THE 60'S LOVE VALLEY ROCK FESTIVAL

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The 60's Love Valley Rock Festival
Age 26, Love Valley, North Carolina, 1970
-- This is one poem, in an autobiographical series of poems, I posted here at WriteSpike. Go to my stories section for others. They are in chronological order. --

The local mountain men stood
stiff as trees
nakedness filling their eyes -
from across the lake they zoomed in
on young women shedding their clothes
while young men dove and cannonballed
around them

it was the 60's,
well really 1970
and I had missed Woodstock -
my wife said it would be too crowded

so second best
was Love Valley
founded by a man
who built a town based on Hollywood Westerns
with a saloon, hitching post and general store

who believed in love
so he opened his gates to a hundred thousand people
that settled on his hills
and listened

three days of music ended with
the yet to be known Allman Brothers
who played for hours until
hippies started throwing mud

angry the Brothers left the stage
but came back after twenty minutes of
pleading applause -
now warmed up
their guitars spread up from the valley floor
until the sun set

that night I drove the sharp mountain roads
but was stopped by police
who checked everyone leaving -
finding nothing, we drove on

and then I knew
I had the full 60's experience

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  • No name 4 years, 9 months ago

    Beautiful, felt like I was there.

    • Rick Doble 4 years, 9 months ago

      Thanks, one of my goals is to make it real in as few words as possible