Letting Go of the Eighties
Letting Go Of The Eighties
It’s time!
to finally let them go —
Shoulder pads,
bangles,
and bows
Puffy sleeves,
baby-blue dress
Big hair clips,
high-tops,
and wedge
Walkman ear buds,
high-waist jeans,
Jelly shoes —
bright pink, lime green
It’s time!
to finally —toss them out!!!!!
all that I can live without…
Silly me
to keep
that fluff —
It’s crowding out
my nineties stuff!
About this poem
One day, cleaning out my closet of stuff that I should’ve thrown out decades ago, this silly poem came to me.
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Written on November 11, 2024
Submitted by susan.brumel on January 16, 2025
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22 |
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