Woodstock

[poliphilo]

Forty years since Woodstock? So it is. Here, have a poem:

WOODSTOCK

 

And all the generations go

Down-a-down-derry.

 

This is mine

Spread out like sheep on the pale green hills,

Ingesting smoke-

You dig it, man?-

Changing the world with daddy’s money.

 

Arlo is sweet,

Hendrix amazing,

Baez sings out pure as a bell

In a chapel of air, the high notes smoking.

 

Down-a-down-derry.

Comments

[sovay]

In a chapel of air, the high notes smoking.

I like that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

"Changing the world with Daddy's money."
So true. (My Daddy had no money to support me with, so I noticed the others more than they did themselves).

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It was easy to be a beatnik if Daddy sent a check every month. More difficult if one had to earn one's way - I did.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The 60s were a free ride for many of our generation. Then they had to get jobs- and the peace and harmony came to an end.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

That's quite good.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I liked this poem!

I remember Woodstock year very well. I was painting that year, acrylics, listening over and over to Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, and Nash) and the musical Hair. Didn't get to Woodstock, but I walked around our apartment neighborhood during a solar eclipse, barefooted, because I was pregnant with Kate and wanted her to be (like me) a Flower Child and thought the eclipse would influence her baby psyche! (It did, too--or maybe all the hippie music I played that year, because Kate is a most creative person.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

1969 was, if I remember rightly, the year I walked to Glastonbury and hung out- briefly- with hippies on Glastonbury Tor.

I was into the Doors, I think- and the not so hip Simon and Garfunkel.

[wokenbyart.livejournal.com]

Were you a hippy? I somehow can't imagine you being into dope and colourful clothes!!
;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

No, I wasn't. Not really. More of a fellow traveller. I took LSD once to see what it was like.

My clothes have got more colourful with age. You should see the candy-striped jumper I'm wearing today.

[wokenbyart.livejournal.com]

*grins*

"There was an old Derry-Down-Derry..."

[jorrocks-j.livejournal.com]

....who loved to see little folk merry.
So he wrote them a book
and with laughter they shook
at the fun of that Derry-Down-Derry!"

--Edward Lear, opening lines to his first book of Nonsense

Re: "There was an old Derry-Down-Derry..."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I adore Edward Lear.