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In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday Supported by the CIA Pushing junk down Thailand way First they stole from the Meo Tribes Up in the hills they started taking bribes Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan Collecting ***** to send to The Man Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday Supported by the CIA Brought their jam on mule trains down To Chiang Rai that's a railroad town Sold it next to the police chief brain He took it to town on the choochoo train Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day Supported by the CIA The policeman's name was Mr. Phao He peddled dope grand scale and how Chief of border customs paid By Central Intelligence's U.S. A.I.D. The whole operation, Newspapers say Supported by the CIA He got so sloppy & peddled so loose He busted himself & cooked his own goose Took the reward for an ***** load Seizing his own haul which same he resold Big time pusher for a decade turned grey Working for the CIA Touby Lyfong he worked for the French A big fat man liked to dine & ***** Prince of the Meos he grew black mud Till ***** flowed through the land like a flood Communists came and chased the French away So Touby took a job with the CIA The whole operation fell in to chaos Till U.S. Intelligence came into Laos I'll tell you no lie I'm a true American Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosovan All them Princes in a power play But Phoumi was the man for the CIA And his best friend General Vang Pao Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng's bars In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars It started in secret they were fighting yesterday Clandestine secret army of the CIA All through the Sixties the Dope flew free Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshal Ky Air America followed through Transporting confiture for President Thieu All these Dealers were decades and yesterday The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA Operation Haylift Offisir Wm. Colby Saw Marshal Ky fly ***** Mr. Mustard told me Indochina desk he was Chief of ***** Tricks "Hitchhiking" with dope pushers was how he got his fix Subsidizing traffickers to drive the Reds away Till Colby was the head of the CIA January 1972
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CIA Dope Calypso
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday Supported by the CIA Pushing junk down Thailand way First they stole from the Meo Tribes Up in the hills they started taking bribes Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan Collecting ***** to send to The Man Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday Supported by the CIA Brought their jam on mule trains down To Chiang Rai that's a railroad town Sold it next to the police chief brain He took it to town on the choochoo train Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day Supported by the CIA The policeman's name was Mr. Phao He peddled dope grand scale and how Chief of border customs paid By Central Intelligence's U.S. A.I.D. The whole operation, Newspapers say Supported by the CIA He got so sloppy & peddled so loose He busted himself & cooked his own goose Took the reward for an ***** load Seizing his own haul which same he resold Big time pusher for a decade turned grey Working for the CIA Touby Lyfong he worked for the French A big fat man liked to dine & ***** Prince of the Meos he grew black mud Till ***** flowed through the land like a flood Communists came and chased the French away So Touby took a job with the CIA The whole operation fell in to chaos Till U.S. Intelligence came into Laos I'll tell you no lie I'm a true American Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosovan All them Princes in a power play But Phoumi was the man for the CIA And his best friend General Vang Pao Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng's bars In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars It started in secret they were fighting yesterday Clandestine secret army of the CIA All through the Sixties the Dope flew free Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshal Ky Air America followed through Transporting confiture for President Thieu All these Dealers were decades and yesterday The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA Operation Haylift Offisir Wm. Colby Saw Marshal Ky fly ***** Mr. Mustard told me Indochina desk he was Chief of ***** Tricks "Hitchhiking" with dope pushers was how he got his fix Subsidizing traffickers to drive the Reds away Till Colby was the head of the CIA January 1972
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I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I give money to my causes Save the whales, electric cars But I'm not one to lead the fight "Cause I don't like the scars Bricks get thrown alot you see And those things ****** hurt And I'm not a happy camper When there's blood upon my shirt I won't eat seeds of any sort They get stuck in my teeth My clothes are all from LL Bean Except what's underneath Way back in the sixties I lived communaly We ate only what the earth gave up We didn't watch tv As years passed by, our voices died Our causes became much rarer We sounded more like Manilow Than Phil Ochs or Tom Lehrer I choose fine wine over wheatgrass juice I like leather and wear silk I no longer go and get the goat So we can have fresh milk I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I've changed lots since the sixties I'm a capitalist blood hound If I said I'm a true vegan My board would see me drowned I used to wear just cotton Hemp and caftans and blue jeans Leather shoes and belts and jackets Were just not part of my scene My friends, well, they grew up And others stayed in touch The ones with money see me The others not so much I used to go out jogging Through the park in puma shoes Now I workout in a private gym Wearing nikes and with my crew You see I'm still a vegan When it suits me, don't you see My new girlfriend likes organic And she's only twenty three There's forty years between us Though I've done it all before When my girlfriend is not with me I am a carnivore I support all of her causes Though most things I don't attend I'll be a vegan of convenience Until our courtship ends Who knows, what then will happen Will I eat Tofu or some chops I know which way I'm leaning We'll see how that one drops Like I said when we first started I am a vegan, so I am But instead of eating quinoa I'll stick to eggs and ham. I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 PM UTC
