Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitman (Powerful Life Poetry)

[@rengoku9029]

Life is the open road, we all get to choose which road to travel, we all get to choose how we view our lives, we all get to make peace/enemies of our burdens, and the human species is lucky to be the median for which the universe can experience itself through our discoveries and fascination.

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@mallenjm252]

Not luck..blessed beyond measure. .luck is happen stancem.To appreciate the beauty of life is a gift from God! You write beautifully.

[@jahredsullivan4214]

I like the last line!

[@karensmith3565]

I love Walt Whitman.

[@sheilabilyeu5689]

This made me think at first about how I felt when young. Then I felt the paths I had been on we're not always my choice, there were roads blocked, the nature of this world. I can't go just anywhere, for God's plans for me we're not always my will. Then I realized how all my experiences are still carried in me, some as memories, some in my flesh, some, like love or fear are deep in my soul. Then when he was at the end, I wished that in my last year here on this world, I could still have the strength to just get up and go..... Just keep walking, until my days were ended. That might be true freedom, and the best way to live out the rest of my life. Because even now, in my autumn years, there's no way to know what paths I still have to travel, or how long they will be.

[@essenceoflife2070]

"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." - Walt Whitman

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@MadLogic]

i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKLXfWOMqst-d8k

[@theeagle9052]

That road is towards death

[@nua.h2757]

@@theeagle9052 Right ⏳

[@nua.h2757]

@@MadLogic Thanks

[@beverlyanne5699]

It is really not about an actual road. It is about his perspective. How he is unbound by conventionalism and grounded in nature as it is made in purpose & function. Greatful in his relationships that he finds both a blessing and worry in balance to his being. I adore his metaphors.

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@redsol3629]

That is your perspective and a good one considering poets often speak in metaphor. The beauty of poetry is it becomes what the reader needs. Old Walt certainly had something in mind but yours and mine will see what we want in his words.

[@ayomideatiad]

@@redsol3629 Well-written .

[@Mercy-lb5rq]

You think..I wonder if everything have to be reinterpreted? What if we could just be simple little creatures living on outside experience. Yes it is true we should all be skilled at looking within, but not to the cost of blindness

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

When I asked Jack Hirschman in an interview what is the greatest poem ever written by an America, he answered quickly ": The Song of the Open Road " by Walt Whitman. All homage and honor to Jack Hirschman who died on August 22 2021. And this from another poem by Whitman: "the keelson of creation is love."

[@sehri8170]

This is probably a limitation within myself but... I heard Walt Whitman was a poet I should read, I read him and was bored sensless Then I though to look it up and hear someone read them too me, I was nearly brought to tears by this If poetry has it's value in it's delivery, this person is worth their weight in gold

[@nickmulcahy9199]

I think it's not just the narrator/performer but also the music, the graphics. This is high-quality, theatrical stuff!! BUT I also get your point

[@FinnSpeaks]

Wow... I did the narration for this and I can't believe how much my performance is improved by Tony Anderson's music, and by the pacing and styling of the video. Great work; I'm proud to be a part of it! I have more poetry on my own channel, but none of the videos I've made are as artfully designed and produced as are yours!

[@Adam-xf8in]

01:12 I've never read this poem or heard it before now and I got full-on shivers down my spine, this is so beautiful.

[@solomonfaber8026]

This is a a declaration of Inner Peace by a man who was in a state of what people now call Enlightenment, Freedom, or whatever you wish to name it. He was a great teacher! We don't need to go to the East to find great teachers. They are here and available to everyone . . . at any time!

[@redsol3629]

Starting with yourself.

[@jordanward855]

You can't change the past but you can start Where You Are and change the future, Holding on to regrets and burdens will only lay you back. Blessed Be God!!!

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@MadLogic]

i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKLXfWOMqst-d8k

[@MrMntsrck]

I see burdens as all people I have ever meet, family....to remember them until I am no more.

[@richardweeden3139]

The beautiful and profound expression of what it is to be a boddhisattva. So touching and so meaningful. I am so grateful for this video, and aspire to live and understand as Walt Whitman lived and understood.

