Over on Weekly Prompts the site shared by GC, themainaisle.com and SueW, nansfarm.net the Weekend Challenge is Flower Power!
I’ve never partaken in these challenges, but when I saw the post today it triggered an immediate poem that, under normal circumstances, would have ended up as one of my Rapid Rhymes. Since I’m here, the poem is writ, and I saw this earlier today: (which I’ll leave to Sue to explain!!!)
I thought that I would offer you:
I aint no hippy
I missed the swinging sixties
with jeans and beads and hair
They say if you remember them
it proves you were not there
Well I was wearing uniform
no jeans or hair allowed
Each day was fully occupied
we couldn’t join the crowd
there’s many folk did not
Succumbed to sex and rock and roll
and drugs including pot
Still, p’raps I made up later
or p’raps I was a saint
Afraid I am not telling
A hippie I sure aint!
