General-Zod wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
Hymn, by Jack Kerouac

And when you showed me the Brooklyn Bridge
in the morning,
Ah God,

And the people slipping on ice in the street,
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/02/hymn-jack-kerouac.html

Good choice, George.

I'm reading Jack Kerouac's "Book of Haikus", very

inspiring.

I'm actually considering just switching back and forth

from haiku to limericks for a while this year, if I can produce a
limerick that's more than just a throw away joke.

Pretty cool I daresay.....

Agreed, always good to have some Jack Kerouac poetry on the >>>> board.

Quite right, slick...

I'm sure there's quite a few Jack Kerouac poems about Fall and >>>> Winter, as it seems to have been two of his favorite times of the year. >>>> >> > >>
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Agreed.... and seconded, G.D....!

I have one Kerouac poem on the blog set in Winter, and another

post (3 haikus) about fall. I'd like to add more, but they're not easy >>>> to find..

G.D. you probably already have these J.K. poems...:

https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/tag/autumn-poetry/

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WAITING HAIKU
by Jack Kerouac

Waiting for the leaves
to fall —
There goes one!

I Tell You It Is October! (Excerpt)
by Jack Kerouac

There’s something olden and golden and lost
In the strange ancestral light,
There’s something tender and loving and sad
In October’s copper might.

End of something, old, old, old…
Always missing, sad, sad, sad…
Saying something…love, love, love…

Akh! I tell you it is October,
And I defy you now and always
To deny there is not love

Staring foolishly at skies
Whose beauty but God defies.

For in October’s ancient glow
A little after dusk
Love strides through the meadow
Dropping her burnished husk…

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“I Tell You It Is October” appears in Jack Kerouac Collected Poems,

a 700+-page collection of Kerouac’s poetry published by The Library of >>>> America in 2012, available at Amazon.com.

AUTUMN WIND
by Jack Kerouac

Bird bath thrashing
by itself —
Autumn wind.

AUTUMN HAIKU
by Jack Kerouac

Cool sunny autumn day,
I’ll mow the lawn
one last time

https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/tag/autumn-poetry/

Again... always a good read with Jack K.

Agreed.

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