Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919)[1] is an Am… Read Full Bio ↴Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919)[1] is an American poet and painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1,000,000 copies.
I Am Waiting
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'I Am Waiting' by these artists:
Cash Brothers I am waiting like a farmer for rain Like a…
Cast He thinks that man is me He knew him at a…
Elec Pt.1 Staring at these photos You left in my room Unknowingly that…
Eskju Divine I am (?) in the glass This side(?) is all I…
JAIME VON BOJI & THE FRUIT ROLL-UPS It´s a possibility We´re boiling down to chemistry Yeah, it´…
Johnell Nicholas & I.S.M. (InSpirit Ministries) Always getting bigger, like my bitches Fatter in all the rig…
Larry Norman I am waiting, I am waiting (oh yeah, oh yeah)…
Leah and the Moonlighters I sleep in late I hate the sunlight I always make you…
Lindsey Buckingham I am waiting, I am waiting, oh, yeah, oh, yeah I…
The Cash Brothers I am waiting like a farmer for rain Like a…
The In-Sect 가만히 떠올려 그날의 내 작은 숨소리 시끄러운 세상 속에서 umm 어둠 속에 가려져…
The Rolling Stones I am waiting, I am waiting Oh yeah, oh yeah I…
The+Rolling+Stones I am waiting, I am waiting (oh yeah, oh yeah)…
Them Am I going up? Am I going down? Am I going nowhere? I…
Vigil I am waiting in the distance I am waiting in the…
Yes Am I waking to this magic Am I seeing all is…
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Moon East of the sun and west of the moon We'll build…
Stealing Electricity There's a Mexican dead up on a power line He's deader…
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Graham Walsh
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think not though it was recorded
Give us this day our daily Lawrence
Those who came before us will kick us in the butt and we should not regret
Give us this day our daily Ferlinghetti
Where we can imagine if not truly transform and sit on the Serengeti
Look out there's a lion who's going to eat you
Give us this day our daily community our weekly love and don't forget yourself in all its mirrored transformations
Take not what your country can do for you take no bullshit and understand bad art
Give us this lifetime another Lawrence Ferlinghetti
GjW
2*23*2021
BUKCOLLECTOR
R. I. P.
Very much enjoyed his poetry. I, too, am a
poet but specialize in Japanese forms: i. e. haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu.
I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog. . .
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism–ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water".
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider–including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”.
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and turn into art
~~
—All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida.
Al
Don Wanderer
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Man, Peep That The Most Crazy Gone Daddy-O Is Like, All The Way Gonesville, Jiving With St.Peter, & Makin' That Angelic Scene...
It's Hard To Think Of A More Iconic Or Important San Francisco Cultural Figure Than Our Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
This Man Was The Anchor Of All That Was Authentically Cool. Period.
JD Adams
He wrote in the notes for this, that it was written as a jazz accompaniment. Genius. I have carried his books with me for 50+ years. I thank him, for without him the counter-culture revolution may have never happened. RIP Lawrence... from me in Arizona
Miranda Edison
Funny was just talking to my neighbor who has also,carried around his books for 50 plus years. Maybe this is the other Declaration of Independence.
felipe dourado
RIP Lawrence, a man that helped to expand the boundaries of freedom in art.
Much respect from Brazil.
ken gilbert
Always one of my favorite poets. I read this aloud in my Modern American poetry class.
I love this poem; it is the sixties, my era.
His poetry was made for being read out loud...wonderful.
Cathy BeatonCampbell
This is a fine understated reading. Thank you for not mixing it with music and letting it stand on its own. Lawrence told me about ten years ago that he did not like to read his poems to jazz, to music. But it's hard to find one that isn't.
t s
Thank goodness for Lawrence Ferlinghetti! One of a kind although he knew and worked with so many talented and often controversial artists. He could not- by his own words- be lumped into The Beat Generation in a full-fledged way, personally. These are the people he knew and worked with and hung out and talked and published for-and it is all an earlier form of a LONG "Happening". He waited a LONG TIME! I have been quoting him since I was in High School-around 14-15 years old. I am now 71. To those who knew him well and are still here, if you "happen" to ever see this little bit of words strung together-please know that he inspired this girl who turned into this woman who turned into this (hopefully) crone. Thank you! Terri Spencer
M Adams
One of the greatest poems of the period (and this period, too)
..More true today.....and of course, the humane voice of Abu Rafique adds to
the poignancy...as we wait..
Graham Walsh
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think not though it was recorded
Give us this day our daily Lawrence
Those who came before us will kick us in the butt and we should not regret
Give us this day our daily Ferlinghetti
Where we can imagine if not truly transform and sit on the Serengeti
Look out there's a lion who's going to eat you
Give us this day our daily community our weekly love and don't forget yourself in all its mirrored transformations
Take not what your country can do for you take no bullshit and understand bad art
Give us this lifetime another Lawrence Ferlinghetti
GjW
2*23*2021
Dan Brenner
Graham Walsh Go Man GO! That is what you do! Just get it out there! Well done on a night like this.
Graham Walsh
@Dan Brenner thank you I was having a moment it seemed to work