Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

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🔰A few Charles Bukowski poetry collections to check out
-The Last Night on Earth Poems
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-Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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-Dangling in Tournefortia
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-Love is a Dog From Hell
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there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

Пікірлер: 2 000

@jemitdave4678 2 жыл бұрын

Leaving this comment here as a reminder. So that whenever someone likes it, I'll come back and listen to this masterpiece!!

@themessageinabottle9574 2 жыл бұрын

see you tomorrow ;)

@themessageinabottle9574 2 жыл бұрын

sorry, weird comment. I hope you enjoy poem yet again when you get the notification is what I mean. happy easter

@shaynegallagher6006 2 жыл бұрын

@@themessageinabottle9574 ill see you tomarrow james.

@themessageinabottle9574 2 жыл бұрын

@@shaynegallagher6006 haha

@stephenjarrett1826 2 жыл бұрын

See you tomorrow my friend

@breakthroughreality9616 4 жыл бұрын

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”-Charles Bukowski

@Lyndanet 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏽

@Adriana-yq9uu 2 жыл бұрын

Es asi

@boomika9987 2 жыл бұрын

The points are not the point. The point is poetry.

@kalharirupasinghe8804 Жыл бұрын

100% true words

@AC-vh6dt 6 ай бұрын

Ou tudo.

@0eveez Ай бұрын

Someone I love made me watch this late at night, really high We both have our own bluebird, but I hope someday we could ease each other and be good together

@MUI_LJ 10 ай бұрын

Probably off-theme but it reminds me of a quote i really liked "Perhaps my biggest fear was acknowledging that everything i was doing, was the happiness i was not feeling."

@elisaferrari9301 2 ай бұрын

Who said this?

@shlomorfs 2 ай бұрын

holy fuck! that’s heavy

@LDillon 2 ай бұрын

Where is the quote from?

@velveteencherrytart6335 4 жыл бұрын

“i dont weep. do you?” me, with tears streaming down my face: *nods head*

@kyupified2440 4 жыл бұрын

'Dont be sad' that part just hit me

@memc4903 4 жыл бұрын

@@kyupified2440 for me too, that's when I start crying. such a beautiful, heartbreaking poem.

@Lancemaker 4 жыл бұрын

i dont. stay put blue bird.

@mo59602 4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@PatTheRiot 4 жыл бұрын

I do, but only when I want to. I keep my bluebird in check too... The beauty of that ending. That's what Bukowski did, made loners like him feel less lonely. But at the same time gave it such a suggestive touch that it would create more loners. Hence the constant 50/50 movement of dark and light. Bukowski mastered it.

@GimpOG 4 жыл бұрын

After listening to Tom O’Bedlam narrate so many of Bukowski’s poems, I can’t imagine anyone else narrating them

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

He is so talented on what he is doing. Probably my biggest inspiration on spoken word.

@antseanbheanbocht4993 4 жыл бұрын

It would be Bedlam without Bedlam.

@jaanaviit3847 4 жыл бұрын

Ah quite the opposite for me. This doesn't get to the meat of it like Bukowski reading it or secondly Harry Dean Stanton. Tom O'Bedlam doesn't go deep enough for me. It needs more cynicism and bitterness, a hint of anger in the ingredients. If you've read Bukowski's entire collection, you know he would have more 'salt' in it as such. It's in his voice on every page I'm not saying Tom's isn't good... But that's just my feeling I wanted to share with you. I've been looking for the original recording of Bukowski reading it but its gone for some reason. Thanks! :)

@PatTheRiot 4 жыл бұрын

Same here bud. Curse of knowledge. Nobody on record reads poetry like Tom did. Illneas did an amazing pitch/slow down job too in the mixing.

@tristanquezadadiaz4508 4 жыл бұрын

There's a guy who does it but in spanish. Garfalio is the name of his channel. You'll be surprised. He's as good as Tom. Both voices very similar

@nailaahmadova4053 8 ай бұрын

How beautiful and vulnerable is that saying. The older you grow, more silent the sound of bluebird is. I almost forgot that there is a bluebird. Thanks for reminding me, by this poem. The walls that we create throughout the lifetime, are thicker and thicker. Each time with a thing called “experience” or “being mature” that wall has to get one more layer. It is what has to be done in order not to get vanished by the society. But bluebird needs some fresh air. Which is a hard thing to find behind the walls

@brianbirish 3 ай бұрын

kzfaq.infow20VDWG7UgE I just listened to this and it reminded me of this Bluebird poem

@joseleiva6184 2 жыл бұрын

I made this little poem. A cloud whispers on my neck, a bird flies through my head, this song rattles in my chest, but I can hear no more than an old owl while I rest.

