Wish

Wish

I want to join the Beats

feel the momentum

write long discriminate poems

about wars

and free love

Woodstock

Christ walking among us

sitting with Emily at the bus stop

getting to know her

convincing her he is quite real

as belief grows

for a cause

I want to join the Beats

write poems that make purists

cringe

for they must have structure

and we are demolishing

what they built

I want to write a book

and ask Ferlinghetti

to publish it with City Lights

have beatniks walk by the store

and see it displayed in the window

I want to walk down the street in protest

of anything available for the cause

jot lines down on my pad

like an artist's sketch book

I want to be revered for writing something

that really matters

formless

homeless

affording only pen, pad and heart

I dream.

erin-cilberto

7/6/23

Reviews

[light and ashes]

You succeed, I think, even in some small way. It may not be on a grand scale, but you succeed, nevertheless, in my view.

I think I've done that..lol.
I'm sure I have. I'm sure I have and make some people cringe.

I think this is a dream of a write.
100

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind words, Light,
j.

[light and ashes]

Always....

[Lorry]

I want to write poems that make purists cringe too DaddyO. 😊
In a sketchpad or journal that expands or shrinks to the size of my thoughts and words and gives out positive vibes at no cost whatsoever to the reader.
But for the life of me, when I type that lot into Google to find out where to learn that, it may as well just shrug for all the good it's answers do. 😊
I would love to quote someone here, but can't remember if it was Picasso or not that said he tried to spend most of his adult life trying to remember how to paint as free as a child. I'd quite like that freedom for anything I write. The closest I have came to it is to always write my name and age on each one, remembering those so important halves and quarters to your age 😊
I would also quite like to join a protest where I don't know what they are protesting and just use the noise they make to cover my own venting of spleen, in a kind of modernists primal scream therapy. 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ah, to write as free as a child...yes, if only we could,
thank you, Lorry,
j.

[Sami Khalil]

We all want to belong to a group, cause, movement, dream, change, new waves; human nature I guess. Some stay traditional, going with the norms as you say; others want the opposite. We need all those ideas, movements, collaborations.
You write grandly.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I appreciate your kind words...and I surely do miss movement.
j.

[Sami Khalil]

All understandable. You are welcome sir

[Relic]

You may have to ask silly questions first - like who killed the pork chops? Or shop for avacados with wives.

Besides that, you may have to drink to excess or take hullucinagenics. Then go on talk shows drunk.

In any case, I always wanted to be a famous drummer. I settled for contentment.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, go on talk shows drunk...I can dig that.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Especially since lockdowns etc we all want to raise a banner and March of peace love happiness freedom. Those of us should can’t do the walk do the talk.
Great write

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Julie....yes, Peace and love...went somewhere.

[FGFRANKLIN]

Everyone has a dream, everyone has desire, ambition and a talent of some sort. I knew a man who could hardly read but anything he planted would grow. He only wanted to be a good farmer and he was. This "joining up" and being a part of a movement, this being pinned down and pigeonholed into a mold is the antithesis of originality. What have we got if not ourselves? But when you get a group of non-conformists, you have a group conforming to non-conformity so it's a catch 22 of sorts. Be you, be an original, be creative and do what you love, that's my motto. I read Kerouac and Ginsberg and the sultry love songs of Rod McKuen. I did want to go on the road but not with them on a magic bus. I did spend a lot of time on the road eventually, meeting people from many different cultures in different parts of the country. I learned why they call America the melting pot of the world. I wanted to see through their eyes, walk in their shoes for just awhile so I could better understand this family of man. What I found was the more I sought a group connection the more I came back to individual inspiration and example. We really are like snowflakes under a microscope. May we each be the prettiest crystal we can form, even if we aren't seen or noticed in the howling blizzard of the world.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this one, Fabian,
j.

[Andrew John]

Ah, I too have mainly a pad and pen (well, a computer screen and keyboard) and heart. Thanks for your thoughts, Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Andrew, appreciate your response.

[Patricia Wedel]

May all your Wishes be granted.... but not too close together...
tenderly, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I like that, not too close together...
j.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Honestly, your work to me surpasses them all. Our writing styles are so different, but I really appreciate your unique point of view and how you express it. You don't need to dream - you are! Believe that.

I remember specifically looking to read your poetry one day; and when I clicked on my "friend," he had closed his profile. I was m-o-r-t-i-f-i-e-d! This, of course, is when you were out with your heart surgery. I hope to never lose sight of your work again.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

You make me feel very encouraged...thank you, Linda Marie...
I happen to love your poetry...it's very real...and has deep feeling...it is not just window dressing like some poetry...it has guts.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Thank you, Jacob. That means so much to me coming from you. I respect your work greatly.

[red93]

Really Fabulous Jacob - Yes those Beats were great - and the first Haiku I read were actually by Ginsberg himself.
Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, red,
j.