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No Leaders Please by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don't swim in the same slough.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself
and
stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
change your tone and shape so often that they can
never
categorize you.
reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is
but only on the terms that you have invented
and reinvented.
be self-taught.
and reinvent your life because you must;
it is your life and
its history
and the present
belong only to
you.
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Відео

Song by Allen Ginsberg (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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I downloaded some free software - VideoMeld - this is my first attempt with it. The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human looks out of the heart burning with purity for the burd...
Sentenced to Life by Clive James (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Clive James received a special award at the BAFTAs last night - here's his acceptance speech www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bafta-tv-awards-clive-james-5675654 In every generation there are only a handful of poets whose work will survive. Clive has a shot at immortality. Sentenced to Life is the name of his latest collection of poetry. You can buy the book here from Amazon UK tinyurl.com/Sentenced...
The Tin Drum Chapter 1 by Günter Grass (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Yesterday Günter Grass died in Lübeck at age 87. This is the opening of his most famous novel. There are a few fluffs - I'm sorry about that - all I can say is that they make no difference to the sense.. I hope it will encourage you to read the rest of the book. It is on Amazon in printed form and as an ebook. Earlier in the day I had been thinking about reading this first chapter of The Tin Dr...
Dinosauria, We (born like this) by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Here's Bukowski himself ua-cam.com/video/hRc6mHS9PjE/v-deo.html It reminds me of Lord Byron's Darkness: ua-cam.com/video/5uN5btgxsfI/v-deo.html There's interesting artwork here:www.bukowskigallery.com/ born like this into this as the chalk faces smile as Mrs. Death laughs as the elevators break as political landscapes dissolve as the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree as the oily fish s...
The Lover's Resolution by George Wither (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Resolution is used in the same sense as a New Year's resolution. Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman’s fair? Or my cheeks make pale with care ’Cause another’s rosy are? Be she fairer than the day Or the flowery meads in May- If she be not so to me What care I how fair she be? Shall my foolish heart be pined ’Cause I see a woman kind; Or a well disposèd nature Joinèd with a lovely f...
Writing by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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To read my notes click SHOW MORE below. See how little equipment and space you need to be a writer! The outlay is trivial. Some writers prefer to work in sparse surroundings with no distractions - often they prefer to treat it as a job and have a place of work, like a shed at the bottom the the garden. Other writers are the very opposite and have to be surrounded by familiar things, such as ref...
Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Louis MacNeice was a northern Irish poet, a friend of WH Auden. He used a quotation from this poem "The Earth Compels" as the title of a poetry collection published in 1938. There are two readings here - the first I made today, the second I made three years ago, I just found it in my files. He was about 28 when he wrote this poem. It is about mortality and the inevitable fate that awaits us all...
The Crunch (first version) by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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This is the original version of The Crunch. There were three versions in all. Here's a discussion about the changing text of The Crunch bukowskiforum.com/threads/the-crunch-in-its-many-forms.1167/ and all three versions side by side here: bukowski.net/poems/crunches.php It's offensive and it means to be offensive. I left out two lines that are too offensive for most people. Bukowski himself too...
Figs by D H Lawrence (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Lawrence is best known for Lady Chatterley's Lover, privately published in 1928 in Florence, Italy, by a local bookseller. It was banned in Britain but the ban was overturned in a celebrated court case in 1960. Lawrence never knew of the victory or how he opened the floodgates for pornography because he died in 1930. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Orioli His portrayal of the sexuality of women ...
I Was a Bustle Maker Once, Girls by Patrick Barrington (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Fashion has always been inclined to distort and exaggerate the female form. In the Victorian era the was the hourglass figure and the wasp waist were in vogue. To achieve the effect women wore tightly-laced corsets and were padded above and below, though the notion that some had their lower ribs removed is probably just a rumour. They were covered from neck to toe and a glimpse of stocking was ...
Before I Knocked by Dylan Thomas (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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This poem was written when Dylan was a teenager. I always thought it referred to the human child that Mary might have had or to that part of Christ that was human and mortal. Here's a famous reading by Richard Burton: ua-cam.com/video/P68b4FV5ojo/v-deo.html Translations into french, german, spanish and portuguese here: worlds-poetry.com/dylan_thomas/before_i_knocked Dylan's Portrait by Augustus...
Thank You for the Christmas Cake by Helen Maria Williams (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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An elegant thank-you note. You might think that the traditional English Christmas plum cake would actually contain some plums. This was not so, although it did usually contain raisins, currants and a substantial amount of suet. Christmas Cake followed on from an earlier tradition, Twelfth Night Cake "a large rich cake, often with a domed top, iced and decorated with ribbons, paper, tinsel and e...
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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At the beginning and end are pictures of the two houses Longfellow lived in. The other pictures are interiors of these houses. He lived for 35 years in the first house and the rest of his life in the second. It seems that the video ends with three different houses but actually they are same house at different times in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadsworth-Longfellow_House en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Wild Oats by Philip Larkin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Wild Oats by Philip Larkin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Cold Summer by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Cold Summer by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac - continuing Chapter 1-3 (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac - continuing Chapter 1-3 (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Chapter 1 (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac Chapter 1 (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Safe Sex by Donald Hall (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Safe Sex by Donald Hall (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Is Life Worth Living? by Alfred Austin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Is Life Worth Living? by Alfred Austin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Death Carol (from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d) by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Death Carol (from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d) by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Dear, though the night is gone by W H Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Dear, though the night is gone by W H Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Hinterhof by James Fenton (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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Hinterhof by James Fenton (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
The Volunteer by Robert Service (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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The Volunteer by Robert Service (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
MCMXIV (Outbreak of the First World War) by Philip Larkin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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MCMXIV (Outbreak of the First World War) by Philip Larkin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
True Love by Robert Penn Warren (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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True Love by Robert Penn Warren (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
To His Lost Lover by Simon Armitage (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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To His Lost Lover by Simon Armitage (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @th2u88f
    @th2u88f 11 днів тому

