Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

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-Dangling in Tournefortia
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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?

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@jemitdave4678 2 года назад

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

@themessageinabottle9574 2 года назад

see you tomorrow ;)

@themessageinabottle9574 2 года назад

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

@shaynegallagher6006 2 года назад

@@themessageinabottle9574 ill see you tomarrow james.

@themessageinabottle9574 2 года назад

@@shaynegallagher6006 haha

@stephenjarrett1826 2 года назад

See you tomorrow my friend

@breakthroughreality9616 4 года назад

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

@Lyndanet 3 года назад

👍🏽

@Adriana-yq9uu 2 года назад

Es asi

@boomika9987 2 года назад

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

@kalharirupasinghe8804 Год назад

100% true words

@AC-vh6dt 6 месяцев назад

Ou tudo.

@0eveez Месяц назад

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 месяцев назад

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 месяца назад

Who said this?

@shlomorfs 2 месяца назад

holy fuck! that’s heavy

@LDillon 2 месяца назад

Where is the quote from?

@velveteencherrytart6335 4 года назад

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

@kyupified2440 4 года назад

'Dont be sad' that part just hit me

@memc4903 4 года назад

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

@Lancemaker 4 года назад

i dont. stay put blue bird.

@mo59602 4 года назад

Me too.

@PatTheRiot 4 года назад

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 года назад

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

@illneas 4 года назад

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

@antseanbheanbocht4993 4 года назад

It would be Bedlam without Bedlam.

@jaanaviit3847 4 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@joseleiva6184 2 года назад

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.

@nailaahmadova4053 8 месяцев назад

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 месяца назад

ru-vid.comw20VDWG7UgE I just listened to this and it reminded me of this Bluebird poem

@TheyMadeMePickAName 4 года назад

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

@illneas 4 года назад

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

@AD-kv9kj 4 года назад

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 года назад

@@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 года назад

Beautifully put

@pavelooo2289 4 года назад

@@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.

@evandotterer4365 4 года назад

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 года назад

Dude... This means a lot, be strong

@tmcdowell7977 4 года назад

Bless you friend

@dcsx5133 4 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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..

@davidvlora5 3 года назад

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 Год назад

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 Месяц назад

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.

@powersdustin709 3 года назад

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

@ThomasSawyers 3 месяца назад

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 Месяц назад

No. But the Blue Bird does.

@semantic.spaces 4 года назад

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

@felixsrm3357 4 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@olivecloud3548 4 года назад

@@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 года назад

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

@ashtonbowers1122 4 года назад

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

@Aditya-iw8xd 3 года назад

and the tears fight but they can never get out

@endoneswa 2 года назад

Interesting! I thought the speaker had gone numb.

@ashtonbowers1122 2 года назад

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

@CombatVetadventures Месяц назад

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 ❤

@Maddie.chapman 2 месяца назад

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 🥹🤍

@abbya.6779 4 года назад

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 года назад

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

@adio8824 3 года назад

That's true art. It keeps on giving

@saljoquearain9447 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@anujsinghthakur8451 2 года назад

The best one here

@bowieshowie6378 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

Write more on my videos

@unit333angel 5 лет назад

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

@saluvictori1075 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

Young Kim you are incorrect

@acloudatlas 5 лет назад

I think the blue bird is his sadness

@MrCostas32 2 года назад

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

@the_Naga_Don 10 месяцев назад

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

@evekarolie6830 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

Vibrant and eccentric, love it

@dickslayer111 4 года назад

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 года назад

Beautiful

@mer7708 3 года назад

Genius

@robertstefan8415 2 года назад

Good words i like you

@ireneserrano9489 5 лет назад

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

@illneas 5 лет назад

Thank you so much.

@balderrising1 4 года назад

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

@whatta1501 4 года назад

@@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

@littleredsubmarine Год назад

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

@klarakrass9160 Год назад

@itssayeem Год назад

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.

