Jack Kerouac- American Haiku

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
& my website gordscafe at gordscafe.tripo...

[@HectorsDolphin1977]

“Well here I am/ 2 p.m./ What day is it?” - best ever.

[@begily]

this guy is so cool, he has one the best voice I've ever heard.

[@Thylacine1949]

The nineteen-fifties: Jack Kerouac set the scene, And the beat goes on.

[@MotherGaeia]

"All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head" :) Popular one!! :)

[@ZechsMerquise73]

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.

[@timneave3240]

I was going to say that! So I'll just add my agreement. That 17 syllable "rule" has led to so much misunderstanding.

[@ChrisJohnson-ld3wq]

@@timneave3240 it's seventeen syllables.. but yeah.. it's also difficult to transpose the 17 character rule from japanese into a western setting..

[@frostychickenprods]

five syllables here seven syllables go here and five again here.

[@JackBrummet]

Does anyone ever mention that the saxophonists are the great tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims?

[@leadfeet31]

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.

[@steviegaga]

Thanks SO much for uploading. Priceless stuff with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.

[@panovideo]

Two American writers saved me from madness: Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac.

[@AndresFigari]

OMG totally, me too!

[@StephenDedalus74]

In a way, Miller is a smiling monk and Kerouac is a cool saint :)

[@johnnyjr6292]

Jack, Al & Zoot sending us a musical hiku through the decades.

[@JohnnyMeyerdotcom]

My favorite Jack album ! He was the best ... RIP Jack K.

[@TheKickasskatie]

there is something so wonderful, soothing, yet playful about jack's poetry. i never get tired of hearing his voice

[@irishelk3]

Happy Birthday Jack. Such a shame that so many of the great people have died, so much more to give.

[@deepfried13]

Drunk as a Hoot Owl, writing letters by thunderstorm

[@verbaud]

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.

[@PoetryETrain]

Thank you much... Added to a playlist...

[@ZechsMerquise73]

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.

[@josephknight912]

Thank you for the correction Stephen. I really appreciate its.

[@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr]

Love Jack

[@firearms-explosives]

Maybe one of his best.." One Friday when we were all dead, he said I didn't think it would be so good."

[@noahfranks984]

I need to put this on loop somehow

[@designermite]

The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

[@sunshinysue]

The tree looks like a dog Barking at heaven 💜

[@coldcarlsberg]

I am leaving.. the video is streaming.. what a cat.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

"Black bird... NO!!!! BLUE BIRD" He just about gave me a heart attack.

[@terapan1742]

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.

[@NicholasKlacsanzkyICM]

I love that Kerouac made haiku his own, as expected :)

[@johnnychaos91185]

you are a legend so says ceaser five hundred I also agree

[@LeBretto]

Jack Kerouac never stopped carried by wind

[@MrJamesrnolan]

Jack slings the word-juice Jazzes 'em like noone else- No substitutes please!

[@murrayfrederick751]

Too cool Jack...

[@iCE2sKY]

Inspiring!

[@walmarcus]

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!

[@lotofagiaverboycarne]

BEAUTIFUL

[@perguto]

These Comments are The best a KZbin video Has ever had

[@anukasia]

I love it!

[@xvillin]

I like the "library steps girls in shorts" one, and the sax fluttering at the end...jiggly butt sound.

[@rickmisterly3584]

These are great visions But for the haiku purist Missing a third line

[@ridgewellhawkes1281]

The third line is the music!

[@leadfeet31]

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).

[@MrTerminal32]

Black bird NOOOOOOOOOO Blue bird! Haha, great stuff know one will ever get.

[@Lia2209]

brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TylerMontana]

I do, I don't doesn't matter. :)

[@Alejandro_87]

7:43 i giggled and then i heard THIS giggle!!!

[@KaiWatson]

I died of old age when I was 17. The still have yet to fax my papers over.

[@dububro]

Haiku is plural since Japanese does not have any plural form

[@Kerouac4fan]

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.

[@ceaser500]

you are a legend

[@alinytch]

Happy Birthday, Chief of the BEAT !

[@missellendiane]

happy birthday Jack RIP

[@j4unumber1]

Beautiful writing Jack Kerouac is the best A gift to us all

[@duelatdawn]

You wrote a haiku On youtube- Congratulations.

[@Alejandro_87]

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.

[@CadillacDeBergerac]

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!

[@jikolawrence1]

THX -- love Jacks haiku

[@rollyhe]

happy birthday jack you will not be forgotten black bird NO BLUE BIRD

[@alexanderguderian]

@JoelMonroe ha, awesome

[@axiomist4488]

Well, here I am, 2 pm. What day is it ? That's me, retired, with no sense of structure . All the days the same .

[@Seamus616]

@JoelMonroe fact... sure basho and buson often ignored it.. and many modern Japanese haikuists dont use it too

[@lenny121]

1:11 listing to the cats stepping !

