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Best J D Salinger Poems


Looking For My Agnes
Looking 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 Bird
A 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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© Cj Krieger  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: j d salinger, funny, philosophy, sound, bird,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Wanna Fall In Love
I 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

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Steely-Eyed Bunny Wabbits
steely-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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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: j d salinger, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teenage Dreams
Catcher
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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry