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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GURU OM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Recitation by Author Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October 4, 1970 / car wheels roar over freeway concrete Last Line: I am leaving the world, I will close my eyes and rest my tongue & hand Subject(s): United States; America | |||
Car wheels roar over freeway concrete Night falls on Dallas, two buildings shine under sickle moon Many boys and girls in jail for their bodies poems and bitter thoughts My belly's hollow breath sighs up thru my heart Guru Om Guru Om enlarges in the vast space of the breast The Guru has a man's brown belly and cock long hair white beard short hair orange hat no person The bliss alone no business for my body but to make Guru Om dwell near my heart shall I telephone New York and tell my fellows where I am silent shall I ring my own head & order my own voice to be silent but How giant, silent and feather-soft is the cave of my body eyes closed To enter the body is difficult, the belly's full of bad smelling wind the body's digesting last weekend's meat thinking of Cigarettes, bright eyes of boys What Acid eight hours equals eight hours' Om continuous attention- the Guru is equal to the Om of the Seeker Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Sitaram Omkar Das Thakur thin voic'd recommended "Give up desire for children" Dehorahava Baba sat on the Ganges and described eat & drinking pranayam Nityananda floated thru his giant photo body Babaji's hand the hand of a dead man in my dead man's fingers Out the plane window brown gas rises to heaven's blue sea #NAME? how tell Kabir Blake & Ginsberg shut their ears? Folded in silence invisible Guru waits to fill his body with Emptiness I am leaving the world, I will close my eyes & rest my tongue and hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH |
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