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Modernized Hippies

February 8, 2010
By AlwaysWrite28 DIAMOND, Flushing, New York
AlwaysWrite28 DIAMOND, Flushing, New York
95 articles 28 photos 22 comments

Favorite Quote:
"What makes a flower a flower? And why doesn't the dandelion qualify?" -From my poem "Dandelions"


We are modernized hippies
Tie-dye
Feeling music
Expression through art
Long hair
Rejecting the ways of society
Yet we are not hermits
We drive an average car
Use an oven
Computers
And credit cards
We don’t live in a commune
Emancipated from normalcy
Walk the streets with our bare feet
Protest
Petitions
Save the Polar Bears
Global Warming does exist
The nation’s run with an iron fist
We ignore all the ways
That government plans for us to pay
Attention to so called democracy
And embrace each moment
Savor each day
That we can be free
In the wind, beneath the trees
Yet we return home each night,
Watch TV
Read popular books
And live our lives
As modernized hippies



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on Jun. 13 2011 at 11:16 am
wishing-for-a-sail BRONZE, SouthBoston, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done." -- Winston Churchill

I'm a modernized hippie too; go hippies! :]

on Feb. 17 2010 at 2:47 pm
AbbotRabbit GOLD, Abolana, District Of Columbia
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This poem has great flow and insight.<br /> I really enjoyed it.<br /> Lovely poem darling =]<br /> -Please check out the works that I have posted on here it would be highly appreciated and I think you would greatly enjoy them, Thankk youz-<br /> XxIll tell you Im an orphan after you meet myy familyXx

This poem has great flow and insight.

I really enjoyed it.

Lovely poem darling =]

-Please check out the works that I have posted on here it would be highly appreciated and I think you would greatly enjoy them, Thankk youz-

XxIll tell you Im an orphan after you meet myy familyXx