A big thank you for not putting any music on background.

"I know you're there, so don't be sad." Bring tears to my eyes every time. Thanks Hank. You knew.

@greenbanana311

3 жыл бұрын

He sure did

I always seem to start crying during the last stanza.

Quite possibly one of the most beautiful and moving poems that I have ever heard in my life, no matter who reads it. This is my all-time favorite poem.

@cornergarageproductions9182

Жыл бұрын

Harry Dean Stanton is reading

The bluebird represents frailty and tenderness. It is about how people are afraid to let people see beyond the outer shell of themselves. This is evident at the end, just as the narrator begins to acknowledge his humanity he explains he doesn't cry. He is afraid of being vulnerable, like most of us are.

@dankmeme9577

7 жыл бұрын

ahh yes but the most important part is that he poses the question in the end. "but I don't weep, do you?" its in the narrative of the blubird and its the longing of the bluebird to escape its cage. this is what ties everything together and makes this poem one of my most prized possessions.

@justinzarling4776

7 жыл бұрын

TheMagikBrownie that was really really good insight. totally agree.

@supremebuffalo6322

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. everybody is faking it. everyone wears the mask.

@nikith69

6 жыл бұрын

That's like my English teacher explaining

@janeadelaidelennox7193

6 жыл бұрын

Uh.... yeah... He pretty much spells that out.

What makes this poem so powerful to me rests in those last two words: “do you?” The entire poem is a deeply personal metaphor for his inability to express himself to the outside world-but right at the end, he turns the question on us, knowing we all have our own bluebird in our heart that wants to get out. Makes my hair stand on end every time I listen to this.

Superb. It sounds like Harry Dean Stanton reading, which is great.

'But I don't weep; Do you?' Gave me gooseflesh.

I can only hope that someone has the presence of mind to play this or read this at my funeral. Thanks, Hank.

my favorite Hank quote, "I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths."

@MrAtomicDon

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing quote.

Brought me to tears.

One of my favorite poets and this is one of the best poems.

My favorite poem ever written. An ode to every man that has ever hid his emotions from the world.

@alfogel3298

3 жыл бұрын

In my top 10 Al

I weep. And Bukowski has been like a father to me even though we never met.

"Do you?" Thats when its all evoked

I was looking for this exact narration. I love it so much. Thank you.

“I haven’t quite let him die” is so profound to me the way it’s said. God.

This is the best reading of this poem, the other one with the deep gravely voiced man is simply too much, very overdramatic, Charles Bukowski always read his poems like they were written (in a very curt and bare bones way) and I think this guy nailed that

@linkinparkrulz2275

3 жыл бұрын

I literally thought this was Bukowski reading it

@martharichler6672

2 жыл бұрын

who reads here in this video please?

@willmilesmusic

2 жыл бұрын

The late Harry Dean Stanton

@gadgetspro2018

2 жыл бұрын

I liked the other one better

@Shmyrk

Жыл бұрын

I disagree but they’re both good and the poem is great

never heard of this man before but I had a dream of sleeping bluebirds. After a week of trying to understand the meaning, I’m glad it lead me here to find Bukowski!

Thank you for posting yhis without music, its perfect on its own.

Straight to my heart.. an arrow of beauty. i type through my tears!

I can listen to these lyrics a hundred times, it always makes me weep. Maybe Iam not hard enough...It's too beautiful

A lovely, beautiful little confession.

I weep but it always makes me ashamed. I remember reading this for the first time in my car, parked outside my highschool when I was seventeen, drinking a bottle of red wine. This was in 2003. *God, where did I go?*

@coolboy5245

2 жыл бұрын

Where did any of us go?

genius poem

this is why i love buke: cuts as precise as a scalple with the ferocity and and power of a sledgehammer. (spelling)

@ponch2100

4 жыл бұрын

Buke?

aww I actually love this , thanks Theo for sending us here , you're amazing

"[...] I haven't quite let him die." The bluebird in my heart is weeping.

Dear Charlie, from your mouth to the bluebird in my heart. RIP.

My son just turned me onto this guy. Fantastic. Yes, it does make me cry..

Absolutely beautiful

"I haven't quite let him die". I find that line brilliant. It's dark - obviously - but there is something gentle and sad about it. He's talking of love I think.

i dont know why but i like getting drunk by myself and read bukowski. he sort of captures the feeling of solitude in some weird sense. i like people but i love being alone. just me and the empty cans, getting filled with words. and bukowskis are by far the best. sorry for any bad spelling or grammar im pissed and im danish.

Now this is an amazing poem! The fight between your Heart and Ego~

Probably one of the most powerful poems I know.

I just found out about him and was instantly hooked, he resembles a great brasilian singer by the name of Nelson Gonsalves (Nelson was a grand bohemian in Brazil)

this is absolutely perfect

It's a beauty. Thanks, friend.

Am I right when I say it is about his gentle, artistic side that is hidden behind a facade he made for us, facade of crass drunkard that can be very hard and harsh man? In this poem he is a hard man but that softer side wants to get out and ultimately it can't because the world is too harsh and brutal. And Hank is made by the world to be harsh and brutal. It makes us all weep, because we would also love for this world and for individuals to be gentle, talented and poetic, and in reality they are unforgiving, violent, prosaic, mediocre and dumb. What do you say, did I get it right?

@readytorumblesports

8 жыл бұрын

Pretty much something like that....

@dankmeme9577

7 жыл бұрын

not exactly but close.