Vegan of Convenience
I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I give money to my causes Save the whales, electric cars But I'm not one to lead the fight "Cause I don't like the scars Bricks get thrown alot you see And those things ****** hurt And I'm not a happy camper When there's blood upon my shirt I won't eat seeds of any sort They get stuck in my teeth My clothes are all from LL Bean Except what's underneath Way back in the sixties I lived communaly We ate only what the earth gave up We didn't watch tv As years passed by, our voices died Our causes became much rarer We sounded more like Manilow Than Phil Ochs or Tom Lehrer I choose fine wine over wheatgrass juice I like leather and wear silk I no longer go and get the goat So we can have fresh milk I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I've changed lots since the sixties I'm a capitalist blood hound If I said I'm a true vegan My board would see me drowned I used to wear just cotton Hemp and caftans and blue jeans Leather shoes and belts and jackets Were just not part of my scene My friends, well, they grew up And others stayed in touch The ones with money see me The others not so much I used to go out jogging Through the park in puma shoes Now I workout in a private gym Wearing nikes and with my crew You see I'm still a vegan When it suits me, don't you see My new girlfriend likes organic And she's only twenty three There's forty years between us Though I've done it all before When my girlfriend is not with me I am a carnivore I support all of her causes Though most things I don't attend I'll be a vegan of convenience Until our courtship ends Who knows, what then will happen Will I eat Tofu or some chops I know which way I'm leaning We'll see how that one drops Like I said when we first started I am a vegan, so I am But instead of eating quinoa I'll stick to eggs and ham. I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back
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Your father was raised in Panama. I can imagine him vividly... The floral silk shirt with velvety red cravat, tan leather loafers, waxed-to-perfection moustache, and a big cigar. It was the late sixties and he was beautiful. I've never seen a photo but I can tell by the way you talked about him. His joi de vivre oozed into your stories and I recognized it: the distilled essence of his elegance was passed to you, and you shared it with me. We met by our mutual attraction for showing off... I wanted to be treated like a delicate porcelain treasure - you wanted a plastic toy with the price tag of an heirloom. Twenty five years my senior and you still hadn't learned your lesson about girls like me... I may have broken your heart, but you should've known a tryst between the free-spirited edge of seventeen and a businessman with dreams of Panama would burn out in the end, just like your father's cigar.
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 8:50 PM UTC
Panama Dreams
It was supposed to be The dawn of a new age; A new set of dialogue On a more balanced stage With better lines for The actors to deliver. It was supposed to start in The sixties and last forever. We didn’t really know for sure What this Aquarius stuff was But it seemed to us to be A metaphysical enough cause, To change the way we acted And to shout down the rest; To face the demagogues Then put them to the test. We stopped wearing uniforms That said we went along With the hard-assed leaders. We put a lot of it in our songs. We called them what they were Greedy warmongering ****** We protested and picketed And promised so much more. We spoke out loudly on TV And in crowds in the streets That we were through will genocide And would not accept defeat. We cried out that our government Had assumed the role of villain And was murdering for no reason Not just men, but even children. But, we let it all die down; We let the government slide On investigating the truth And keeping the truth inside A carefully chosen batch of Criminals in public office. We let them go on making war And making money off us. We let them cheat and lie And re-write acceptable laws To support their bloodthirstiness And we gave up on our cause. Maybe all that protesting gave All our marching feet limps. Or maybe it’s because all along We were just a bunch of wimps.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 9:38 PM UTC
NEW AGERS
The men, mostly wrapped in grey, With knitted necks have nothing to say. But sway out of the way of the others, passing. Over there, on six, a man is checking No one is asking, but he’s still looking. His finger’s pointing. Beside me, a beautiful lady, is waiting Speaking softly to her lover: “Not long now” – she whispers’, lower. With late night morning upon our faces We wonder why, we are here at all Collecting colds, old age, and wages: Before middle, old, and then the fall. And then the sun appears: It lights the seats where no one sits I feel my heart beat miss a bit. I see myself years ago. Waiting for a train to go. To take our family away, for free For fish, chips, salt and sea. All of us all, sitting there: Our fathers 1950’s hair, Our sixties mother thin lipped stare, my sisters, bothers, and me, just sat there. Frozen cold, with tears sticking in my eyes. And for a moment I want back that time. To start again, at another me: No more trains - but more sea.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 4:23 AM UTC
Railways
He may be old, but he is the most handsomest man ever. Mid-sixties maybe. His eyes are blue. Pale blue but circled by dark blue. His hair is gray, but was once brown. His skin is wrinkled and worn but was once smooth. His face is small and heart-shaped. I can't stop staring at him. I imagine him as a young boy, entering the military in a green suit. The way he smiled for his picture. How he hugged his crying mother goodbye. Smoked a cigarette as he served for his country. Overcome the nightmares he's seen and heard while protecting America. He was handsome then and he is handsome now. He holds the door open with a smile and I thank him for the dinner that he bought for his wife, my parents, and me.