[@CassiusLux]

That one particular line just resonates with me "Henceforth I ask not good forune, I myself am good fotune"

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

LOVE WALT WHITMAN WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL HE NEVER WROTE A BAD POEM WHAT A GENIUS

[@timothymallon7929]

An amazing spoken word from Someone struggling with PTSD

[@gingerr9004]

“I am filled with them, and I will fill them in return.” Profound AF 🖤🙏🖤

[@junedanieltamor9071]

i don't understand

[@gingerr9004]

@@junedanieltamor9071 we are all filled with burdens… they shape us like facets in a stone and we should fill them in return-mourn them, appreciate them, learn from them to give them purpose in our lives… fill them with the weight that feels so heavy in our hearts and carry it not as baggage but as knowledge. It’s deep shit lol ❤️‍🩹

[@Justpassingfootball]

@@gingerr9004 think its referring to the men and woman also you carry with you. We are made as one. So we are filled with the people we meet and love, and fill them in return

[@gingerr9004]

@@Justpassingfootball yeah, that’s why it’s profound as fuck… at least in my mind. But I’m going to stop commenting, sorry if what I said offended you. Apparently everything I say or do is offensive so I’m just done with everyone. The poems help me stay sane I’m so sorry I commented on it and you took whatever you took from my words. I was just trying to listen to a poem and I felt moved. I’ll stop participating with the world now. I just can’t

[@tajboss3053]

@@gingerr9004 please don't stop interacting with people, thats why we are here after all.

[@vladislavpetkov2271]

It's incredible how can a human say so little and mean so much!

[@fkthedemlibscum7026]

I have been driving all over America alone for over 30 years throughout the 90's and all through the 2000's up until 2020 which was an 11-month long journey all over America again... In my life, I have been to 48 states, half of Canada, parts of Mexico, and went on over a dozen Caribbean Cruises to almost every Island.... I travel ALONE because solitude is what I want & desire.

[@colinellesmere]

This poem matches my current mood so well. 60. Present troubles but I don't take them too heavily. I have responsibilities but none so important they can't be dropped. Maybe soon I will take off. My natural tendency is to drift. Cycle from my home near the Laos border in China up to Mongolia. Then winter in the holy mountain of Wu Tai Shan. I want little. Just to be away from bickering and posturing. The open road. Days can be tough. But the freedom of no plan no destination is a siren call.

[@davidschestenger3366]

It takes a life time to UNDERSTAND all the beautiful meaning Of corse we understand in de the way parts, when it comes all together and we understand the BIG meaning this becomes a pray It’s my way of praying

[@kenbranaugh8251]

A poet is a doctor for the soul.

[@brianpeters7847]

The open road is ahead of you,, just looking west gives me a tingle and a glow...

[@davidschestenger7350]

There is not morning that I’m not listening to this wonder, is my way to wake up and pray The spirit needs open roads

[@thevampire735]

Yes! i'd love to hear all of it. I always had problems undertandig poetry but lately i found that if i hear reather than read it everything makes more sense much quicker and i love it. Keep up the good work!

[@luckywambua4606]

This poet wore my heart for the spectacles when he was writing this one!

[@redsol3629]

By its light these words were borne.

[@FalloftheHouseofUsher]

Walt Whitman can officially put on his résumé that he made me cry for the first time in months

[@theechooflove7955]

If I ever heard a poem that was exactly took the thoughts out of my head, this one was it!!!! Holy moly! Love it!

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

I love this poet and his poems..

[@andreabrigitteprohaska3281]

beautiful...

[@alexi.de.charle]

Acceptance, Choice, Will, and Flow

[@Danoftheconda]

The fact you used Tony Anderson as the score, automatically gives this video a solid 10 out of 10. That album is unbelievable! Fantastic poem being narrated to a fantastic heart felt score 💚

[@JohnSmith13334]

Which song is it?

[@Danoftheconda]

@@JohnSmith13334 Farthest Seas from the album The Heart of Man. It's available on Bandcamp, and not very expensive. It's a fantastic album

[@JohnSmith13334]

@@Danoftheconda Thankyou so much

[@nickmulcahy9199]

"I carry my old delicious burdens" -- What a line! What a concept!

[@elielben-dan1597]

There is a powerful impulse moving through humanity to get unburdened, and to take up the umbilical that God embedded in Nature. We are inwardly creatures of Light; that’s why we find Freedom and Liberty so delicious.

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@jordanward855]

There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen. Love you💛

[@Squigglydodah]

"done with indoor complaints" I just love that line so much. The music is perfectly matched and timed to the reading.

[@livnielsen3647]

Please do a full version !! This is food for my soul, and lately I've been starving !

[@redsol3629]

Check out Walts book Leaves of Grass for a feast.

[@joshuabonkers58]

PLEASE PLEASE PLSASE upload a full version of this poem!!!!

[@kyupified2440]

Is there any way to support you? You’re channel really helps a lot whenever I feel anxiety, it brings me comfort I never knew I needed. I wish the best for you in return!

[@mysteriousdiary9558]

Deep and clear voice!!

