60’s Flower Child

Did we think
the long hair
and torn jeans,
flower patched,
beaded bliss,
would lead with wisdom,
find the garden
amongst the paved path.

Not end up
consumed in
a three piece, with narrowing tie,
on wall street,
encased in
glass and paper green.

Walled in
with weighty fools,
gold bricks of
dirty green, turned
against
the gardener’s tender
growing green.

Linda Woolven has have published over 60 poems in journals across Canada, the United States and the U.K.. The poems have appeared in Journals like, Obsessed with Pipework, Dana Literary Society, Amethyst Review, Write On, Sepia Poetry Magazine, New Mirage Quarterly, The Kaleidocope Review, Canadian Writer's Journal, Pink Chameleon and Fullosia Press. One of her poems received an award from Dana Literary Society. She also published a chapbook, called Life's Little Lessons last summer that featured 26 poems. She has also published a short story in Happy, and a story in Characters.

Email: Linda Woolven

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