poems from a sixties hippie chick

Author: Barbara Gomes Serafino

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This is my own "coming of age story," told poetically. While the world was on fire with revolution in the sixties, I found my own liberation. Leaving behind those uptight, "schoolgirl" ways for all the excitement and experience that could be devoured living in New York City, I chronicled my evolution in poetry. Like all young people, I needed to express those bottled-up feelings about love and romance, religion and spirituality, sadness and joy, war and peace. I saw myself as a pilgrim on a self-awareness journey and a seeker of enlightenment, as I opined once in my poem sometimes, "but I never feel holy like a nun, maybe that will come when I feel like a radiant sun." Whether you are on your own adventure right now, or recollecting your own metamorphosis, I wish you Godspeed!

About the Author

Barbara Gomes Serafino is a retired trial attorney living in the Atlanta suburbs who will always consider herself a "Brooklyn girl." Raised to be proud of her Italian and Portuguese heritage, family has been her greatest joy. She dedicated her first book, a memoir, The Book "I Always Promised: Family Curses, Stregas & Adventures from Italy, Portugal & Brooklyn", to her grandmother, Christina, who emigrated from Italy to the USA in 1920. In addition to writing and painting, she enjoys amateur astronomy, paranormal radio, and traveling with her husband and friends. Barbara is pictured above in 2022, visiting the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival located in Bethel Woods, New York.