Posted in Poetry 2010 - present, tagged 1960's, beatniks, Bellingham, college, memories, Mt. Baker, nature, poem, Poetry, Shadorma on November 6, 2017| 27 Comments »
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Sehome Hill
was the place to go
after dark
college kids
parked for hours in old sedans
making memories.
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Met a guy
took me to “The Web”
beatniks read
poetry
argued relativity
high on espresso.
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Sparkling views
close to waterfalls
Mount Baker
Puget Sound
winding drives on Chuckanut
easy on the curves.
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© 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(Memories from freshman year in college, ’65-’66)
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Posted in Poetry 2010 - present, tagged college, enlightenment, God, Nietzsche, poem, Poetry, spirituality, summer, summer of '67 on September 28, 2013| 23 Comments »
It was one blue-sky summer
of beach love and freedom
and baby-oil tans,
but most of all, hunger
for the daring wild truth.
We danced apart
from cold philosophers
returning to their graves
and the icy leanings
of faithless professors.
It was that long emblazing summer
when heat ignited bodies,
when sun kindled our souls
and Nietzsche’s God
came back
from the dead.
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© 2013 Betty Hayes Albright
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(remembering the summer of ’67)
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