Long Bell bottom Poems

My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung

A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.

Seconds...

Read More

“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th Dimension


The times they were a-changing,
an age of great unrest.
A Ball...

Read More

My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas

Except my single grandpa did get dressed up fancy
For Saturday...

Read More

Man have you seen all the stuff
that they’re spreading these days?
Beaming it through the air
from some satellites somewhere a 
thousand miles out in space…
Not even stopping at the 
fact check station 
long enough for a...

Read More

Why must you boudoir bring me an empty bag full of fake?
Pinocchio emotions: wooden soul mannequin real
Your impulses beat a synthetic heart mood — 
artificial aorta stimulation ~ false erotic excitation

Making it so hard to...

Read More

The day after my death
I had the will to get out of bed
I take a short shower to wake myself up
And make myself breakfast

Chocolate chip pancakes with a small glass of orange juice
I walk by...

Read More

A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
 which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no chance of me being there; 
I was a good girl,...

Read More

Age One to five,
diaper, t-shirt, panties, petticoat, dress, hair ribbon,
Six to ten
car coat, patent leather shoes, apron, white pedal pushers, ruffled top,
Eleven to fifteen
Liz blouse, go-go boots, faux leather jumper,
bellbottoms, polyester pantsuit,
Sixteen to twenty
shirt dress,...

Read More

What made you so special my freckle faced friend..
the day I heard you singing to a record, from your window next door.
Bell bottom clad teenaged knock out, with a ballerina's step..    ...

Read More

"How sweet to the heart are the scenes of my childhood"

                        ...

Read More

The 60's
The look was penny loafers, bobby socks,
pleated skirts, button up shirts,
bell bottom pants and headbands
Flower children were also the era, 
Stood for peace and love also political movement

Listen to the music of the Beatles,...

Read More

I think of my sexuality 
The same way I think of chemistry class:
Pretty often, 
And with a definite air
And complete and utter confusion.
I believe I had exactly one day 
Of sexual conviction-
I came out to...

Read More

When did it all end
Summer time out of school and summer best friends
Trying to swim in a creek with water only to your shins
Trips on Fridays, the whole family going to the Drive In
By eleven...

Read More

The Rebel Hippie


Free love go out and burn your bras
 Let's head to Canada to avoid the draft
 To hitch hike across that state line put in a bind
 Shadows hung on the 70's décor...

Read More

Post-hippie and pre-disco kids were we,
not clearly fitting one sole category.
Girls dressed formal for our biggest dance.
No short-shorts or those fab bell-bottom pants.
Exploring options at each fashion store,
we girls picked gowns whose length was to...

Read More

Feelings of mine
Similar as a chiming of church bells.

My feeling of love is like bells,
Echoing loudly.

Sorrow as beautiful 
A blue as bluebells.

Gradual as time
Flows onwards, profound.

Feelings I hold.
Love found as gold as a bell.

My feeling...

Read More

From the smallest of handbells to bells that are heavy,
bells of all types make a large bevy.

Small bells are often the tinkling kind
like decorative ones in some stores we find.

There are ring-a-ling bells and bells...

Read More

Lollipop splish splash  Cotton candy crush.
Light pink balloon fitting into her abstract chair
Sitting herself down she turned to the early seventies

Bell bottom hip hugger blue jeans fitted tight to her knees
She felt sassy and...

Read More

IMAGINE THIS THAT HIGHER WATER RISES HAND HOLDS HAT ON FIRE--

Hurry, hurry before the lake rises, higher and higher;
It gets much getting much higher and higher;
I am in such denial, denial;
Wouldn’t place my hat in...

Read More

They called him Jumper

He preferred  Prancer

When he was happy he would prance

Giant circles of joy

And the dizziness

Too many beers and staggers

For 365 days waiting times 4

He would dress himself  outlandishly

Feathers and painting his...

Read More

Candy Coated Memories

Remembering the days of old
and standing there in line.
Watching all the people pass
holding your hand in mine.

Bell bottom jeans and flared out sleeves
when what far out meant was groovy.
M&Ms and popcorn
while we're watching...

Read More

Night wrinkles on dim hangers;
bell-bottom pants
two-toned platform shoes
a wide `kipper' tie.

In a pocket
a crumpled Kodachrome -
hot pants and velvet neck-choker.
‘Who is she?’

This closet is a time machine
I exited decades ago.
Dreaming hands part a frilled dress...

Read More

Lost in my youth coming from this old vinyl
groovin the grooves and riding the vibes
that take me back to
1969
 
Black lights, a strobe or two, 
share some smoke between me and you
back to when, hair...

Read More

WEATHERMAN

before declaring a major
he studied bomb making
with a beautiful girl
who wore tight bell-bottom jeans
and assured him she knew 
what she was doing.  SDS or 
Weatherman Underground
he never knew, but some time
near the end of...

Read More

Flowing gray locks blown by the wind.
gives me a look of a hippy woman,
wearing bell-bottom jeans with a wide belt,
a big-collared shirt covered with a vest of felt.

Time for a haircut.

Hanging onto my hair length...

Read More