Monday, June 29, 2009

Haiku (Never Published) by Allen Ginsberg

Drinking my tea

Without sugar-

No difference.

The sparrow shits

upside down

--ah! my brain & eggs

Mayan head in a

Pacific driftwood bole

--Someday I'll live in N.Y.

Looking over my shoulder

my behind was covered

with cherry blossoms.

Winter Haiku

I didn't know the names of the flowers--now

my garden is gone.

I slapped the mosquito

and missed.

What made me do that?

Reading haiku

I am unhappy,

longing for the Nameless

A frog floating

in the drugstore jar:

summer rain on grey pavements.(after Shiki)

On the porch

in my shorts;

auto lights in the rain.

Another year

has past-the world

is no different.

The first thing I looked for

in my old garden was

The Cherry Tree.

My old desk:

the first thing I looked for

in my house.

My early journal:

the first thing I found

in my old desk.

My mother's ghost:

the first thing I found

in the living room.

I quit shaving

but the eyes that glanced at me

remained in the mirror.

The madman

emerges from the movies:

the street at lunchtime.

Cities of boys

are in their graves,

and in this town...

Lying on my side

in the void.

the breath in my nose.

On the fifteenth floor

the dog chews a bone-

Screech of taxicabs.

A hardon in New York,

a boy

in San Fransisco.

The moon over the roof,

worms in the garden.

I rent this house.

[Haiku composed in the backyard cottage at

1624Milvia Street, Berkeley 1955, while reading

R.H. Blyth's 4 volumes, "Haiku."]

How are the figurative language used in the poem? The figurative language used in the poem

=Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language? The figurative language used in the poem

"ah! my brain & eggs" Hyperbole.

"Someday I'll live in N.Y."Hyperbole

2. Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.

I like this poem very much because I am very interested in the Haiku as it is related to japanese poems. The author uses quite a lot of figurative languange in this poem. In the end, the author is just trying to express her own emotions with the American way of living and the Japanese way of living. The poem catched my attention.