The beginning was starting to remind me of a Robert Service poem," Dreams Are Best". "If" by Kipling reminds me of this, too. They're all wonderful poems, though!
I wanted to Like the reading...your readings have actually made me appreciate poetry again. Before I started emceeing/rapping I was inspired by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Strayed from the older poets and spent less time reading modern poems. Hip-Hop became my safe haven. Then I got tired of hip-hop and ventured back into the poetic realm. Thank you very much (time to start writing more poems). Thank You!
They are all basically saying that life is at once absurd and beautiful and the spirit is what counts above the flesh ultimately. And I don't mean that in any quasi-religious sense pertaining to any specific god. One of the keys to at least STRIVING for spiritual fulfillment as a common thread in these works seems to be to not put too much worth into the physical world and keep your mind pure of the masses. Do not let the ignorant, spiritually dead and artistically lacking masses corrupt you.
Excellent metre and timbre. Spoken as they were intended to be heard and translated; I would think.
Although this is not one of my favorite poems (I have gone through several of your readings yet am just arbitrarily choosing this one to comment on), upon consecutive listening/reading of these poems by various poets, it strikes me how they are all essentially saying the same thing to one degree or another. Some have more in common such as style or imagery.
a bivouac is an unsheltered military encampment...i would say the bivouac of life means a sheltered life...be not sheltered or led as cattle is the meaning I read.
I can see a basis for sneering. He's rather straightforward. Maybe a little corny ("bivouac of life"). Tough to argue with him on substance though. He comes across as a lover of humainty. Nothing wrong with that. Thanks.
wow i guess hawkwind literaly ripped some of this off.
MrBillAMiller 3 months ago
@MrBillAMiller I found this quotation on the web
"Buried in Hawkwind’s spaced out album Warrior on the Edge of Time is a stanza of Longfellow’s A Psalm of Life."
SpokenVerse 3 months ago
Wow.
DBoYAcExX 4 months ago
The beginning was starting to remind me of a Robert Service poem," Dreams Are Best". "If" by Kipling reminds me of this, too. They're all wonderful poems, though!
angelicsolace 4 months ago
Wonderful!
natentreyable 5 months ago
I wanted to Like the reading...your readings have actually made me appreciate poetry again. Before I started emceeing/rapping I was inspired by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Strayed from the older poets and spent less time reading modern poems. Hip-Hop became my safe haven. Then I got tired of hip-hop and ventured back into the poetic realm. Thank you very much (time to start writing more poems). Thank You!
Praverb 9 months ago 2
one of my favorite poems <33 Thanks for sharing :)
Yanasoo 11 months ago
Any chance of Longfellow's Sonnet 'The Cross of Snow', or 'The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls' ?
Piquarian 1 year ago
you have a wonderful voice.. the visuals should be worked on..and this will be beyond inspiring.
kprasad 1 year ago
This poem is like an antidote for depression. When I read it, I hear the voice of an old man counseling a young man against suicide.
Rodriguez87 1 year ago
In my responses to your fine readings, the bottom paragraph is intended to be read first.
YARBLES1969 1 year ago
They are all basically saying that life is at once absurd and beautiful and the spirit is what counts above the flesh ultimately. And I don't mean that in any quasi-religious sense pertaining to any specific god. One of the keys to at least STRIVING for spiritual fulfillment as a common thread in these works seems to be to not put too much worth into the physical world and keep your mind pure of the masses. Do not let the ignorant, spiritually dead and artistically lacking masses corrupt you.
YARBLES1969 1 year ago
Excellent metre and timbre. Spoken as they were intended to be heard and translated; I would think.
Although this is not one of my favorite poems (I have gone through several of your readings yet am just arbitrarily choosing this one to comment on), upon consecutive listening/reading of these poems by various poets, it strikes me how they are all essentially saying the same thing to one degree or another. Some have more in common such as style or imagery.
YARBLES1969 1 year ago
a bivouac is an unsheltered military encampment...i would say the bivouac of life means a sheltered life...be not sheltered or led as cattle is the meaning I read.
ribblebiff 1 year ago
It's posters like SpokenVerse make YouTube the greatest school in the world's broad field!
pylgrym 1 year ago 2
This has been helping me with my recitation coming up =] Thanks for posting this!
timlip12 2 years ago
nicely done.
"bivouac of life" i would take to mean that life is temporary. just my interpretation.
thanks for the reading
ramcatsurfer 2 years ago
Nicely done, thanks for the reading.
dth344 2 years ago
what does the "bivouac of life" mean?
globescape 2 years ago
A temporary halt on a journey, like setting up camp for the night.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
Wonderful. Words are of no avail to praise this job. Go on. Excellent.
santinoantonio 2 years ago
Bravo, excellent job.
JohnTeeYall 2 years ago
Thank you for another excellent recitation. I liked the anecdote as well.
adilzafar 3 years ago
Well done :-)
strictlypiano 3 years ago
I can see a basis for sneering. He's rather straightforward. Maybe a little corny ("bivouac of life"). Tough to argue with him on substance though. He comes across as a lover of humainty. Nothing wrong with that. Thanks.
peoplematter1 3 years ago
Wonderful reading. He certainly did have the right attitude to life (and love); thankyou so much for your interesting commentary.
sleepingTitania 3 years ago