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@mallenjm252]

I love libraries one can travel FREE and visit every library across our beautiful USA very nice poem..Thank you for posting it.

[@nickmulcahy9199]

@mallenjm252 What a great idea for a social media account or a book -- travelling to libraries across America (even though Walt Whitman says that he's had enough of them...)

[@shadowjack8]

And my soul is content.

[@28noble]

And so it is.

[@sentricpeach7249]

As is mine

[@redsol3629]

Mine also.

[@r2ecko]

What soul? There is nothing like a soul.

[@shawnlowe153]

Song is “Farthest Seas” by Tony Anderson. Really wish the titles of the songs would be posted...

[@gavg89iiuktvii35]

Thankyou for your Time And Energy God Bless you💎

[@ZorbaPress]

Beautiful and moving. Thank you very much for bringing Walt Whitman's words to life.

[@VanessaRodriguez-jl9pu]

❤️thank you. Nice voice and interpretation

[@ashlynfox4579]

This is everything.

[@jodymorgan1991]

Such burden and sorrows in the midst. Past mistakes don't make less of a person. Denying who you are as a person and not allowing yourself to be expressed makes less of a person. Freedom to be who you are and someone accepting you. A fresh start but one has to choose the path.

[@MrDanielSultana]

I really felt that. ‘ healthy, FREE’ in his voice .

[@margaretohara7250]

Beautiful.....especially in the present times.

[@mohammadosmanriaz6237]

Human is such a thing. From his appearance he appears to be not much but wihtin him is all the universe summed up.

[@messianic_scam]

Walt Whitman i knew about him from a movie his poems are special

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@globalheartwarming]

Beautiful Dreamers?

[@carolinareguerofullier6595]

Thank you so much for sharing an wonderful poem and for your valuable time that you spent reading it for us. Congratulations!!

[@N_Ebenezer]

I love this poem, and the narration

[@skjaved9584]

Out standing 💓💓

[@laxmibhandari4792]

Let yourself be angry,sad,happy,exhausted , Frustrated,Joyful,overwhelming. Experience all the human emotions,But don't let any of these emotions consume you!! Maintain your own peace ,don't overpush yourself,let every emotion come and go🕊🕊 🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@wingedwolf4719]

All a person needs to feel heaven around all the time is a constant reminder that happiness is not materialistic its being in love with being in love with a soulmate somewhere forever and share a love song through the heart and space and time .

[@Squigglydodah]

Beautiful poem, great narrator

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@Thefunksoulbro]

Love it Sir, keep them coming. You are keeping me strong 😀

[@adityasurve8106]

What a very, very powerful life poetry.👍👍👍 Very very powerfully recited.👍👍👍

[@v.i.p.matthew]

Wow!... speechless!. I have no words, this is great!!. 👍👍

[@diyas3339]

God knows i needed this.

[@MariusTeodorParaschiv]

Just love this. It helps me sometimes when I'm down to keep me going. Thank you!

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@MadLogic]

i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKLXfWOMqst-d8k

[@brokeandbored85]

Great words

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@MocktheGoat]

Who else also listen and read the poem and not just listen to it

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@MrMntsrck]

I love to read poetry with good music.

[@multimillionaire8489]

Your an illusion

[@cryslovesmusic]

Who is the narrator/reader? Compelling voice.

[@slj3945]

Dave luukkonen

[@karensmith3565]

Yes the narrator has a claim deep thoughtful voice.

[@bettermanchannel770]

Take the course of honor, it's not for everyone but it is YOURS

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@davidschestenger3366]

After listening to it a myriad of times, can’t hear it again without a fresh astonishment Is like a mirror for me

[@je7452]

Please please read the whole poem for us!! ❤❤

[@je7452]

Absolutely love Walt Whitman! The poem is read so so beautifully ❤❤❤ thank you! 🤗

[@sallyanne697]

Would love to hear this in full

[@taraeve5462]

My college best friend sent me this video, knowing well I've been going through a hard time. Thanks, Cuk!

[@tillyvickers2721]

Gorgeous poem...Thank you so much.You have such an amazing voice too. Wants to make me learn more about the author.🙂

[@craigcampbell5590]

Beautiful.

[@jswootheblackscreen]

Beautiful and truthful 🙏

[@hamza-kx8hv]

I would be grateful if i hear a poem called invictus by ernest william hensly . Thank you so much for your effort.

[@tanakablack5271]

check on their account i played it once....

[@theinfamoustop104]

They already have it... they just recited it the worst way you can imagine

[@tanakablack5271]

@@theinfamoustop104 i dont like it also...they should try it with this voice...