@amanuelamanuel

7 жыл бұрын

Right? You are wrong for presuming there would be a "right"

I love my bluebird ..

gotta be one of the best poems I ever heard. I'm swayed by none but TS Elliot, but this guy, he's my type of poet. great.

That is as beautiful as a poem can be

Buk was the most meaningful poet of the 20th century...at least for me.

beautiful.....just beautiful

I do. I do weep.

one of my favorite poems of all time

Harry Dean Stanton - awesome actor. Great Reading...this is from Born Into This.

Yes, I could weep about that whole thing, Charles!

my goodness, how beautiful.

The bluebird represents his dwindling love for humanity.

@ddriveddrive4986

5 жыл бұрын

Humanity? Or himself?

@AAmoroso

4 жыл бұрын

@@ddriveddrive4986 i would say himself :) it's always about oneself. what else could it ever be about?

Love you Brother Chinaski! :)

as Buk himself would say - an immortal poem

Amazing! Just the best

Perfect example of how men handle their emotions and feelings. Men are scared of showing love. Is it better to be hurt by love or hide your love in a cage? I hope everyone finds love ❤️

almost teared up at the end bit there..

@stankler the highest level of admiration is imitation

so immediate. so eternal.

I love everything bukowski has ever written !!!

does anybody realize the reader here is Harry Dean Stanton? I am floored. Just....omgod.....whay can I say? I can say thank you. Yea. Thank you! :)

@iatethecrayons

6 жыл бұрын

NoRosesForMe I love Harry dean Stanton. What a guy he was. A real gift

@lindsaycooper9304

5 жыл бұрын

It's bukowski reading

@darktower74

4 жыл бұрын

@@lindsaycooper9304 Nope. Harry Dean Stanton for sure.

@lindsaycooper9304

4 жыл бұрын

@@darktower74 you are correct. My apologies.

@lindsaycooper9304

4 жыл бұрын

@@darktower74 I should pay attention to what I'm listening to, while having a few whiskeys, before I comment. 😂

gracias por tu poesía inmortal. siempre vivirás en nuestros corazones.

poetry is any expressive form that conveys a concept/message/emotion good poetry will be clean and crisp. whittled away to just the essential expression and will leave you saying "oh yeah... i remember poprocks, they did dance in you mouth like like crazed aborigines". this is why bukowski is God. He writes as clearly as a picture book.

Sometimes a sadness can overtake you, like something you didn't expect. Like when a sleeping cat on your chest suddenly whines. Sadness is real and can be fought, but it takes courage. It takes courage.

I will love this forever.

I have to agree with Chuck here, I don't weep. I can't remember the last time I cried. which is weird because I've dealt with depression and self harm, but i never cried.

That bluebird's song is heard in a lot of Bukowski's work, it's often subtle and sometimes even imperceptible. He comes off as tough and cynical, but there's no denying that he had a profound sense of beauty.

One of my favorites from the late great Charles Bukowskii.

WOW, so simple but so powerful!

I love this man!

wonderful.

Beautiful

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUK! Keep drinkin' and smokin' and writin' and womanizin' in your afterlife. You are not forgotten... -ST2

thank you

There is no bluebird in your heart.

God bless you!!

i weep, when i remember how.

so neat you know his voice distinctively.

Bukowski, the high priest of poetry, a booze soaked angel.

Wonderful!

... no hay nadie ahí, como si no fuese suficiente con saber que tiene un corazón le mete un ave azul adentro... Hank... You are the poet... you are the master... thanks

Perfect

Love.

Fine reading from the great actor Harry Dean Stanton. I just saw a Hunter S. Thompson documentary where Harry spoke of him as well. Seems he knew quite a number of maverick-type writers.

For those of us that feel this, there is no reprieve. We alive and around. No ports, no reverie. Forgive us, for we are the fools of society. Let us be, sleeping dogs among the rocks of society

There is a blue bird in everyone's heart. Bukowski had found it.

Most of the people in this world don't have an idea what a genius Bukowski was & how much he suffered growing up....he was great, & anyone who reads his work & can't understand this, is basically stupid...

pure beauty

He nails what it is to be a man and expressing emotion.

Not quite the impermeable, alcoholic, neanderthal that we're all so used to. God, this poem makes me feel weak at the knees.

best poem ever

great upload....thx. -Polar- for sending it my way :)

Bukowski rocks.

That says it all.

Bluebird it's the happiness, at my point of view. He wrote about sadnesses, women, sex, about get drunk. Everything is associated to the sad Bukowski. If he'd started to write about feel happy, this would turn him into vulnerability, maybe he doesn't even had sold so many books in Europe (original version), as he cited at the poem. But that's just what I think.

@pavelfolpi

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriella Vasconcellos You are 100% right. Read his short stories, guys, not only his poems. And his novels as well. Read Ham on Rye and you'll get what Blue bird is all about.

@gabriellavasconcellos9712

7 жыл бұрын

Pavel Folprecht wow!! I'm happy for this hahaha Everyone who really reads Buk, knows his feels, sadnesses and desires. He was a transparent man.

@jett7977

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s about that gentle, happy part of him that he can’t show to other people. That’s what I’ve always gotten from this poem and why I love it.

I weep.

I'm a young poet and reading things like this makes me wonder if i should even bother cos it's all been said before. this is one less poem i have to write! he's a saint

incredible, RIP.

very beautiful, I am a published author of poetry I love this poem very honest a true piece of this person.

writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm - my dictionary lol

this poem is enough to make me weep, but I don't do that...

I saw the documentary but I apologize I thought it was his voice for a second, I'm really sorry for that seeing as to I'm a huge fan of him and his work.