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
Gentleman
I was fit and feisty at fifty It was no big deal, Because that's how half a century Is supposed to feel. In my sixties I'll take stock Start making great plans, Ignoring all the "you cant's" And embracing all the "I cans". Can I be **** at sixty? And try all the fashions and fads, Wear stockings and suspenders And Joan Collins shoulder pads. I can deal with **** at sixty And wear Vivienne Westwood clothes, Dress up and go out on the town Wearing all my buttons and bows. I'mgoing to be **** at sixty I'll wear Gok Wan lingerie Find myself a Toy Boy Then maybe lead him astray. Swift and **** at sixty When I get my Jimmy Choos, Dancing the night away To the sound of rhythm and blues. Oh! I want to be **** at sixty 'cause age is a state of mind, I'm preparing my body at keep fit So as not to be left behind. But, first I have to deal with Old Skin, Bad Teeth and Grey Hair, Then remove the unwanted growths From just about everywhere. Then I'll definitely be **** at sixty And undoubtedly done it all, The only problem is that most of it I simply won't recall... © Hazel
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Aug 5, 2012
Aug 5, 2012 at 3:05 PM UTC
**** at SIXTY
Late last night I saw something fall from the sky, I happened to be in the kitchen making tuna on rye. As I looked out my window it landed in my yard. It crushed the pink flamingos, the wife took it hard. I stood there at the window taking in the sight, Bright lights flashing red, blue, and white. Then suddenly a door slid open, I was seized by fright. But my wife had gone out the door, in her hand a kitchen knife. As the little green man stepped out, he was looking fine, In a tye dye tee shirt, waving his hands in a peace sign, Looking like he had come straight from the sixties, I think he was expecting to find some hippies. Thinking this guy might be peaceful, I tackled my wife, As she dropped the knife, I yelled, "He might be nice". The little green man then pulled out a bic and gave it a flick, As he held two finger to his lips, I realized his vice. As I had given that up long ago, I had nothing to share. But the little guys face showed such despair, I went into the house and got the beer from the fridge, And grabbed the Nacho Doritos for this astorial kid. We sat on the lawn chairs out under the sky, drinking the beer, eating tuna on rye. I asked where he was from, he just pointed up. When we finished our beers, I said good luck. Back to the spaceship the little man went, his steps were unsteady, I think he was spent. He got in the spaceship and closed the door. As I waved goodby, the spaceship took off with a roar. I heard on the news later that night, That something had crashed in a field, lips were tight. But I heard a rumor, that someone was found alive. I guess I should have told him not to drink and fly.