@ashtonbowers1122 4 жыл бұрын

"But I don't weep" Anguish unacknowledged by tears is one of the cruelest things you can feel.

@Aditya-iw8xd 3 жыл бұрын

and the tears fight but they can never get out

@endoneswa 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I thought the speaker had gone numb.

@ashtonbowers1122 2 жыл бұрын

@@endoneswa That's just my interpretation. I think it can say different things to different people

@abbya.6779 4 жыл бұрын

The one thing that I love about poetry is the different interpretation each separate individual can draw from it. The bluebird can be your true self, your anxieties, your fears, your creations...There's something just so... vaildating, so meaningful about it. You don't have to be a philosopher, you don't have to have the secrets of the world at your fingertips, but you can still dye a piece of truth as fine as this your own color. There's something about that that just feels like an incredible honor. Bukowski let us experience a fragment of himself, and manipulate it however we see fit. He could have defined the bluebird, but he didn't. Maybe that's what makes the bluebird so monumental. It's a bird that morphs and shifts according to the desires, hopes, and dreams of the listener. It means what you need it to mean, and that's what makes it so incredibly special.

@sherlockholmes6345 3 жыл бұрын

Modern poetry is like this....I love it too...

@adio8824 3 жыл бұрын

That's true art. It keeps on giving

@saljoquearain9447 3 жыл бұрын

Literally ... Ur comment helped me to reach the depths of the bluebird ... I just thought that bluebird is inner self self .... Hahahah bravo

@mohsankayani 2 жыл бұрын

I liked the way you used the concept of “morph” and the way you compared natural phenomena with abstract feelings .

@anujsinghthakur8451 2 жыл бұрын

The best one here

@davidvlora5 3 жыл бұрын

i think the blue bird is showing emotion of his depression. being a man it’s looked down upon to show emotion. it’s looked at as a weakness. so we have to be strong and keep our emotions bottled up. and at night we can let them out but only to seal them back in in the morning. i feel this so much. it’s hard for me to show emotions not because people would look down on me but because i’m afraid of being vulnerable to anyone

@snugglepusmcgee1252 Жыл бұрын

This is the only way I have ever felt about this piece, I know all to well what he was feeling. Growing up in the south in the 70s, a boy didn't dare talk about feelings and emotions and sort of had to work through and try to figure things out silently. You could have been labeled crazy or something more derogatory, to this day I only have a couple of close friends that know about my love of poetry, art and excellent music.

@robertthoma300 Ай бұрын

Hopefully your couple of close friends have given you a kick in the ass by now. The 70's are gone. Yesterday is gone. Probably over half those whose opinions you dreaded are dead. And you sound a tad snobby with the art literature and music.. People who lay claim to that thin sliver of life are the first ones to judge anyone outside their pompous castles of conceit. I've got an ugly fucking grackle in my heart who wants to be there so I threw out the cage back in those sell out 70's. Lol. I feel better now. Come on grackle. We got a whole day of exploring to do.

@CombatVetadventures Ай бұрын

This poem touches my soul. In all my struggles growing up and being in the military, I can honestly say this is who I am now. Scared to show the vulnerable side! Hurt by the ones closest. Yet you never let the innocent bluebird inside die ❤

@semantic.spaces 4 жыл бұрын

My bluebird is my innocence, the innocent and pure child who I once was. Buried in my body.

@felixsrm3357 4 жыл бұрын

Burried? He's still there, Barely alive and you sometimes let him out at night and even grey is turning bright. You feel it like a pulled out knive wound full of blood, room full of light.

@freypokorny2363 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’m allowed to feel like this. Because I’m still a child. But I can’t remember how long ago it was that innocence didn’t feel like weakness to me. Maybe never. Oh well. Cycle of abuse and dysfunction amiright...

@perciousmatter7001 4 жыл бұрын

@@freypokorny2363 wow i dont believe a kid is watching this.

