I Remember the Sixties

I remember the sixties,

The long hair and the flowers,

It was up with the people,

With all kinds of powers.

There was Andy Warhol,

And grey haired heads of state,

National guard shooting students,

They just couldn't wait.

The Beatles ruled the air,

As they were all still alive,

The Doors and the Monkees,

The movie, "Bonnie and Clyde".

No cell phones, no messages,

But the begining of Malls,

Back then the Marboro Man,

Was standing real tall.

The neighborhood event

Was hearing the chimes...

The ice cream truck stopped,

Then we were waiting in lines.

We stuck to bedsheets

When we slept in the summer.

We dreamed of owning a Bug,

Not owning a Hummer.

The food was much better,

Going to the beach was a blast,

Dating was... well the guys had to ask.

Fishnets stockings made

A dent in our legs,

Back then we lived for fashion,

What ever the craze.

We walked everywhere,

Few buses went by.

And if we were lucky,

We might get a ride.

We never got bored

Always something to do,

We were forever in blue jeans,

And true love was still true.

(Critique Welcome)

Comments: 7

j - Frugal Mom - r. May 23, 2007, 7:01am EDT

Wauw, Heather, you really made me feel as if I were there, and longing to have experience this time.

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Spencer T. May 23, 2007, 7:10am EDT

Feeling every bit the period
the 60s came and went
Now all our lives suffer
with the best we are bent.

Wild happenings in governemt
children out of control
thoughts of the 60s linger
to those good ole days of old.

Good stuff
I am a lousy critiquer

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Heather C. May 23, 2007, 7:17am EDT

Thanks J.R. The hard part when I was writing this was not putting in anything from the 70's. I almost put something in about Nixon and Watergate to rhyme with Heads of State but Watergate was in the 70's. My high school years were 1968-1972. I don't know if it was my perspective as a child, but the world did not seem as frightening back then even though we had drills for for nuclear war where we had to put our heads under our desks. Wouldn't have done us much good, but we were prepared. :)

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Heather C. May 23, 2007, 7:28am EDT

Thanks Spencer, I think it was a decade when the best and the worst happened. As far as it goes I think there was more of a move for change than any other decade.
The sad part is I grew up thinking that events like the civil rights movement had brought more change in our country than it did. I think back then we were optimistic and believed that so many things had changed and the older I get the more I think many things just stayed the same, we just pretend things are different.

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