Short Sixties Poems

Short Sixties Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sixties by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sixties by length and keyword.


Premium Member Sixties Imagism

a hippie and beatniks . is that unproductive imagism for you ?


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 10–16, 2026)
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Static Screen

this rain like nineteen sixties static screen —
snow on black or bugs on white.
daylight would lift onslaught.

12/28/2018
Form: Kimo

Reflection

Past sixties !
I didn't intend to be a hippie
just happy...
I never wanted  "power"
it was enough for me to have flower...!

Premium Member Hair

I met a sixties hippie
his hair it was quite flippy
	I said he should cut it
	he told me to shut it
oh man, did he get lippy
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Wasted Youth

Child of the Sixties,
I wish I'd seen the Beatles.
How could I have known?!
Form: Senryu


Premium Member tabulous

tab
tag
flap
label
ticket
tab

running a tab
picking up the tab for me
drinking a Tab in the sixties
tab-u-lous stuff
tab

Premium Member big secret my friends are potheads

i never smoked pot
apparently popular
back in the sixties

none admitted it
now everyone tells me this
my friends are potheads
Form: Senryu

Premium Member sixties woman

a sixties bouffant
full skirt on a cotton dress
scarlet red lipstick

shes queen for a day
tall high heels and pearls
ideal woman
Form: Senryu

Premium Member sixties girly dress

Sixties girly dress
frothy scratchy petticoat
patent leather shoes

pretty lace anklets
ready for Sunday School
twirling in the rain
Form: Senryu

Premium Member He Was a Hot Shot

He was a hot shot 
Who wore hot pants
Which got him into the hot seat
Because this was the sixties
Before Freddy Mercury made it okay.

Premium Member dreamboats from the sixties

Tab Hunter
Frankie Avalon
Rock Hudson
dream boats from the sixties
on the covers of every teen magazine
they still make me sigh deeply

Premium Member Vignette-Pseudonyms

Simon and Garfunkel
Guitar ready and in hand
Made hit as a sixties band-
The Tom & Jerry duo change of name
Bringing forth popular fame.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member ignorance talks

with that orange hat
I would have matched my lipstick
Said a teen of the twenties
Who did not know
We did not have that lip color
in the sixties

Premium Member Avons Lipsticks

Avon’s lipsticks had many names
Cherry magic, strawberry wonder, chili pepper
This was the sixties
the goal was to have red lips
the more brazen the better

Premium Member My Sixties Heart

Daisies in her hair
a Volkswagen bug
Giant yellow happy face
California dreaming
Beach Boy’s Music
Little Ole Lady from Pasadena
Sixties songs in my heart

Premium Member Buttercup Blues

Mom captured my truth,
As a sixties flower child,
Yet in bloom of youth!



The above sketch was, of course, done by my late mother when I was a teenager.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Like Chip and Dale Sixties Cartoons

playful dolphins popped out of lake
frolicking like sixties Chip and Dale cartoons
Bringing a smile to my face
adding a new kind of joy to sundown at the lake

Premium Member like chip and dales sixties cartoons

playful dolphins popped out of lake
frolicking like sixties Chip and Dale cartoons
Bringing a smile to my face
adding a new kind of joy to sundown at the ocean

Premium Member Irons

steel mill smoke stack
anvil and hammer
my will for sure
sprinkle the cotton
hot steam on my face
press down hard
don't beak the board
chore of the sixties

Changing Times

The Sixties are over 
the 90's are here 
Let's head out for an ice cold beer

Later..........
The 90's are over
It's 2007
Listen once more to 
"Go to Heaven"
Form: Couplet

Passing of the Years

The sixties are
    over
The 90's are here
  Let's head out for an 
ice cold beer
Then......
The 90's are over 
    it's 2010  
The man said
 If not now when?
Form:

Premium Member The East End, Ends

It's goodbye to mad Frankie Fraser The East Ends gangster appraiser So loyal to the Kray's To his very last day One the Sixties ultimate erasures .
Form: Limerick

Premium Member perfect gondolier

I was thrilled to what the handsome gondolier wore
black and white striped shirt, straw hat,
red bow dripping off back of hat….
like Sophia Loren films from the sixties

Premium Member Perfect Gondolier

I was thrilled to what the handsome gondolier wore
black and white striped shirt, straw hat,
red bow dripping off back of hat….
like Sophia Loren films from the sixties

Premium Member Making the French Seem Appealing

Audrey Hepburn
the darling of the sixties
in Paris making it posh and pretty
enticing her viewers to want to see the Eiffel Tower
Making the French appealing to viewers

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