Short 60S Poems

Cavern Club England
 Nostalgia Beatles sound:
 recall 60s all time long...

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Hardwood floats on
 river ever flowing
Deepest roots hold still



12/29/21: '60s Grand Banks 42 - Village West...

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Marilyn was our 60s toy,
tugged at our heartstrings ,
love employed,
desire the bad girl brings,
Joes wife was many things,
a fantasy says Frued......

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cuckoo for Coco Puffs
Plop plop fizz fizz
bibbity bobbity boo
See the USA in a Chevrolet
Winston tastes good
Like a
Knock Knock
cigarette should
I miss the fifties and sixties...

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The mind boggles at the stuff that's up there
Just imagine, could be another Sonny and Cher
Now don't be silly
You daft silly billy
Aliens gotta be more talented than that 60s pair...

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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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(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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Skinned knees and darned socks
Hand me down clothes the lot
Playtime under the sun
Backyard cricket when the day is done

No need to be the best
Just join in with the rest
Go to bed dog tired
60s Summer time as we desired.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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What the flip was CeeLo Green
Doing on the X Factor looking keen?
In a dress of yellow and pink flowers 
With flaccid, psychedelic powers?

I felt as if I was back in the 60s,
Drifting high with the hippies,
I was sent to planet Zigzag,
In need of a sedating jag....

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60s Cool
Level choppy, way cool fool,
Hand slices the air, horizontal, cruel,
{breathe, level choppy man}
Way-cool of dudes, controls the day,
If you aint cool? Depart I say,
way-of-cool doth rule,
Capisce ok …
Don Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X8D2_TaPc...

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Opponent of satan, 10 languages spoken
Attended a pontif, imperfect service; yet not token
Broke out of conforming of evils adorning
Claiming satan's enthronement; anti atonement'
An edifiying of confusion under skirts of illusions
In the 60s such took place, I note it a Diss-grace.!...

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We sang songs of our revolution 
For Antiwar beats as the solution
Wanting the age of Aquarius now
In tie-die shirts and flared trousers wow!

Times when the world was mine
And friends that were one of a kind
Endless Summers of complete sunshine
The 60s and 70s were one of a kind!

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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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 called Dallas,
Far - far away
When I was a boy,
Just 8 years of age....

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HAIKU coo ka choo
or Mrs. Robinson writes a poem.

HAIKU coo ka choo
Everything is okay
Count Five Seven Five

by
Martin Braun
August 2, 2023
'Coo coo ka choo' was used in Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 song “Mrs. Robinson". The phrase was used in the 60s and 70s as a way of saying 'all good' or 'everything is okay'....

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Did you rock with the best
Only between tracks did you rest
Can you hear it now
The 60s and 70’s take a bow
Platform shoes, flares and body shirts
We were cool and prone to flirt

Ahh, those days are past
Even now I wish they’d last
All those sunny memories 
Were better then to please
So the stars are older too
And prone to rock the same as you!

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The summer was always so much fun
-- When we were young --
We'd jump fences and run through backyards 
 -- when we were young --
Boys were icky and really gross too
 -- when we were young --
Best friends were forever and ever
 -- when we were young --
A pinky promise was sacred
 -- when we were young --
and now in my 60s I want to go back to
 -- when we were young --


Epistrophe form ©SamHarty...

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Clarity In A Treasure Box


BIRTHS
footprints
wrist bracelets

all three together
miraculous new lives
my babes' tiny feet and wrists.

"now grown, with children of their own"


Sandra M. Haight

~NA~
Contest: Clarity In A Treasure Box
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Judged: 07/02/2016

Syllable count: 1/2/3/5/6/7/8/

*Note: newborns in hospitals
wore beaded name bracelets in the 50s and 60s
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We drink wine and
listen to 50s and 60s CDs.
We talk and dissolve
in laughter over nothing.
We refill our wine, dance
barefoot in the kitchen
and hold each other close.
We kiss. It’s tentative, 
tender, questioning at first, 
but it grows on us
and we get lost in it.
Who ever knew one 
could feel this way at 94?
Sweeter now in the
passing of time than
in the heat of youth, 
and more breath-taking
than could be imagined.


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The 60s brought changes to hair 
Today, they would make people stare 
Bouffant look was in
Made puffy from thin 
And teasing- it was the big flare. 

I was one of those who partook 
In those days, it was the best look 
But when it was done 
I still had some fun
In styling it by my own book.

These days, I still tease it a bit
Shaped smoothly, it will nicely sit
And hold fine all day
A touch of hairspray
I'm good to go, well-groomed and fit!
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Loudly rings,
Everyone hearing,
Fashioned update,
Carrying the torch,
Blazing fire of modern.
Piercing constellation flesh,
Body art work,
Sailors out done by vain language speaking.
"Government, to heck with!"
Never doing his homework,
Dropping his pants,
Speech of true face.
Woman to him,
Only good for one thing.
Down & dirty,
Four legs all he knows,
Even making man's best friend blush.
Into his 60s,
Telling me to respect my elders,
I would,
But he never grew up!...

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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 for bream boy did i stay late

One particular christmas i remember very well
A johnny seven i got that was sure swell

I knew my boyhood would soon be over
53 chevy it was my time to take over...

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