Best Seventies Poems

I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying demeans.

Revolutionary, the stance we took,
The freedom of iconoclastic paths
To justify rebellious avenues
That swayed the truth in plain objective wraths.

Our music...

Continue reading...

I was newly thirteen when the seventies took me underwing,
then married and grown when they creased inside time’s fold.

I was not attracted to those scholastic or athletic,
but to those lacking labels and considered rebels.
Moving yearly filled my army-brat life with sad good-byes
that swerved my teenage...

Continue reading...

I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of light brown.
Platform shoes on, I boogie down the street,
a first date to look forward to that night,
flared pants flapped in...

Continue reading...

WHERE WERE YOU IN THE SEVENTIES

i was between a tween and adult, in the house of the hudson valley,
and music was my main man,

i would hear whispered in my ear
me and mrs. jones...we got a thing goin’ on

and i would rock to sleep
don’t rock the...

Continue reading...

I could write a poem of all the headlines, 
most influential people, and important events of the decade,
but instead, I’ll share with you some of my memories…
my first memories (when the decade ended, I was seven).
I remember our mustard yellow and avocado green furniture, 
watching...

Continue reading...

You ask me;

Where was I in the Seventies?
This was my decade, my formative years.
I was a long-haired rebel without a cause,
Football was my religion, rapture and tears.

Discovering Progressive Rock Music,
A Drifter in Satin suit and flares.
No need of drugs, I was high on life,
Free spirited,...

Continue reading...

seventies music          
so many fine groups back then                   
such as Three Dog Night...

Continue reading...

Early 70's suffered from post puberty traumatic stress
running to the school bus stop my belongings a mess
at times missing the bus and walking to school
enjoying my time alone and the suburban view

Graduated from my NY high school in 1975
worked a variety of jobs I was...

Continue reading...

The early seventies was rather interesting
one minute hanging out with a pack of wolves
predators of the night... the next... nine weeks in boot camp
on the great lakes in Winter...so cold
then off to a very large aircraft carrier
where I spent the next two years roaming its...

Continue reading...

Stage set: Nineteen Seventy-Two

Enter threshold Jolly Jumper bouncing baby girl
   toes grazing the shag

Next scene a little quicker
   Clad in plaid she's a Big Wheels and corduroy blur
   moving the plot along

Intermission (Orange Crush, Pop Rocks and Pixie Sticks)

Action:...

Continue reading...

I 
had passed
my childhood
milestones when I 
reached the seventies.
In nineteen seventy
I entered high school wearing
bell bottoms and sometimes - hot pants!
In that decade, I happened to reach
most of the chief milestones of adulthood!

I started college, studied abroad, came 
back home, soon married, had two kids...

Continue reading...

Where are you going? I wondered as they toddled by.
They were dressed in hippie costumes, and I wondered why.
They are heading to nineteen seventy, another said.
I loved this and kept it alive all day in my head.

If I was heading to the seventies, I would...

Continue reading...

If I said "you had a beautiful body" don't hide,
   I never lied though I may have tried
please  "would you hold it against me,"
  I coulda been your  "Love Machine" 
and you, my  "Disco Lady."

"I love you more than...

Continue reading...

Our tribute to the eighteen year old boys who were sent to Viet Nam
Was to be chill, chillin, and chillax’in as a tribute to those soon gone.
We were groov’n, and groovy, beatnik style, but we called ourselves hippie. 
We were funky, groovy, and pretty nifty,...

Continue reading...

hemming bell bottoms
summer radio blaring
   to seventies tunes



posted on June 6, 2018...

Continue reading...