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Consummation Of Grief - Poem by Charles Bukowski

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines. . .
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.


Comments about Consummation Of Grief by Charles Bukowski

  • Gold Star - 209,044 Points Robert Murray Smith (6/24/2017 6:49:00 AM)

    A poem full of great imagery. (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 164,218 Points Mohammed Asim Nehal (10/2/2015 2:16:00 PM)

    Amusing poem, he was a serious poet...........a relationship master and a perfectionist. (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 25,305 Points Raymond Farrell (4/12/2015 9:44:00 PM)

    I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead. Wow, that last line blows me away. (Report) Reply

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Poems About Grief

  1. 1. Consummation Of Grief , Charles Bukowski
  2. 2. "How Great My Grief" (Triolet) , Thomas Hardy
  3. 3. Talking To Grief , Denise Levertov
  4. 4. Grief , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  5. 5. ! A Grief Ago , Michael Shepherd
  6. 6. A Grief Ago , Dylan Thomas
  7. 7. As Imperceptibly As Grief , Emily Dickinson
  8. 8. If Grief For Grief Can Touch Thee , Emily Jane Brontë
  9. 9. Circe's Grief , Louise Gluck
  10. 10. I Measure Every Grief I Meet (561) , Emily Dickinson
  11. 11. Grief , George Herbert
  12. 12. Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not.. , William Shakespeare
  13. 13. Sounds Of Grief , Sappho
  14. 14. Grief Thief Of Time , Dylan Thomas
  15. 15. The Right To Grief , Carl Sandburg
  16. 16. Brooding Grief , David Herbert Lawrence
  17. 17. Your Grief.... , Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
  18. 18. A Poor Wayfaring Man Of Grief , James Montgomery
  19. 19. Your Grief.... , Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
  20. 20. Maternal Grief , William Wordsworth
  21. 21. [03] Grief , Ashraful Musaddeq
  22. 22. ' ' ' ' ' ' Grief...No Flowers , Dónall Dempsey
  23. 23. Grief , Edith Wharton
  24. 24. God's Grief , Robert William Service
  25. 25. Love And Grief , Paul Laurence Dunbar
  26. 26. Grief , Stephanie J. DeMartino
  27. 27. The Lesson Of Grief , George Meredith
  28. 28. Grief Is A Mouse , Emily Dickinson
  29. 29. This Feeling Called Grief , Paul Brown
  30. 30. Time And Grief , William Lisle Bowles
  31. 31. Grief Abidding , Lonnie Hicks
  32. 32. I Can Wade Grief , Emily Dickinson
  33. 33. #(Buddha) 24 Yashodhara's Grief , Rajaram Ramachandran
  34. 34. The Heart Of Grief , Edith Nesbit
  35. 35. Grief , Caitlin (a dead poet) no lon ..
  36. 36. When Hannah Pressed With Grief , John Newton
  37. 37. A Wife's Grief Because Of Her Husband's .. , Confucius
  38. 38. I'Ve Learnt To Laugh In Grief , Aftab Alam
  39. 39. He Was Acquainted With Grief , Jones Very
  40. 40. My Grief On The Sea , Douglas Hyde
  41. 41. To One In Grief , Katharine Tynan
  42. 42. In Time Of Grief , Lizette Woodworth Reese
  43. 43. *children Of Grief , Lillian Susan Thomas
  44. 44. . Grief Is , Adeline Foster
  45. 45. * Grief News From Mr. I.. , Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan
  46. 46. Sonnet 94: Grief Find The Words , Sir Philip Sidney
  47. 47. 'Tis Good&Mdash;The Looking Back On Grief , Emily Dickinson
  48. 48. The Sweetness That Comes After Grief , Aldo Kraas
  49. 49. What Grief! The Alley's End , Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
  50. 50. Day Of Grief , Scarlett Treat

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