    This is equally beautiful and badass.

  • @ameliawarfield5637
    @ameliawarfield5637 18 днів тому

    Thank you for sharing this.

  • @shabirmagami146
    @shabirmagami146 22 дні тому

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @user-wn1dl3kk6r
    @user-wn1dl3kk6r Місяць тому

    I wish I could remember it etlone recite it

  • @orionxtc1119
    @orionxtc1119 Місяць тому

    The first poem I ever learned off by heart

  • @ZaMs-gy9jx
    @ZaMs-gy9jx 2 місяці тому

    His voice is so rare.

  • @PICFRS
    @PICFRS 3 місяці тому

    Transporting. All things for The Maiden Of Mount Ida.

  • @TheJimpickeringjr
    @TheJimpickeringjr 3 місяці тому

    This makes me think of Edson Range... if you know what I'm talkin' about.

  • @groundedtofly5580
    @groundedtofly5580 3 місяці тому

    To Althea from Prison put to music . Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/z1eInPQ4fvI/v-deo.html

  • @jamndunk
    @jamndunk 4 місяці тому

    Romantic twaddle

  • @MrRandom12742
    @MrRandom12742 4 місяці тому

    His voice is so relaxing 🤤

  • @traviss7625
    @traviss7625 5 місяців тому

    I sang this poem in college and it still stays with me, I hum it often

  • @Speed001
    @Speed001 5 місяців тому

    Found you

  • @Speed001
    @Speed001 5 місяців тому

    I am here from a HFY story of the same name. It's a short sci-fi story, 'humans are space orcs' stuff. It was a future where we learned our lesson the hard way. We left one person as the grave keeper for the solar system, honoring the dead of any found drifting in space.

  • @pushkarkumarsingh01
    @pushkarkumarsingh01 5 місяців тому

    Yooo....I guess I'm the only one in 2024

  • @elliotkey7961
    @elliotkey7961 5 місяців тому

    3@@@❤

  • @patrickmccarthy9521
    @patrickmccarthy9521 5 місяців тому

    Beautiful

  • @annenicholl6256
    @annenicholl6256 5 місяців тому

    One is reassured by poetry

    • @annenicholl6256
      @annenicholl6256 5 місяців тому

      The rhyme that rhyme that rhyme one forgot Just rhyme remembered The elusive verse That escapes Evaporates. And magically reappears

  • @annenicholl6256
    @annenicholl6256 5 місяців тому

    Pass the buck.

  • @lcoop89
    @lcoop89 6 місяців тому

    I wonder if we know who Jane was , her full name for starters.

  • @pnjodaro
    @pnjodaro 6 місяців тому

    For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honor, or his grace, Or the king's real, or his stampèd face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love. Alas, alas, who’s injured by my love? What merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed his ground? When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veins fill Add one more to the plaguy bill? Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love. Call us what you will, we are made such by love; Call her one, me another fly, We're tapers too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the eagle and the dove. The phoenix riddle hath more wit By us; we two being one, are it. So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit. We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no piece of chronicle we prove, We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms; As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs, And by these hymns, all shall approve Us canonized for Love. And thus invoke us: “You, whom reverend love Made one another’s hermitage; You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage; Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove Into the glasses of your eyes (So made such mirrors, and such spies, That they did all to you epitomize) Countries, towns, courts: beg from above A pattern of your love!”

