Jack Kerouac- American Haiku
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- Jack Kerouac reading " American Haiku "
a number of original Haiku read to some jazz riffs- From my blog Gord's Notebook at gordsnotebook.blogspot.ca
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“Well here I am/ 2 p.m./ What day is it?” - best ever.
The nineteen-fifties:
Jack Kerouac set the scene,
And the beat goes on.
this guy is so cool, he has one the best voice I've ever heard.
"All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head" :) Popular one!! :)
five syllables here
seven syllables go here
and five again here.
Thanks SO much for uploading. Priceless stuff with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
Every time I listen to this, I can't help but to think of Jack sitting there, having a good time w/Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, fully expecting to hang out w/them after the session, only to be left painfully alone once the music was all said and done.
Also, its the way feelings are expressed that makes it a haiku. This sentence isn't a haiku just because it has fourteen syllables. Haiku must impart feeling beyond the scope of the words it uses. It must paint a picture, and not simply tell you a phrase. Haiku is the definition of poem, not the strict use of a fixed number of syllables across three lines.
I was going to say that! So I'll just add my agreement. That 17 syllable "rule" has led to so much misunderstanding.
@@timneave3240 it's seventeen syllables.. but yeah.. it's also difficult to transpose the 17 character rule from japanese into a western setting..
Jack, Al & Zoot sending us a musical hiku through the decades.
Two American writers saved me from madness: Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac.
OMG totally, me too!
In a way, Miller is a smiling monk and Kerouac is a cool saint :)
Does anyone ever mention that the saxophonists are the great tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims?
Happy Birthday Jack. Such a shame that so many of the great people have died, so much more to give.
My favorite Jack album ! He was the best ... RIP Jack K.
there is something so wonderful, soothing, yet playful about jack's poetry. i never get tired of hearing his voice
Drunk as a Hoot Owl, writing letters by thunderstorm
Ahhh Jack....he sent me a haiku on a cold drunken night one night: 'Pissing under a November full moon, steam'. No rules, just simplicity.
I am leaving..
the video is streaming..
what a cat.
Kerouac is such a great inspiration for writing haiku. What he wrote may have been experimental, but it lays the groundwork for good haiku. Most English haiku are just plain bad, only as good as the silly ones on this comment page.
Sticking to a 5-7-5 form is very stifling to English. But so much can be said with the conservative use of 11-17 syllables.
Thank you much... Added to a playlist...
The tree looks like a dog
Barking at heaven
💜
Love Jack
Thank you for the correction Stephen. I really appreciate its.
Maybe one of his best.." One Friday when we were all dead, he said I didn't think it would be so good."
I need to put this on loop somehow
"Black bird...
NO!!!! BLUE BIRD"
He just about gave me a heart attack.
Beautiful aint it? ...Don't you hate when public school teachers try to do the same with elevating the level of their voice but it just misses the mark.
The bottoms of my shoes
are clean
from walking in the rain.
Jack Kerouac
never stopped
carried by wind
BEAUTIFUL
I love it!
These Comments are
The best a TH-cam video
Has ever had
I love that Kerouac made haiku his own, as expected :)
Too cool Jack...
Inspiring!
you are a legend
so says ceaser five hundred
I also agree
Jack slings the word-juice
Jazzes 'em like noone else-
No substitutes please!
you are a legend
Happy Birthday, Chief of the BEAT !
brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX -- love Jacks haiku
I do,
I don't
doesn't matter. :)
happy birthday Jack RIP
Thirty 3 years of finding Jack. Still lost, but on a wall seen daily. Sampas, Rexroth, Corso, Cassidy, Allen and Bill are still about, with him.
Don't get arrested for decay.
Chin, chin Ti Jean.
'Tales of Beatnik Glory' was not for Jack!
I like the "library steps girls in shorts" one, and the sax fluttering at the end...jiggly butt sound.
this is good!
Black bird
NOOOOOOOOOO
Blue bird!
Haha, great stuff know one will ever get.
Cool man!
