A poem for April

I imagine my love
breathing with the lungs of all things
and it reaches me
as poetry
of roses or dust

speaks softly to everything
and whispers its news to the universe
the way the wind and sun do
when they split nature’s breast
or pour the ink of day
on the earth’s book

Adonis from Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea (translated by Khaled Mattawa)

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There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out

To visualise a poem’s world : what a challenge.

Designer Monika Umba attempts a magical immersion to Bukowski’s world with her mesmerizing animation video of Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Bluebird,” originally published in his 1992 anthology.

The Bluebird

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

via Brainpickings

See also:

• The Man in the Black Coat
• Things deteriorate
• Art above time

I shall not live in vain

Poetry poster created by H-​​57 and First Floor Under.

via Bloodyloud

See also:

• In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly
• In their own words
• The Man in the Black Coat
• Poetry after the beep
• Lolita butterflies

The Man in the Black Coat

If this is not a brilliant example of visual poetry, what will ever be?

“Yellow Star” a poem by Kate Ruse
Music: “Interval One” from “The Quiet Lamb” by Her Name is Calla, 2010
Spoken by Kate Ruse

via Society 6

See also:

• Poetry after the beep
• Art above time
• Beauty in motion
• In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly

Poetry after the beep

We talked about the meme and the meme  meme, time to hear now the first ever poetry meme, as, at least, described by the Goudal site, where they asked people to read their favorite short poems into their answering machine for a project entitled Verse By Voice.

Listen to  Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty) reading Frank O’Hara’s Animals here.