An Era of Peace, Love and Flowers

  
     An era of peace, love and flowers
        psychedelic drugs, sex orgies, people-power

     Out to shake up the world every which way
        violence eventually carried the day 

     long hair, ripped jeans, love-beaded conformists 
        became ‘black-power,’ SDS, urban guerilla performists 

     Preaching morality, practicing brutality
         ~ trampled ‘neath law-‘n-order mentality
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Etgen-Baker Avatar
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
your poem touched a chord with me--the last two lines are powerful and true.
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