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Mid Sixties
Mid Sixties Poems - Poems about Mid Sixties
Dragging No Drama
...Written By: D. Collins 1/2/25 As I reach my prime in my mid-sixties. I have a vow in dragging no drama with me. I want my h......
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Darrell Collins
Categories:
mid sixties,
beach,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL
...IT’S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL “I know it’s only rock ‘n’ roll” The music genre that emerged In the early to mid-fifties Called rock music in mid-sixties With a back beat and a dance rhythm I know......
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Marilene Evans
Categories:
mid sixties,
music,
Form:
Quatern
The Balancing Act
...THE BALANCING ACT I woke up again, again and again, Rewind the incidents that gasped before me; I was a freak at that time, there I was saved by a matriarch, Oh! I was dried and dehydrated yes......
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Nithyashree Santhanam
Categories:
mid sixties,
education,
Form:
Free verse
All Alone
...He sat in his recliner in the balcony, the evening soft breeze so cool, tender with his eyes closed as if in a trance; The light breeze swept along his wrinkled skin caressing everything it touc......
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Anitha Jayasankar
Categories:
mid sixties,
grief, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Canary Collusion
...It was after Mom’s dad passed her mom bought canaries. Grams felt life less lonely, I think, with their singing, and gave her idea that flying the coop to live close to my mom could be Southland f......
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Brian Johnston
Categories:
mid sixties,
humor, political, race, ,
Form:
Rhyme
In Collaboration With Paul Le Mat and Manuel Padilla Jr
...Paul Le Mat, the guy Who drove the yellow roadster in American Grafitti starred in the show, Aloha Bobby & Rose, With friend Manuel Padilla Jr. who played The little kid in The ......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
mid sixties,
12th grade,
Form:
Tanka
An Unsung Singer
..."Burning Bridges" was his first released song Back in the fifties it didn't catch on In the mid sixties a song he would bring The movie "Paint Your Wagon " was where he'd sing Then a duet wit......
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Pat Adams
Categories:
mid sixties,
character, identity,
Form:
Couplet
Over the Hill and Beyond
...Age fifty comes and you thought forty bad? Some little aches and pains will start to fill your weary body, but don’t be too sad, for you can say you got up to that hill and over i......
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Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
mid sixties,
age,
Form:
Sonnet
Embarrassing Moment
...Embarrassing Moment Mid-Sixties, I went to the shore A hot summer day, so I wore My handmade swimsuit It was very cute Expecting I was, and I swore, It looked just as nice as can be My ......
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Sandra Haight
Categories:
mid sixties,
beach, clothes, cute, funny,
Form:
Limerick
The Munsters
... Complexity of their makeup would have caused more fright. It’s too bad all the episodes were in black and white. In the mid-sixties on television we would see, this strange group that was no......
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Robert Pettit
Categories:
mid sixties,
nostalgia, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stampeders
... Rich Dodson, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly hailed from the Western Canadian city of Calgary. They were in a group calling themselves “The Rebounds”. In the mid-sixties, they were creating t......
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Robert Pettit
Categories:
mid sixties,
dedication, music, city, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Freak Me Out
...Flower Power was an ongoing craze That was way back in the 70s days. War was raging; folks were talking jive. Young military men fought to stay alive. No spiffy crib for those Viet Nam dudes.......
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Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Categories:
mid sixties,
history, nostalgia, war,
Form:
Couplet
The Sins of Society
...The mid-sixties weren't fun for a teen working... I put foot on this prosperous and beautiful land and looked forward to a great future, but my plan didn't go as smoothly as I thought it would have i......
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Andrew Crisci
Categories:
mid sixties,
death, family, fear, friendship,
Form:
Narrative