Definition of beatnik
: a person who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society; broadly : a usually young and artistic person who rejects the mores of conventional society
Don't trust anyone
Over thirty, son
Establishment be they
From them stay away
Coffee house tonight
Place is out of sight
Far out lit'rature
Writer's life endure
Hippies are my child
Peaceful loving mild
Their philosophies
Make love not war.....peace
I DO REMEMBER THE BEATNIKS, OF COURSE. THEIR PHILOSOPHIES, AND WAY OF THINKING AND LIVING, ARE STILL GOING ON. THERE ARE NUMEROUS GROUPS THAT ARE REALLY SEARCHING FOR THE SAME THING; THE PERFECT PEACE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WHICH CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN ONE PLACE...AT THE CROSS. THANKS FOR SHARING, JANE. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Yes! I was a wannabe hippie but I chose to go to university, get a job, marry, buy a house, have children... ...well, you get it. I don't regret it though. Nicely done, Jane. Love and peace to you,
I really dug their attitude and poetry. Didn't dig their clothes or their lazy lifestyle. Spent many a time in coffee houses listening to poetry and folk music but never recited one of my poems there--probably just too lazy. ;-)
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Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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