@olivecloud3548 4 жыл бұрын

@@perciousmatter7001 you'd be surprised. 12, making myself memorize poems and practice declamation alone during quarentine. screw public speaking but memorization is awesome.

@MrVanhoden 4 жыл бұрын

@@olivecloud3548 public speaking > memorizing. you simply cant memorize evrything young man. but you'll always have your heartjust keep it alive and pumpin.

@evandotterer4365 4 жыл бұрын

I struggle with severe depression, and alcoholism. This poem honestly keeps me breathing from a day to day basis. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

Dude... This means a lot, be strong

@tmcdowell7977 4 жыл бұрын

Bless you friend

@dcsx5133 4 жыл бұрын

illneas ty for saying this You don’t know how much this means to someone. Or maybe you do. But I hope you don’t. ❤️

@DoYouFeelLucky 4 жыл бұрын

Love and best wishes to you Evan. Alcohol will be making depression worse, even though it may seem that temporarily it can numb it. A change in lifestyle and something creative to do that you enjoy might help.

@ivankleinpeter2857 4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you brother. I'm still a heavy alcohol abuser and its because I cant let my mind shut up. Theres just so much shit that's wrong.. with me, with the world. So I drink. I drink until I dont remember drinking. Then i wake up and drink to forget about what i forgot about... times are hard, but we CAN get through them.. with patience..

@Maddie.chapman 2 ай бұрын

I have the quote “there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out” tattooed on my forearm along with a bluebird inside of a ribcage, this will forever be my favourite poem 🥹🤍

@littleredsubmarine Жыл бұрын

This poem is so incredibly…honest, vulnerable and deep. It literally took my breath away.

@klarakrass9160 Жыл бұрын

@TheyMadeMePickAName 4 жыл бұрын

A very poetic way of saying „But if I‘m happy I can’t create anymore“

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

I like this interpretation, I didn't think of it this way. Thank you

@AD-kv9kj 4 жыл бұрын

I question this common notion though. Surely it's just because people are conditioned to feel that any form of creative display is only "artistic" if it's to do with misery and suffering.. whereas anything to do with peace, joy and contentment is seen as, "OMG, like, sooo BORING!" People are raised by society as a whole to practically worship fear, misery, aggression, violence, suffering, loneliness... that's why every popular movie is about some idiot looking miserable and posing with a gun, revenge porn, disasters or some other "dark and gritty" BS with a cold blue filter slapped over it all. I don't think creativity in any way requires misery and sadness, that's just the fashion which society has developed, and it's a way of thinking and perceiving the world which benefits oppressive social structures.

@TheyMadeMePickAName 4 жыл бұрын

@@AD-kv9kj I agree to a point. I think people have wrongly romanticised mental illness as a source of creativity, with the result that people in the creative fields will actively seek misery out in the hopes that it sparks something inside of them and refusing to get help.

@JackBridgewater 4 жыл бұрын

Beautifully put

@pavelooo2289 4 жыл бұрын

@@AD-kv9kj i didn’t think that way. Thanks for sharing your views. It's true because the world is full of misery and suffering and the people on the other side of the fence seems to forgetful about that.I think that's the reason.

@bowieshowie6378 5 жыл бұрын

For the bluebird is rather the liberation of his sorrow.... He doesn't want to set it free... Instead he rather wants to keep it, not knowing that he could be greater, but knowing that he has found his purpose with it. So he has found his path, of which he believes himself to be. But blindly afraid of what would happen, if he let the bluebird free... -my interpretation.

@illneas 5 жыл бұрын

Write more on my videos

@unit333angel 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect interpretation - I was feeling the same - but rather overall liberation of his emotions

@saluvictori1075 5 жыл бұрын

See, while I admire your interpretation, I think I disagree. The symbolism of a bluebird is often used for things that are more light in nature. Also, Buk mentions how the “whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks” never know about it. Bukowski openly expresses his cynicism and sadness, as well as his loss of Jane. I think what he’s suggesting is that he doesn’t want others to know that he has a heart, something that cares about others. He drowns out his love and hides it by acting tough and drinking and being cynical, mean, and sad.

