Best 60S Poems

(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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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...

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Gladness of meadows, ill weeds, 
children of flowers, mad deeds, 
bitter of fathers, iron glove. 
Winds are carrying the love. 

Noisy city, stone’s moan, 
smoky bars, reality’s yawn, 
beasts in cages out of laws. 
Jim is opening the doors. 

Words of rampage, hair to shoulders,...

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counter culture
damn antidisestablishmentarianism 
one, two, three, four
we won’t fight your
stinking war
social revolution
if you 
can’t be
with the one you love, love the
one you’re with, flower children unite
sex, drugs
rock’n roll
Timothy Leary, acids dreams, government schemes
Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty Four
The Greening of America, Money, money, money
Hell no,...

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(TWENTYNET  - 60s)

LOSS   OF   INNOCENCE




Fab four
Psychedelic colors
LSD powered yellow submarine
Ragas and flower children
Great Society
Female Liberation
Black Power
San Francisco
State of innocence  - Garden of Eden
Shake off shackles of this earth
Space race
Gagarin Armstrong
Ask not what you can do
With a man on the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Twentynet 60’s

Beatle mania, 
squealing girls,
days of hard night. 
The young, the restless,
long hair,
smoking joints.

Mind trips,
free love,
Vietnam, body bags and soldier’s disgrace.
Expressions of peace as moral decayed, 
Jesus freak’s, 
Slang words.
My old lady was girl friend.
My Volkswagen was beach-front home,
one more town, one more beach.
Searching for...

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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...

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Angel bars sissy bars and banana seats
The rolling stones what a cool beat

Cronkite 6pm news telling of Kennedys death
Just a young boy i really didnt understand yet

Mother would say you kids go outside and play
Cigar box marbles jacks made my day

Saturdays came i couldnt wait
Fishin...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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