Short 1960S Poems

we had hair 
in the 1960s
where has it gone
we had
love and peace...

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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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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 afraid to think?...

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o41oe

o 4 1 naughty the old boy did say,
thinking about sex, 
before she wandered away, 
but he missed out that night, 
forever and aye....
oh for one naughty, 
no never that way.... 

Don Johnson

bit of slang Aussie maybe 1960s...

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Written on 7/27/2021
By Gail R DeBole
Updated on 8/17/2021

My granddad’s five-dollar bill in hand
Was blown by a breeze through farmland.
 Our dog, King, “saved the Abe”
Fetched the bill straight away
To return it to my grandad’s hand.


(True Story that happened in the 1960s)...

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Mickey Mouse purses
Wizard of Oz bags
Disney’s Cinderella t-shirts
They have been around for nigh onto seventy years
Yet somehow we feel like we have just discovered them, 
Thinking they are new.
Mickey Mouse thongs
They are not new
We used to wear them in the sixties
On our feet....

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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 hour or two...

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Referendum might work

Minority groups control the world
Most people have no say
Do we want political correctness, no
Will the masses have their day

If you look back to the 1960s
Back when the system worked
Back when the police got respect so swiftly
And the teachers discipline Irked

Parents can’t control their kids
Mothers driven crazy
Don’t spank the child it’s not did
A slap over the wrist for Daisy

Don Johnson...

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I'm so dumb that when I ordered a chili dog, I expected it to be chilly.
But when it was hot, I demanded a refund, I made myself look silly.
The Hot dog vendor said that thinking is not one of my strong points.
Back in the 1960s I guess that it was a bad idea to smoke those joints.
If chili dogs are hot, does that mean that hot dogs are cold?
Maybe I'm suffering from senility because I'm pretty damn old.

(This is a fictional poem)...

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I kept on the grass
Away from the road
There was silence wherever I walked.

My school balaclava
Covered my head
And I “smoked” whenever I talked.

Assembled that morning
We'd sung about Jesus
And I prayed I was on the right track.

As the freezing cold mist
Invaded my senses
I met myself coming back.

I heard a cough
And it got louder
A figure with torch and dog

Appeared from nowhere
Through the blanket
Of that 1960s’ fog....

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excited and in a daze, just in case
                                     I have to make sure I don't  misplace
                                               my aspirin for  tonight
                                                 I'll be with my knight
                                         in shining armor in his embrace



suspend an aspirin between the knees and use that as contraception!" It was a "joke" in the 1960s.
gawker.com/.../in-my-day-gals-put-aspirin-between-their-knees...

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