Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Driving A Cardboard Automobile Without A License
Driving a cardboard automobile without a license at the turn of the century my father ran into my mother on a fun-ride at..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace
One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Changing Light
The changing light at San Francisco is none of your East Coast light none of..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
An Elegy On The Death Of Kenneth Patchen
A poet is bornA poet diesAnd all that lies betweenis usand the worldAnd the world lies about itmaking as if it had got his messageeven though it is..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Number 20
The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unrealityJellybeans glowed in the semi-gloomof that september afternoonA cat upon..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Great Chinese Dragon
The great Chinese dragon which is the greatest dragon in all theworld and which once upon a time was towed across thePacific by a crew of coolies..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Populist Manifesto No. 1
Poets, come out of your closets,Open your windows, open your doors,You have been holed-up too longin your closed worlds.Come down, come downfrom your..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear
I didn’t get much sleep last nightthinking about underwearHave you ever stopped to considerunderwear in the abstractWhen you really dig into itsome..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Vast Confusion
Long long I lay in the sandsSounds of trains in the surfin subways of the seaAnd an even greater undersoundof a vast confusion in the universea..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Oh You Gatherer
Oh you gatherer of the fine ash of poetry ash of the too-white flame of poetryConsider those who have burned before..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Baseball Canto
Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,reading Ezra Pound,and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through theAnglo-Saxon..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
he Pennycandystore Beyond The El
The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where i firstfell in lovewith unrealityJellybeans glowed in the semi-gloomof that september afternoonA cat upon..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Number 8
It was a face which darkness could killin an instanta face as easily hurtby laughter or light'We think differently at night'she told me oncelying..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonightBeyond the ledges of concreterestaurants fall into dreamswith candlelight couplesLost Alexandria..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Plough Of Time
Night closed my windows andThe sky became a crystal houseThe crystal windows glowedThe moonshown through themthrough the whole house of crystalA..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Don'T Let That Horse
Don't let that horseeat that violincried Chagall's motherBut hekept right onpaintingAnd became famousAnd kept on paintingThe Horse With Violin In..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sometime During Eternity
ometime during eternitysome guys show upand one of themwho shows up real lateis a kind of carpenterfrom some square-type placelike Galileeand he..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Constantly Risking Absurdity
Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Am Waiting
I am waiting for my case to come upand I am waitingfor a rebirth of wonderand I am waitingfor someone to really discover Americaand wailand I am..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The World Is A Beautiful Place
The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don't mind a touch of hellnow and..
© Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Canto XXXVI
A Lady asks meI speak in seasonShe seeks reason for an affect, wild oftenThat is so proud he hath Love for a nameWho denys it can hear the truth..
© Ezra Pound
Canto XVI
And before hell mouth; dry plainand two mountains;On the one mountain, a running form,and anotherIn the turn of the hill; in hard steelThe road like..
© Ezra Pound
Canto Xlv
With UsuraWith usura hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fittingthat design might cover their face,with usurahath no man..
© Ezra Pound
To Êáëüí (Greek Title)
Even in my dreams you have denied yourself to meAnd sent me only your handmaids.
© Ezra Pound
Homage To Sextus Propertius - Viii
Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate womanOr an ornamental death will be held to your debit,The time is come, the air heaves in torridity,The dry..
© Ezra Pound