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Best Counterculture Poems

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Counterculture
We are young and try to be, Independent and free.
Got the world beneath our feet, they took our innocence to keep.
These the men of old,...

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Categories: counterculture, adventure, allegory, angst, childhood,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Hello, I Love You
The Doors of perception
maverick swinging carefree
to billboard hits in
rock’s american counterculture
face of the sixties
vocalist Jim Morrison
steering to the pulse of free love
in the heat of...

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Categories: counterculture, celebrity, death, life, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member East Village Fugue
Some have passion and
Dreams in their hearts
That weave in and out
Beyond the edges
Of small places
Their dreams may be only words to some
But to them they...

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Categories: counterculture, lifeold, old, , Lullaby,
Form: Narrative
The All-Time Greatest Great Britain
This small island civilization,
its empire was the largest creation,
with the widest trade connection,
there are mixed views of our colonization.

Many modern countries exist because of the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: counterculture, england, freedom, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wait a Minute
Did I hear that wrong?

On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay...

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Categories: counterculture, america, caregiving, culture, games,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Nobel Prize Winner
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER?

Nasal, sand paper gritty voice.
Why did he win the poetry Nobel?
“The answer my friend” may be
“blowin’ in the wind.”

What were the Swedes thinking
when...

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Categories: counterculture, music, people,
Form: Free verse
The Journey
·     · 

THE JOURNEY! By Paul David Powers! In the beginning was the question, what life was all about! Though we...

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Categories: counterculture, abuse, addiction, allusion,
Form: Ballad
Surviving In This World
Poets embrace the septic of poetry,
     and frighten those who are shameful and ashamed ...
     People in...

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Categories: counterculture, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Easter Keisterwipes Indoctrinated
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."  
-- an unenlightened assw*pe medieval  
 
*   *   *  
...

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Categories: counterculture, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamcatcher
DREAMCATCHER

the
new attention
in undercurrents
to emphasise
self
as
 the focus
&
the inspiration
&influence
among
the present
day
 counterculture
now
mainstream

alternatives
to the modern
 outlook
of
self
consciousness
dreamcatcher
   myths &
 practices

mainstream
 sensibilities
&
arguably
morality
of
the
orthodox
 elitist

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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Categories: counterculture, poetry,
Form: Other
Dusk Dawns Noticeably Earlier Each Night In Schwenksville, Pennsylvania Yup
Dusk dawns noticeably earlier each night in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania - yup

Which trend will continue some days before
winter solstice 2021 in Northern Hemisphere,
Tuesday, December 21 10:58...

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Categories: counterculture, anniversary, appreciation, atheist, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Splendor
conjure cumulus frost-bitten clouds
curious billows sporting fluffy shrouds
zeniths growing, burgeoning powers
forming glorious looming towers 

hyperboles design brief distortions 
comic sketches of monstrous proportions
cotton confections silvery...

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Categories: counterculture, imagery, imagination, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Sketches
consider cumulus frost-bitten clouds
curious billows sporting fluffy shrouds
zeniths growing, burgeoning powers
forming glorious looming towers 

hyperboles design brief distortions 
comic sketches of monstrous proportions
colliding cotton, silvery...

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Categories: counterculture, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Vapor
VAPOR! By Paul David Powers! 
Life is but a vapor, flowers bloom and die! 
But we have a destiny, a purpose, reason rhyme! 
In the...

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Categories: counterculture, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs