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Beatniks Poems - Poems about Beatniks


The final frontier post consciousness
...The final frontier – post consciousness as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent, lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent nonestablishmentarian. The following disquisition initially des......

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Categories: beatniks, absence, adventure, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footle the Form O
...BEATNIKS long locks no socks NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and ......

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Categories: beatniks, humorous,
Form: Footle



On Coining An Acronym For the Neologism 'Occult Microaggresion'
...On coining an acronym for the neologism  'occult microaggresion' 'OM' is right, But might get the Buddhists backs up.... OMA, WTAF? What about OMA? Its German for granny, but I've no objection......

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Categories: beatniks, irony,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Please Do Better Please Fix This World
...We did not try as hard as we could We got staid and stodgy and old and stale We gave up after awhile When we discovered our votes counted less than others Discouraged, depressed, disappointing ou......

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Categories: beatniks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Encounter the Footle Miscellany
...footle Monet ok ? Abstract art footle begin within POP ART bean tin kitsch bin BEATNIKS long locks no socks WELCOME TO MY WORLD Come in Big Jim CLUELESS Oh no C......

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Categories: beatniks, poetry, word play,
Form: Footle



Premium Member Beatles and Beatniks
...It might be difficult for those growing up in the 50s and 60s to look back and capture the many issues that captured the......

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Categories: beatniks, america, change, fear, war,
Form: Couplet
Reminiscence
...I write for money You need the stuff But is not the only reason people write verse !!! It is a way to capture one's most innermost thought and express your pain on paper If you remember your......

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Categories: beatniks, literature, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Trixie Jumps Into the Fray
...Nutter Butter. Almond Joy, Mounds Bars, and Cherry Mash. Those candy manufacturers know how to name to get their cash. We contenders scoff; we snicker and sneer. The toymaker crazy idea brigade ha......

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Categories: beatniks, funny, humor, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy Poetic Verses
...would that I could pick up reception of celestial transmissions with a couple'a old soup can phones and country miles of string (would they have harp string ring tones?) and ask the old man ab......

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Categories: beatniks, father, love,
Form: Free verse
For All the Beatniks of San Francisco
...Shirley Brown was a very beautiful girl, And her brunette hair Hung down her back And as the wind blew thru the window, It waved around. It waved around. She was making sandwiches, And was ......

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Categories: beatniks, culture, girl, music, political,
Form: Free verse
Beatnik To Vietnam To Hippie Stand
...(10/13/12) At the beginning of “64” - I packed up my uniform And walked out the door- it was the beginning of The Vietnam war. By August of that same year President Johnson started the draft Under ......

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Categories: beatniks, war, flower, august, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Footle-Beatniks
...long locks no socks......

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Categories: beatniks, nostalgia, people
Form: Light Verse
Rhymezone
...I respect only poets Who know how to rhyme Warm, fuzzy writings That read just like mine. Other forms are too easy Like spending a dime Don’t bother to read them They’re wasting my time. For ......

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Categories: beatniks, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things