Best 1960 Poems

Quiet night.
Quiet love...
Never told.
Damn my silence.
Wish you understood.
All I am is you.
I feel such a fool...

And fools are cheap these days....

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The noon air shimmers

westward on Rte. 66

like a dream waiting...

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A litany of states have we been through
and countries if one counts the past.
From eras gone we came as people who
could turn the soil and make a life at last.
We sailed from bankrupt English mines
and Irish tubers rotting in the ground,
to Ellis Island like human...

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It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten.

It was my growing up period.  A very bad year for me

in many ways.  My last year of Jr. High I was kicked out

for smoking in boy's restroom.  Then a few months...

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Part Two

From that moment onwards
Not when the fingerless muscles unclasped
    the indented bones
But from that moment of knowing
   from that very moment of sustenance
That day of human unbelief died unsung
And the depth of human grief buried long
   ...

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Part One

Now as I account for myself
I know the fight is over
   You made me feel if I was worth saving
I was worth having
And I knew as the man flattered to grow
    He also learned the crafts of
  ...

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Flipping through the pages
Skimming the dried ink
So many questions it raises
Oh, the many things I think

Who are these young faces
And where are they, today
Though they left many traces
Green, they couldn’t stay

The smell of aged paper
Nostalgia hits my nose
20th century flavor
Ketamine and blow

They wrote of their...

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With my cap on my head and my satchel in hand
I set off one day for a strange foreign land
No more for me my comfy first school
I was off to a place where REAL learning did rule

My old junior school was just down the road
Perhaps...

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Part Three

Did you not notice then
How uneasy I was in the eye of abundance
How hiding from the surfeit of joy
From whose very object I
Learned not to cry

And so all through with fear
Fear opening fresh fear
Without respite, without cause
Deft day handling stolen night
Within the walls of...

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Famine Foretold
(Stalin, 1930, 30 million, and Mao Tse Tung 1960, 42 million, et al)

The land is the lord of men who live
Near yellow and lime-green fields,
Who plant it and till it and gladly give
All their toil, for crops it yields.

Dictators forced them to the modern...

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October 1 is here again 
 But this time, my darling country Nigeria 
Clocked 57, what an era....... !
We celebrate with imaginary loud trumpets 
With our minds, we imagine Joy and merry 
No heart felt big smiles and hugs amongst Nigerians 
 But still we...

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yellow daisy chain
Birkenstocks sandals
ukuleles play
peace sign happy face
a hippie child

1960’s
Woodstock music
pass around bong
free love flowing

bell bottoms
hip-huggers
lava lamp

flower
child

love...

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The great Elvis Presley stole the show
When it came to music, fast and slow

Patsy Cline could sing so sweet and fine
Without a doubt, her voice would shine

Hank Williams had a son with his name
Like father, like son – they claimed fame

Ray Charles played despite being...

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VietNam War – TET

war
60’s
Viet Nam
youth quickly lost
Greyscale TV’s final shock and awe

Written April 28, 2019
Contest: Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Milky Galaxy
Heavenly Bodies
Astronaut Training
Space Exploration
Glenn, Scott, Carpenter

60’s Space Race 
Explore Cosmos
Land On The Moon
Favorite Martian

Aliens
George Jetson
Lost In Space

Moon...

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