Best Salinger Poems

What would fame bring
what would it change
One iota of truth
the stoppage of rain

Living exposed
the arrows to sling
You know what you know
whether knave or a king

Accolades...

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Looking for my Agnes


Hemingway wrote of his Agnes. A love, who saved him and left him. Hemingway learn. Love in war, just gifts of the...

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They've banned Mark Twain
  J.D. Salinger too
Faulkner, Shakespeare
  Next up, Winnie the Pooh

And because amorality's
  their ultimate end
They'll ban the Bible
 ...

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A Buddhist bird flies 
Under the eyes 
Of winter’s sun 
As I watch his flight 
Across a lonely wintry sky 
Gazing up 
At his long,...

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I wanna  fall in love

Once, I was seeking the Hemingway life. Running toward war and away from love and life. Somehow I found the...

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steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she...

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Catcher
in the rye-
disillusion
rides a one trick
pony

Tribute inspired by the news  J D Salinger died last week.He captured the mind of teenagers 
before the term...

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“Scantly-published in life, JD Salinger is set to become prolific in death”. 

This is Tuesday
and a day of short poems.
Salinger spoke to me
and said that...

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In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and...

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1. God is full, full of rain,
    and dry, dry as light.

2. The clock-man winds his clock
    spending many...

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Fall, the falling leaves


Once I ran away from sadness/heartbreak and I sought escape.
The running man can't run no-more.

Once fearless man learn, love was vengeance,
love would...

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E'er since slip of a lad
little boy painfully shy
think Holden Caulfield
Catcher in the Rye,
(a teen cult classic penned by

Jerome David Salinger),
now resuming poem
about me, no...

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your like my life
cut you with a knife
ive seen the night
about as bright as the shade
these days

to all the old writers,like edson,burroughs,reece,gensburgh,salinger...

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My grandfather told me. What we didn't do. Haunt our life and dreams........


A happy life is making time for morning coffee talk, long walks on...

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The prettiest gal in town




She wore her Summer dresses year around. She loved the Monterey weather and she always carry a smile to share with...

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