Life is the open road, we all get to choose which road to travel, we all get to choose how we view our lives, we all get to make peace/enemies of our burdens, and the human species is lucky to be the median for which the universe can experience itself through our discoveries and fascination.
This made me think at first about how I felt when young. Then I felt the paths I had been on we're not always my choice, there were roads blocked, the nature of this world. I can't go just anywhere, for God's plans for me we're not always my will. Then I realized how all my experiences are still carried in me, some as memories, some in my flesh, some, like love or fear are deep in my soul. Then when he was at the end, I wished that in my last year here on this world, I could still have the strength to just get up and go..... Just keep walking, until my days were ended. That might be true freedom, and the best way to live out the rest of my life. Because even now, in my autumn years, there's no way to know what paths I still have to travel, or how long they will be.
"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." - Walt Whitman
Wow... I did the narration for this and I can't believe how much my performance is improved by Tony Anderson's music, and by the pacing and styling of the video. Great work; I'm proud to be a part of it! I have more poetry on my own channel, but none of the videos I've made are as artfully designed and produced as are yours!
It is really not about an actual road. It is about his perspective. How he is unbound by conventionalism and grounded in nature as it is made in purpose & function. Greatful in his relationships that he finds both a blessing and worry in balance to his being. I adore his metaphors.
That is your perspective and a good one considering poets often speak in metaphor. The beauty of poetry is it becomes what the reader needs. Old Walt certainly had something in mind but yours and mine will see what we want in his words.
You think..I wonder if everything have to be reinterpreted? What if we could just be simple little creatures living on outside experience. Yes it is true we should all be skilled at looking within, but not to the cost of blindness
When I asked Jack Hirschman in an interview what is the greatest poem ever written by an America, he answered quickly ": The Song of the Open Road " by Walt Whitman. All homage and honor to Jack Hirschman who died on August 22 2021. And this from another poem by Whitman: "the keelson of creation is love."
This is probably a limitation within myself but... I heard Walt Whitman was a poet I should read, I read him and was bored sensless Then I though to look it up and hear someone read them too me, I was nearly brought to tears by this If poetry has it's value in it's delivery, this person is worth their weight in gold
This is a a declaration of Inner Peace by a man who was in a state of what people now call Enlightenment, Freedom, or whatever you wish to name it. He was a great teacher! We don't need to go to the East to find great teachers. They are here and available to everyone . . . at any time!
The beautiful and profound expression of what it is to be a boddhisattva. So touching and so meaningful. I am so grateful for this video, and aspire to live and understand as Walt Whitman lived and understood.
Yes! i'd love to hear all of it. I always had problems undertandig poetry but lately i found that if i hear reather than read it everything makes more sense much quicker and i love it. Keep up the good work!
@@junedanieltamor9071 we are all filled with burdens… they shape us like facets in a stone and we should fill them in return-mourn them, appreciate them, learn from them to give them purpose in our lives… fill them with the weight that feels so heavy in our hearts and carry it not as baggage but as knowledge. It’s deep shit lol ❤️🩹
@@gingerr9004 think its referring to the men and woman also you carry with you. We are made as one. So we are filled with the people we meet and love, and fill them in return
@@Justpassingfootball yeah, that’s why it’s profound as fuck… at least in my mind. But I’m going to stop commenting, sorry if what I said offended you. Apparently everything I say or do is offensive so I’m just done with everyone. The poems help me stay sane I’m so sorry I commented on it and you took whatever you took from my words. I was just trying to listen to a poem and I felt moved. I’ll stop participating with the world now. I just can’t
The fact you used Tony Anderson as the score, automatically gives this video a solid 10 out of 10. That album is unbelievable! Fantastic poem being narrated to a fantastic heart felt score 💚
Is there any way to support you? You’re channel really helps a lot whenever I feel anxiety, it brings me comfort I never knew I needed. I wish the best for you in return!
You can't change the past but you can start Where You Are and change the future, Holding on to regrets and burdens will only lay you back. Blessed Be God!!!
@mallenjm252 What a great idea for a social media account or a book -- travelling to libraries across America (even though Walt Whitman says that he's had enough of them...)
