Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Boys Of The Fifties Comments

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The boys of the fifties are not young today
The years have left them looking wrinkled and gray
In the late nineteen sixties they were in their lives prime
Anybody does never get younger in time
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Francis Duggan
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Douglas Scotney 24 July 2018

I'll testify to that Francis.....

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Practicing Poetess 24 July 2018

Puts me in mind of Happy Days, Grease, and American Graffiti (except more real, of course!) Juke boxes, drive-ins, penny loafers and saddle oxfords, letter sweaters, poodle skirts, the advent of Rock & Roll music, transistor radios, Sweet Sixteens, being pinned, record players, ponytails, convertible cars. Those must have been the days!

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Robert Murray Smith 24 July 2018

I was a boy in the forties and fifties. A good poem.++10

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