Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)
    Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)
    Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)
    Ebook90 pages26 minutes

    Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)

    By Julie Stamp

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Seventy from the 70s is a collection of poems written by a 1970's schoolgirl, presented just as they appear on the poet's original handwritten copies. They offer a fascinating glimpse into the psyche of a teenage girl in the early 1970's, with subjects as diverse as kittens, seagulls and witchcraft, plus the recurring topic of love both gained and lost. Let Seventy from the 70s take you back to your own teenage years: to all the confusion, exhilaration and wonder!

    Julie Stamp lives in SE Kent and is still writing poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulie Stamp
    Release dateJun 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301106134
    Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)
    Author

    Julie Stamp

    Julie lives in SE Kent in the United Kingdom and has been writing poetry since her early teens. She is inspired by the minutiae of everyday life and is fascinated by the resonance of childhood, a recurring theme in her work. Her poetry has been published in the UK and Romania and a compilation of her earliest poetry, written aged 13-15 years - Seventy from the 70's - is now available from Smashwords.

    Related to Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      An Interview With Xueyan

      Jun 24, 2023

      An Interview With Xueyan
      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      Four Poems
      7 min read

    • Article

      Three Letters from Switzerland

      Aug 15, 2019

      Three Letters from Switzerland
      4 min read

    • Article

      In The Spotlight:your Writing Dark Side

      Dec 7, 2023

      Spooky season evidently offered creative inspiration aplenty for the WM writers, who responded to the call for writing in November’s crime-themed issue on the theme of ‘Dark Side’ with our fullest mailbox yet. The poetry and prose sent in demonstrate

      4 min read

    • Article

      Summer Of Love

      Jun 22, 2022

      Summer Of Love
      15 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      Looking back at photographsour clothes were enormous drapedacross our shoulders hanginglow off our hips like they weresomeone else’s and they wereusually someone’s old flannelit is clear we didn’t careor that we had different goalsfor our clothes I r

      5 min read

    • Article

      Beaming Bright

      Jul 3, 2019

      WHEN HE WAS 9, FILMMAKER Terence Davies went to the movies to see Doris Day in Young at Heart; “That’s when I first fell in love with her,” he says. It’s a love that would last a lifetime. When offered a chance to meet her later in life, however, he

      1 min read

    • Article

      Crossing The Generation Gap

      Nov 3, 2022

      Crossing The Generation Gap
      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Mar 4, 2019

      for William Gifford, 1928–2015 The river. Always the same, never the same.Poughkeepsie. A place north of where I am.To remember you is to remember Poughkeepsie.To remember Poughkeepsie is to remember the river.I am downriver now & you are a memoryI

      3 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied

      May 17, 2018

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied
      5 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year

      Jan 3, 2019

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
      7 min read

    • Article

      Summer: A Love Story

      Apr 20, 2021

      It is a squalid time. The body grows tired of being a body. Sweat. Always. A thin film of it on the skin. Do not say dewy. Do not say glisten. I dream of endless green. Of wet. Of rain hammering the Earth. Of buds sprouting. I want to insist on life

      2 min read

    • Article

      WINNERS MARCH 2022 POETRY CONTEST Artist

      Jul 1, 2022

      Joanie Sacks, age 9 Portland, ME She flew through the evening sky and landed on a lacey white cloud with a job to do. She dipped her paintbrush into the glistening water below her. Then Mother Nature started. A mural of sorts, the blank white sky as

      4 min read

    • Article

      Lagavulin BAY

      May 10, 2023

      Lagavulin BAY
      6 min read

    • Article

      My Friend Juniper

      Apr 5, 2023

      My Friend Juniper
      24 min read

    • Article

      The Denial Of Death

      Sep 15, 2018

      I had left my passport at an inn we stayed at for a night or so whose name I couldn’t remember. This is how it began. The next hotel would not receive me. A beautiful hotel, in an orange grove, with a view of the sea. How casually you accepted the ro

      3 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      This is the time of year when stormsspin up from distant dustand sand and make their way to us,and we worry and adjust the scales we carry in our headsto account for luck and prayer.We buy batteries and candles, cordsand water to prepare. There are t

      5 min read

    • Article

      A New Festive Tradition

      Nov 5, 2023

      A New Festive Tradition
      3 min read

    • Article

      Let A Little Love In

      Jun 9, 2019

      Let A Little Love In
      4 min read

    • Article

      TWO ESSAYS from FINGER EXERCISES FOR POETS

      Nov 1, 2022

      Russian Formalists have a word, “ostranenie,” which means constantly attempting to discover new ways of looking at everyday things. There are almost always two realities rubbing up against one another in every poem, whether they are specified or not,

      10 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      May 1, 2023

      At the end of the world, I sat in the dark waiting for you,but you didn’t come. You didn’t save me. At the end we are always alone, candles slowlyburning out, losing the flame for lack of oxygen. You didn’t tell me it would be like this. All of itcam

      2 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Summer Beach Reads

      Jan 10, 2021

      Summer Beach Reads
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Seventy from the 70s (Easy to Understand Poems from Harder to Understand Times) - Julie Stamp

      About this book:

      Back in the 1970s the objects of my desire were boys with long hair, flared trousers and fully-stamped passports to my tender teenage heart. The poems in this collection were written when I was aged thirteen to fifteen years, between 1972 and 1974. This was a time during which, like most teenagers, I felt everything too acutely, too deeply. I still have my original handwritten copies so am able to offer the poems unchanged and unrefined; although I have grown both as a person and a poet, I believe they have a naïve charm. Despite being written by a teenage girl, the subjects are actually quite diverse: it seems only 99% of my waking thoughts were filled with boys! So I hope you enjoy this collection of seventy easy-read poems and that some may even prompt you to recall your own teens, those times of much confusion, exhilaration and wonder.

      ***

      Seventy from the 70s

      Easy to understand poems

      from harder to understand times

      by Julie Stamp

      Copyright 2013 Julie Stamp

      Cover Image & Design © 2013 Gary Stamp

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

      This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other

      people. If you would like to share this book with another

      person, please purchase an additional copy for each

      recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase

      it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please

      return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents

      About this book

      Front Matter

      Myth & Legend

      Mystic Lady

      Lady Night-Time

      Midnight

      When Moon was Ripe and Round

      The Seasons Will Pass

      Her Picture

      Old Dusty

      Silver Lark

      In My World

      Lonely Seagull

      Ebb Tide, August 9 pm

      Morning in June

      Summer Butterfly

      September

      Watercolour Sky

      The Man

      Snowscene

      Hoping

      If I Could

      Remember

      2.00 pm Thursday 11th April 1974

      A Valentine’s Verse

      The Gift

      Midsummer Strangers

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1