Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 6, 2010 10:57:30 GMT
"Jim used words not so much for their logic but for their emotive effect. The words didn't have to mean so much as imply or suggest. He used words to create a vast mural of feeling" Frank Lisciandro 1982.
I'll tell you this...
No eternal reward will forgive us now
For wasting the dawn.
Back in those days everything was simpler
and more confused
One summer night, going to the pier
I ran into two young girls
The blonde one was called freedom
The dark one, enterprise
We talked and they told me this story
Now listen to this...
I'll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat
Soft driven, slow and mad
Like some new language
Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury
of a divine
messenger
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned
Immaculate.
From An American Prayer Album
Chosen by Chris Johnson
from Southern California.
“I love how he calls abstract idea's "Freedom & Enterprise", girls.
He personalizes the idea of "Freedom & Enterprise" to give the listener a different perspective of what these words may mean to you or me.
It's very clever!! I'm sure other people have done it before but it works so well with this poem. Now what does the poem mean to me.
Writing and literature were not my great strengths in school. But I think Jim is talking about early Rock & Roll or Blues and it's effect on people listening to it. How the music and words enter our mind, pleasantly stimulating our brains. It's was just like hearing "The Doors" music for the first time.
It overwhelms you at first because you never heard anything like it before. And it's so good "Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger"
The next part of the poem "Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god, Wandering, wandering in hopeless night, Out here in the perimeter there are no stars, Out here we is stoned Immaculate." I think Jim is talking about the high you get from music. The state of mind where your imagination takes you to a different world, but it's all in your head. That's why there are no stars because the perimeter is inside your mind. When you reach that state you are "Stoned Immaculate" It's such a clever and well thought out piece of poetry.
We call it poetry, but I prefer the term "Spoken Word". I think that's what Jim Morrison's does best. A lot of poetry to me seems rather dry and boring. But when you combine the words in such a way to invoke specific images or feelings in your mind the way Jim Morrison's does, I think it's brilliant.”
Chris Johnson from Simi Valley California explaining his choice of poetry…..
Silent Scream
There is much light in me
But are you receptive enough to see.
Is your definition of sunshine
Restricted to the weather chart,
Or can you see behind the dark curtain
And in to my heart
The grains of the soft beach sand,
Slowly flowing from you hand.
Feel the balmy breeze through the leaves on the tree.
The wind and the earth are both parts of me.
Dare to explore
The inner core.
Before you leave
Put your hand on my sleeve.
And feel the beating of my heart
To hold – or tear apart.Written by Eressie Mornie
from Stockholm Sweden
“When I first started to learn about who Jim Morrison really was, I was surprised, excited and shocked all at the same time to have found someone who was so much like myself. It was like finding a soul mate.
My childhood was very similar to Jim’s and I can recognize myself in many of his personality traits. I share his views on freedom, authority and
anti-materialism and little things like not having a watch or a wallet, no real track of time etc. made me smile and nod my head in recognition.
Reading has always been my main interest and though I do not have many possessions, my bookcase is full and beside it are a couple of stacks with books that are about to fall over any minute from the height.
Unfortunately, I also share his despair and inner pain, the feeling of not really belonging anywhere and the sense of sometimes not being real. The things you do sometimes to feel that you are alive…I know it all too well.
The most important influence he has had on me, is to give me the guts to really do what I want, believe in myself that I can do it and most of all, to dare take the risks that come with it. Reading and writing helped me survive many years of loneliness and pain and I have been writing poems and stories since I was 11 years old, but was always oppressed by my family and not allowed to express myself the way I wanted. Thanks to Morrison, the blockings that prevented me from writing are gone, I feel that I can be fully true to myself and I have a kind of freedom I’ve never experienced before.
And this is just the beginning. There are no limits, no boundaries.”
Thank you Jim for opening The Doors for me.
Eressie Mornie, Stockholm Sweden. May 2005.
Why do I drink?
So that I can write poetry.
Sometimes when it’s all spun out
and all that is ugly recedes
into a deep sleep
There is an awakening
and all that remains is true.
As the body is ravaged
the spirit grows stronger.
Forgive me father for I know
what I do.
I want to hear the last Poem
of the last Poet.