@C720L 5 жыл бұрын

Young Kim you are incorrect

@acloudatlas 5 жыл бұрын

I think the blue bird is his sadness

@MrCostas32 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone has a bluebird in their heart... each bluebird represents a fear, a passion, and desire, and a terror

@tanishkadesai9506 3 жыл бұрын

I come back to this everyday. Its my escape.

@donnazabit6389 3 жыл бұрын

Be strong....Fight back, girl! You've got this. Everyday is a new day and a gift!

@nealbarry4006 3 жыл бұрын

How are you doing over there

@nealbarry4006 3 жыл бұрын

@@tanishkadesai9506 I’m doing good thanks, I’m Neal from California but correctly in Syria on duty, hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family.

@fahimahaque1785 2 жыл бұрын

Same, i listen to this whenever I feel down

@amberyadav.8628 2 жыл бұрын

sameeee

@ireneserrano9489 5 жыл бұрын

please keep doing more videos like this with bukowski poems, amazing and beautiful work!!

@illneas 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

@balderrising1 4 жыл бұрын

I agree.. even though i don't exactly care for this particular one.. but YES !

@whatta1501 4 жыл бұрын

@@illneas would you consider an ASMR type of reading? That would be so great! Especially for people who are sensitive to sound or hints of music instead of having it all the way through. The words and the voice are so beautiful. Being sensitive to sound is a thing. Hope you consider it. I subscribed

@TSAR373 4 жыл бұрын

"Nobody thinks of the terror of one person aching in one place - alone, untouched, unspoken to..." - Bukowski

@alectronablack555 3 жыл бұрын

❤️💕

@powersdustin709 3 жыл бұрын

“But I don’t weep, do you?” *weeping* “..no.”

@ThomasSawyers 3 ай бұрын

I think you might miss the point, hes saying it in an almost sardonic manner, he means to say he would never admit that he cries, "do you admit that you cry?" (I think thats what he means ofc)

@PowerlessCreature666 Ай бұрын

No. But the Blue Bird does.

@itssayeem Жыл бұрын

Today i’ve failed in my exam board and all of the teachers in board were laughing at me, making fun of me. In this immense sorrow in my mind, i felt now relieved from all the pain going thorough by this poem, it’s healed my grief of pain which kills me entirely.

@evekarolie6830 5 жыл бұрын

i'm too tough for him - let the bluebird be all the sweet things, the soft things, the gentle things a man like him can't enjoy. let him enjoy the soft of the blue birds feathers against his ribcage- soft things are meant to stay inside, where the sun cant fade the blue of its wings.

@illneas 5 жыл бұрын

Vibrant and eccentric, love it

@dickslayer111 4 жыл бұрын

And there it is...hidden here in plain sight. Profound is a word that only scraps the surface of what you are suggesting. Stay groovy Eve, somehow I know you will.

@z.C.008 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@mer7708 3 жыл бұрын

Genius

@robertstefan8415 2 жыл бұрын

Good words i like you

@dickslayer111 4 жыл бұрын

His work always does more damage to my heart when I hear it from his voice. He's profound if you allow him to be...

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

I like his voice as well, but I really admire Ton OBedlam's work

@dickslayer111 4 жыл бұрын

@@illneas You're like a new branch showing me that life grows in all directions. Thanks for that.

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

@@dickslayer111 that's such a nice thing to say, thank you

@jedilizard5915 3 жыл бұрын

Bukowski's words are so painfully beautiful...One of the few writers that I can feel the raw emotion behind his words.

@teddyspaw 6 ай бұрын

He said lines in a poem were meaningless if they didn’t have juice.

@motheryuba57 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me cry. My bluebird hovers in my throat. Sometimes it peeks out and looks at the sky, longingly. Oh, my. Poetry has a way of really getting to you. Love reading all the comments. Love to everyone.

@BlancaAguilarturtlelove 4 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant. So beautiful... "there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep I say, I know that you're there so don't be sad then I put him back but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die"

@prachee8102 2 жыл бұрын

okay I just read the comments and I love how everyone's interpretation of the poem is different, here's mine- for me, when I think of the bluebird, it's my passion, the thing I love to do the most in this world, art, and with it, the sorrow, and regret, of not choosing it as a career option. Bluebird, is that suppressed urge to pick up those dry lifeless brushes again and paint something with them, being careless about the world, like I always used to, instead I'm going through endless pages of my textbook that never seem to end, and countless exams, and a lot of assignments. Life becomes easier if we make the right choices, but we never know if it's a mistake, unless we make it. I might just be a kid trying to correlate my life with this masterpiece but there's something about this poem that makes me wanna reconsider my life choices again. Wow.

