A young Kenneth Rexroth, in short sleeve t shirt, mustache with the following poetry quote: Firepower on the battlefield, It is all one merely two Aspects of the same monster. The Dragon and the Unicorn

Today in #LaborHistory 12/22/1905: San Francisco #poet #KennethRexroth was born. #anarchis, #IWW, often called the father of beat poetry scene, although he never considered himself a beat.

"Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kennet...

✒ #KennethRexroth, American poet, translator and critic ("Birds in the Bush"), was #BOTD 22 December 1905. #Poetry #Literature

...It rains on the roofs
As it rains in my poems
Under the thunder
We fit together like parts
Of a magic puzzle...

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“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”
Kenneth Rexroth

#photography #poetry #kennethrexroth #monochrome

I know how your shoulders glisten,
How your face sinks into trance,
And your eves like a sleepwalker's,
And your lips of a woman
Cruel to herself.

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#photosky #artsky #poetrysky #crochetcurtains

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kennet...

✒️ #KennethRexroth, American poet, #DOTD 6 June 1982. #Poetry #Literature

📷 Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982) holding the hands of his daughter Mary, 1955. By Henry Bowden.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.

- #KennethRexroth

◾I cannot forget
The perfumed dusk inside the
Tent of my black hair,
As we awoke to make love
After a long night of love.

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The disorder of my hair Is due to my lonely sleepless pillow. My hollow eyes and gaunt cheeks are your fault.

#photography #poetry #kennethrexroth #marichiko #scars #self #lforlimbo #selfboredtrait #lovepoemsofmarichiko

"Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kennet...

✒ #KennethRexroth, American poet, translator and critic ("Birds in the Bush"), was #BOTD 22 December 1905. #Poetry #Literature

I want a brighter word than bright

I almost wish we were butterflies
and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you
I could fill with more delight
than fifty common years
could ever contain.

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#selfportrait
#KennethRexroth
#JohnKeats
#Zenit122

Зеркало II ( the mirror series)
VII
Making Love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.
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Зеркало I ( the mirror series)
IV
You ask me what I thought about
Before we were lovers.
The answer is easy.
Before I met you
I didn't have anything to think about.

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The disorder of my hair Is due to my lonely sleepless pillow. My hollow eyes and gaunt cheeks are your fault.

Kenneth Rexroth

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