open
The Night is young
& full of rest
I can’t describe the
way she’s dress’d
She’ll pander to some strange
requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please her guest
It was very wise of Jim to say that everyone should interpret his poems in one’s own personal way and this is what I will try to do with this poem and the one overleaf: To me, the poem is Jim’s reflection of his relationship to alcohol and poetry. He must have felt that the alcohol made him write. That’s a topic often represented in literature, you just have to think of the influence of Absinth for writers and painters during the centuries for example. Useless to say that these people (like Rimbaud, Baudelaire and many others) intrigued Jim a lot. He even thinks that some sort of self-destruction makes him stronger, stronger to write, stronger to pursue his own dream of being a writer. Rimbaud once spoke of “a complete derangement of the senses” in order
to strengthen the spirit, probably to help the poet
to reflect about things, have visions and ameliorate his literary forces. The lines 8 and 9 can also be seen as an allusion to William Blake’s famous citation: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”. The poem’s end is written in a highly poetic style, it seems to be addressed to a somewhat higher force. It would be funny to argue that the mentioned “father” in line 10 can be seen as Jim’s own dad for he wants him to forgive and perhaps to forgive his way of living, the decisions he made and forgive him that things turned out to be like they were (rock singer, writer, no contact to family etc.), although Jim seems to be convinced that he chose the right way stating that he knows what he wants and does. Then Jim continues to tell everybody what really was important to him: he wanted to listen to, write, talk about and deal with poetry! It seems as if he wanted to form his own opinion about poetry and how it should be written. In the sense of self-education by dealing with poetry and literature. I think these two last lines are one of the strongest ever written by him, they somehow affect me most. These last lines can also be connected to Jim’s opinion about poetry when he once said that the only thing that outlives a war and simply everything is poetry in general. First of all that would mean that he wants to listen to all poetry that is written until the last poet ever will write his last poem and after that, the world would no longer exist. So he really expresses his urge and need for poetry in this particular poem.
I also like that poem a lot because it contains a strong message, although it is quite short. It personally affects me because I am also fascinated with the phenomenon of the night and I only become lively and joyful when it is getting dark outside.
It is easier for me to flourish so to speak. Everything somehow changes when it’s dark, the behaviour or audacity of the people, the option to hide away from certain things and it simply comes to a feeling of having a greater amount of personal freedom.
Perhaps that’s what he means with “strange requests”, although this also implies to me that these requests vary individually. To me this poem describes Jim’s fascination with the night as a state where everything is allowed and possible and you are the only one who is able to make the rules and you have to be aware of that to completely “get” the fascination that derives from the night. It looks like Jim invites everybody to enjoy and live in the night although he says he is not really able to express what it is that makes the night so fascinating. He wants to tell that it is up to yourself to make the night wonderful and enjoyable because you are her guest. It is up to you what to do with her, but she surely will let anything go. It probably can be argued that the famous line “No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn” also alludes to this topic because after you passed and lived through the night, you shouldn’t stop at a certain point but rather take the dawn too as it is the final part, the end of the entire night.
The beginning sounds as if he wrote that poem when the night began to dawn and then adds his own experiences and what the functions of the night are/were for him. There is somehow a fascination that derives from the night and it is hard for him to fix it entirely, but he is sure about the “good will” the night exudes.
Jim’s poems chosen by Jochen Tittmar from Germany.
I'll tell you this...
No eternal reward will forgive us now
For wasting the dawn.
Back in those days everything was simpler
and more confused
One summer night, going to the pier
I ran into two young girls
The blonde one was called freedom
The dark one, enterprise
We talked and they told me this story
Now listen to this...
I'll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat
Soft driven, slow and mad
Like some new language
Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury
of a divine
messenger
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned
Immaculate.
From An American Prayer Album
Chosen by Chris Johnson
from Southern California.
“I love how he calls abstract idea's "Freedom & Enterprise", girls.
He personalizes the idea of "Freedom & Enterprise" to give the listener a different perspective of what these words may mean to you or me.
It's very clever!! I'm sure other people have done it before but it works so well with this poem. Now what does the poem mean to me.
Writing and literature were not my great strengths in school. But I think Jim is talking about early Rock & Roll or Blues and it's effect on people listening to it. How the music and words enter our mind, pleasantly stimulating our brains. It's was just like hearing "The Doors" music for the first time.
It overwhelms you at first because you never heard anything like it before. And it's so good "Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger"
The next part of the poem "Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god, Wandering, wandering in hopeless night, Out here in the perimeter there are no stars, Out here we is stoned Immaculate." I think Jim is talking about the high you get from music. The state of mind where your imagination takes you to a different world, but it's all in your head. That's why there are no stars because the perimeter is inside your mind. When you reach that state you are "Stoned Immaculate" It's such a clever and well thought out piece of poetry.
We call it poetry, but I prefer the term "Spoken Word". I think that's what Jim Morrison's does best. A lot of poetry to me seems rather dry and boring. But when you combine the words in such a way to invoke specific images or feelings in your mind the way Jim Morrison's does, I think it's brilliant.”
Chris Johnson from Simi Valley California explaining his choice of poetry…..
Silent Scream
There is much light in me
But are you receptive enough to see.
Is your definition of sunshine
Restricted to the weather chart,
Or can you see behind the dark curtain
And in to my heart
The grains of the soft beach sand,
Slowly flowing from you hand.
Feel the balmy breeze through the leaves on the tree.
The wind and the earth are both parts of me.
Dare to explore
The inner core.
Before you leave
Put your hand on my sleeve.
And feel the beating of my heart
To hold – or tear apart.Written by Eressie Mornie
from Stockholm Sweden
“When I first started to learn about who Jim Morrison really was, I was surprised, excited and shocked all at the same time to have found someone who was so much like myself. It was like finding a soul mate.
