Those Hippie Days
It's been a long time ago now
Way back early seventies
Looking the part, a hippie queen
Pert, smart and smiles pretty too
Knew her before we met, her type
Rode a bike she traveled light
At the foot of the stairs to wait
Parked her bike and yellow dog
Barefoot, cutoff jeans, straggly hair
Looked the part this Hippie queen
I don't remember who sat first
Empty seat between, back row
Differential Equations class
Back there she read History
I learned my Calculus so so
Smart girl she got A's in both
We chummed now and then pleasant girl
Our end at semester's end
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
- Photo from the Real Toads, Sunday Feature featuring Lisa Graham
- I'm linked with Kim Russell in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekend-mini-challenge-portraiture.html?m=1
- 105 words, nine couplets, 135 syllables - kinda mini
Your portrait took me back, Jim! I remember the early seventies, when I was also a barefoot hippy chick – in Germany. I enjoyed this trip with you back into the past.
ReplyDeleteYou have created a clear picture of the girl in question.
ReplyDeleteI can see her so clearly, and him too. Such a wonderful capture. All the way to the end...
ReplyDeleteEarly 70s, we already had a ten year old, nine year old, eight year old, three year old ~~~ I missed the hippy generation!
ReplyDeleteOf course I meant "hippie" ... though hippy has been appropriate from time to time over the years!!
DeleteThis is such a lovely capture of the girl in question, Jim! ❤️
ReplyDeleteWhen remembering a girl from your youth, you need to remember yourself as well I think...
ReplyDeleteI think I know her. :)
ReplyDeleteI think i know her, too. Tofino has many girls and women like this. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteA little before my time, but I could see that blast from the past clearly anyway.
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