A Poem Without A Single Bird In It Poem by Jack Spicer

A Poem Without A Single Bird In It

Rating: 3.2


What can I say to you, darling,
When you ask me for help?
I do not even know the future
Or even what poetry
We are going to write.
Commit suicide. Go mad. Better people
Than either of us have tried it.
I loved you once but
I do not know the future.
I only know that I love strength in my friends
And greatness
And hate the way their bodies crack when they die
And are eaten by images.
The fun’s over. The picnic’s over.
Go mad. Commit suicide. There will be nothing left
After you die or go mad,
But the calmness of poetry.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
K.c. Ford 09 November 2015

Seventeen lines of waffle, containing little meaning.

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Rahman Henry 09 November 2015

'Go mad. Commit suicide. There will be nothing left After you die or go mad, But the calmness of poetry. ' EXCELLENT POEM....

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Seema Jayaraman 09 November 2015

the helplessness of not knowing..but the calmness of poetry will remain.. interesting musings..thanks.

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Rahman Henry 09 November 2015

'Go mad. Commit suicide. There will be nothing left After you die or go mad, But the calmness of poetry. ' EXCELLENT POEM.... I really enjoyed a lot....

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Ramesh T A 09 November 2015

When there is no future for one may leave the Earth; but poetry will live silently telling about love forever!

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barbara clark 23 August 2020

great poem tragic and rational and passionate and a deep part of the human condition

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Adeeb Alfateh 05 August 2019

I only know that I love strength in my friends And greatness great and great poem great expression great 10++++++

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Savita Tyagi 09 November 2015

This poem can't be much help to any body. Even in writing a poem.

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Kim Barney 09 November 2015

Interesting title and strange poem. Most of my poems don't have birds in them. I can only think of two that do.

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Susan Williams 09 November 2015

I liked the title of the poem. That was interesting. Then I must have gone mad because I don't remember much of the poem

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Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

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