@Lunaticradiohead 11 ай бұрын

"Philosophy is the search for wisdom. Poetry is wisdom searching for the heart of the human being." By the marvellous late philosopher Olavo de Carvalho

@jackquentin1950 2 жыл бұрын

This is still, for me, Bukowski's most potent poem. I have two interpretations for this: 1 - he struggles to let himself be happy. How he was raised, his traumas in life affected him so much that he gets in his own way, his own happiness. And some part of him got so used to being unhappy that he found comfort in it. 2 - he has a sensitive side that he doesn't want other people to know. With all the tough bravado and persona, some part of him thinks that letting that sensitivity get too close to the light of day would "blow his book sales in Europe." Man, the most troubled artists produce the most genius works. An absolute writing wonder.

@DibbzTV 2 жыл бұрын

Going through a real rough time… and I do weep, the blue bird sings so sorrowfully beautiful.

@Spud773 Жыл бұрын

Hope you're feeling warmth now. X

@brayanrivero7205 3 жыл бұрын

I think this poem is about love/life. We all eventually notice this profound love/life inside us, sadly, most of us are made aware of it through pain and suffering. We first learn the dark side to love/life, through addictions or tough social situations for example, but somehow we know this blue bird is in there and we become more and more conscious of it as we experience life. You get to a point where you are consciously supressing it and not allowing yourself to be free, afraid of rejection or any other social factor you can think of. I think when you reach this state of mind, you are able to share it with others since you understand you are trapped (Usually dark feelings), however, if you are brave enough to free the blue bird and weep, you have truly understood love/life and can express and share it with others without a doubt and this is where greatness happens and unquestionable beauty emerges.

@nusrat083 4 жыл бұрын

I had that bluebird in my heart all my life, never knew it was there and reason for my suffering, then it drove me crazy and made me die; and when I woke up I found that bluebird holding my hand! And then I found my real self, my life began; before that, it was grey, different from me, not really me, foreign.

@quotesandstuf 3 жыл бұрын

Bukowski has the power to write beautiful words without sounding cringey or unbearable, u got to love him.

@devianazarov9566 4 жыл бұрын

Bluebird was the first poem I heard from Bukowski, and I remember crying from it. I still do, if I recite it out loud. Bukowski is pure raw emotion. The bluebird has always been for me sadness, depression; the kind of emotion that can paralyze us for months in bed, that can get us stuck in time and emotionless. That's why he doesn't want to let it out, stop; but he can't quite kill it. It's him, he keeps it inside because it helps him write and it is the core of his poems. You can always see it.

@jayskillet235 4 жыл бұрын

Bluebird for me is happiness

@jayskillet235 4 жыл бұрын

If that make sense

@ninarekhi 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like the Bluebird is his soul that wants to sing its own song..its own truth. But he's guarding it for it will make him feel vulnerable if exposed. It's the same reason why we're all wearing masks to be more acceptable in society while out bluebirds maybe want to dance naked in the middle of the street.

@ninarekhi 4 жыл бұрын

@-- True!

@joenavanodo3780 4 жыл бұрын

nina rekhi ...Wise words

@user-ui8gc2gb3x 4 жыл бұрын

nina rekhi it’s about men keeping there feelings inside

@mcnorwalk2 4 жыл бұрын

“Wearing masks” - this aged interestingly haha

@ninarekhi 4 жыл бұрын

@@mcnorwalk2 Who would've thought?!

@RGR92 Ай бұрын

This poem, your beautiful video to it and the warm hearted people commenting here, wow... reminds me of the way I hoped life to be when I was younger. Thank you for this unforeseen moment of light ❤️

@azad738 3 жыл бұрын

"We all need something to distract us from the complexity and reality" - Detachment ❤️

@Akatsuki_phantom 4 жыл бұрын

I just found this but this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard

@illneas 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found us

@matejrumanovsky5187 4 жыл бұрын

same

@stigstig9275 4 жыл бұрын

The more you listen, the more profound it becomes. It's magical

@vinkhuu 5 жыл бұрын

The "you" hidden behind his head is a nice subtle touch

@illneas 5 жыл бұрын

I was really proud when I made but very few people noticed it, I'm glad you did.