I love haiku
big jack!
Haiku is plural
since Japanese does not have
any plural form
7:43 i giggled and then i heard THIS giggle!!!
Is this available on a record? Great stuff, would like to dig more of this
I died of old age when I was 17. The still have yet to fax my papers over.
These are great visions
But for the haiku purist
Missing a third line
The third line is the music!
@anthraxman that made me laugh, man. excellent! Xx
Beautiful writing
Jack Kerouac is the best
A gift to us all
Big jack a lack a doodle say hey! Yoy never know what he may say, if it wasnt planned, then he would be damned. But the stars and the moons are all buffoons, if anything then everything, may the gods bless the masses.
You wrote a haiku
On youtube-
Congratulations.
happy birthday jack
you will not be forgotten
black bird
NO BLUE BIRD
@JoelMonroe ha, awesome
the sink above me frightens me............it really dose
It helped that he looked like a Hollywood actor. If he'd have looked like Charles Laughton would anybody have listened to him? Actually Charles Laughton does a great reading of Kerouac, Google: 'Dharma beat Charles Laughton' and you'll hear it. All best - Al of Yahoo! Group: Beat_Happening.
I just noticed for the first time how you can really hear his voice echo back, 'your light's on', there at the end (and what a shame to cut it off like that, kind of ruined this little moment for me).
1:11 listing to the cats stepping !
@JoelMonroe fact... sure basho and buson often ignored it.. and many modern Japanese haikuists dont use it too
I get Kerouac
Comparisons and keep a
Haiku diary
Check out my channel and click my Tumblr link to check it out if you'd like. Digging all these haikus!
@anthraxman whiskers cannot whisk, they judge the distance on sides, framing the face so.
Right or wrong
A Moral compass
Heartstrings pull
haiku's. they come they go. it's hard to come up with one.
so different.
@anthraxman Whiskers cannot whisk; judging distance on the sides; they frame the face so
Wash hung out
late night in may
(that gives us seven of the fifteen syllables I counted). This bad boy did pick dandelions and break them as he would.
Night time thunder fades,
and large drops fall from trees,
Lee reaches for me...
A little worm
Lowers itself from the roof
By a self-shat thread.
LOL
2:03 'mexicooooooh' ya man ya
In the pic, Jack Holds His Kitty the Same Way I Do. hoho!
Actually it's 2 tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
castle of ~gundavers - what is that ? I think I messed up the word.
Does anyone know
How to write a good haiku
I cant think of one
A reminder to be AWARE, and enjoy the little little idiosyncrasies of LIFE. 😀
Well, here I am, 2 pm.
What day is it ?
That's me, retired, with no sense of structure . All the days the same .
Gravity...slowly pulls our attractions...down,slowly.. to our knees. Skooobity bop doo freeeda ba doooooooooo
my 50s cookie-cutter house among hundreds. . . .
I call my neighbor
and he helped me find it!
@ashiestone laughing my ass off - not literally though
mildly humourous in fact,
but worth a lol
I'm sorry if I upset anyone. Wasn't in the best of places when I wrote that, and I intend to remove it now. I duly note my own ignorance, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Hope this finds you well,
Humphrey
The fridge light is off
But the food is still in there
Al Cohn on tenor!
big cat,
little cat--
sheer cool...
(to) senior out (verb): To tire, become too weak to function. To do it like an oldster. "I couldn't make the late movie. I seniored out, went to bed at ten."
coiled breath
strained
beating at the throats door
someone screams.
@IHateBarnett I just don't understand why "some" people try to complicate simple things (i.e. Haikus)
If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.
- John McParadise
In Soviet Russia
your mother wears combat boots; drunk.
Water wastes you
I've got piles and
piles and piles of forks
but not an ounce of happiness
That's Zoot Simms
ok
haikus by the dozen
did some one say
donuts
Zoot Sims on tenor
Oh, my love, the butterfly is a bug prettier than you.
@IHateBarnett hahahaha
Basho, Issa, Zappa, Gza