  • @cuyijnsjaiiio
    @cuyijnsjaiiio 6 місяців тому

    انعل ابو الادب لابو الجامعة خرب انه

  • @acidstrummer
    @acidstrummer 6 місяців тому

    Brialliant, utterly brilliant, your McGonagall readings bring me great joy <3

  • @Flyingsquirrel3am
    @Flyingsquirrel3am 7 місяців тому

    thankyou

  • @jeffw1267
    @jeffw1267 7 місяців тому

    I've been memorizing the sixty-three poems from this book, and I believe this poem is the longest. I count 511 words, or almost twice the length of the Gettysburg Address. After going over this so many times, I think I better understand what Housman meant.

  • @NoneOfTheAboveSeries
    @NoneOfTheAboveSeries 7 місяців тому

    HMB has a song that uses the poem as lyrics. It's wonderfully chilling and dark. Can't find any reference to it online, just the poem.

  • @janetnicholson5001
    @janetnicholson5001 8 місяців тому

    My auntie Eunice Baxter said "Some spat o'er his grave, some danced o'er his grave, but I knelt down and prayed o'er his grave. And that was the end of me owd pal Micky Thump. "

  • @openyourmindange
    @openyourmindange 9 місяців тому

    Merci Monsieur, votre voix est si jolie ( your voice makes us fall in love) Thank you from France (Paris) I 🙏

  • @joshlunt7827
    @joshlunt7827 9 місяців тому

    #wewillrememberthem #lestweforget 🌺

  • @sansumida
    @sansumida 9 місяців тому

    No 174 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse but written by Anon! Nice to hear 3 extra verses, must be a later discovery after this anthology was published 1972😀

  • @francesmaurer185
    @francesmaurer185 9 місяців тому

    💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

  • @ailaranta2606
    @ailaranta2606 10 місяців тому

    I love the voice of Tom o'Bedlam. It gives depth to every poem.

  • @majomares9582
    @majomares9582 10 місяців тому

    Thank you so much! ✨

  • @wabashcannonball
    @wabashcannonball 10 місяців тому

    Why is Father Time reading this story?

  • @kemuri181
    @kemuri181 10 місяців тому

    It's been already 10 years and I'm still wondering about the connection between THAT ONE Elegy 19 and the actual poem

    • @kemuri181
      @kemuri181 10 місяців тому

      Yeah man what a life it's 4 a.m and I'm talking about some old Hetalia doujin that I read when I was 13y.o nah better to go to sleep

  • @danabrousseau6579
    @danabrousseau6579 10 місяців тому

    So many errors in the text (both the written text and oral presentation) made it difficult and unpleasant to appreciate.

  • @jamesconnolly5164
    @jamesconnolly5164 10 місяців тому

    I like the line "and he felt very angry because he didn't shoot her dead." I could see this being used in an English class to remind the students to show not tell. Write a line that lets the reader know he was angry without saying it directly.

  • @jamesconnolly5164
    @jamesconnolly5164 10 місяців тому

    This one was bad, but unlike the others not bad enough to be funny.

  • @garethbeare8741
    @garethbeare8741 10 місяців тому

    I'd rather read this great poem in my own internal voice, as the author may have best intended.

  • @abuafifeh09
    @abuafifeh09 10 місяців тому

    You kidding me?

  • @cs3742
    @cs3742 11 місяців тому

    I'm still waiting to hear this read in all it's lustful enjoyment.

  • @PoorHoward9
    @PoorHoward9 11 місяців тому

    My enjoyment of this great poem wonderfully read by Tom O'Bedlam, was lessened by the fact that many lines were cut off by the screen.

  • @birdlynn417
    @birdlynn417 11 місяців тому

    I love his poems the best. Thank you. He truly is our kindred spirit.

  • @margaritanaughton576
    @margaritanaughton576 Рік тому

    Sos un dulce. Te extraño cada día. Adoro tu sofisticación en las elecciones poéticas, pero debemos estar junto. But you're My cup of tea. Maggie

  • @jamiepoems
    @jamiepoems Рік тому

    a lot of my poetry does not make sense

  • @LeetTSPanda
    @LeetTSPanda Рік тому

    What the heck is this? I was looking for a childhood friend named Dylan Thomas and these dark vibe videos of some old guy name Dylan Thomas appaar

  • @RodentHunter
    @RodentHunter Рік тому

    Not that it matters to me in regards to his poetry, but was T.S. Elliot antisemitic which some point to this poem as indicative of that assertion?

  • @javieralvarez1072
    @javieralvarez1072 Рік тому

    Captivating and nightmarish at the same time. The horrors of alcoholism, of denial, of broken promises and the fast aproaching end...

  • @margaretaoana5711
    @margaretaoana5711 Рік тому

    Reverenta ! Multumesc !☀️🌜✨

  • @Jyo746
    @Jyo746 Рік тому

    hes looking down cause jawline workouts