money from our pockets the government doesn't leave us a dime, Homelessness i......

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...Free market economist, Ludwig Von Mises Ably pinpointed economic diseases. Yet, when we’re told the feds fixed the great depression, Ludwig knew it was caused by fed intervention.......

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...This is a letter I should've written to you many years ago, To express my love and affection - so much to you I owe! Alas, I didn't tell you I loved you enough, that I'll ever rue; The things I wa......

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...I am the roaring twenties And the cotton club. I am Al Capone and his Thugs. I am the rise of Joseph Stalin. I am the age of science And penicillin. I am Walt Disney a......

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...To her family she was coy but truly she would be their Joy, a country girl from Kingaroy - the fourth of eleven. Over hill and range she did tramp living......

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...I was born December 5, 1941 on the eve of Pearl Harbor And I remember the aftermath of the Great Depression, I remember the horrors and anxieties of World War II, This generation has l......

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... Long long ago, when my parents first met, They Fell in love like everyone.... And Started that long treck. Perhaps like you, they fell in love! And they found out there was more Than j......

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...No Greater Hero, Struggling through the Great Depression Growing up fatherless in the care of a loving aunt Losing her husband, his weary mother could not cope Working for the Civilian Conser......

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...7/5/21 "Seventh Heaven (007)" According to local legend Regarding the Great Depression And Armageddon Nearing seventh heaven Still on that 007 Sent him and her toward hell or heaven Clos......

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...This poem is dedicated to Souper Joyce Johnson! “The Greatest Generation” was penned by newscaster Tom Brokaw in 1998 and became a best seller. This generation is defined as people born betw......

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