Poet on Holiday

Poet on Holiday

 

 

 

i wish i lived in Haight Ashbury

during the sixties

and could have sold my poems 

on a street corner

for a nickel a piece

 

Peace junkies might have 

paid for a fix

my words a diluted drug

but charming in masquerade

my street corner

 

my chapbook stand

two for seven cents

three for a dime sans 

cover,

the white pages with black markings

 

that look a lot like letters

inducing a rhyme

but little reason

shoot up a few haiku

you won't get too high

 

or take a bad trip past City Lights Books

i could never count

so 19 syllables will have to suffice

i'm the Beat poet with ice

in the veins of his pen

 

being run off the premises

for having no permit

to express

just simple savoir faire

"Stop the damn war"

 

"Stop hate, stamp it out

with soft sounding syllables

and wretched punctuation

 

who cares the editing is rash

no time,

have to sell the banding together of hearts

with verse pounding the pavement

of dreams,

 

that just have to be realized

before they die

of starvation.

 

 

erin-cilberto

Reviews

[KWP]

oh - just love this Jacob. Read it a few times. 'being run of the premises' :D I can see it, jumping up grabbing at books, pens and the chair he is sitting on and screaming at the same time 'stop the damn war' - poems written on Tally Ho's - now there a quandary, read or smoke for the same high?

Thanks for this one - made me smile !

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Smoking only made me hungry....so I'll take the reading...
thank you for your understanding words, KWP,
j.

[AYVID]

This is a trip every word junkie like me dreams of. You carved up such beautiful streets for my mind to wander in. When paved with peace, the trip gets even sweeter. Kudos!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Peace and Love!
Thank you for your kind words,
j.

[Cherrie]

if only Haiku's had super powers.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that would be interesting....

I think they definitely have the power of brevity.
read morethat would be interesting....

I think they definitely have the power of brevity.
j.