Best Beatnik Poems

Beatnik, hippie, free spirit, oh my.
Enjoying their bliss with barely a sigh.
Full of great fun
Enjoying the sun
I like all of them with barely a try...

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Beatnik Snaps
       Onomatopoeia-topia

(poet sits on a stool in the café and begins)
I could onomatopoeia all day daddio
With cool sounds...

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Do you remember the Beatnik generation?
Those angry young men with long hair
You could see them playing a guitar in a station
Strumming and singing without a...

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Hey,hey! It's the Bohemia Cafe!Barry and Kirra'd greet you and say
"Hi there! Pleased to meet Chai!"
Barry and Kirra they say had a crazy Cafe where...

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(10/13/12)

At the beginning of “64” - I packed up my uniform
And walked out the door- it was the beginning of
The Vietnam war.
By August of that...

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i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
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The lava lamp glows
in a room that's otherwise dark
while the guitar of Hendrix
slices through the air
listened to by a wanna-be beatnik
getting stoned on weed
pretending not...

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i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
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When you hear the poet speak
Raise your hand
Snap your fingers
In the old beatnik tradition

Howl for the poets
Howl for the truth-tellers
In the old beatnik tradition

Snap your...

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They were cheaters but they were real,
the old bitoks. You could have a measure,
drink the devotees' own red winter cherry, and contemplate
the saxifrages in the...

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Hurled into the desert by a beatnik pilot and dropped off just above nirvana.  I find myself in a peculiar yet remarkable position. ...

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i am not a beatnik
ive been called hipster
i am not a caucasian
blood type O positive
I live in the house i was raised in
i destroyed it...

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I'm a cool cat
Beatnik
Bohemian
Free spirit
Freethinker
Hipster
Cool cat - daddy-yo
Skoopy, loopy koo! 
Skippitty, dippitty 
Wah wah wah!

Like, dig that jazz, daddy-yo
Do you collar this jive
Play it hot...

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To all my Poetic Family, I would like to start a new word game It's very easy You pick a word
Define it and sign your...

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Was Ist Los?  Oh, Nothing, Just the Berlin Airlift...
         Berlin 1948-1952
You came into my life one...

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