Carpe Diem haiku – Jack Kerouac’s “the butterfly wings”


Jack Kerouac wrote this wonderful haiku

In the sun
the butterfly wings
Like a church window

I’m sticking to the theme of answering in his colleague Ginsberg’s style, the american sentence. If this is a little tongue in cheek please bear with me.

At midnight the old alley-cat sounds like a church organ out of tune.

From Wikimedia Commons

From Wikimedia Commons


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May 27 2014

11 responses to “Carpe Diem haiku – Jack Kerouac’s “the butterfly wings”

  1. hahahahaha…that was an awesome response….smiles…
    oy, or perhaps the organ in the church i grew up in…
    maybe even a few singing along with it. lol

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