The Hippies Were Right... (poem) by Ed Matlack on AuthorsDen

The Hippies Were Right...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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Check out the "you tube" show on the attached website clicker thing...it should be right on the opening page & it is really RIGHT ON! Ed "What luck for the rulers that men do not think."

War is only worth killing, Money is only worth billing, Farm land is only worth under tilling, Food is not even anymore filling… The damn hippies were right, They knew way back then of the light, But under boots they were crushed, They were called back then the blight… Make love, not war, War is just bloody gore, Our world is now dying, The hippies back then weren’t lying… Can we as a people change, I’m ashamed to say we’ve gone past that range, Future generations, if any, will be short-changed, This world we now reside in is quite very strange… © ed ;-( 4/13/09 )-;

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on April 19, 2009

Yes, the hippies saw their wasteful parents and a futile war and tried to do right. Unfortunately, later generations loved the music, but forgot.

Ron

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot

Reviewed on April 16, 2009

Now yah know why so much wildwood weed was cultivated...it was painful then, and it's mega painful now...errr Reality that is lol

Chezza xxxxx

Reviewed by J'nia Fowler

Reviewed on April 15, 2009

I remember the 60's so I must not have tripped out far enough. (a bit too young actually) to know what was going on but you have said it well here. We knew the important stuff and too that we had little power. So sad. Great write, J'nia

Reviewed by L. Figgins

Reviewed on April 14, 2009

Can't believe it's hopeless, Ed. Look at what a bunch of kids did. Seemed as though there was a gentle wave that built momentum into a Tsunami. Some of the seeds planted then are just now pushing through earth. Can't help thinking that the "end of the world" people are talking about may well be the end of the world AS WE KNOW IT. If so, then good riddance! These systems that no longer serve mankind will fall by the wayside and make room for a better one. Peace...

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Well us old hippies may have smoked a wee bit of dope but we could see the writing on the wall about what war and a lack of respect for our environment would do...

Fee

Reviewed by Elizabeth Price

Love them hippies. Excellent. Liz

Reviewed by Rose Rideout

Hey I remember that song,"Give Peace a Chance" and yes it is long overdo. Thank you for sharing Ed.

Newfie Hugs, Rose

Reviewed by Cynthia Buhain-Baello

Peace, man! Let's give peace a chance. Timely write - thanks!

Cynthia

Reviewed by JASMIN HORST SEILER

Soul brothers they were, smoked piece pipe with them, Yes Love, that what Jesus too preached didn't he, anyone listen?
This is perfect Jersey, right on! Jasmin Horst

Reviewed by Georg Mateos

There was a wise man that shouted, "stop the world, I want to get out!"
Turning at 2.300 mph I recon my world is going too fast to nowhere.

Georg

Reviewed by John Flanagan

Reviewed on April 13, 2009

Ed,
This is excellent.
John

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan

yes, the hippies were right about war weren't they--they screwed up some other things but...