@TSAR373 4 года назад

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

@alectronablack555 3 года назад

❤️💕

@BlancaAguilarturtlelove 4 года назад

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"

@tanishkadesai9506 3 года назад

I come back to this everyday. Its my escape.

@donnazabit6389 3 года назад

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

@nealbarry4006 3 года назад

How are you doing over there

@nealbarry4006 3 года назад

@@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 года назад

Same, i listen to this whenever I feel down

@amberyadav.8628 2 года назад

sameeee

@dickslayer111 4 года назад

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 года назад

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

@dickslayer111 4 года назад

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

@illneas 4 года назад

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

@jackquentin1950 2 года назад

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.

@jedilizard5915 3 года назад

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

@teddyspaw 6 месяцев назад

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

@Lunaticradiohead 11 месяцев назад

"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

@Akatsuki_phantom 4 года назад

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

@illneas 4 года назад

I'm glad you found us

@matejrumanovsky5187 4 года назад

same

@stigstig9275 4 года назад

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

@ninarekhi 4 года назад

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 года назад

@-- True!

@joenavanodo3780 4 года назад

nina rekhi ...Wise words

@user-ui8gc2gb3x 4 года назад

nina rekhi it’s about men keeping there feelings inside

@mcnorwalk2 4 года назад

“Wearing masks” - this aged interestingly haha

@ninarekhi 4 года назад

@@mcnorwalk2 Who would've thought?!

@DibbzTV 2 года назад

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

@Spud773 Год назад

Hope you're feeling warmth now. X

@thepakistanislayer372 2 месяца назад

2024 anyone ?

@shayanabbasi1668 27 дней назад

From the start till now

@JLTheMonster 22 дня назад

And forward🚬

@Anonym-h8f 20 дней назад

Yes

@Impulseartworks 20 дней назад

Still listening

@lupegaehring2362 15 дней назад

Yes❤

@motheryuba57 3 года назад

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.

@nusrat083 4 года назад

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.

@janewelsh8578 Год назад

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 Год назад

Beautiful❤

@azad738 3 года назад

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

@devianazarov9566 4 года назад

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 года назад

Bluebird for me is happiness

@jayskillet235 4 года назад

If that make sense

@vinkhuu 5 лет назад

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

@illneas 5 лет назад

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

@karishmachaudhary9953 4 года назад

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

@somebodynow9849 4 года назад

@@karishmachaudhary9953 try 0:18

@hulkh3489 4 года назад

@@somebodynow9849 No, the one at 1:47

@hulkh3489 4 года назад

@@karishmachaudhary9953 The one at 1:47

@prachee8102 2 года назад

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.

@brayanrivero7205 3 года назад

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.

@jbrooksci 4 года назад

I came for Adrien; I stayed for the poem.

@jonnyboaa 4 года назад

Any idea what movie the scenes are from?

@NicolasHa 4 года назад

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

@jonnyboaa 4 года назад

NicolasH thank you!!

@patsonization 3 года назад

Same!

@oussamaouardi6428 3 года назад

@@NicolasHa what about the other one ?

@quotesandstuf 3 года назад

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

@1234five Год назад

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

@RGR92 Месяц назад

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 ❤️

@Kinghenhog39 Год назад

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.

@avocado184nhs82 3 года назад

"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

@sectionalsofa 7 месяцев назад

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.

@marthafsehaye8249 2 месяца назад

Bluebird could be our fears, anxieties or even our insecurities that we mask because if exposed it makes us feel vulnerable. Even though vulnerability can protect us, we are focused in building walls,out up masks to hide our bluebird to be validated by society. Eventually it suffocates and dies and we are left with nothing but emptiness.

@paulwhelan7781 Год назад

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.

@AA-ke9pk 3 года назад

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.

@j_steni 10 месяцев назад

There's a bluebird in my heart , sweet and innocent waiting for someone to let it free and little did that bird know that someone has already arrived

@ksmadhan2502 10 месяцев назад

dance together for every kiss and every word with poetry of love...

