Best J D Salinger Poems
Looking For My AgnesLooking for my Agnes
Hemingway wrote of his Agnes. A love, who saved him and left him. Hemingway learn. Love in war, just gifts of the survivors. We must go home. Took J. D Salinger a lifetime to find his Agnes. Hemingway's words made him know....
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Categories:
j d salinger, longing, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Zen Buddhist BirdA Buddhist bird flies
Under the eyes
Of winter’s sun
As I watch his flight
Across a lonely wintry sky
Gazing up
At his long, long flight south
He diverts himself
From the chilly northern wind
A wind
That the sun cannot warm
He diverts...
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Categories:
j d salinger, funny, philosophy, sound, bird,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Wanna Fall In LoveI wanna fall in love
Once, I was seeking the Hemingway life. Running toward war and away from love and life. Somehow I found the J.D Salinger silence. Once, bold and foolish man. Now he sit by the sea wishing for last dance, more laughter...
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Categories:
j d salinger, absence, conflict, depression, longing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Steely-Eyed Bunny Wabbitssteely-eyed bunny wabbits
she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she is traipsing round the backstreets at a quarter to three
with a dogeared copy of catcher in the rye
just wants to...
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Categories:
j d salinger, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
Teenage DreamsCatcher
in the rye-
disillusion
rides a one trick
pony
Tribute inspired by the news J D Salinger died last week.He captured the mind of teenagers
before the term was invented in the 50's...
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Categories:
j d salinger, on writing and words,
Form:
Cinqku