It takes a life time to UNDERSTAND all the beautiful meaning Of corse we understand in de the way parts, when it comes all together and we understand the BIG meaning this becomes a pray It’s my way of praying
This poem matches my current mood so well. 60. Present troubles but I don't take them too heavily. I have responsibilities but none so important they can't be dropped. Maybe soon I will take off. My natural tendency is to drift. Cycle from my home near the Laos border in China up to Mongolia. Then winter in the holy mountain of Wu Tai Shan. I want little. Just to be away from bickering and posturing. The open road. Days can be tough. But the freedom of no plan no destination is a siren call.
I have been driving all over America alone for over 30 years throughout the 90's and all through the 2000's up until 2020 which was an 11-month long journey all over America again... In my life, I have been to 48 states, half of Canada, parts of Mexico, and went on over a dozen Caribbean Cruises to almost every Island.... I travel ALONE because solitude is what I want & desire.
All a person needs to feel heaven around all the time is a constant reminder that happiness is not materialistic its being in love with being in love with a soulmate somewhere forever and share a love song through the heart and space and time .
This poem are beautiful of all i heard from this channel woww amazing nice words and meanings too thank you so much for sharing this i like it so much 💞😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Such burden and sorrows in the midst. Past mistakes don't make less of a person. Denying who you are as a person and not allowing yourself to be expressed makes less of a person. Freedom to be who you are and someone accepting you. A fresh start but one has to choose the path.
There is a powerful impulse moving through humanity to get unburdened, and to take up the umbilical that God embedded in Nature. We are inwardly creatures of Light; that’s why we find Freedom and Liberty so delicious.
There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen. Love you💛
I adore your channel, can't fault it, but wanted to put in a request for poems by Nikita Gill - Your Soul is a River. Poems that inspire, even in the darkest times and I think a lot of people need words like that right now x
Let yourself be angry,sad,happy,exhausted , Frustrated,Joyful,overwhelming. Experience all the human emotions,But don't let any of these emotions consume you!! Maintain your own peace ,don't overpush yourself,let every emotion come and go🕊🕊 🌸🌸🌸🌸
There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen. Love you💛
This poem is in my studies that's why i am studying it and i am in 12th which is high school And i am very impressed, my teacher taught me this poem and i thought she didn't do right justice while explaining thats why i am looking for the right emplaination here.
Yes "I'll fill them in return" and if I can do that the way I want this multitude of life to remain for ever anywhere like here we have been with abundance and good will for generations. And a little bit of endeavour in the direction in my life will add to, I believe, a colossal work that all good humans are striving for. I won't compromise to anything however good or lascivious to change my view.
Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute, Listening to others, and considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me . .
Is Walt Whitman spirit in me ? 🤔😊 is it creepy or ironic ? I pose these of myself for his thoughts penned is exactly my being. So alike in comparison. Wow 😳 RedFrost Motivation this is too close for comfort 😀😀😀but I AppreciLove Love you for the sentiments captured and is been recaptured of these past beautiful souls and mind. God Bless You dear soul. ♥️
Life is the open road, we all get to choose which road to travel, we all get to choose how we view our lives, we all get to make peace/enemies of our burdens, and the human species is lucky to be the median for which the universe can experience itself through our discoveries and fascination.
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Not luck..blessed beyond measure. .luck is happen stancem.To appreciate the beauty of life is a gift from God!
You write beautifully.
I like the last line!
I love Walt Whitman.
This made me think at first about how I felt when young. Then I felt the paths I had been on we're not always my choice, there were roads blocked, the nature of this world. I can't go just anywhere, for God's plans for me we're not always my will. Then I realized how all my experiences are still carried in me, some as memories, some in my flesh, some, like love or fear are deep in my soul. Then when he was at the end, I wished that in my last year here on this world, I could still have the strength to just get up and go..... Just keep walking, until my days were ended. That might be true freedom, and the best way to live out the rest of my life. Because even now, in my autumn years, there's no way to know what paths I still have to travel, or how long they will be.
"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land."
- Walt Whitman
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading)
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That road is towards death
@@theeagle9052
Right ⏳
@@MadLogic
Thanks
Wow... I did the narration for this and I can't believe how much my performance is improved by Tony Anderson's music, and by the pacing and styling of the video. Great work; I'm proud to be a part of it! I have more poetry on my own channel, but none of the videos I've made are as artfully designed and produced as are yours!