My childhood was very similar to Jim’s and I can recognize myself in many of his personality traits. I share his views on freedom, authority and
anti-materialism and little things like not having a watch or a wallet, no real track of time etc. made me smile and nod my head in recognition.
Reading has always been my main interest and though I do not have many possessions, my bookcase is full and beside it are a couple of stacks with books that are about to fall over any minute from the height.
Unfortunately, I also share his despair and inner pain, the feeling of not really belonging anywhere and the sense of sometimes not being real. The things you do sometimes to feel that you are alive…I know it all too well.
The most important influence he has had on me, is to give me the guts to really do what I want, believe in myself that I can do it and most of all, to dare take the risks that come with it. Reading and writing helped me survive many years of loneliness and pain and I have been writing poems and stories since I was 11 years old, but was always oppressed by my family and not allowed to express myself the way I wanted. Thanks to Morrison, the blockings that prevented me from writing are gone, I feel that I can be fully true to myself and I have a kind of freedom I’ve never experienced before.
And this is just the beginning. There are no limits, no boundaries.”
Thank you Jim for opening The Doors for me.
Eressie Mornie, Stockholm Sweden. May 2005.
Why do I drink?
So that I can write poetry.
Sometimes when it’s all spun out
and all that is ugly recedes
into a deep sleep
There is an awakening
and all that remains is true.
As the body is ravaged
the spirit grows stronger.
Forgive me father for I know
what I do.
I want to hear the last Poem
of the last Poet.
open
The Night is young
& full of rest
I can’t describe the
way she’s dress’d
She’ll pander to some strange
requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please her guest
It was very wise of Jim to say that everyone should interpret his poems in one’s own personal way and this is what I will try to do with this poem and the one overleaf: To me, the poem is Jim’s reflection of his relationship to alcohol and poetry. He must have felt that the alcohol made him write. That’s a topic often represented in literature, you just have to think of the influence of Absinth for writers and painters during the centuries for example. Useless to say that these people (like Rimbaud, Baudelaire and many others) intrigued Jim a lot. He even thinks that some sort of self-destruction makes him stronger, stronger to write, stronger to pursue his own dream of being a writer. Rimbaud once spoke of “a complete derangement of the senses” in order
to strengthen the spirit, probably to help the poet
to reflect about things, have visions and ameliorate his literary forces. The lines 8 and 9 can also be seen as an allusion to William Blake’s famous citation: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”. The poem’s end is written in a highly poetic style, it seems to be addressed to a somewhat higher force. It would be funny to argue that the mentioned “father” in line 10 can be seen as Jim’s own dad for he wants him to forgive and perhaps to forgive his way of living, the decisions he made and forgive him that things turned out to be like they were (rock singer, writer, no contact to family etc.), although Jim seems to be convinced that he chose the right way stating that he knows what he wants and does. Then Jim continues to tell everybody what really was important to him: he wanted to listen to, write, talk about and deal with poetry! It seems as if he wanted to form his own opinion about poetry and how it should be written. In the sense of self-education by dealing with poetry and literature. I think these two last lines are one of the strongest ever written by him, they somehow affect me most. These last lines can also be connected to Jim’s opinion about poetry when he once said that the only thing that outlives a war and simply everything is poetry in general. First of all that would mean that he wants to listen to all poetry that is written until the last poet ever will write his last poem and after that, the world would no longer exist. So he really expresses his urge and need for poetry in this particular poem.
I also like that poem a lot because it contains a strong message, although it is quite short. It personally affects me because I am also fascinated with the phenomenon of the night and I only become lively and joyful when it is getting dark outside.
It is easier for me to flourish so to speak. Everything somehow changes when it’s dark, the behaviour or audacity of the people, the option to hide away from certain things and it simply comes to a feeling of having a greater amount of personal freedom.
Perhaps that’s what he means with “strange requests”, although this also implies to me that these requests vary individually. To me this poem describes Jim’s fascination with the night as a state where everything is allowed and possible and you are the only one who is able to make the rules and you have to be aware of that to completely “get” the fascination that derives from the night. It looks like Jim invites everybody to enjoy and live in the night although he says he is not really able to express what it is that makes the night so fascinating. He wants to tell that it is up to yourself to make the night wonderful and enjoyable because you are her guest. It is up to you what to do with her, but she surely will let anything go. It probably can be argued that the famous line “No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn” also alludes to this topic because after you passed and lived through the night, you shouldn’t stop at a certain point but rather take the dawn too as it is the final part, the end of the entire night.
The beginning sounds as if he wrote that poem when the night began to dawn and then adds his own experiences and what the functions of the night are/were for him. There is somehow a fascination that derives from the night and it is hard for him to fix it entirely, but he is sure about the “good will” the night exudes.
Jim’s poems chosen by Jochen Tittmar from Germany.