I Dropped Thirty Four Years And A Pair Of Rose Colored Glasses

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Open Poetry #28

I Dropped Thirty Four Years And A Pair Of Rose Colored Glasses

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

0 posted 2003-08-14 11:00 PM

From a cleared hilltop
on Yasgur's farm
I watched the tribe arrive.
In four days time
a nation's children
joined and came alive.
We all made a statement,
I'm sure that it was true,
but I never saw it translated
into any language I knew.
Expanding like a universe,
I watched us grow and die
right before my eyes,
four days of mindless sex,
even screwing on manure piles
under lightening drugged out skies,
darkness in the hilltop camps,
running out of water
while drowning in the rain,
chanting for the storm to pass,
all the chants in vain,
burning out the vendors
after stealing all the food,
eating with the Pranksters,
laughing with the uninvited Dead.
We stayed alive
on constant music,
rain and mud
sound bites and denial,
later
on what we read
in lots of newspaper lies.

© 2003 by icebox

Kaoru

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where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2003-08-15 12:13 PM

Amazing, as usual.

the_loner_23
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA

2 posted 2003-08-15 12:16 PM

Awesome poem.

Cold hands means a warm heart

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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Florida

3 posted 2003-08-15 09:25 AM

"four days of mindless sex"

I always miss all the fun!!

I heard all the lies...and wished I could have been there...did you find those glasses? And were there any women there that could still walk??

Excellent way to write about it!

Susan

[This message has been edited by Susan Caldwell (08-15-2003 09:26 AM).]

Margherita
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Eternity

4 posted 2003-08-15 09:54 AM

A piece of history vividly told!
Love, Margherita

vandana

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5 posted 2003-08-15 09:56 AM

nice piece

Martie

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6 posted 2003-08-15 10:47 AM

icebox

You write in Technicolor!

angelblueyes
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since 2003-07-19

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Oklahoma

7 posted 2003-08-15 10:58 AM

WOw!!This was amazing.
angelblueyes

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

8 posted 2003-08-15 11:05 AM

I read those newspapers, but also had friends (and brothers) to tell me some of those lies...

wish I wasn't so fearful of those times and would have joined in...my world would look different to me today.

M

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