It is really not about an actual road. It is about his perspective. How he is unbound by conventionalism and grounded in nature as it is made in purpose & function. Greatful in his relationships that he finds both a blessing and worry in balance to his being. I adore his metaphors.
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
That is your perspective and a good one considering poets often speak in metaphor. The beauty of poetry is it becomes what the reader needs. Old Walt certainly had something in mind but yours and mine will see what we want in his words.
@@redsol3629 Well-written .
You think..I wonder if everything have to be reinterpreted? What if we could just be simple little creatures living on outside experience. Yes it is true we should all be skilled at looking within, but not to the cost of blindness
When I asked Jack Hirschman in an interview what is the greatest poem ever written by an America, he answered quickly ": The Song of the Open Road " by Walt Whitman. All homage and honor to Jack Hirschman who died on August 22 2021. And this from another poem by Whitman: "the keelson of creation is love."
This is probably a limitation within myself but...
I heard Walt Whitman was a poet I should read, I read him and was bored sensless
Then I though to look it up and hear someone read them too me, I was nearly brought to tears by this
If poetry has it's value in it's delivery, this person is worth their weight in gold
I think it's not just the narrator/performer but also the music, the graphics. This is high-quality, theatrical stuff!! BUT I also get your point
01:12 I've never read this poem or heard it before now and I got full-on shivers down my spine, this is so beautiful.
This is a a declaration of Inner Peace by a man who was in a state of what people now call Enlightenment, Freedom, or whatever you wish to name it. He was a great teacher! We don't need to go to the East to find great teachers. They are here and available to everyone . . . at any time!
Starting with yourself.
That one particular line just resonates with me "Henceforth I ask not good forune, I myself am good fotune"
An amazing spoken word from
Someone struggling with PTSD
The beautiful and profound expression of what it is to be a boddhisattva. So touching and so meaningful. I am so grateful for this video, and aspire to live and understand as Walt Whitman lived and understood.
LOVE WALT WHITMAN WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL HE NEVER WROTE A BAD POEM WHAT A GENIUS
Yes! i'd love to hear all of it. I always had problems undertandig poetry but lately i found that if i hear reather than read it everything makes more sense much quicker and i love it.
Keep up the good work!
“I am filled with them, and I will fill them in return.” Profound AF 🖤🙏🖤
i don't understand
@@junedanieltamor9071 we are all filled with burdens… they shape us like facets in a stone and we should fill them in return-mourn them, appreciate them, learn from them to give them purpose in our lives… fill them with the weight that feels so heavy in our hearts and carry it not as baggage but as knowledge. It’s deep shit lol ❤️🩹
@@gingerr9004 think its referring to the men and woman also you carry with you. We are made as one. So we are filled with the people we meet and love, and fill them in return
@@Justpassingfootball yeah, that’s why it’s profound as fuck… at least in my mind. But I’m going to stop commenting, sorry if what I said offended you. Apparently everything I say or do is offensive so I’m just done with everyone. The poems help me stay sane I’m so sorry I commented on it and you took whatever you took from my words. I was just trying to listen to a poem and I felt moved. I’ll stop participating with the world now. I just can’t
@@gingerr9004 please don't stop interacting with people, thats why we are here after all.
If I ever heard a poem that was exactly took the thoughts out of my head, this one was it!!!! Holy moly! Love it!
I love this poet and his poems..
The fact you used Tony Anderson as the score, automatically gives this video a solid 10 out of 10. That album is unbelievable! Fantastic poem being narrated to a fantastic heart felt score 💚
Which song is it?
@@JohnSmith13334 Farthest Seas from the album The Heart of Man. It's available on Bandcamp, and not very expensive. It's a fantastic album
@@Danoftheconda Thankyou so much
Walt Whitman can officially put on his résumé that he made me cry for the first time in months
This poet wore my heart for the spectacles when he was writing this one!
By its light these words were borne.
Is there any way to support you? You’re channel really helps a lot whenever I feel anxiety, it brings me comfort I never knew I needed. I wish the best for you in return!
