Carrie Richards Poet Free verse

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The 60's

 It was a cultural revolution, while a world jumped to conclusions
 Of mini-skirts, and go-go boots, and psychedelic tensions
The flower child, would smile and sprout communal peaceful versions
about a war, and called it wrong, and marched to have it end.
Mary, Peter, Paul, would sing,... Pete Seeger wrote his songs
While somewhere soldiers fought the throng of distant Viet Cong  

The wonder years, had rendered us to march in protest parades
Invading rights, the south would fight against the Ku Klux Klan
Rosa Parks would take a seat and fight for rights of men
her bravery would light the world. .. and sparked a light within

 The Beatles sang of "Yesterday", and everything between
"Imagine" if you can at all,.......what peace could ever bring

The evening brewed the Cronkite news, and we believed in him
On distant shores the scores of dead, the dreaded war ensued

A bullet broke the heart of man...
and we would watch a child salute 
    the father that he loved and knew
                            struck down beneath, 
                                 a Texas sky one cloudy afternoon ...        
                                                                     
His uncle too, ...then, Dr. King.....succumbed to hate, such fate would come, as well
The dates we keep with lock and key, and still,....our throats will swell

Yet through the clouds, into the sky....one step for all mankind
Would light the world,  again with hope.....and take us to the moon



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For Kelly's Contest: Decades
3/4/15

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Les Pruitt June 30, 2015 at 7:52 PM enjoyed reading your piece. Please critique mine "A Heritage That Wrought Hate." The South has a very dark history based on terrorism worst than Hitler heaped on the Jews and 40 times greater. It is disrespectful in our current era to display the Confederate Flag on State or Federal grounds/buildings. And, utterly a slap in the face to not lower it for a slain state senator from an act of terrorism. But, certain politicians have always been supportive of the Klan.

Tim Ryerson April 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM Yes indeed my friend! We are of the same generation and it's great to recall these historic events that changed the world forever...I DEFINITELY got swept up in the counter-culture movement (Maybe a little TOO much?) The events that you mention are those that one remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing at the time they occurred...GREAT job and congrats - Tim Tim Ryerson April 3, 2015 at 3:41 PM PS: Gonna send you a documentary that you might want to watch when you have time...It's about music of course but it's also a glimpse of what it was like growing up in the South in the late 60's and early 70's...Hope you enjoy!

Eve Roper March 23, 2015 at 10:52 PM Back to congratulate you on this fantastic win.

Sandra Haight March 23, 2015 at 11:31 AM Congratulations on your nice win, Carrie. It was nice to take a trip back to that decade and recall some of the sad and great highlights you imaged with your descriptive words. Hugs, Sandra

Poet Destroyer A March 22, 2015 at 11:08 PM CARRIE, Congratulations on your wonderful win. Always ~LINDA~

Kelly Deschler March 22, 2015 at 7:17 PM An excellent poem, Carrie! From peace to turmoil, you've captured the swirl of emotions that defined the 60's... Congratulations on the first place win!

Bl Devnath March 13, 2015 at 2:04 PM Hope has no ends, it continues because of human instinct and we go ahead with that. But our human fate is like that even after good is being deserved we fall in to bad many times. Our world is a miraculous market of miraculous design where everything have value differently at different places. For many bad things are good and for many good things are bad....and so on. So, unison is impossible from every sides and your last line is a line of diamond words. 7+.. Loved always, my lovely friend,bl Carrie Richards March 13, 2015 at 2:27 PM Thank you for your continual encouragement and generosity with kind words for my poems. It never goes unnoticed and I am so grateful ! Thank you again and again!

Cecilia Macfarlane March 9, 2015 at 9:16 PM Carrie, this is riveting, you summed up this decade magnificently! Hugs

Eve Roper March 9, 2015 at 2:22 PM Awesome write with ever thing covered with a win.blessings and hugs O:-)

Emile Pinet March 5, 2015 at 3:33 PM You have pretty much summed up the 60's, a time of dreams and dreamers. Well done. Emile. #7

Brian Baumgarn March 5, 2015 at 1:41 AM Thanks for the wonderful commentary on the 60's, Carrie. I grew up then, graduating in 1968. Yes, tumultuous times but so much history slammed into a decade. So many of my generation wanted to live life by escaping it. Yes, I would that we all had the drive and dream again to go to the moon. Thanks so much for your words

Njeri Hunjeri March 4, 2015 at 8:38 PM This is a strong picture of the 60's. You captured a lot of that decade. Def a7! Wish yo the best in the contest.