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Halcyon Days
by Tony Channing → (All Poetry by Tony Channing)
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Just sitting quietly, musing

I think back to those halcyon days


When Jimmy Hendrix played Purple Haze


Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones


Not for me then, creaking bones


 


Dezi Arnez loved Lucy Ball


James Bond was Thunderball


Larry Hagman “dreamt of genie”


David Bowie sang “Genie Genie”


 


Beach Boys, played “Get around”


On balmy days, a summer sound.


Flower power in San Francisco


Donna Summer creating Disco


 


Elvis sang Love me Tender


Followed by Return to Sender


Buddy Holly and Peggy Sue


Carl Perkins, Blue Suede Shoes


 


Then there were crisis ways


Castro nearly ended our days


The Cuba crisis was nearly war


Like one we had not known before


 


We lost some idols in that time


Buddy and the Big Bopper in fifty-nine


Shortly after Kennedy his fate he’d meet


Gunned down in a Dallas street


 


The sixties were great times for fun


The teenage era had really begun


Yep, I had a great time in many ways


Back then in those Halcyon Days


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 Reviews of "Halcyon Days"
Reviewed on February 23, 2005
Those WERE the days *siggggghhhhhhh*

An excellent reflective write--very well penned!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :) (I remember the sixties)


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