Jack Kerouac- American Haiku

[pecorino69]

the dogs are barkin

need a shower

a cat went by my window

[davidleedutton]

the cat looks like a dog

barking at

the camera

[maurice2002]

I've just uploaded a reading of George Sterling's seminal 1909 A wine of Wizardry that inspired all keroac, ginsberg crew.... check it out under my username if you want to

[ilookatshoes]

poems i dig

kerouac with no lisp

buried by sky

[mandolaman12]

A mora is not a syllable....

[MarcelJaentschke]

@mandolaman12 Finally somebody who has something intelligent to say. The occidental adaptation of Haiku as a poetry form doesn't makes really sense. Octavio Paz committed a lot of mistakes when he tried to adapt the form. At first: a mora, or a character is not a syllable, so is very stupid pretend to write a Haiku with a 5-7-5 form. Besides, Haiku is not just pure metric, has a cultural and historical ground back that justified it.

[Thylacine1949]

The nineteen-fifties:

Jack Kerouac set the scene,

And the beat goes on.

[GoWithGrunge]

On a youtube video

How I yearn to see

people posting poems

[JazSmithPresentation]

@GoWithGrunge I have a bath every day I can,

Im wasting water,

but inevitably water will waste me.

[MrDarkbloom]

Some more classic Haiku...

The abattoir is alight!

My Xbox dreams

Are you a window?

:)

A fart from a Tiger

Robin hides its nest

How come?

:)

[MrDarkbloom]

A fart from a Tiger

Robin hides its nest

How come?

:)

[OverweightChicken]

I read your Haikus,

That you've posted on youtube,

And i think they're shit.

[desolatemetropolis]

A little worm

Lowers itself from the roof

By a self-shat thread.

LOL

[Wodanaz]

I like this haiku

But it is not quite perfect

Like a Zen haiku

[duelatdawn]

You wrote a haiku

On youtube-

Congratulations.

[JohnnyMeyerdotcom]

Your haiku is a SHAM

Alright, conformity

I'm always coming around

[catgumart]

Does anyone know

How to write a good haiku

I cant think of one

[Diogenes1360]

(to) senior out (verb): To tire, become too weak to function. To do it like an oldster. "I couldn't make the late movie. I seniored out, went to bed at ten."

[Lia2209]

brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!



[GunnerKawasaki]

TV bothers me

the remote's too far away

can't hear myself think!

[MonkeyOnTheContrary]

I thought that haikus were

usually something

like 7 syllables, then 5, then 7?

[johnmcparadisio]

If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.

- John McParadise

[ashiestone]

useless words, youtube

not even very interesting

better to watch porn

[MonkeyOnTheContrary]

@ashiestone laughing my ass off - not literally though

mildly humourous in fact,

but worth a lol

[MrTerminal32]

Black bird

NOOOOOOOOOO

Blue bird!

Haha, great stuff know one will ever get.

[andy1sim]

Laughing at all the 5-7-5 haikus. I guess no one has really read Kerouac's haikus.

[interzone235]

Zoot Sims on tenor

[poolpig]

@interzone235 AND AL COHN

[folopo2]

tribute: ccmixter.org/files/ghiroma/120­4

[Vampira2430]

Cool man!

[Vampira2430]

Cool man!

[citizencrack1986]

As my family dreams,

The January wind blows

outside...I can't sleep

[idic5]

castle of ~gundavers - what is that ? I think I messed up the word.

[broodyart]

Gravity...slowly pulls our attractions...down,slowly.. to our knees. Skooobity bop doo freeeda ba doooooooooo

[col52]

the main thing in poetry is communication,stop talking about 7 beats here five beats there,thats wat turns people off poetry,reminds them of exams.

the beats freed up poetry to communicate,just enjoy it for wat it is.

[panovideo]

Two American writers saved me from madness: Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac.

[vuotopiuscuro]

@panovideo hahahaha.

just dream of more. U R such an idiot. who can believe that.

they mayB satisfied U, but undoubtedly U R a really mad person.

who had the urge to attack me for marcellino pan y vino must B a sad being.

[BUKCOLLECTOR]

hanging upside down

girl in sexy shoes walks by

Fall head over heels!

[verbaud]

Ahhh Jack....he sent me a haiku on a cold drunken night one night: 'Pissing under a November full moon, steam'. No rules, just simplicity.