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May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 at 3:40 PM UTC
Area 51
Late last night I saw something fall from the sky, I happened to be in the kitchen making tuna on rye. As I looked out my window it landed in my yard. It crushed the pink flamingos, the wife took it hard. I stood there at the window taking in the sight, Bright lights flashing red, blue, and white. Then suddenly a door slid open, I was seized by fright. But my wife had gone out the door, in her hand a kitchen knife. As the little green man stepped out, he was looking fine, In a tye dye tee shirt, waving his hands in a peace sign, Looking like he had come straight from the sixties, I think he was expecting to find some hippies. Thinking this guy might be peaceful, I tackled my wife, As she dropped the knife, I yelled, "He might be nice". The little green man then pulled out a bic and gave it a flick, As he held two finger to his lips, I realized his vice. As I had given that up long ago, I had nothing to share. But the little guys face showed such despair, I went into the house and got the beer from the fridge, And grabbed the Nacho Doritos for this astorial kid. We sat on the lawn chairs out under the sky, drinking the beer, eating tuna on rye. I asked where he was from, he just pointed up. When we finished our beers, I said good luck. Back to the spaceship the little man went, his steps were unsteady, I think he was spent. He got in the spaceship and closed the door. As I waved goodby, the spaceship took off with a roar. I heard on the news later that night, That something had crashed in a field, lips were tight. But I heard a rumor, that someone was found alive. I guess I should have told him not to drink and fly.
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There's a big deal made these days About ****** harassment at work And quite rightly so Who needs a heavy breathing half-wit Slobbering over them at work? Or anywhere else If it comes to that But I remember a time Oh what a time When I started work in the sixties As a bobbin boy in the mills And when mill girls Were wild wild women And we were their targets We became swift of wit and feet Very quickly And I remember clearly when Dear old "Make 'em 'ave it Phil" Doris Grabbed Dougie Hibbert on his own Hiding in the bobbin racks She put his **** in a milk bottle Then horned him up so he couldn't Get the **** thing off Then shouted everyone To come and see By Phil Roberts
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Aug 10, 2016
Aug 10, 2016 at 5:35 AM UTC
****** HARASSMENT
The assassins hit in 63 And Camelot was gone, Inspiration vanished And the darkness sang it’s song. *Vietnam escalated Brezhnev’s Russia loomed, Africa was eviscerated And Red China entombed. *Floating on a long white cloud The Kiwis were replete With abundant British markets For their butter, wool and meat. *The Europeans went **** And Britain lost it’s way When the Beatles and the Rolling Stones Monopolized their day. *Man landed on the moon And raised the Yankee flag And they shot Mahatma Ghandi For making good things out of bad. *The Berlin Wall dividing, The Cold War tense and spare, ICBM’s threaten silently In their silos of despair. *Bob Menzies ruled Australia As an amassing of his loot And his White Australia Policy Condemned him as a brute. *Found naked on her tousled bed, Blonde hair across her face, Marylin Monroe is dead The world’s a darker place. *In the Age of Aquarius Our children lost their youth, LSD and smoking *** And Afro’s were the proof. *Lots of leg in miniskirts, High bouffant’s in the hair, Screaming teeny boppers Rock with Elvis on “the Air”. *Giant, Rawhide, Ponderosa, Martin Luther King, Kaftans and a cheese fondue, Abortion is a sin! It’s a sixties kaleidoscope, A panoramic skim Of an era of wonderment Which you and I lived in. Marshalg @the Gate Mangere Bridge 20th January 2009
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Oct 23, 2009
Oct 23, 2009 at 2:25 PM UTC
Skim of the Sixties
We stalked hawthorn hedgerows, Backyards our battlefields, Wielding wooden swords, Dustbin-lids, for our shields. We scouted railway cuttings, Long abandoned and disused, Where friendship’s blended alloys, Were cast, forged and fused. We patrolled village streets, Marched along muddied lanes, Proudly defending ‘our land’, From raiding, heathen, Danes’. We boldly challenged Vikings’, Beneath a Sixties-summer-sun, Bonding loyalty, faith and trust, That will never, come undone. Those days will not return, Memories-mismatched-truth, Recalling the fallen heroes, Fighting follies of our youth. Protecting imagined Kingdoms, Lost in time, for evermore, Boy soldiers standing guard, In Castles built from straw.