@j_steni 10 месяцев назад

@@ksmadhan2502 this man is filled with poetry

@raquel77ch 3 месяца назад

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

@zurielggilpinj7093 Год назад

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

@MastoSto 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

This means the world to me, thank you

@nosferatu5818 2 месяца назад

Seems like whenever that bluebird finally shakes the whisky off it’s wings, some hunter is busy shooting bullets at it.

@Tankz00 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@cheminem 4 года назад

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.

@lizhenson4041 4 года назад

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.

@julebennett2985 2 года назад

Totally. Understand maybe someday maybe next life if ones given old souls done there time here on earth

@najeebhani_ Месяц назад

And after 5 years this still hits as always, detachment.

@edwardbyrne4109 Год назад

Art isn't meant to be beautiful, It's meant to make you feel something.

@bigmouth009 5 месяцев назад

The bluebird is his sadness that he holds inside, that he can’t let go because he uses it for his art , and he suppresses it with tobacco and alcohol. He doesn’t let anyone see his sorrow on the inside. He has learned to live with his sorrow and he let’s it out when nobody would notice. ❤ that’s how I interpret it and I love this poem

@hope4230 9 месяцев назад

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.

@leonelasotelo6004 2 года назад

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

@mayur1763 Год назад

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!

@spsk9025 4 месяца назад

There is beauty in experiencing heavy emotions, but if you get stuck in there because of the belief that you need melancholy to be creative you lose yourself

@Upinthecutty... 3 года назад

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

@Casper-sky Год назад

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

@emesar5233 3 года назад

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.

@bigapestudios9847 2 года назад

Oh but to let that inner child run, to permit joyous moments once more. Bluebird oh little bluebird why don't you sing to me anymore?

@viniciusbn Месяц назад

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...

@nigini 4 года назад

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

@BartomiejWaszynski 4 года назад

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 года назад

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

@orangeziggy348 2 года назад

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

@rowanwyllie9126 3 года назад

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.

@bigpapamoe1910 2 года назад

I think the blue bird is his sadness

@akbarbabu9145 4 года назад

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

@Isabelleisaaa 4 года назад

I can watch this forever.. still feels the same

@JustinHenryfan 3 года назад

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

@imnotsoberallthetime Год назад

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.

@8dhanarajnongmaithem105 2 года назад

*_when you want to be a writer, but you are borne in a science indian family where your neighbours is all doctors, and your parents are neet and jee centred and perceive passion to be a hobby, you realized your dreams will remain as dreams till you are independent_*

@darshanpatil7777 2 года назад

I can feel you Buddy

@Spud773 Год назад

I hope you write one day! X

@kwaderno 2 года назад

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.

@NəzrinTeacher Год назад

A lonely Valentine’s Day… There’s a bluebird in my heart… 🥀

@popyblack5957 9 месяцев назад

"do you?" *me with tears streaming down my face* : nuh uh

@joebot001 4 года назад

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

@Msdoritosslap 2 года назад

My bluebird is my numbness . The faceless expression. I usually smile everywhere I go but alone, you wouldn’t see it unless in nature where I am surrounded by my madness

@tatotavakhappyco9913 Год назад

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.

@Sam_kZ14 Год назад

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 Год назад

@montivanwees5445 4 года назад

"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.

@sarcasticsoulsyd 2 года назад

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

@bushrarahman9310 Год назад

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

@wee3474 2 месяца назад

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

@riverviswanath9291 5 лет назад

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

@moment23 3 года назад

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

@Orroz44 4 года назад

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.

@ilkkahalmari1330 2 года назад

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

@svschermbeck2 2 года назад

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

@lukavidmar123 3 года назад

"fun" fact, the movie class enemy was recorded at my high school about a real event when a girl allegedly killed herself over her german proffesor and a mix of family issues. its a rly good movie but its in slovenian so most people will never see it