by Jack Ramey | Dec 3, 2024 | Jack Ramey, Poetry, Uncategorized
Jack Ramey, poet and spoken word artist, brings to life the poems of Keats & Shelley and the revolutionary times in which they lived, with parallels to his own life in the late ‘60s at Kent State. Rome was of special importance to these two poets. Shelley wrote...
by Jack Ramey | Dec 10, 2022 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
On Grafton Street a legless busker Begged a tune from his plastic flute Gazing the while at his missing feet By Saint Stephen’s Green With the swans and the palms and mist And the rain and his upturned orange cap Lying filthy and empty on the street As...
by Jack Ramey | Oct 22, 2022 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
Jack Ramey reads Celluoid Elegy. ————————- – for Judy The pigtailed killer of the wicked witch led daddy’s kids thru Emerald City before she made it there herself while Round John Virgin smothered the child...
by Jack Ramey | Sep 13, 2022 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
February 28, 1959 – August 9, 2022 Day after day becomesnight after nightand he is still gone . . .gone of a cancerdeep in the bones from filming 9/11 disasterhim and first respondersinhaling toxic vaporsfumes and ash and then 20 years latermarrow turns maverick...
by Jack Ramey | Apr 12, 2022 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
At the near tipping point of the worldthat tilts ever more sharply now, greed and brutality slide down towardthe vast abyss that gaps beneath us and we stand at the still edge of raptureas the candy-colored clown laughs half-aloud his metamorphic chuckleand the earth...
by Jack Ramey | Jul 4, 2021 | Jack Ramey, plato, Poetry
Jack Ramey reads Freedom Day. We hold these truths to be self-evident: all white men who own property are created equal – this of course excludes black people and Indian people and women and poor white whiskey tangos who have no pot to piss in. Nonetheless, it is a...