[@nadeemsiddiqui4762]

@hazim zaza check out the channel ‘BEKNOWN’, they have uploaded it.

[@jordanward855]

There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen. Love you💛

[@poem]

🔥Cool Stuff. Nice Video. Appreciate it. Need more channels like yours...♥

[@johnshelton4939]

What a soothing voice😊

[@melissastroud9238]

I would love to hear the full poem. You are my favorite reader.

[@saltyheart]

The past is history...the future a mystery... the Present. A gift for all to enjoy... Memento Mori. 🕊

[@jovybaliguat1047]

This poem are beautiful of all i heard from this channel woww amazing nice words and meanings too thank you so much for sharing this i like it so much 💞😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍

[@DearProfessorRF]

There used to be songwriters who were poets by nature. Their songs still reverberate with the younger generation. What has happened?

[@aaronbrigham4743]

These are spectacular quotes. I could really learn a lot from you are inspiring.🙏🙏✝️✝️⚜

[@varna8918]

Thank you🙌❤🙌The poem and your voice the one🙏

[@shirleyaudley4950]

That was beautiful

[@tanmayeesachiningale4929]

Soooo wonderful ❤️

[@pauladoubet460]

I AM SO READY!!

[@Олег-з2ю4ч]

This is fantastic

[@elizabethloera2139]

These poems are amazing! Thank you.

[@stewartjohn9406]

Hello dear 💌🍓😌

[@stewartjohn9406]

hope you are having a nice day over there🌺

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

85 PEOPLE DONT APPRECIATE SUCH A WONDERFUL MAN WALT WHITMAN

[@Serena-StarshipEarth]

Thank You.

[@shyamalganguly3598]

Yes "I'll fill them in return" and if I can do that the way I want this multitude of life to remain for ever anywhere like here we have been with abundance and good will for generations. And a little bit of endeavour in the direction in my life will add to, I believe, a colossal work that all good humans are striving for. I won't compromise to anything however good or lascivious to change my view.

[@thomask5964]

This has to be some sort of cognitive therapy . Thank you Walt Whitman and Dave Luukkonen!

[@jameswhitman8710]

Just found out a few years ago when I went to look into my ancestry, I traveled up to Long Island. born in Amityville, I went a few miles north to Whitman's birthplace. Why? So many times at the dinner table growing up, my parents had claimed we were related to him. So, with an handwritten family tree written by my grandfather, I presented to the curators the brown-edged single piece of paper. Within a few minutes, the gentleman came out and claimed I was related. The hair stood straight up on the back of my neck, and all the while trying to collect my thoughts, a group had walked in. The woman there apologized to me stating she had forgotten about this group coming and would I be okay with her stating I was Walt Whitman's relative. Still in a fog, I said of course. Without hestation after hearing the news they all gathered around me wanting pics and such. So, within a matter of minutes, I had gone from sheepishly asking about my "tree", to that of being "famous". Not really what I was looking for, but none the less, a memory I shall keep for ever.

[@julliusblackwell6239]

Cool story, thanks for sharing.

[@redsol3629]

Will that memory fuel your own fire? Or burn faintly in the shadow of Walts sun?

[@sharonsimcic4676]

Amen, Walt Whitman!

[@gopikrishnan8812]

Bravo👏👏👏👏👏

[@dalewilson5443]

Beautiful

[@titteryenot4524]

The truth about Whitman, as I see it, was that he’d experienced cosmic consciousness, and everything he wrote was coming from this. To those who haven’t experienced this (mostly everyone), he will seem outlandish, even just plain crazy. He’s not alone though, Jesus, Buddha, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, Emerson, Dickinson et al all had these intimations of immortality. However, even without this angle, Whitman can just be read as humanistic wisdom for the ages. Those who claim something ‘off’, or worse, about him are, in my experience, usually rigid, linear thinkers who have sold their soul to this so-called holy book or that so-called holy book. There is more wisdom in 🍁 Leaves of Grass than all those dusty tomes put together.

[@donberlee6319]

Truly amazing, thank you

[@Silverosprey16]

I adore your channel, can't fault it, but wanted to put in a request for poems by Nikita Gill - Your Soul is a River. Poems that inspire, even in the darkest times and I think a lot of people need words like that right now x

[@anaghadeshmukh1964]

Beautiful ly ❤️ said, lived it

[@mihirshah3151]

You must put this on Spotify

[@abdelmajidfathi7943]

Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute, Listening to others, and considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me . .

[@vaishnups5820]

What a sound man.

[@Hijabi_Ashyana]

Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️

[@jmalko9152]

Awesome!