Charles Bukowski — English Poetry Library

English Poetry Library

Charles Bukowski1920–199420th centuryBeat Generation Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work.

Poems

150 poems

14 ACKER—ALLEN106 lines
16 AREHART—BAILEY68 lines
5 Indian HeadAv Indian Head--743-334144 lines
8 Count23 lines
Aldridge Lewie Andovr Ests40 lines
Alone With Everybody33 lines
Alphabetical Telephone Directory6 lines
An Almost Made Up Poem39 lines
Anonymous submission.26 lines
Another Day64 lines
Are You Drinking?6 lines
As The Sparrow11 lines
At four p.m. we met Pete and Lilly at the car.35 lines
Baldy and I walked away from the window.12 lines
Baldy and I walked away.4 lines
Barney began to move in again.13 lines
Be Kind7 lines
Big Night On The Town10 lines
BILL PAYMENT LOCATIONS4 lines
Bluebird6 lines
Brahms were the only ones who spoke to me and20 lines
But maybe he just let the dog out to take a shit?24 lines
But there was nothing to do.4 lines
Call16 lines
Carson McCullers25 lines
Cause And Effect9 lines
Charles Bukowski90 lines
Charlotte Hall--884-364512 lines
Chuck didn’t answer. He just kept watching.7 lines
Confession14 lines
Consummation Of Grief28 lines
Cows In Art Class33 lines
Curtain17 lines
Cut While Shaving27 lines
D7108 lines
Death Wants More Death66 lines
Decline22 lines
Do13 lines
E.P.45 lines
Eat Your Heart Out38 lines
Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame46 lines
F 48 lines
Flophouse100 lines
For Jane18 lines
For long distance information at no charge8 lines
Freedom34 lines
Friends Within The Darkness11 lines
Hank won't23 lines
HarperCollins e-books56 lines
He finally stopped.17 lines
He got down on his hands and knees.10 lines
He got the strop down.17 lines
He kept yanking.8 lines
He pointed.10 lines
He ran into the house.6 lines
He was an O.K. guy. We all liked him.48 lines
Henry walked Julio to his car which40 lines
His grip tightened some more.34 lines
Hooray Say The Roses20 lines
Hot17 lines
HOT HOT24 lines
How Is Your Heart?19 lines
Hughesville5 lines
Idiot.16 lines
If you need assistance:7 lines
In my life then41 lines
In the betting line the other48 lines
INDEX OF LOCALITIES4 lines
Indian Head7 lines
Inside that7 lines
It gradually slowed end22 lines
It's Ours32 lines
Jane Icin (For Jane - In Turkish)4 lines
Julio came by with his guitar and sang his14 lines
Julio finished7 lines
Julio just looked at his10 lines
La Plata42 lines
Layover26 lines
Leonardtown ..Maryland National Bank66 lines
Let It Enfold You41 lines
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS30 lines
Like A Flower In The Rain47 lines
Lilly looked down at him.33 lines
LONG DISTANCE RATES TO OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES79 lines
Long walks at night—5 lines
Love & Fame & Death15 lines
Love & Fame & Death15 lines
Luck4 lines
Madame Death walks up to you8 lines
Mama33 lines
Marina19 lines
MECHANICSVILLE4 lines
Metamorphosis28 lines
MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART7 lines
Milestown14 lines
Mils and8 lines
MINNEAPOLIS9 lines
Monday.40 lines
Mozart dead43 lines
Mrs. Westphal pushed me away and stood back.69 lines
My father and I sat down.16 lines
My father closed the door.148 lines
My father showed me some shears.65 lines
My father turned and looked at me.47 lines
My First Affair With That Older Woman47 lines
My Groupie36 lines
My mother came into the room.18 lines
My mother smiled.9 lines
One day Mrs. Fretag gave us an assignment.60 lines
Orthadox to the26 lines
Our hearts are singing wildly28 lines
OVERSEAS RATES7 lines
P IG IN A PAMPHLET 1229 lines
Philadelphia's Main Line23 lines
PoemHunter.Com - The World's Poetry Archive22 lines
PSTEAD50 lines
Savannah4 lines
SEE INDEX OF LOCALITIES AT72 lines
She laughed at him.114 lines
She smiled and walked out of the room.5 lines
She smiled.31 lines
She waited.77 lines
She will arrange for--13 lines
Stanhope just sat there unable to speak.17 lines
Stanhope was watching us.105 lines
Telephones36 lines
The knife got near my53 lines
The oranges rolled to the ground.82 lines
Then it was my turn.89 lines
Then they circled us.18 lines
Then we were in front of his house.6 lines
There was silence.99 lines
They cancelled the remainder of the jumps.28 lines
They didn’t answer.72 lines
They never spoke to their neighbors.128 lines
To obtain the distant area code: call.5 lines
Twenty-three. That was me.12 lines
We all climbed through the strands of the fence.11 lines
We didn’t answer.17 lines
We drove along in silence some more.34 lines
We stood there looking up at it.9 lines
We stopped going back there.73 lines
We walked off.84 lines
We walked over. One of the guys saw us coming.11 lines
We were almost at the admission gate.10 lines
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?11 lines
You can call10 lines
You can dial station-to-station long distance4 lines
You can talk with several peo-6 lines
Zor54 lines