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Oct 3, 2010
Oct 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM UTC
Boy Soldiers
Grandad's gone. He's still with us, but....he's gone...if you understand me correctly.  Hasn't been with us for a few years. We thought it funny at first, till we realized what was happening. Then it dawned on us....he didn't know us anymore. Lifetime's of memories....events, holidays, pictures, kisses, hugs and laughter....and only we could remember them. When we told him about them, he would smile and stare away...trying to find them in his mind, with no luck. When it started, he was telling me about a dog that he had heard about. A poyne setter, he called it. I told him, I'd never heard of it. He couldn't tell me what it looked like, just what it was called. When I looked it up on the internet, the closest I found to it, was the plant...a poinsetta. I told him it was a funny joke, but he got mad. Told me he saw it on a dog  show on television, it was a dog, a Poyne Setter, and he was angry at me. Not long after that, every time he saw me, he said "Anne, can you do this for me? or Anne, can you get me that?". My name is Sarah, Anne is my Aunty. She's been gone since 1963, car crash. I'm not Anne. I thought he was doing it to make fun of me for the Poyne Setter thing. He wasn't. We were losing him. He talked a lot about the early sixties, kept on calling me Anne. I put up with it, because for every time he messed up my name, after a short spell, he'd get it right and we'd be fine. A few weeks back, it happened again. I  hadn't been around for a while and he sat there, looking out at the sea from the porch, when suddenly he turned to me and said "Anne...I need you to find me something". I said sure Grandad...he didn't notice. "I want you to find me one of those sweaters they keep talking about...one of those fleece things. But, he added...I want a wool one, a nice wool one. A Wool Navidad....not a fleece navidad, but, a wool one. This time, I knew he wasn't kidding. I told him, I'd look. He smiled, and turned and kept staring out from the porch. He always loved his porch. Full of plants out there to tend, when he remembered. Most of them were dead or dying now, which was sad because he always took such care of them. My favorite, was always the wandering jew....he'd kept it alive for nearly thirty years now. I was keeping it alive, he didn't remember it at all. We used to joke about the name, he called it a creeping jesus....just to get me angry. Now, it was just a plant, he didn't remember. We've lost Grandad. He's still here, but, he's gone. I hope he finds us in there some day, creeping jesus', fleece navidads, poyne setters and all.
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 3:35 PM UTC
Poyne Setters, Creeping Jesus', and Fleece Navidad
Grandad's gone. He's still with us, but....he's gone...if you understand me correctly.  Hasn't been with us for a few years. We thought it funny at first, till we realized what was happening. Then it dawned on us....he didn't know us anymore. Lifetime's of memories....events, holidays, pictures, kisses, hugs and laughter....and only we could remember them. When we told him about them, he would smile and stare away...trying to find them in his mind, with no luck. When it started, he was telling me about a dog that he had heard about. A poyne setter, he called it. I told him, I'd never heard of it. He couldn't tell me what it looked like, just what it was called. When I looked it up on the internet, the closest I found to it, was the plant...a poinsetta. I told him it was a funny joke, but he got mad. Told me he saw it on a dog  show on television, it was a dog, a Poyne Setter, and he was angry at me. Not long after that, every time he saw me, he said "Anne, can you do this for me? or Anne, can you get me that?". My name is Sarah, Anne is my Aunty. She's been gone since 1963, car crash. I'm not Anne. I thought he was doing it to make fun of me for the Poyne Setter thing. He wasn't. We were losing him. He talked a lot about the early sixties, kept on calling me Anne. I put up with it, because for every time he messed up my name, after a short spell, he'd get it right and we'd be fine. A few weeks back, it happened again. I  hadn't been around for a while and he sat there, looking out at the sea from the porch, when suddenly he turned to me and said "Anne...I need you to find me something". I said sure Grandad...he didn't notice. "I want you to find me one of those sweaters they keep talking about...one of those fleece things. But, he added...I want a wool one, a nice wool one. A Wool Navidad....not a fleece navidad, but, a wool one. This time, I knew he wasn't kidding. I told him, I'd look. He smiled, and turned and kept staring out from the porch. He always loved his porch. Full of plants out there to tend, when he remembered. Most of them were dead or dying now, which was sad because he always took such care of them. My favorite, was always the wandering jew....he'd kept it alive for nearly thirty years now. I was keeping it alive, he didn't remember it at all. We used to joke about the name, he called it a creeping jesus....just to get me angry. Now, it was just a plant, he didn't remember. We've lost Grandad. He's still here, but, he's gone. I hope he finds us in there some day, creeping jesus', fleece navidads, poyne setters and all.
