Thursday, December 22, 2011

BLUEBIRD

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there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact

charles bukowski...
who else could it be?





6 comments:

Martijn said...

I didn't know Bukowski wrote poetry. And I wouldn't have thought he had it in him. But he has. That's a fine and comforting thought.

Martijn said...

Wikipedia says I'm an idiot. He is Most Of All a poet. I just read Post-Office, and nothing else. Great book though! And even though I find English poetry incredibly hard to read, I must try to find his poems. I am very curious now.

AnitaNH said...

Hey Steve, thanks for the link and the compliment! I found a great site called Moving Poems this week that features animated poetry. I think you will like it:
http://movingpoems.com/

soubriquet said...

I like Charles Bukowski, though I think it would have been considerate of him to have a name I could pronounce and spell.

The Red Dirt Girl was not at all keen, bu I think she's scowling at him a bit less these days....

(I write this knowing that it's six in the morning in her world, so I should be safe from immediate reprisals)

bulletholes said...

I posted another Bukowski a while back. I love this one called Catfish Friend. Absolutly love it.
Click here

red dirt girl said...

Scowl ...... seditious lies, all of them! Seriously, this one made me feel sad. Bukowski isn't bad. I think of him as a guys' poet. Just like how Marge Piercy is a girls' poet. Betcha Soubry didn't confess to not liking Marge, did he !!

xxx