60S Poems - Poems about 60S

My older bro watered half of the garden, in the back and front, cause the weatherman said there'll be 50% chance of rain today. Our Monopoly gameboard doesn't have pass go and collect $200, --well it does, but ours came with a knuckle-fisted older bro with 5-digits on the spot. Dad keeps on saying that he'll get it fixed, I...

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I remember the green grass, leaves of the trees turning brown. Walking down the stream not caring that gold lay at the bottom. Fishing at the dam a stick a string and a hook loaded with bologna. Laying Pennies on the railroad track, waiting for the train. Walking through the junkyard enthralled by all the mangled metal. Playing football in...

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Today’s student is not like we were in the sixties. The child never had the last word back then. The child must always have the last word today. Today’s teacher’s biggest problem is this…. When one student is sassy, other students chime in. This could not have happened in the sixties. In the sixties, in my day, the teacher was god...

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cuckoo for Coco Puffs Plop plop fizz fizz bibbity bobbity boo See the USA in a Chevrolet Winston tastes good Like a Knock Knock cigarette should I miss the fifties and sixties...

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(Another way of looking at life... poem) Stacking bricks in a builder’s yard I was just eighteen, while my mate was in Vietnam. I was building for the future, he was trying to lay the foundations. © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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Let's All Drink to Lockdown by Jan Beaumont © I'm normally a social girl I love to meet my mates But lately with the virus here We can't go out the gates. You see, we are the 'oldies' now We need to stay inside If they haven't seen us for a while They'll think we've upped and died. They'll never know the things we...

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“…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 of Confusion raging, divisive with protest. The Moon was in the seventh house, the President nefarious. A time for growth, a time to grouse, the...

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Giddiness pretends we love indifference Desperation in ignorable thoughts Status quo readies us for church and stuff Our heads buried like the pink flumed ostrich Having more in common with us than us Hatred follows us around like mouse traps Head clouds are pretty not hearing squeals Bigotry alive more than the sixties War? Why not? We have our assault rifles. Dr Martin Luther...

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Unconventional, they mocked the establishment Clad in paisley tops and bell-bottom denim, With a symbol hanging on necks wrists or belts - An emblem of inverted V , the birth of protest Where murmurs from unrest gusted through lyrics, In Woodstock of dreams hailing Baez, Hendrix, Dylan As flower-power’s youth signaled change… People of the 60s...

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Long, shaggy bangs and suntan oil Attracting the rays through pieces of foil Transistor radio playin' Beatles tunes Soppin' the sunshine from morning 'til noon Soft, summer grasses, the rabbit is loose Teen Beat in one hand, the other one, juice Beads of sweat but stubbornness wins Starin' at summer through dark tinted lens Time to go in and get dressed for the...

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Opposite poles drifting apart, Trying hard to defend separation, Opposite poles, playing cards, Losing the game of kings and bows. When all they did was wait to paint the streets brown, She sat there singing the song of rains and the clown, That would come and go like the winter bills, Swinging and tingling as the wind blew whistles, Reminding her...

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American Bandstand, Aqua Velva Ads, Aretha Franklin, and, the Andy Griffith Show Black lights, Bewitched, bean bag chairs, beads, Batman and the Beatles Cleopatra, Corvairs, Corvettes, Chevelles, Captain Kangaroo, Civil Rights Movement Dionne Warwick, Derek and the Dominoes, Dennis the Menace, and Dodge Dart. Ed Sullivan’s Amateur Hour, Elvis Presley, the Edsel, and new expressions emerge. Fiddler on the Roof...

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60s Cool Level choppy, way cool fool, Hand slices the air, horizontal, cruel, {breathe, level choppy man} Way-cool of dudes, controls the day, If you aint cool? Depart I say, way-of-cool doth rule, Capisce ok … Don Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X8D2_TaPc...

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I was there in the 60s threads, we had the skin tight shirts n jeans, keep ya warm on winters nights instead, the pill arrived, mind blowing scenes :} the porkupine has been, by the quill of ethelred......

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When I was a boy, Just 8 years of age, I saw - cities burning, I saw - fires raging, In the hearts of men. When I was a boy, Just 8 years of age, I heard - Mothers crying, I heard - leaders lying, About Vietnam. And my Mother cried, Kennedy had died, In some city called Dallas, Far - far away When I was a boy, Just 8...

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