The open road is ahead of you,, just looking west gives me a tingle and a glow...
You can't change the past but you can start Where You Are and change the future, Holding on to regrets and burdens will only lay you back.
Blessed Be God!!!
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading)
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I see burdens as all people I have ever meet, family....to remember them until I am no more.
Please do a full version !! This is food for my soul, and lately I've been starving !
Check out Walts book Leaves of Grass for a feast.
It's incredible how can a human say so little and mean so much!
A poet is a doctor for the soul.
There is not morning that I’m not listening to this wonder, is my way to wake up and pray
The spirit needs open roads
PLEASE PLEASE PLSASE upload a full version of this poem!!!!
I love libraries one can travel FREE and visit every library across our beautiful USA very nice poem..Thank you for posting it.
@mallenjm252 What a great idea for a social media account or a book -- travelling to libraries across America (even though Walt Whitman says that he's had enough of them...)
Acceptance, Choice, Will, and Flow
Thankyou for your Time And Energy God Bless you💎
Beautiful and moving. Thank you very much for bringing Walt Whitman's words to life.
Walt Whitman i knew about him from a movie his poems are special
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
Beautiful Dreamers?
Thank you so much for sharing an wonderful poem and for your valuable time that you spent reading it for us. Congratulations!!
It takes a life time to UNDERSTAND all the beautiful meaning
Of corse we understand in de the way parts, when it comes all together and we understand the BIG meaning this becomes a pray
It’s my way of praying
After listening to it a myriad of times, can’t hear it again without a fresh astonishment
Is like a mirror for me
Deep and clear voice!!
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
Beautiful.....especially in the present times.
beautiful...
I love this poem, and the narration
This poem matches my current mood so well. 60. Present troubles but I don't take them too heavily. I have responsibilities but none so important they can't be dropped. Maybe soon I will take off. My natural tendency is to drift. Cycle from my home near the Laos border in China up to Mongolia. Then winter in the holy mountain of Wu Tai Shan. I want little. Just to be away from bickering and posturing. The open road. Days can be tough. But the freedom of no plan no destination is a siren call.
And my soul is content.
And so it is.
As is mine
Mine also.
What soul? There is nothing like a soul.
❤️thank you. Nice voice and interpretation
I really felt that. ‘ healthy, FREE’ in his voice .
"done with indoor complaints" I just love that line so much. The music is perfectly matched and timed to the reading.
Just love this. It helps me sometimes when I'm down to keep me going. Thank you!
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
i hope you guys like my new video (poetry reading)
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I have been driving all over America alone for over 30 years throughout the 90's and all through the 2000's up until 2020 which was an 11-month long journey all over America again... In my life, I have been to 48 states, half of Canada, parts of Mexico, and went on over a dozen Caribbean Cruises to almost every Island.... I travel ALONE because solitude is what I want & desire.
"I carry my old delicious burdens" -- What a line! What a concept!
Please please read the whole poem for us!! ❤❤
Absolutely love Walt Whitman! The poem is read so so beautifully ❤❤❤ thank you! 🤗
Wow!... speechless!. I have no words, this is great!!. 👍👍
Love it Sir, keep them coming. You are keeping me strong 😀
All a person needs to feel heaven around all the time is a constant reminder that happiness is not materialistic its being in love with being in love with a soulmate somewhere forever and share a love song through the heart and space and time .
Who is the narrator/reader? Compelling voice.
Dave luukkonen
Yes the narrator has a claim deep thoughtful voice.
Who else also listen and read the poem and not just listen to it
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I love to read poetry with good music.
Your an illusion
This is everything.
What a very, very powerful life poetry.👍👍👍
Very very powerfully recited.👍👍👍
This poem are beautiful of all i heard from this channel woww amazing nice words and meanings too thank you so much for sharing this i like it so much 💞😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
God knows i needed this.
Beautiful poem, great narrator
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
Such burden and sorrows in the midst. Past mistakes don't make less of a person. Denying who you are as a person and not allowing yourself to be expressed makes less of a person. Freedom to be who you are and someone accepting you. A fresh start but one has to choose the path.
