Influence

Influence

I read a selection of Beat poetry

by the Black Mountain boys

backed up by the City Lights choir

then took up drumming.

because it's the only poetry

I can play.

erin-cilberto

10/21/23

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

Your brand of thoughtful verse is just what I needed today, Jacob - which is why I popped by after a long absence. Glad there are still constants in the world...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Rita...and I have missed your writing and hope you will be posting soon.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed that metre has it's metronomic quality that has to captivate and hypnotise its reader in order to let them feel the words. More short, poignant short form verse from the Master of.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I don't know about being the master of anything, John,
just a blue collar poet trying to find whatever is poets try to find.
j.

[Red Brick Keshner]

The rhythm and the beat have found the rhyme!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this might be one of best comments I have ever gotten...thank you so much.
j.

[Red Brick Keshner]

Cheers j. Just relaying what is seen and evident.
Freds.

[emmajoygreen]

Genius, jacob! Happens your words often become time travellers and - music turns on its own axiom.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I just love the Beats...thanks, em,
j.

[emmajoygreen]

My pleasure. 'Wish I could make as much sense with so few words. One day, Charlie.. one day!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Your poetry is beautiful, em. Please don't change a thing...You have a unique voice, keep it.

[emmajoygreen]

Will try, sir.. promise. In a bit of a hole right now, but gradually clambering out of it. Thanks to some wonderful poems, stories, writers in the Cafe must quickly add!

[DIVYA]

Interesting...I Googled both black mountain poets and the City Lights book place ...quite culture specific...but I enjoyed it. You are drumming so well.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I think I've lost one of my sticks.

[DIVYA]

Perhaps it feels that way sometimes but from here I see you with both your sticks. Keep drumming, my friend.

[Perdition]

Well, I hope you read it down at Big Sur. City Lights, that little publisher that set the world on fire by publishing "Howl" in the Pocket Poet Series...got mine sitting nearby with Carl Solomon polishing the cover. Feels like a need for a falling back to a time or need, a season, and wanting to just relax. Oh, I know it's Autumn and the world is on fire, but that haunting seed for just no news at all is tangible Seems to be growling at us all, Jack and not Jack at the helm. You pulled at the chord of this suddenness with a "beaten generation" so I'd say drum on Krupa..drum on~

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Ah, old Gene on the drums.
Thank you for your words, Perdition...

Oh, it would have been such a dream to read at City Lights while Lawrence F. still owned it.
j.

[Perdition]

San Francisco ...A wonderful place once upon..still is but seems as if they've changed the menace button from minimal to full throttle...course you can still find the wonderful places everywhere. And walk the hills and sip at the cafes but by all means avoid Alcatraz after fifty times..lol. Thank you for the happy memories. We only lost him recently but pass that wine jug and in the Village of New York stay up all night passing the bowl of cherries and if your ad lib poem was deemed worthy by the hooligans you earned the cherry.,Yep! Drum on till that "brief candle" burns out ;)

[Arundass TP]

I didn't hear selection of Beat poetry
by the Black Mountain boys
backed up by the City Lights choir. I must search for it and hear. Thanks for information.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Oh, it's a poem, not an ad. sorry, ATP.

[Arundass TP]

Oh. Good writing. Any way curious to know about that band.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Black Mountain poets were abstract Beats like William Carlos Williams and others. City Lights books was owned by Ferlinghetti and he published Ginsberg and others.

[Arundass TP]

Thank you friend for information