Psychedelic

There are colors that please the eyes:
Rainbows, sunsets, and a sunrise
On psychedelic, I can't gaze
Without recalling careless days.

Ponytails, psychedelic shirts
Flower girls in long, faded skirts
Hippies searching in mushroom clouds
Anti-war protests drawing crowds

Talk of love is everywhere
Psychic wisdom floats in the air
Peace and love in every song
Thinking all the world can be one

While in the flower fields afar
Youths die fighting another war.

POTW!

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 12/7/2024 6:05:00 AM

A colorful write of peace, love and war. The mixed bag of earth. Blessings for better days. Congrats on POTD!

Ann Peck
Date: 6/4/2025 9:24:00 AM

Thanks, Kim!

I Am Anaya

Date: 12/6/2024 8:29:00 AM

Hello Ann! Great adventures of the days of peace and love . You 've captured the hippy movement, and im sure you were the cutest flower child. Congratulations on POTW! And today's POTD! ~ Flower power

Benjamin Bartley

Date: 12/5/2024 7:50:00 AM

That was incredible and a super high five for your POTW! Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 12/4/2024 12:45:00 AM

- Congratulations on your p.o.t.w., Ann - The hippie era will always be in our history :) - hugs

Maria Williams

Date: 12/3/2024 4:02:00 AM

Congrats on your POTW for a lovely sonnet. Yes - I've read all about the flower power people, their peaceful protests and love songs - in fact I think that the Musical 'Hair' was all about them and the song Aquarius was about a new age to come. So sad that a lot of young men had to go to the senseless Vietnam war, which no one won anyway. Maria

Ann Peck
Date: 12/3/2024 1:11:00 PM

Thank you, Maria. All our talk of peace and love couldn't keep war at bay.

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 12/2/2024 9:29:00 AM

Back with Congratulations on your POTW win. I enjoyed reading your wonderful yet sad write again. Enjoy your day/win....................

Ann Peck
Date: 12/2/2024 10:50:00 AM

Dear Paula, Thank you! You always make my day. And thank you for seeing the sadness in my poem.

Karen Jones

Date: 12/2/2024 1:08:00 AM

I was only two in 69 but this was a part of my life for sure riding the hip of a hippie mom. Love the descriptions the imagery and how love was a part of the movement in hopes. Also the last contracting lines are thought provoking! Great potw! Congratulations!

Karen Jones
Date: 12/4/2024 2:28:00 AM

Well those lines certainly deliver!

Ann Peck
Date: 12/2/2024 10:53:00 AM

Thank you, Karen. I wanted people to think about those last two lines.

Brandy Nicole

Date: 12/1/2024 3:39:00 PM

' Hippies searching in mushroom clouds, anti-war protests drawing crowds. ' I don't recall these days, because I wasn't here then, but I've heard many stories about it. Groovy poem, Ann. Congratulations on Poem of the Week. My best to you. :) Hugs, Brandy

Ann Peck
Date: 12/2/2024 10:54:00 AM

Thank you, Brandy. It's so nice to hear from you!

Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 12/1/2024 6:08:00 AM

Dear Ann, oh my this took me back to my teen days and the flower power of the era. I had my first multicolor wide bell bottoms in 1969. I am also a veteran of the Vietnam Era. You poem said it so well that we as youth are the ones who fight the wars. A wonderful POTW! Autumn Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel

Ann Peck
Date: 12/2/2024 11:00:00 AM

Thank you, Daniel. And thank you for serving our country! I wanted to remind how peace and love were everywhere except where the youths were dying every day fighting a war.

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 12/1/2024 5:22:00 AM

The groovy 60’s - those were the days, for those allowed to be themselves that is. Congratulations Ann on receiving the honour of poem of the week… Beryl

Ann Peck
Date: 12/2/2024 11:03:00 AM

Thank you so much, Beryl. Yes, those were the days!