[@begily]

I love haiku

[@ricke91]

Is this available on a record? Great stuff, would like to dig more of this

[@dmarries1]

the sink above me frightens me............it really dose

[@williamjancha2812]

A reminder to be AWARE, and enjoy the little little idiosyncrasies of LIFE. 😀

[@BUKCOLLECTOR]

my 50s cookie-cutter house among hundreds. . . . I call my neighbor and he helped me find it!

[@sohooded]

@anthraxman whiskers cannot whisk, they judge the distance on sides, framing the face so.

[@sohooded]

@anthraxman Whiskers cannot whisk; judging distance on the sides; they frame the face so

[@shovingwords]

@anthraxman that made me laugh, man. excellent! Xx

[@giantflyingturtles]

big jack!

[@Vampira2430]

Cool man!

[@desolatemetropolis]

A little worm Lowers itself from the roof By a self-shat thread. LOL

[@vitobarzuk4983]

this is good!

[@marciagoldberg8777]

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.

[@Weliveaswedreamalone]

@mandolaman12 Finally somebody who has something intelligent to say. The occidental adaptation of Haiku as a poetry form doesn't makes really sense. Octavio Paz committed a lot of mistakes when he tried to adapt the form. At first: a mora, or a character is not a syllable, so is very stupid pretend to write a Haiku with a 5-7-5 form. Besides, Haiku is not just pure metric, has a cultural and historical ground back that justified it.

[@firearms-explosives]

Marcel Jaentschke so does the English language that you so carelessly scattered like so many turds in your comment. But since you don't know the language just trust me ,the man was a great writer 👍.

[@poetnine]

Night time thunder fades, and large drops fall from trees, Lee reaches for me...

[@user-ht4gb2fw4e]

haiku's. they come they go. it's hard to come up with one.

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

In the pic, Jack Holds His Kitty the Same Way I Do. hoho!

[@barryw2659]

Imo the poetry sucks but it is the image that gets me. Picturing a smoke-filled dark coffee shop in the 50s with abstract paintings on the walls and beautiful interesting women sitting around the tables..the bomb was on people's minds, Soviet Union, Ike. There was possible doom and limitless possibilities all at the same time.

[@aeropilot4419]

Interesting ... what you describe as a scene in your head, that scene was no doubt true on some level, but it is also a stereotypical image, a beat archetype that exists in the collective unconscious as told to us, looking back, by movies and magazine articles that sought to romanticize and capitalize on the coffeehouse phenomena. I like the poetry ... it’s a spoken-word art form not unlike hip hop today. 🙂

[@barryw2659]

@@aeropilot4419 Well, more than just in my head. I'm old enough to remember those days, and have met and heard Ginsberg and Orlovsky recite poetry and know friends of theirs who are written in some of the books of the time (e.g. Neal Cassady's family and Bob Dylan's friends from his Greenich Village days). If ever in San Francisco you might want to check out the Beat Museum in North Beach. I like Beat poetry also and don't care for Gangsta Rap. Just not crazy about this one :)

[@GTFOPoetry]

Right or wrong A Moral compass Heartstrings pull

[@valenciasanchez1931]

so different.

[@MonkeyOnTheContrary]

@ashiestone laughing my ass off - not literally though mildly humourous in fact, but worth a lol

[@broodyart]

Gravity...slowly pulls our attractions...down,slowly.. to our knees. Skooobity bop doo freeeda ba doooooooooo

[@jbradford25]

Actually it's 2 tenor players Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.

[@aarontimberlake]

@IHateBarnett I just don't understand why "some" people try to complicate simple things (i.e. Haikus)

[@ZechsMerquise73]

In Soviet Russia your mother wears combat boots; drunk. Water wastes you

[@mandolaman12]

You guys gotta get that moras are not syllables... that's what Kerouac realised & wrote against -- can't mimic the mora rule in the English language, but certainly shouldn't use syllables as a replacement

[@lakshmimittal]

The fridge light is off But the food is still in there

[@catgumart]

Does anyone know How to write a good haiku I cant think of one

[@Diogenes1360]

(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."

[@idic5]

castle of ~gundavers - what is that ? I think I messed up the word.

[@Humph177]

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

[@jordanschunk]

2:03 'mexicooooooh' ya man ya

[@robchalfen]

Al Cohn on tenor!

[@baltasvilkas]

big cat, little cat-- sheer cool...

[@randomkeir]

What is he saying in this haiku? Everyone here loves it, but what is he talking about? Do you love it because he's Kerouac or do you love its meaning?

[@firearms-explosives]

randomkeir it is actually a number of poems. How can you distinguish between the man and his writing?

[@Alejandro_87]

Both

[@ThePaulHealy]

coiled breath strained beating at the throats door someone screams.

[@owlcrkbrg]

Oh, my love, the butterfly is a bug prettier than you.

[@johnmcparadisio]

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

[@tylarius]

I've got piles and piles and piles of forks but not an ounce of happiness

[@chickencoopradio]

haikus by the dozen did some one say donuts

[@subterranean47]

That's what some obscure zen fellow said about Kerouac's Buddhism. He is in touch with himself. Besides writers have to be egotistic to some extent.