The Writings of Jim Morrison

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 7, 2013
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The Writings of Jim Morrison

Video – RomanPhilosopher
Music – Dax Johnson – A Moment in the life

There are no longer “dancers,” the possessed. The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us and whom we punish. If all the radios and televisions were deprived of their sources of power, all books and paintings burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed, all the arts of vicarious existence…

We are content with the “given” in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark. — Jim Morrison

Acorns Into Mighty Oaks

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 6, 2013
Posted in: Inspiration, Poetry, Video.

Acorns into Mighty Oaks

When I leave this world I hope
I leave a better place
Where deeds I’ve done
And paths I’ve trod
Have helped the human race;
Where seeds I’ve sown will blossom still
And trees I’ve planted grow
From acorns into mighty oaks I hope I’ve made it so.

For to leave the world without a trace
No footprints in the sand
No memory in a loved one’s heart,
No mark upon the land,
No legacy to show you cared,
No promises to keep,
Must surely make it hard to face
An eternity of sleep.

        – Author Unknown

A Dream within a Dream

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 5, 2013
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A Dream within a Dream – Alan Parsons Project
“Tales of Mystery and Imagination”
– Edgar Allan Poe (Narration Orson Welles)
Video – Alcyna

For my own part, I have never had a thought
Which I could not set down in words
With even more distinctness that which I conceived it.
There is however a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy
Which are not thoughts and to which as yet
I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language.
These fancies arise in the soul,
Alas how rarely, only at epochs
Of most intense tranquillity
When the bodily and mental health are in perfection.
And those mere points of time
When the confines of the waking world
Blend with the world of dreams.
And so I captured this fancy
Where all that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Love, What Is Love

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 2, 2013
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Video – Halias Productions

Love, What Is Love
LOVE – what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life – what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.
                                              – Robert Louis Stevenson

Love came ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 1, 2013
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Video – Enea B

Love came,
and became like blood in my body.
It rushed through my veins and
encircled my heart.
Everywhere I looked,
I saw one thing.
The Beloved’s name written
on my limbs.

on my left palm,
on my forehead,
on the back of my neck,
on my right big toe…

Oh, my friend,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to the Beloved.

                                                              – Rumi

Ulysses

Posted by Maverick ~ on September 29, 2013
Posted in: Music, Poetry, Video.

Read by John Gielgud
Music: Gustav Holst – The Planets Op.32 Jupiter

Ulysses

Come, my friends,
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

– Alfred Tennyson, 1833.