@karishmachaudhary9953 4 жыл бұрын

Wait, what are you talking about? Can you put a timestamp?

@somebodynow9849 4 жыл бұрын

@@karishmachaudhary9953 try 0:18

@hulkh3489 4 жыл бұрын

@@somebodynow9849 No, the one at 1:47

@hulkh3489 4 жыл бұрын

@@karishmachaudhary9953 The one at 1:47

@janewelsh8578 Жыл бұрын

There's a bluebird in my heart that I'm learning to give a voice, and I am allowing the occasional flutter of wings. Slowly. Tenderly. Cautiously. My bluebird quietly calls to your bluebird.

@kushagra8183 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful❤

@AA-ke9pk 3 жыл бұрын

This poem touches me so deeply. It almost makes me cry. Bukowski will always be one of my favourite poets. 'A Smile To Remember' is also hauntingly beautiful.

@jbrooksci 4 жыл бұрын

I came for Adrien; I stayed for the poem.

@jonnyboaa 4 жыл бұрын

Any idea what movie the scenes are from?

@NicolasHa 4 жыл бұрын

@@jonnyboaa "Detachment", a great movie to portray the tortured soul! I highly recommend it.

@jonnyboaa 4 жыл бұрын

NicolasH thank you!!

@patsonization 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@oussamaouardi6428 3 жыл бұрын

@@NicolasHa what about the other one ?

@MastoSto 5 жыл бұрын

Just found out about this channel. Man, those feels! Everything works so well together, Bukowski's poems, that deep voice, the melancholic music, the footage and the way you display the words. Please keep on producing these awesome videos!

@illneas 5 жыл бұрын

This means the world to me, thank you

@Kinghenhog39 Жыл бұрын

This really spoke to me as I'm dealing with depression and addiction and still don't let people know how defeated I truly feel.

@the_Naga_Don 10 ай бұрын

Leaving this comment here. Wishing I can come back to this masterpiece, whenever someone likes it.

@cheminem 4 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, the bluebird is his artistic expression seeking to release itself. It is that thing inside of him that makes him toss and turn until he lets it free, even just for a little while. He doesn't give it full freedom, he doesn't write enough, and so it is sort of like a hostage relationship, but Bukowski is afraid to release it forever, whatever that means I do not know. Perhaps that means becoming a working man again, and allowing his energy to be put to that use.

@1234five Жыл бұрын

There is a bluebird in my heart, I have cut off its wings. But the bluebird in my heart still continues to sing

@paulwhelan7781 Жыл бұрын

It's the most real and surreal poem of all. I wrote thousands of poems on my youth but none of them come close to this. Thank you Charles.

@imnotsoberallthetime Жыл бұрын

Found your channel because I was obsessed with some other poem by bukowski, and o’bedlam’s voice. I watched almost all of your work and I just wanted to congratulate you for it. You brought wonders to my lonely mind. Thank you. Keep it up.

@nigini 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in quite a while. Thank you for your work.

@avocado184nhs82 3 жыл бұрын

"then i put him back, but hes singing a little in there", dont know why but this line is what gets to me. the bluebird just wants to come out and be free and sing, but he keeps putting it back. but the bluebird hasnt given up hope entirely

@Tankz00 2 жыл бұрын

I get from this that inside all of us there’s nothing but joy but some of us are afraid to let it out. Whatever the reason is we can’t let it out. We feel embarrassed and scarred or stupid. Or how a man is supposed to be tough skinned with emotions and the bluebird is our emotions… that’s what I take from this poem

@margaretmolloy257 Жыл бұрын

Michael Mendenh...your words just make perfect sense I can relate to everything you said. Thank you so much.

@thepakistanislayer372 2 ай бұрын

2024 anyone ?

@shayanabbasi1668 29 күн бұрын

From the start till now

@JLTheMonster 23 күн бұрын

And forward🚬

@Anonym-h8f 22 күн бұрын

Yes

@Impulseartworks 21 күн бұрын

Still listening

@lupegaehring2362 16 күн бұрын

Yes❤

@mayur1763 Жыл бұрын

Bukowski's poems are so real. He had this immense courage to put it all out on paper and still made it so raw and beautiful!

