Tuesday, November 24, 2009

DESPERATE FUN WITH POETRY #1


Awake.
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity
First thing you see.
A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it's quiet sideAnd we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.
Choose they croon the Ancient OnesThe time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake

These are the first three stanzas of Jim Morrison’s “Ghost Dance.” They precede the bits about scattered Indians and the child’s eggshell mind, the ones we all should know. And this, below, is the last. It seems kinda apt to mood, aye?

A city rises from the sea
I had a splitting headache
From which the future's made

Click here for the video.

3 comments:

Mark Haspam said...

where's the last line from?

Mick said...

The very end of Ghost Song.

Mark Haspam said...

wow, never noticed it.