<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><a class="nocolor fn" href="https://allpoetry.com/poem/15863643-The-Swinging-Sixties-by-Mohsin-Maqbool-E" style="caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 23px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(141, 56, 0); text-decoration: none;">The Swinging Sixties</a><div dir="ltr"><div>Author unknown</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Sixties: a decade of great turmoil.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 24, 35);"><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John F. Kennedy assassinated.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">L. B. Johnson in charge of US soil.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Cold War fully accelerated.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Chubby Checker sings "The Twist" -- starts a craze.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Soon dances like "The Watusi", "The Shake",</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"The Swim", "The Jerk" and "The Frug" are ablaze.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Beatles -- coiffures and vogue in their wake.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Civil Rights movement soon on the rise.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MLK and his "I Have a Dream" speech --</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">all realized the black leader was wise.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Muhammad Ali with his moves could teach.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", James Bond,</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and "Our Man Flint" -- spies of a new order.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The best designer suits secret agents donned.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">They chased villains from border to border.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A killer's bullet ends MLK's life.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sirhan Sirhan kills R. F. Kennedy.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"The Graduate" to movies gives new life.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Spaghetti Westerns make the nation heady.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Steve McQueen with "Bullitt" raises a storm.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"The Wild Bunch" makes Sam Peckinpah a star.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To Newman and Redford's film people swarm.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Liz Taylor, Loren and Welch are hot stars.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">On July 20, Nineteen Sixty-nine,</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Apollo 11 lands on the moon.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Neil Armstrong: "...one giant leap for mankind."</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Everyone wanted to head for the moon.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide bikes</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in "Easy Rider". Film buffs loved the ride.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sales of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" hiked.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Students hold protests against Vietnam war. </span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hippies spread love with their "Flower Power"</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and through their slogans of "Make Love, Not War".</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Woodstock with music and peace world showers.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Here the "Rain Chant" was sung by one and all.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"Jingo", "Soul Sacrifice" soared Santana. </span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Sharon Tate murders -- a curtain call </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(253, 252, 248); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">on an innocent Americana.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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