The Crazy 60's

Reflection on growing up in the 60's

 

 

Coming of age in the 1960's, my teenage years

were a kaleidoscopic blend of fads,

social pressures and prevailing culture.

 

It was a balancing act

of the morals I was raised with

and the exercising my new found freedoms.

 

As I wore my bell-bottomed pants

and Nehru jacket accessorized with

a peace symbol necklace,

the Vietnam war drug on,

turning my mood ring brown. 

 

The psychedelic music,  influenced heavily by Woodstock

and the black light posters and strobes 

would provided an escape from the war's reality.

 

With my incense burning and my lava lamp bubbling,

everything would be much more mellow

as I peered through my rose colored glasses.

 

The drive-in theaters would become our week-end hangout

and my summer of love would be happening.

It didn't matter if it was a James Bond movie

or Hitchcock's Psycho, I don't think I ever saw

a complete movie during those hot summer nights.

 

Despite the war and the protests,

the drinking and the drugs, the music 

and the sexual revolution,

my generation somehow survived.

 

The 60's were some crazy years 

but I do not regret living through them,

they've helped shape me into the person I am today.

 

 

Author's Note

Constructive criticism always welcome

Reviews

[SheWolfNLust]

Oh how i remember those years as well with my bell bottoms and moccasins, I was a total hippie back in those days, I so wanted to go to woodstock but I was still to young too, in my teens only, no way would my parents go for that, I did watch it on TV, and enjoyed many of the acts, back then I so loved the doors, Iron Butterfly, Hendrix, Joplin and so many more, thanks for taking me back for a bit of dajavou or how ever you spell it lol, awesome poem brother Dennis and very much so enjoyed, thanks ever so much for sharing xoxo

[Great Aunt Astri]

I think there was something special about the sixties.
There was a definite move to something new and better. But what happened? Where did it all go?

[A.J.]

sometimes I wish I had grown up back then. well written!