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up up up they did rise the skirt lengths in the sixties were up up high the stock market was in step with the high skirt lengths it powered and surged up up high the outlook back then had a light of boon bright and positive was the tune fast forward to 2008 the outlook at that time wasn't too great the stock market fell there was an air of doom skirts were more austere in their length of gloom money was tight the hemlines more restrained the world of finance had become more constrained stock exchanges and skirt lengths have cyclical phases one year they rise high the next year they're down on a flat lining lie
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 6:17 AM UTC
Skirts Lengths and The Stock Market (Analogy, Metaphor Poem)
Protest it. Unless you employed by the government. Rules are totally different. If officers violate the laws they serving to protect us. Stand up for your rights to protest. We in America not one of that dictatorship country. Why? Do people feel athletes can't protest? They go on strike for various things not right to them. Not one stated the protesting the anthem. Not one. They protesting injustice. And rightly so. So fans are mad than many probably never saw the youth that protested in the sixties against a war. Whether you agree or don't. Always stand up for your rights. So a so-called billionaire never paid taxes and won't reveal his income tax forms using idle threats. The only one filling the role of kiss-up is the owners. Without comprehending, if there is a sporting showdown the most likely won't win. Most likely to be the losers when Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Papa John and host of others clients profits fall. A business suffers highly when there no solution solved. Most fans that go to a sporting event are a great majority of whites and be the ones crying the louder. If ever done wrong and need attention to get people on board. You protest, you stand up and stand out. A small church pastor rose to be great by taking on a segregated system. The only one mad about tearing segregation is who? The race need not be mention for a majority hardly stand up for anything. Well, unless it's the NRA. Even with violence in school from high powered weapons. There they go defending the NRA. And the weapons they protesting against isn't truly needed unless you at war. But they standing up for their rights. So players, stand up for your rights. For CBS/ESPN/ABC/NBC stands to lose too. If a majority of players stand strong against wrong.
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 11:45 PM UTC
Stand Up For Your Rights
Protest it. Unless you employed by the government. Rules are totally different. If officers violate the laws they serving to protect us. Stand up for your rights to protest. We in America not one of that dictatorship country. Why? Do people feel athletes can't protest? They go on strike for various things not right to them. Not one stated the protesting the anthem. Not one. They protesting injustice. And rightly so. So fans are mad than many probably never saw the youth that protested in the sixties against a war. Whether you agree or don't. Always stand up for your rights. So a so-called billionaire never paid taxes and won't reveal his income tax forms using idle threats. The only one filling the role of kiss-up is the owners. Without comprehending, if there is a sporting showdown the most likely won't win. Most likely to be the losers when Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Papa John and host of others clients profits fall. A business suffers highly when there no solution solved. Most fans that go to a sporting event are a great majority of whites and be the ones crying the louder. If ever done wrong and need attention to get people on board. You protest, you stand up and stand out. A small church pastor rose to be great by taking on a segregated system. The only one mad about tearing segregation is who? The race need not be mention for a majority hardly stand up for anything. Well, unless it's the NRA. Even with violence in school from high powered weapons. There they go defending the NRA. And the weapons they protesting against isn't truly needed unless you at war. But they standing up for their rights. So players, stand up for your rights. For CBS/ESPN/ABC/NBC stands to lose too. If a majority of players stand strong against wrong.
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I suppose that I should be writing about the pencil itself, how its pale cerulean self lights up my taupe desk (yes, taupe.), or perhaps how the navy stamps that embellish it bleed a little at the sides smeared, or even the sheer fact that it says "hoppy Easter"with little bunnies on it, which is ironic because it is January. (and even funnier because the little bunnies look like demons waiting to pounce on your soul, slightly feline...feline bunnies?) But no. I sing instead the song of that metal thing at the end of the pencil, crimped like a tin can stuck in a sixties hair salon--the small item that sort of resembles Darth Vader; the metal thing that, when you think about it, you never notice; the thing that holds the eraser in place and the lead in the wood, and the wood in a line, the line for your pencil holder at the top of your desk (your taupe desk) that you write on and without writing you'd die... Without life you don't exist. I sing to the tiny piece of metal that is out of place, yet holds the world as we know it together. Because in a way, I know how it feels to bridge together two elements; two worlds, if you will. It's a difficult task indeed to hold it all together. And I realize, staring at the satanic rabbits adorning my writing utensil that this thing doesn't have a name.