[BUKCOLLECTOR]

Thin curtain

Ruffles the full moon

Opera cape swirling

[Seamus616]

@JoelMonroe fact... sure basho and buson often ignored it.. and many modern Japanese haikuists dont use it too

[eclipticdreams]

grabs me.... my ears swallow the words, my brain paints a picture

[MrLovington]

Useless! Useless! Heavy rain driving itself into the sea.

[WandaBukowski]

Drunk girl passes out

On a Coney Island bench

People pick her pockets

Is this a good Bukowski Haiku ? LOL

Long live Mr. Charles Bukowski and Mr. Jack Kerouac's work, they saved me from despair.

[jokerclownscar]

just a couple things you missed. but they didn't. well, some of it.

[Daisyfilly75]

Holding up my cat to the purring moon, I cried.

[ryohayashi]

the best way to end a faded night

[anthraxman]

Haiku's are easy.

But sometimes they don't make sense.

Refrigerator

[ryohayashi]

@anthraxman LOL

[poochychester]

@anthraxman greet poem ha

[sohooded]

@anthraxman Whiskers cannot whisk; judging distance on the sides;  they frame the face so

[sohooded]

@anthraxman whiskers cannot whisk, they judge the distance on sides, framing the face so.

[shovingwords]

@anthraxman that made me laugh, man. excellent! Xx

[bhughs77]

@anthraxman Kerouac's idea of an American Haiku wasn't what you exemplified though. His was simply two sentences.

[bulbheadmyass]

@anthraxman

Hey there, anthraxman,

Refrigerator, my ass.

Funny haiku, though.

[sydneydowful]

My life is one big Haiku.

Disney love

black tea mornings

shit stain matress

[zippywaite]

@sydneydowful

Nirvana but piss

[MonkeyOnTheContrary]

@anthraxman Heard that one before!

You're a phony!

Joke.

[acerb45666555]

haiku's. they come they go. it's hard to come up with one.

[084857lqlq]

soooo incredible! music? poetry? jazz? saxophone syllables? oh man i could listen to this overnoverndoveraaand over!

[lenny121]

1:11 listing to the cats stepping !

[ricke91]

Is this available on a record? Great stuff, would like to dig more of this

[MrJamesrnolan]

Jack slings the word-juice

Jazzes 'em like noone else-

No substitutes please!

[designermite]

The bottoms of my shoes

are clean

from walking in the rain.



[jbluestube]

Rain falls

Closing the open sky

solitude now

[begily]

I love haiku

[alexanderguderian]

@JoelMonroe ha, awesome

[IHateBarnett]

I can't really be bothered to look up western haiku but surely if an asian country started using iambic pentameter, called it eastern iambic pentameter but didn't use iambic pentameter we would accuse them of intellectual arrogance? Also the talent that I'm so proud of I reserve for your Dad and step-brother. I'm not bigoted, I just think your opinion is invalid

[aarontimberlake]

@IHateBarnett WTF SON IT"S A HAIKU ACCEPT THAT!

[IHateBarnett]

'Son'? You've been listening to too much of that rap music matey. Get thee back to the suburbs and your IT job.

[aarontimberlake]

@IHateBarnett I just don't understand why "some" people try to complicate simple things (i.e. Haikus)

[turbonoisecat]

these arent Haikus though, isnt it supppose to go 5 syllables, 7, 5? There are all 10.

[IHateBarnett]

that's not really a response as you haven't said anything new....in fact, you basically capitulated for being a numb-nuts haven't you? Surely you must have liked how I worked 'Belshazar' into an insult though? A 'haiku' insult at that, that's talent mate xx

[IHateBarnett]

I don't think it matters anymore, he's dead in'e?

[CWaldo428]

this is the chillest thing ive heard

[AlgidLacuna]

Probably the most soothing video ever made.

[IHateBarnett]

a haiku is 5-7-5 syllables. If you count the beats my friend...Incidentally, 'gay' is a general insult in England, a bit like spazz or twat, it doesn't literally mean what the original connotation of the word suggests. Rather like 'fuckface' is a meaningless insult, it's just two words combined. Unless it's a verb rather than an adjective in which case it sounds like an agressive sexual activity which your mother probably resents you doing to her

[moderjoker]

@IHateBarnett hahahaha

[robchalfen]

Al Cohn on tenor!

