Short Woodstock Poems

Once blossomed Woodstock-
Which spread waves of culture shock,
That's now classic rock!...

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song write
syllable count
Woodstock guitar strings zing
Cagney yells “top of world Ma!”
song write
...

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She's a free spirit
Frangipani in her hair
Headed to Woodstock


Date written and posted: 01/19/2019...

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Like returning to a place in a dream:

sound of one hand clapping:

the mottled butterfly haphazardly flits

into the welcoming Light of day....

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Watch this Hispanic street punk
Furiously drive home his prayer
Frowning and sweating Latin funk
While the blond hippie shakes down her hair...

Santana at Woodstock, 1969 on U-Tube...

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Teen angel. Acid queen.
Here comes your lover man.
Heaven and hell. Won’t you
try. Kosmic blues.

Voodoo child. Guinnevere.
I put a spell on you.
And when its over. I
can’t turn you loose....

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yellow daisy chain
Birkenstocks sandals
ukuleles play
peace sign happy face
a hippie child

1960’s
Woodstock music
pass around bong
free love flowing

bell bottoms
hip-huggers
lava lamp

flower
child

love...

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Late 60's Experience

Woodstock
we rock

Make Love Not War

smoke weed
then breed

My Ride My Home

bug van
keen man

Police Bust

cops nag
big drag

Protest March

abhor
this war...

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Tripping,
Falling,
Tripping,
Acid ride inside,
What changed?
Woodstock woman,
Living dead zombie,
What changed?
Made you give up,
The ‘deadhead’ lifestyle;
Trading for a hobbit,
A Grecian convent,
Nevermore are you;
You,
The higher path,
Married to God....

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Aging
like the finest wine
his music vintage gold
Sugar Mountain
the Harvest Moon
 a Southern Man to scold
The lyrics haunting
feelings blessed
an Old Man at his knee
From Crazy Horse
to Woodstock
—his message sets us free

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023) 
...

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1965


Yes, I'm the last baby boomer
too young for Woodstock, Kennedy
too old now to pretend
But I am the People
I'm this generation
freedom has been my friend
Call me niave, I still believe
we are all our beautiful color
our sister, father, brother
We are all Eve...

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a musical trio
livening up the prairie
enthusiastic beatnik dog on bongo drums
terrifically talented tambourine-playing Tomcat
Romanian beauty with flashing eyes with a ukulele
people arrive to sing along and dance
it feels like the seventies
Woodstock sixty years later...

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In a field of dreams
You 
Are the deadliest catch

You
Are the lost village
A lethal woodstock 

Whisper secrets
And everything after 
Is born too loud.

No dash of love
For your modern family
Only forensic files
Floating in the shark tank.

Just another ride....

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(in reference to Woodstock)

July of Sixty Nine, at Yasker's
Farm
Where word of Vietnam, caused
for alarm
Bringing People, from all over, to
put on the charm
Looking to openheartedly, give their
Right arm
Hoping to make what was somber,
serene and calm
Now that the Nation upon Us, had
dropped its bomb...

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if you could see what i mutter

about your jar of peanut butter

would you flutter

like Woodstock

into my awaiting arms?

could you find enough wood and rocks

to lovingly build us a farm?

i looked under your hood when it knocked, there's no need to be alarmed

you're ready



love,

howard...

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From the Festival at Monterey 
Through Woodstock and his anthem play
His Experience and Band of Gypsys days
To his icon hit, Purple Haze 

We remember Jimi even today
His wah-wah pedal and feedback ways
It’s so sad that he ended his days
Far too young to hear the praise.




Entry in the Jimi Hendrix contest...

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We couldn’t survive
each to the other
We couldn’t let go
to live
We couldn’t give
without retaking
We couldn’t express
what we felt
We couldn’t stay quiet
when being together
We couldn’t come back
from the past
We couldn’t forgive
what time had rescinded
We couldn’t remember
— to forget

(Woodstock: Summer, 1969)
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Excuse me while I kiss the sky
Seeking answers – why’d Jimi die?

Perhaps it was the Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Hey Joe!  Don’t know? Revisit his amp

Purple Haze shrouded by mystery
Woodstock legend resounds in history

Vietnam veteran’s soulful, haunting cry
Excuse me while I kiss this guy



* Written for Raul's Jimi Hendrix challenge...

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Gone is the era of the Renaissance Man
Who delved into Milton, Voltaire and Rosseau
Knew the difference between Cezanne and Gaugin
Could parse a sentence and quote Henry Thoreau

Came Woodstock, he was buried deep in time's sands
Covered over by Joplin and Country Joe...
Social media's dug man's hole even worse
Alexa and Cortana ~ My lips are pursed...

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I have spent too many years
Walking backwards
Trying to retrace my steps
But every place I have gone
Has changed
It seems that nothing
Ever remains the same
And no one
Except for me
Remembers you

And though
They call me a fool
And tell me
That it's impossible
I still believe
That you are out there 
Somewhere
Doing the very same thing
Walking backwards
Looking for me...

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Psychedelic
Good times
Woodstock
Peace love
Long hair
Bell bottom
Jeans and beads
Guitars strumming
Hippies
Around a campfire
Singing
Free style
How the lovin’ was easy



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~RANDOM MUSINGS VOL.2~ 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on February 21, 2020 for STRAND SELECT X sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on April 15, 2019...

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In the peace love seventies
Preached to forgive our enemies
Growing up our freedom breezy
The lovin’ was made easy
Woodstock hippies in bell bottoms
Singing ballads on through autumns
Hitchhikers up thumbing muscle cars
Guitar strumming sweet mellow bars
Long hair beads under stars
Campfires looking up at Mars



Submitted on March 30, 2019 for contest 10 LINES, 5 WORDS: RHYME III sponsored by LU LOO...

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DB COOPER-IAN MUNYWE
Ka DB cooper sina pupa,
nitaondokea pia muda ukifika.
Daily kukachora kuzuia swara,
bila rwaara bado ninang`ara.
kaka dada mama baba,
nawatakia mengi mafanikio.
nahisi kama Jimi Hendrix,
back in 69 huko woodstock,
ama king Bob Marley in 79 santa barbara.
vibe ilikuwa safi pia,
John Lennon akiwa madison square in 72.
basi tunazidi kwa bidii,
maombi tele ili majaaliwa tufike kilele....

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earth
peace
give it a chance
tie-dye t-shirts
modern dance

macrame
and beaded chokers
woodstock
and pot smokers

flower power
zpg
alfalfa sprouts
herbal tea

burning draft cards
American flags
Vietnam bodies
coming home in bags

Kent
Augusta
Jackson state
Detroit Black Panthers
waking up too late

Oh Angela
Oh Beatles
Oh Martin Luther King
gratitude to all of you
for this special thing...

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Did the Beatles know the answer
When the sixties were for love
And Crosby Stills and Nash sang it hard
For Ohio and the Military Madness called it true

Then there was Woodstock 
Where it was peace, love and music
Played to the crowd 
I wonder where those songs are now

But the world moved on
And those songs faded away
For peace was missed again
So what songs for peace do we play today?

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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