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A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely
sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden mo...
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Sunflower Sutra (l. 15). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Sunflower Sutra (l. 1). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly...
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. "Sunflower Sutra," Howl and Other Poems (1956).
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''last time I saw you was the hospital
pale skull protruding under ashen skin
blue veined unconscious girl
in an oxygen tent
the war in Spain has ended long ago
Aunt Rose''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. To Aunt Rose (l. 49-54). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''Groan thru breast and neck, a great Oh! to earth heart''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 76). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''All the Valley quivered one extended motion, wind
undulating on mossy hills''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 24-25). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''The great secret is no secret
Senses fit the winds,
Visible is visible,
rain-mist curtains wave through the bearded vale,
grey atoms wet the wind's Kaballah''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 78-82). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies' pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 14-16). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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No imperfection in budded mountain,
Valleys breathe, heaven and earth move together,
daisies push inches of yellow air, vegetables tremble,
green atoms shimmer in grassy mandalas,
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 48-53). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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''Fall on the ground, O great Wetness, O Mother, No harm on thy body!''
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Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 60). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
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