Don't Be Sorry!

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I found the above quote one day this week and it just kept running through my mind.  It so reminded me of the Free Write Friday prompt we had a few weeks ago -- Serendipity!  We all need to take more time and follow the words of this quote and I know there will be much more serendipity and our lives will be richer for doing so.

Jack Kerouac is an author that I vow to read more about, more of his works, more of his life.  Just one more on a list of many that I need to attend to ... my reading bucket list!

Below you will find several of his Haiku and one longer poem.  Being a micropoet who also writes longer free verse, these speak to me in volumns.

Birds singing...

Birds singing
in the dark
--Rainy dawn.


The Low Yellow

The low yellow
moon above the
Quiet lamplit house.



The Taste...

The taste
of rain
--Why kneel?


One Flower

One Flower
on the cliffside
Nodding at the canyon.


In Vain

The stars in the sky
In vain
The tragedy of Hamlet
In vain
The key in the lock
In vain
The sleeping mother
In vain
The lamp in the corner
In vain
The lamp in the corner unit
In vain
Abraham Lincoln
In vain
The Aztec empire
In vain
The writing hand:  in vain
(The shoetrees in the shoes
In vain
The windowshade string upon
the hand bible
In vain--
The glitter of the greenglass
ashtray
In vain
The bear in the woods
In vain
The Life of Buddha
In vain)

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Now to decide where to start reading Jack...my usual is to start at the beginning.  In other words, read the first work to the last chronologically.  That is a bit obsessive and for Jack, I think I need to read him with Serendipity...read Jack as I find Jack...not necessarily as Jack wrote in time.

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Always I wish you peace, joy and happiness, but most of all I wish you Love.

As Ever, Annie   (Jack used:  As Ever, Jack -- loved it and decided to use it as well!)