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Look Where We Worship
I am wondering about and hoping for comments about how good a poet people think Jim Morrison was. I know of two books of poetry, The Lords and the New Creatures, and Wilderness. And there is the posthumous album they put together American Prayer.
I think some of his poetry was very good, but at times that 'sophomoric' tag (see No One Here Gets Out Alive biography, his cornering a journalist who'd used that word in an elevator) is apt.
Just the line 'look where we worship' I find very powerful. And his style of having small prose poems singled out on a page I find bare and potent, like Zen poetry.
From Wilderness "none of the old things worked," to me is prophetic and foretold our current age, and the military aspect of this poem could portend further terrible developments in the USA.
Or if you like theological skepticism, look no further than these song lyrics. "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection," and "All our lives we sweat and save / Building for a shallow grave / Must be something else, we say / Somehow to defend this place."
Alas some of his stuff puts one in mind of Ginsberg's line about waking up and finding the poetry you wrote the night before essentially is a bunch of stoned ramblings.
I think there is worth, and it is unique, powerful, and American.
#entertainment
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I am wondering about and hoping for comments about how good a poet people think Jim Morrison was. I know of two books of poetry, The Lords and the New Creatures, and Wilderness. And there is the posthumous album they put together American Prayer.
I think some of his poetry was very good, but at times that 'sophomoric' tag (see No One Here Gets Out Alive biography, his cornering a journalist who'd used that word in an elevator) is apt.
Just the line 'look where we worship' I find very powerful. And his style of having small prose poems singled out on a page I find bare and potent, like Zen poetry.
From Wilderness "none of the old things worked," to me is prophetic and foretold our current age, and the military aspect of this poem could portend further terrible developments in the USA.
Or if you like theological skepticism, look no further than these song lyrics. "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection," and "All our lives we sweat and save / Building for a shallow grave / Must be something else, we say / Somehow to defend this place."
Alas some of his stuff puts one in mind of Ginsberg's line about waking up and finding the poetry you wrote the night before essentially is a bunch of stoned ramblings.
I think there is worth, and it is unique, powerful, and American.
#entertainment
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