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").
The Moment
The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in the centre of your room,house, half-acre, square mile, island..
© Margaret Atwood
A Sad Child
You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou..
© Margaret Atwood
Trees
But a tree hasa long suffering shapeIsspread in halfby 2 limbed fateRises from gray rainpavementsTo traffic in the bleakbrown airOf cities radar..
© Jack Kerouac
To Harpo Marx
O Harpo! When did you seem like an angelthe last time?and played the gray harp of gold?When did you steal the silverwareand bug-spray the guests?When..
© Jack Kerouac
The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
1Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception in my mind I wouldnt have said 'Sky'-That is why I am the golden..
© Jack Kerouac
Tenorman
Sweet sad young tenorHorn slumped around neckBearded full of junkSlouches waitingFor Apocalypse,Listens to the newNegro raw trumpet kidTell him the..
© Jack Kerouac
On Tears
Tears is the break of my brow,The moony tempestuousSitting downIn dark railyardsWhen to see my mother’s faceRecalling from the waking visionI wept to..
© Jack Kerouac
Nebraska
April doesnt hurt hereLike it does in New EnglandThe groundVast and brownSurrounds dry townsLocated in the dustOf the coming locustLive for survival..
© Jack Kerouac
In Vain
The stars in the skyIn vainThe tragedy of HamletIn vainThe key in the lockIn vainThe sleeping motherIn vainThe lamp in the cornerIn vainThe lamp in..
© Jack Kerouac
How To Meditate
lights out-fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneousecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,the gland inside of my brain dischargingthe good glad..
© Jack Kerouac
Hitchhiker
'Tryna get to sunny Californy' -Boom. It's the awful raincoatmaking me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot in a..
© Jack Kerouac
Daydreams For Ginsberg
I lie on my back at midnighthearing the marvelous strange chimeof the clocks, and know it's mid-night and in that instant the wholeworld swims into..
© Jack Kerouac
Bus East
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5 years ago - other furies other losses -America'strying to control the uncontrollable Forest..
© Jack Kerouac
Bowery Blues
The story of manMakes me sickInside, outside,I don't know whySomething so conditionalAnd all talkShould hurt me so.I am hurtI am scaredI want to..
© Jack Kerouac
4th Chorus Mexico City Blues
Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollarsHe was TightFrog waitsTill poor flyFlies byAnd then they got himThe pool of clear rocksCovered with vegetable..
© Jack Kerouac
3rd Chorus Mexico City Blues
Describe fires in riverbottomsand, and the cooking;the cooking of hot dogsspitted in whittled sticksover flames of woodfirewith grease dropping in..
© Jack Kerouac
2nd Chorus Mexico City Blues
Man is not worried in the middleMan in the MiddleIs not WorriedHe knows his KarmaIs not buriedBut his Karma,Unknown to him,May end -Which is..
© Jack Kerouac