[andrewlondonbook]

I love the sax work. Jack was awesome!

[popitsally]

this is american or western haiku, which is not limited to the five seven five pattern. you might as well be saying blank verse isn't iambic pantameter. by definition any three line poem is a haiku, though they normally fit either the unrestricted western format, the original japanese five-seven-five, which works best in the language it was invented for or the inverse seven five seven. learn your shit before you spew it

[Humph177]

I'm sorry if I upset anyone. Wasn't in the best of places when I wrote that, and I intend to remove it now. I duly note my own ignorance, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Hope this finds you well,

Humphrey

[jikolawrence1]

THX -- love Jacks haiku

[id15yes1]

it seems pure devil condemned himself

[IHateBarnett]

not a haiku cock

try harder next time you gay

and fuck off unless you know what the fuck you are talking about belshazar

[alexanderguderian]

@IHateBarnett Put a bullet in your head for all of us. Please. You're less than a Mcdonalds.

[IHateBarnett]

beatnik talking shit

still has more to say than most

why do we bother?

[RAW0774]

what the hell does all this dumb little shit mean

[burkspatrick]

god made a big bang

what a big mess we made

do you think god will clean it all up

[Feelgood4life]

listen instead of

putting your lazy letters

together toa meaningless mess

[begily]

this guy is so cool, he has one the best voice I've ever heard.

[loren1283]

boring....why dont they interact more free. This just aint hip man.

[Walgekaaren]

holymen look mad

some hollow guardians

try to rescue

[Kerouac4fan]

It helped that he looked like a Hollywood actor. If he'd have looked like Charles Laughton would anybody have listened to him?  Actually Charles Laughton does a great reading of Kerouac, Google: 'Dharma beat Charles Laughton' and you'll hear it. All best - Al of Yahoo! Group: Beat_Happening.

[JackOfferlott]

@Kerouac4fan

Well, I didn't really know what Kerouac looked like when I first read On the Road. Furthermore, I'm heterosexual! His looks didn't and couldn't help him at all with me. Yet, he's my favorite writer. The Duluoz Legend is better than Harry Potter or DaVinci Code because it's better than Harry Potter and DaVinci Code, not because Jack Kerouac has movie star looks while Rowling looks like a beaten boxer and Dan Brown looks like an even gayer Bret Easton Ellis.

[huggiehuggie1]

This guy is so fucking over rated

[lshaw17]

You're a towel

[Bilsabob]

You're a towel

[sixfink]

oh, interesting opinion!

Why do you think he is overrated, actually?

No offense, just a simple question.

[iscream22]

Well, thats just like your opinion.... maaaan. If you dont like him, dont read or pay attention to his material. Why dont you pick up a nice Twilight book instead or perhaps Harry Potter because gee... theyre so original and thought provoking!

Just messin with you buddy,

anyways what book of his have you read? Personally I thought On The Road was overrated but I LOVED The Dharma Bums, that was a very enjoyable read.

Personally I think Burroughs is overrated.

[RamblinTroubadour]

I felt the exact same way about On The Road and Dharma Bums, many don't

[funnyfacee]

i felt the same as well

[Ashiman12]

Mad Jack Kerouac

Poet-saint of the U.S. -

Gold dust on the road.

[tylarius]

I've got piles and

piles and piles of forks

but not an ounce of happiness

[TheOakdick]

Jack Kerouac is a little too into himself, but his writing still makes me feel happy when I hear it,

[twjames18]

how is he into himself?

[subterranean47]

That's what some obscure zen fellow said about Kerouac's Buddhism. He is in touch with himself. Besides writers have to be egotistic to some extent.

[dylanyoung22]

i would have to completely disagree. I did not know the man but I would say there is a lot of self loathing in his works that I have come across

[AceHardon]

Out my window, life progresses but I don't feel it inside.

[dmarries1]

the sink above me frightens me............it really dose

[Anghdhpstr]

You! Violentsilence,

have killed Jack Kerouac!

He was about happiness

[violentsilence4u]

what an over rated writer. "oh the void, the void" this is the kind of shit a teenager would write and think its deep. this guy would be laughed at in europe, only in america, as they say.......

[Elgigante21]

I don't get any of it really. It provokes thought; maybe that is all what it is meant to do. It's great in its own way. I suppose . . .

