Summer of Love Poem/60’s Poem
- Create a poem of what you see around you,
during The Summer Of Love.
(Think of it as a Reaction poem or
an Observation poem)
-You should write as if you are actually there,
experiencing everything around you.
(Examples you may want to include in your poem: Getting something from the free store, dancing at a Be-In, protesting on Haight Ashbury, teenage runaway who wants peace & love, eating at the Feed-In with The Diggers, hanging out at Golden Gate Park, experiencing an LSD drug trip, interacting with people as a flower child, ‘turning on,’ ‘tuning in,’ ‘dropping out,’ 60’s vocab: counterculture, utopia, psychedelic, marvel, Revolution…)
~ WRITE IT on lined paper first! ~
Make sure write in mindful use line breaks,
include 60’s vocab/events from the 60’s,
and incorporate figurative language!
Publish on a piece of white paper:
decorate with any colors or
60’s-related-images/drawings – TO BE HANDED IN.
Creating a Summer of Love poem (60’s Poem)
Objective –
Today I will describe 60’s experiences and reference events, so that I can use figurative language to explain what I see. I will know I have been successful when I can create a poem that expresses what the experiences mean to me.
Ms. G’s example – Summer of Love Poem:
The sounds of voices and musical chords
jump in my ears
as I turn on.
Trippy patterns float by my face
as I giggle and laugh
at my hallucination.
Chilling in Golden Gate Park.
Holding hands with strangers
and cuddling in a
pile of flowers.
Kindness and community,
I feel like I belong.
Embracing peace
and praying that utopia
is close.
When I touch it,
I’ll feel free.
THINK ABOUT:
-Discuss events from the 60’s articles & consider what you might want to include in your poem.
-What are you going to reference?
-Which 60’s vocab words or examples would work?
*Remember to be descriptive and creative and include some figurative language (simile, metaphor, alliteration or personification…)