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Dec 22, 2009
Dec 22, 2009 at 6:16 PM UTC
Song of the Pencil
If you're a writer your main trade is hating yourself and finding ways to be clever about it. Smoke cigar and coffee-stained typewriters, bachelor in the sixties, suicide in the seventies. I'm just a cliché, raining cats and dogs, beating dead horses and singing a little song about death a little song about love there is nothing new under the sun. Dylan doesn't understand what you do is better than accounting, your trade is people like stock markets- string them up and watch them fall I play with hearts, you say like a girl showing off her somersaults in the backyard. But no one is listening. … … … So you burn your eyes out with hot wax in the living room and swear your name is Icarus throw your diploma into the laundry and watch it turn into tissue paper, taking moonlight walks down the beach and straight into the bottom of the ocean. (you thought she would hit you when you told her you wanted to write but she only laughed... and you were surprised how much it hurt.) Your father's pride, a phone full of contacts, seeing straight in the ******* morning and the heart of a girl that was once foolish enough to love nitroglycerine, sold for a bottle of ink and a scrap of paper and your name in the obituaries. ... ... ... Tell yourself it was worth it.
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Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 1:44 AM UTC
Sellout
Crack a whip? Or crack a nut? In your mid to high sixties You will be cracking bones legs and your smelly old ****
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 12:14 AM UTC
Smell ****
The peace pipe that has two sides - zoom the monsoon clouds, summertime-bizarre. Choices, pieces of the peace puzzle: Biblical, them both. Pasts alive in binocular introspection. Smoking the hashtag#, now: A hundred colour abominations around. Comrade, policeman, look, our daughters go abducted. The last rain is dying and the heat soars again: Wand-love or rod-fear: It's a battle of the faithful in a heathen heathen world. #hash's so-sixties.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 4:49 PM UTC
Heathen heathen world
i listened to the radio just the other day music from the sixties they began to play. they started with the beatles a song called loved me do then they played another hit called from me to you . the song that followed next was by cilla black then by dusty springfield it brought my memories back. there were many others that were played away and as I sat and listened it seemed like yesterday.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 9:15 AM UTC
60s music memories
Waiting on Haight, ********* the gold beading of a thrifted 80s shirt inside my purse, I listen for the 71. He tells me, from under a nose cherry-red and with a cantaloupe and a spoon resting in his lap, of how when he was 25, he holed up with an 18 year-old girl. One night she leaves for an ex-boyfriend's, saying she felt compelled to him, like there was a magnet between them. And he said he went to the closet, he smelled her sweater and knew what he wanted. He got some cardboard and fashioned a fake magnet, the classic horseshoe shaped and silver-tipped kind, out of cardboard. He turned it into a necklace and waited for a day with some red roses for her to get back. She came back and said she couldn't remember the last time someone got her flowers. And then she called her mother, and her mother asked him sternly if he was planning to marry her. He was bewildered a little, but he said yes (this was the sixties). And he finished the call to her mother and she was standing with her hands on her hips, "Well?" "Well what?" "Aren't you going to ask me to marry you?" (I laughed at this point) "Oh..."                                                                                           . . . "Will you marry me?" "Yes!" I asked what happened and he said they were together for three years. But it was a blissful three years. He asked me if it was a good idea for a movie. I said yes. But I probably wouldn't see that movie. I left that second part out.
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 3:54 AM UTC
HE SAID--the hippies said--"We don't know you, but we love you"
Waiting on Haight, ********* the gold beading of a thrifted 80s shirt inside my purse, I listen for the 71. He tells me, from under a nose cherry-red and with a cantaloupe and a spoon resting in his lap, of how when he was 25, he holed up with an 18 year-old girl. One night she leaves for an ex-boyfriend's, saying she felt compelled to him, like there was a magnet between them. And he said he went to the closet, he smelled her sweater and knew what he wanted. He got some cardboard and fashioned a fake magnet, the classic horseshoe shaped and silver-tipped kind, out of cardboard. He turned it into a necklace and waited for a day with some red roses for her to get back. She came back and said she couldn't remember the last time someone got her flowers. And then she called her mother, and her mother asked him sternly if he was planning to marry her. He was bewildered a little, but he said yes (this was the sixties). And he finished the call to her mother and she was standing with her hands on her hips, "Well?" "Well what?" "Aren't you going to ask me to marry you?" (I laughed at this point) "Oh..."                                                                                           . . . "Will you marry me?" "Yes!" I asked what happened and he said they were together for three years. But it was a blissful three years. He asked me if it was a good idea for a movie. I said yes. But I probably wouldn't see that movie. I left that second part out.
