Salinger Poems - Poems about Salinger

...There come those nights—you know the sort: The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window, Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song th......

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...{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given a full P......

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...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 fall slaps o......

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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 Peace" I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die" Re......

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...The riches of anonymity, the poverty of fame All treasure in what freedom brings —myself unknown to claim (Dreamsleep: December, 2021) ‘Tribute To J.D. Salinger......

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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 leave you ba......

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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 survivors. We must go home. Took J. D Salinger a lifetime t......

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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 a quiet beach, dancing with someone you love often......

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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 me. She shared her kind words and she would list......

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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 then the Koran......

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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 why ne'er ......

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...everyone but not a burden carry their the book Salinger fans can be caught with his catcher Kerouac no longer on but they aren't off the road keeping beat with a different drum......

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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 J.D Salinger silence. Once, bold and foolish man. Now he sit by th......

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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 it is better to not be so prolific. ......

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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 an hour. The clock, however, winds itself; if he knew that, he would not was......

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