@akbarbabu9145 4 жыл бұрын

In love with your works, especially poems of Charles Bukowski narrated by Tom o'Bedlam. Please keep them coming.

@viniciusbn 2 ай бұрын

at this point i think i have watched this video, like, a hundred times. there was a time i watched it every single day, and every single week at least twice. now i watch every time i just remember this master piece. not just the poem, but the clip, its just too deep...

@hope4230 9 ай бұрын

Listening to this masterpiece with silent tears streaming down my face and a bluebird so relentlessly strong that it can't be held in anymore.

@lizhenson4041 4 жыл бұрын

This is the perfect poem for anyone with a vice. Love for the wrong person, mental disorder, addiction, guilt, etc. we all harbor or our own little blue bird, but we can’t always see each other’s.

@leonelasotelo6004 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite part: "I Know that you're there. So don't be sad..."

@JustinHenryfan 3 жыл бұрын

OMG! The music plays so well with this narration! It's honestly one of the most amazing things I've witnessed. Thank you.

@drampabay1476 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could put my finger on what strikes me about this poem. It’s just phenomenal, and this reading puts it over the top

@sarcasticsoulsyd 2 жыл бұрын

this is one of the most impactful and beautiful poems I’ve ever encountered.

@moment23 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you from all of the bluebirds in all of our hearts that just got released

@wee3474 2 ай бұрын

This is so beautiful. Thank you for posting this! Bukowski is the only poetry I read. He was a gift💗

@sectionalsofa 7 ай бұрын

I'm reminded of my old loves who held bluebirds in their hearts. I heard them sing even when I was too young to understand.

@zurielggilpinj7093 Жыл бұрын

Even in my hardest days, these words could keep me strong.

@emesar5233 3 жыл бұрын

More heart pulling to see than a child or woman cry is to look into a mans eyes when he cries. But even if it were your Father or Brother or even your Son, nothing can compare to watching yourself weep.

@tatotavakhappyco9913 Жыл бұрын

One of my favourites videos. There's something special in this music, poem, voice, video that touches me in a special way. Thanks for this.

@ilkkahalmari1330 2 жыл бұрын

I always come back to this when im feeling sad. Thank you.

@rowanwyllie9126 3 жыл бұрын

my dad told me he relates to this poem by Bukowski. i told him ‘be kind’ reminds me of him, and we both sat in silence accepting of the fact that the wounds he created cant be healed.

@svschermbeck2 2 жыл бұрын

Everything you do is just art. I also love that you use Bukowski‘s poem‘s.

@lujainalherz1817 2 жыл бұрын

i have just come across charles bukowski's work, and its like i've discovered hidden treasure. where have these words been all my life? i'm not usually a sob fr poems but this man honestly has such a beautiful mind, i cant help but weep. makes you see life with new eyes and i wish fr everyone to hear and be blessed with his unique wisdom.

@debbiebein5064 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone's responses to this is exactly why poetry is amazing. There are so many true things that the author is trying to convey that draws truth out of the listeners/readers. You know what's up.

@Upinthecutty... 3 жыл бұрын

I cant even count how many times Ive watched this. its deep in me

@riverviswanath9291 5 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh my lil blue bird you make me so sad and euphoric at the same time,keep making videos

@extremophile6168 2 жыл бұрын

Amazed! The choice of music track and the emotions captured in this video gives justice to this masterpiece.

@Sangwoo_oncrack 11 ай бұрын

I don't know how i ended up here but i am so glad i did. The poem, the voice, the video, the music. Everything is so beautiful.

@Robinmay24 2 жыл бұрын

The greatest speech i ever heard, and i heard alot!!🙏🏼♥️

@muhammadsaadurrehman5341 3 жыл бұрын

My interpretation is, the bluebird is Bukowski's innocence, goodwill, and care for all but the society in which he is living needs him to be adaptable to the cleverness and realism. He is afraid of being good.

@raquel77ch 3 ай бұрын

I was weeping and driving listening to it. There is a blue bird in my heart too.

@chriszamora2153 3 жыл бұрын

crazy how the more you read the poem or in this case watch this video, the more you find different ways to look at it. simply amazing.