[coldcarlsberg]

I am leaving..

the video is streaming..

what a cat.

[Mokey1K]

Blackbird. NO !!! BLUEBIRD !

Awesome

[lakshmimittal]

The fridge light is off

But the food is still in there

[Caviezel7]

"Good Moring, paper boy,

thank you."

"Yes."

Actualy conversation about 30 min ago....

[moshmartyr]

Holding up my purring cat to the moon, I sighed

[dreadlegs]

glistening water

salmon leaps

mountain silence deepens

(watch out for cats with frosty toes)

[dreadlegs]

Havn't a clue what he's talking about, but this makes me feeeeel. I think Jim Morrison was listening this a bit, would blend nicely with An American Prayer....

[rollingklouds]

The tree looks like a dog

barking at heaven

[AvEryBadApPLe]

awesome post!!!

[gotears2listen]

Anyone know who's on tenor?

A glistening puddle has scared my donkey and round the next corner is a flamingo

[corticalmass]

That's Zoot Simms

[jbradford25]

Actually it's 2 tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.

[msammas]

kerouac is to haiku as jazz is to classical music.

it might not be proper haiku form, but its still genius. thanks for posting this!

[emmiban]

You are Great !!!!!!!!  thanks,,,

[coixtube]

birds draw trails in the air:

the way is hard to find

[jordanschunk]

2:03 'mexicooooooh' ya man ya

[CackleMyGladdis]

3:18 - "August moon, Oh, I got a boil on my thigh"...nothing but the truth from our Jack!

[CrackaMoo]

Go, you old buddhist prince, go!

[raygallardo420]

early morning breeze

see the smoke rising-

from my wooden pipe

[acousticanarchy]

ace feel to this! 5* LOVE the impro Jazz combined with mr K himself!

[pecorino69]

Young girls running up the library stairs in shorts...

[olivercusimano]

In the tradition of Haiku, these are really poor ones. Check out Issa and Basho of you're interested in reading a master.

[pecorino69]

take it easy buddah, your day will come...

[drnick536]

well yeah you can say that, but this isn't traditional haiku. its american haiku. it doesn't follow the basho because its not supposed to, part of the idea of the beats was having a strong understanding of the rules, then making their own.

[monkfish06]

I go to the park. It is shining rain. Coke and platinum.

[trevorduvall]

the wind blows

and who knows

where it goes

[anukasia]

I love it!

[wayfare888]

twelve bowls of ice cream.

if I lived here

I'd be home by now.

[redrambler89]

nice horn parping at the end there

[Toft123]

Neighbour's window glowing

In the fall of the dusk

I don't feel the warmth

[Toft123]

doses of warmth,

hits the body in strokes of happiness,

perhaps this is the end?

[Toft123]

Is it possible to retract a post or delete it?

[signogun]

No. Youre stuck with it.

[burkspatrick]

the road my lover gas prices my evil hater sucking the life out of myself

[bottomdogman]

the laptop screen glows

on my face in the dark room

and Jack didn't die

[TheLouisvilleLip]

Get a job hippie

[WKRPinCINN]

dont trust anyone over 30 man...

[fronczek123]

why you wanna banna man this isnt proper i just started getting into this mans work and can tell that you are unjust. gezze man what are you thinkin hes the dylan of paper. damn]

[JohnnyMeyerdotcom]

My favorite Jack album ! He was the best ... RIP Jack K.

[hikingantoine]

My apartment window,

bringing the first cool breeze of fall,

and I'm gone

(---leaving a foreign land and discovering jean-louis thankfoulis)

[poetnine]

Night time thunder fades,

and large drops fall from trees,

Lee reaches for me...

[alinytch]

Happy Birthday, Chief of the BEAT !

[baltasvilkas]

big cat,

little cat--

sheer cool...

[iCE2sKY]

Inspiring!

[reportanddeport]

How stoned do you have to be to get this shit?

[optichaiku]

not very.

[fronczek123]

shit. hey do i have antlers.

[kub73158]

The guy was incredibly gifted. Brilliant and such keen observation. With It!

[LifeOnAFarm2]

Ha,ha,ha its brillant

[Braveturkey]

Good stuff. Thanks for putting this on the Tube.

[gymgrl922]

Kerouac has a way of getting under your brain and no way of pulling that splinter.