Best Ginsberg Poems
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To WhitmanEvery time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat,
I'm not unworthy of you, Walt,
I'm not unworthy of you, my saluting you proves it . . .
Salute...
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Categories:
ginsberg, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word
Form:
Free verse
Ruth Bader GinsbergCautious adjudication, the gravitas of soft-spoken word.
Your legendary legacy, illustrious and exalted.
Advocate for gender justice, legal insights not always heard.
Yet, your jurisprudence was seldom persuasively faulted.
Few men invite state regulation of their sex organs.
Yet, many insist the state can control a woman’s body.
You, the bulwark...
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Categories:
ginsberg, abortion, america, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Elegy
To Allen GinsbergON THE DEATH OF GINSBERG
Rain-damp street outside my window voices
punctuate early morning street dogs
bark car engines cough start
someone’s day
lie in half-light thinking of you Allen Ginsberg
what demons drove you Naomi there driving you to work in her madness
your...
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Categories:
ginsberg, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
A Ginsberg American SentenceParis is burning, hypnotized, majestic spire plummets to earth....
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Categories:
ginsberg, french, history, paris, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Ginsbergwithpen in hand awake, apparations of immortality
consumed inward. This straight heart's delight
yelling Tiny Nicaragua's a big threat
to undernourished Mexico.
By common sense , common law , common tenderness
& common tranquility I want to know what
happens after I rot.
shooting Gasoline electric speed ; empty...
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Categories:
ginsberg, art, devotion, faith, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Ginsberg Writes the F WordGinsberg Writes the F- WORD
FALLEN GINSBERG COINS “” INTO POETRY,
Our college creative-writing professor
Announced in 1972, to our class of hippie poets,
Like me, who didn’t quite see
The big deal, because we were establishing
That outrage into every sentence of all
Conversations spoken across the...
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Categories:
ginsberg, future, history, poetry, political,
Form:
Free verse
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg
Where have you gone?
We need you in this world right now
We are frightened and alone
You were a shining light through the darkness
Through the '50's you held strong
Even though society said
Everything about you was wrong
You were a beacon of freedom
Let your words always ring...
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Categories:
ginsberg, death, loss, nostalgia, people,
Form:
Ginsberg, Ah Men, Ah Womenmission accomplished, bounded in truth,Ruth that is. dedicated to the rights of women matriculating the interpretation of man's law to remind man..you already wrote me in! with her impeccable, eloquent demeanor, she was once asked..well can you rap like biggie smalls? ...
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Categories:
ginsberg, analogy, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Clerihew GinsbergBeat poet Allen Ginsberg
versifier to both seen&heard
The embodiment of all things anarchic
a performance art so hypnotic...
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Categories:
ginsberg, people,
Form:
Clerihew
Ginsberg Is GoneThe fantastic
writings
of Allan
remain
but he is gone
do you remember
seeing him?
He traveled the
world in search
of the perfect
poem
The...
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Categories:
ginsberg, art
Form:
Free verse
KEROUAC THE WORD SPEAKS JAZZ Tony AdamoKEROUAC THE WORD SPEAKS JAZZ/Tony Adamo
Spoken Word All in Caps for Better Reading While in Recording Studio/10/14/23
THE JAZZ COOL AND BEBOP MUSICIANS MADE MUSIC THEIR OWN/
THE BEAT GENERATION WAS A NONCONFORMIST CULTURE MOVEMENT OF THE 1950’S/
WRITERS, POETS SUCH AS JACK KEROUAC, NEAL...
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Categories:
ginsberg, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word