@smileforyourself4303 3 жыл бұрын

Hi chris Zamora, would u like to watch the poetry Dreamer once findable as Dreamer - A Visual Poetry - Travel & Poetry Awaj !

@joebot001 4 жыл бұрын

I've read bukowski prose, but somehow not his poetry. This is awesome, thx!

@Casper-sky Жыл бұрын

I think the blue bird is his soul. I’m sure he was very soft hearted. Beautiful 😻

@Sam_kZ14 Жыл бұрын

Living rains I used to love the rains and see them as a surprising generous happenstance of childish wonder and fun Then I hated it ... almost despised the heart burn that each sniff of soft wet smelling mud gave me... because of the memories it unlocked... But still... almost unwillingly... I took shelter in its misty cloak... that hid the sadness off of my face and dampend the cries inside...lovingly?...or cruely? Then I learned... No...I was taught to see the dark black clouds covering the harsh blinding sunlight as the blessing that they are. As some innocent precious gift you can never waste not experiencing... As some unasked opportunity you just can not miss out on... But not now... now suddenly again it feels like... the sky is weeping out bursts of tired aching tears... Lashing out... for some reason that Im oddly not allowed to figure out. I've been sitting by myself while the rain falls without me... looking at the corner of my wall where the shadow is forced to be... contemplating... is life just that?... is it just the fast forgetting fun of enjoying the heat from a light of a match?...as healing as it may be Or is it the slow seduce of smoke from a cigarette that comes after huffing it up?...as dangerous as it may be I guess maybe... life is just the daily chore of disregarding the silent things hidden deep inside us all... Hmm? Maybe... Must be!

@klarakrass9160 Жыл бұрын

@Orroz44 4 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed at the synchronicity; the poems from your channel that come in my recommendations fit perfectly with what's on my mind that day. Beautiful poem.

@laurenmosley9008 4 жыл бұрын

I've watched this video again and again so much it made me memorize the poem in a day.

@nikagrdzelishvili1035 9 ай бұрын

Me too

@BartomiejWaszynski 4 жыл бұрын

Bluebird is my sensitivity. I live in Poland so i poured vodka to kill its singing which makes me feel weak and depressed. My ex knew im not acting normal, but i rejected her help. Only when she left i know that i should have free this bluebird even just for her. When i started therapy i wanted her to support me in this hard time. she said she is happy now with someone else and she doesnt feel anything because of how i have been acting for last half of year. Now i feel that this bluebird is completely free and i have done it for her. Now i cry everytime thinking of her. Why she doesn't see how much i have sacrifised for her love...

@reecekyle6332 3 жыл бұрын

should of opened up bud but it is what it is just gota focus on you now man

@orangeziggy348 2 жыл бұрын

You have to free yourself for You, take care of your heart and soul.

@anthonygonzalez5147 3 жыл бұрын

I just cant get over how good this video is with this poem

@DozyDruid 3 жыл бұрын

For two years now ..I return to this one weekly .. Thank you for sharing this with the world

@DozyDruid 3 ай бұрын

Still haunted by this one

@Isabelleisaaa 4 жыл бұрын

I can watch this forever.. still feels the same

@kwaderno 2 жыл бұрын

My bluebird is my childhood memories of being away from my father, it made me sad, lonely, weird, unstable growing up but its the same sadness and pains that made me create beautiful poems, but it makes me so sad. So one day i told myself i dont wanna be sad anymore, so i hid that bluebird until I forgot i have it. Then i became happy, relaxed and carefree. Then father died, the bluebird came back he is bigger now.

@arkasingha6111 3 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this video again and again, I love it.

@bushrarahman9310 Жыл бұрын

I feel extremely lucky to have discovered your channel. Love it to the very core! Thank you for existing! 💜💜

@karencloud719 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Maybe the best poem ever written in terms of how...I....felt it in MY heart.

@montivanwees5445 4 жыл бұрын

"Do you want to screw up the works?" - They'll start leaving when you tell them all your charms. The bluebird coming out isn't a pollution of his reputation, but the secret ingredient to it? The motivation and raw emotions and pain and sweetness. I'll never understand what motivated Bukowski and that uncertainty makes him so wonderful. To me the bluebird is the answer to all the questions I don't want the answers to, but at the same time search for in all of his work.