Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

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🔰Song: Balmorhea Remembrance
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🔰A few Charles Bukowski poetry collections to check out
-The Last Night on Earth Poems
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-Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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-Dangling in Tournefortia
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-Love is a Dog From Hell
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there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

[@jemitdave4678]

Leaving this comment here as a reminder. So that whenever someone likes it, I'll come back and listen to this masterpiece!!

[@breakthroughreality9616]

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”-Charles Bukowski

[@MUI_LJ]

Probably off-theme but it reminds me of a quote i really liked

[@velveteencherrytart6335]

“i dont weep. do you?”

[@GimpOG]

After listening to Tom O’Bedlam narrate so many of Bukowski’s poems, I can’t imagine anyone else narrating them

[@powersdustin709]

“But I don’t weep, do you?”

[@tanishkadesai9506]

I come back to this everyday. Its my escape.

[@TheyMadeMePickAName]

A very poetic way of saying „But if I‘m happy I can’t create anymore“

[@evandotterer4365]

I struggle with severe depression, and alcoholism. This poem honestly keeps me breathing from a day to day basis. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@nailaahmadova4053]

How beautiful and vulnerable is that saying. The older you grow, more silent the sound of bluebird is. I almost forgot that there is a bluebird. Thanks for reminding me, by this poem.

[@littleredsubmarine]

This poem is so incredibly…honest, vulnerable and deep. It literally took my breath away.

[@semantic.spaces]

My bluebird is my innocence, the innocent and pure child who I once was. Buried in my body.

[@abbya.6779]

The one thing that I love about poetry is the different interpretation each separate individual can draw from it. The bluebird can be your true self, your anxieties, your fears, your creations...There's something just so... vaildating, so meaningful about it. You don't have to be a philosopher, you don't have to have the secrets of the world at your fingertips, but you can still dye a piece of truth as fine as this your own color.

[@davidvlora5]

i think the blue bird is showing emotion of his depression. being a man it’s looked down upon to show emotion. it’s looked at as a weakness. so we have to be strong and keep our emotions bottled up. and at night we can let them out but only to seal them back in in the morning. i feel this so much. it’s hard for me to show emotions not because people would look down on me but because i’m afraid of being vulnerable to anyone

[@Lunaticradiohead]

"Philosophy is the search for wisdom. Poetry is wisdom searching for the heart of the human being." By the marvellous late philosopher Olavo de Carvalho

[@bowieshowie6378]

For the bluebird is rather the liberation of his sorrow.... He doesn't want to set it free... Instead he rather wants to keep it, not knowing that he could be greater, but knowing that he has found his purpose with it. So he has found his path, of which he believes himself to be. But blindly afraid of what would happen, if he let the bluebird free... -my interpretation.

[@ashtonbowers1122]

"But I don't weep"

[@MrCostas32]

Everyone has a bluebird in their heart... each bluebird represents a fear, a passion, and desire, and a terror

[@joseleiva6184]

I made this little poem. A cloud whispers on my neck, a bird flies through my head, this song rattles in my chest, but I can hear no more than an old owl while I rest.

[@TSAR373]

"Nobody thinks of the terror of one person aching in one place - alone, untouched, unspoken to..."