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The year 1966. Manson was on his spree Hippies chilled the breeze. Chicks dancing with rubies on hips. Then came 1967 Hendrix wowed the crowd Janis Joplins soul came out Music splashed Hallucinogenic heaven. 1968, patterns of clothing Seemed to be from faraway. It wasn't American to the main stream Still wouldn't be today. 1969, Woodstock, the time Of all togetherness, and weightless Rockers heads filled with dust and buds. Cities broke to riots Gangbanging quiets over colors lust! 1970, met grandmammy Touched the farmers scene. Found the happy In the sixties baby in me. Today, now a mountain boy On a machine that cuts down anything In its way. The farming hand Making a living off of dirt and hay. Spit and clay.
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 8:57 AM UTC
The 60s baby in me
What you get with a basic life: College diplomas to hang on the wall, a full-time job that lasts 40 years, dating resulting in marriage and maybe divorce, children are born and stick around for at least 18 years, retiring in your sixties then finally death. Are you bored yet?
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 8:12 PM UTC
Are you bored yet?
i This is for thou both miss Vicki, and miss Beth Stclair, true poet's Miss Beth StClair, thy sonnet style, brings back the old smile I see; Miss Vicki, writing of love so quickly, so beautifully inspiring Miss beth, thy word's got me flying I'll buyeth thy book real soon. ii Miss Vicki, thou art an old soul made of gold, a home amongst homes, as thou liveth in mine state, miss beth, I'd seeith thee if I go to England, amongst the Beatle street's we'll speaketh of ourn living's, and reciteth sonnet's of Shakespearian knowledge. iii Miss Vicki, thy jargon is wrapped like a bouquet, glazed with honey, thine words art displayed, people in this world like Thee I do prayeth, that thine life wilt be joyful, and harmonious in thy tommorrow, beth, I feeleth thine wild's, as the sixties thou hadst. iv Beth StClair, if it was back in the day, we'd be wonderful friend's, thou wouldst hath watched me on a stage, singing poetic thunder, miss Vicki, when thou feeleth down and under, continue to write thy creator in thy works, and I promise thou both, thou both hath A friend in me...... ©Brandon nagley ©Miss Vicki/miss Beth StClair dedication for both of you (::::: ©Lonesome poet's poetry
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Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 2015 at 4:02 PM UTC
Thy word's like honey ( dedication to miss Vicki, and for miss Beth StClair both of you in one poem) enjoy (:::::
Reunion Of The K.K.K. I jumped from the plane with a prayer and a dream, gonna hook up with my old Alabama team. Welcome to the land of red necks, a place filled with no excess. I got in the closest taxi cab, white robe I had to nab. This all seems so crazy, tired of being so **** lazy. Lots of pressure, getting kinda nervous, they say it's my civil service. Then the Eminem song came on, then the Eminem song came on, so I then twirled my white baton. With butterflies in my tummy, starting to feel like a dummy. Hands up while they play my song, time has come, it won't be long. It's a reunion of the k.k.k, it's a reunion of the k.k.k, it's a black person buffet. Get out in the hood, from the cab, my white hooded robe, I had to grab. Everyone looks at me now, I just wave and give a bow. They can tell I'm from out of town, hundreds of black people with a frown. It was sometime around noon, when they played my favorite tune. It's a song from the Insane Clown Posse, it's a song from the Insane Clown Posse, us ten members started to get bossy. It's a reunion of the k.k.k, it's a reunion of the k.k.k, some people are gonna die today. Burning crosses on the street, as we get our ***** beat. Throw my hands up, like in the sixties, we knew this would be a bit risky. It was a reunion of the k.k.k, it was a reunion of the k.k.k, now our heads are on display.
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM UTC
Reunion Of The K.K.K.
There was an eerie quiet peacefulness in the small sparsely furnished room. The only sound that may have been heard was of a solitary man wearing a brown robe with the hood pushed carefully back in order that his head would bared before God. He was breathing in and out in a steady and relaxed way as he occasionally and deliberately turned a page. The man, perhaps in his sixties, one couldn’t tell but for the age-worn hands that rested gently on a tome before him. He was deep in thought and concentration as he studied his Bible, something he did daily. These were his moments of quiet contemplation, but ones that he never shared, but with his God, and upon finishing, he quickly rose and rejoined his Brothers. He felt at Peace. ©Joe Wilson – In quiet contemplation 2014
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 2:37 AM UTC
In quiet contemplation