Poetry Room at IsleWrite.com: ODE TO THE 60s is a poem about the 60s era in America, by the poet Janet Cannon.

ode to the 60s

loving far from provincialism wearing paisley
and beardsley prints sewing shirts and
skirts with east indian cotton bedspreads

making candles and macramé hemp rope
plant hangers stringing beaded door curtains
burning inside ourselves and incense cones

inhaling free thinking experimenting with time in
the absence of clocks holding love child babies
on blankets in tall grass at free form rock concerts

questioning expectations embracing everything
new flowers everywhere in our hair and blowing
inside the future of wind with peace on our side

Janet Cannon