Best 1960S Poems

Oh… how I miss that time! With it’s Saturday morning cartoons.
Not to mention, daily comics stolen from Papa’s newspaper, too!
Saturday was way better! With Snoopie, Little Abner, and friends.
Now I can’t find a newspaper! Or any more of those ‘News Stands’!

It would have been wonderful,...

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Women's liberation
Bras burned
Girls were confused…excited!
Gloria Steinem central figure,
Speaks out.
Women shout.
Politicians doubt.
Equal Rights!
New thinking.  New songs.  New vocabulary.
Debating: Equal jobs for equal pay.
Strong women.
Many followers.
Surprisingly, numerous men quit opening doors.
Woodstock proclaims, “Make love, not war!”
Many soldiers die; "Vietnam Conflict" rages.
Soldiers come home, their world,...

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The shop floor view of the newly promoted

Oh to be the factory foreman and to wear a posh white coat
Just the thought of all that power brings a lump right to your throat
No more dirty hands or hob nail boots or boiler suits for you
No...

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The back of the leg was seen as a place
That was suitable for a slap,
For a child who was rude, or out of control,
Or who stood in the kitchen when Mum had been baking,
And who sneakily stole
A freshly-baked, still-warm sausage roll,
Who, on hearing a footstep,
Stuffed...

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When it comes to all teenagers (teen boys and teen girls) falling in love with each other
back in the 1960s, it was a beautiful thing. The 1960s were also the decade when the
British Invasion began, especially when the Beatles had made their way to the...

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Hollywood’s Lucille Ball, loved by many, 
had an enormously profound effect on me.

She was funny and kind and goofy,
and so wonderful, she lit up my 1960’s TV.

My favorite show of hundreds of thousands
is of her and Ethel making candy.

Until Carol Burnett came along, I thought...

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MARVEL 1960s

As I journey into mystery
I come across the tower of shadows
Into the chamber of darkness
I'm found tales to astonish
Hulking and giant men
Sub marina
Involved in tales of supense
Iron men and american Captains
Oh! but strange tales
Doctors and one eye patch wearing --
    government...

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I saw one flag raised and another fall
I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all

I saw a crisis that stopped the world
I saw a wall to keep out the cold

I saw a man in the outer limits of space
I saw the beginning...

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Cher, Tina, Liza, the Beach Boys too
Elvis singing of two shoes, both blue
Finger motions with Bunny Foo Foo
A whiff of Old Spice and Elmer’s Glue

Lennon’s Fancy My Chances With You
Pop beads, Skipper dolls, TM’s guru,
1960’s items make me smile and coo
And feel seventeen for an...

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The stale still win and the pulsating sounds of police sirens
Followed by the hard thud of a twelve gate shot gun firing 
Instantly tears my heart to shreds
Because another black man or should I say another ***** is dead
As I ran to the scene of...

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upon contemplating how to access 
   a lapsed half century woolworth 
   didst weigh more'n five and dime 
   afore i hove up existential ante
bell and clapper journeys 
   truncated, predicated, conjugated 
   on abundant...

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That peacock is straight out of the sixties I told the throng.
One of them was way too young to know. He said that I was wrong.
He is the colors of the sixties – oranges, yellows and pink.
How do you know? He asked me. Was he...

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Back in my day we had the radio on at my house in early mornings.
We gardened in the summer and ate the food all year round.
It was so much more fresh and tasty than canned or frozen.
We shared the extra with the neighbors, and we...

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beware atomic attack!
1950s civil defense
duck and cover drills
Bert the turtle 
showed us the way

flash of light - duck and cover!...

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some other world passed by that night
through wet circles on the glass.
against the blur of dark and light
crowds swarmed and walked en-masse.

the storm picked up along South Shore
spitting patterns on the screen.
the wipers rubbed and squeaked once more
leaving fan shapes where they’d been.

the lights that...

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