There is a powerful impulse moving through humanity to get unburdened, and to take up the umbilical that God embedded in Nature. We are inwardly creatures of Light; that’s why we find Freedom and Liberty so delicious.
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen.
Love you💛
These are spectacular quotes. I could really learn a lot from you are inspiring.🙏🙏✝️✝️⚜
Take the course of honor, it's not for everyone but it is YOURS
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
Song is “Farthest Seas” by Tony Anderson. Really wish the titles of the songs would be posted...
Gorgeous poem...Thank you so much.You have such an amazing voice too.
Wants to make me learn more about the author.🙂
Thank you🙌❤🙌The poem and your voice the one🙏
These poems are amazing! Thank you.
Hello dear 💌🍓😌
hope you are having a nice day over there🌺
I adore your channel, can't fault it, but wanted to put in a request for poems by Nikita Gill - Your Soul is a River. Poems that inspire, even in the darkest times and I think a lot of people need words like that right now x
What a soothing voice😊
Would love to hear this in full
🔥Cool Stuff. Nice Video. Appreciate it. Need more channels like yours...♥
My college best friend sent me this video, knowing well I've been going through a hard time. Thanks, Cuk!
Listening to this was amazing.
Human is such a thing. From his appearance he appears to be not much but wihtin him is all the universe summed up.
I would love to hear the full poem. You are my favorite reader.
You must put this on Spotify
I myself am good-fortune...
Jus powerful sentence, to keep one's mind explore to the surrounding n seek more.
Great words
Meri bhi poetry sun lijiye 🙏❤️
Beautiful and truthful 🙏
Out standing 💓💓
Let yourself be angry,sad,happy,exhausted , Frustrated,Joyful,overwhelming. Experience all the human emotions,But don't let any of these emotions consume you!! Maintain your own peace ,don't overpush yourself,let every emotion come and go🕊🕊 🌸🌸🌸🌸
I would be grateful if i hear a poem called invictus by ernest william hensly . Thank you so much for your effort.
check on their account i played it once....
They already have it... they just recited it the worst way you can imagine
@@theinfamoustop104 i dont like it also...they should try it with this voice...
@hazim zaza check out the channel ‘BEKNOWN’, they have uploaded it.
There is no Affliction so great that it will be able to convince me to deny my faith God is with me through it all so there is no reason for me to give up and fall if I can just remember what God has done that's enough to make me praise God or run so why complain when I have Heaven's best so there is no need for me to be obsessed I have every reason to rejoice because God is my one and only choice so blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore amen.
Love you💛
Truly amazing, thank you
This poem is in my studies that's why i am studying it and i am in 12th which is high school
And i am very impressed, my teacher taught me this poem and i thought she didn't do right justice while explaining thats why i am looking for the right emplaination here.
Thank You.
Beautiful.
This was beautiful man. Does anyone know the name of the song playing in the background?
This has to be some sort of cognitive therapy . Thank you Walt Whitman and Dave Luukkonen!
85 PEOPLE DONT APPRECIATE SUCH A WONDERFUL MAN WALT WHITMAN
Yes "I'll fill them in return" and if I can do that the way I want this multitude of life to remain for ever anywhere like here we have been with abundance and good will for generations. And a little bit of endeavour in the direction in my life will add to, I believe, a colossal work that all good humans are striving for. I won't compromise to anything however good or lascivious to change my view.
What a sound man.
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The past is history...the future a mystery... the Present. A gift for all to enjoy... Memento Mori. 🕊
Thank you
Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute,
Listening to others, and considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me . .
I want to go back to a time when I could also say "the Earth, that is sufficient"
Beautiful
So happy I got to shake this man’s hand, what a great guy.
Is Walt Whitman spirit in me ? 🤔😊 is it creepy or ironic ? I pose these of myself for his thoughts penned is exactly my being. So alike in comparison. Wow 😳 RedFrost Motivation this is too close for comfort 😀😀😀but I AppreciLove Love you for the sentiments captured and is been recaptured of these past beautiful souls and mind. God Bless You dear soul. ♥️
This is fantastic
This is very good. Some of the Song was used for a TV ad by Volvo, a few years ago. That reading was stronger….just IMO.
Bravo👏👏👏👏👏