Pete, just read your poem and have to say I really enjoyed it!
Here's something along the same 'nostalgia path' which I submitted in my creative writing degree portfolio last year:
Adolescence
Grey offices, wooden shelters,
rotten signs, the 74 bus,
the music hall, the gothic club,
they were all the making of us.
Shiny records, broken tapes,
The Cure, Duran Duran,
a game of football in the road,
kids playing kick the can.
Acne cream, homework logs,
Girls with love bites on their necks
from kisses behind the sheds,
teenage kicks, first time sex.
Falklands War, Maggie Thatcher,
all the things we were against,
loss of jobs, closing pits,
the strikers became our saints.
But we all grew up and changed,
without any knowledge put to use,
and we all reminisce on those
forgotten days of our youth.
I didn't grow up in the 80s- was born mid-november '89-but for some reason I've got an obsession with it!
Things I remember from the 90s though?
- The Oasis vs Blur debate
- Painting your front door/car red if you supported Man U or blue if you supported Everton
- Penguin bars with jokes
- When cheese and onion Golden Wonder packets were green and not blue (Smokey Beckham and Cheese & Owen Walker packets!)
- Spice Girls everywhere
- Pogs and trolls
I could spend a good few hours here...