different prisms...... different ways

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  1. Lee JBartholomew Baker

    Lee JBartholomew Baker Banned

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    the spirit passes through different prisms in different ways
    sometimes it is a drop of sunlight when the night has been so long and wearisome
    that you can hardly remember the day

    when the long shadow of your soul awakens to some cold hard truth
    that you never thought would come alive to yourself and noone else
    and unexpectedly it feels alright that its hard and cold and sharp

    and you'll never be able to forget again that the voice of hardness is the sound of truth
    and it has always rung truest that way, the hard constant driving truth
    that never stops, never quits, never kneels, never is false or falsely humored

    allen ginsberg may have despaired once, feeling that he had not despaired enough
    looking at the face of the ghetto and the weary nights false
    the false chaps, the chapped lips, the ghetto bumps

    given over to decay and nonexistent rhyme
    with broken, candy teeth, jewish conspiracy
    and saturday chicken fried with corn bread and lemonade

    perhaps he hadn't read the beat-wax poets on time
    or felt falsely primed by their hot hips and cudgeled bums
    or he just couldn't get enough before his time
     
  2. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    Comparison of the soul with a ray of light and how it behaves is an interesting concept and perhaps it is better described in poetry than in science. I also love the way that composers can create so much feeling in their music. Rachmaninoff conveys the clouds lifting after a long period of depression and lack of feelings of self worth in his second (op18) piano concerto, a truly magnificent work.
     
  3. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I don't think I've heard of a prism since I left school. :p
     
  4. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ Ancient Mariner Administrator

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    Nice original writing...fascinating references to Ginsburg...I believe Octavia Butler would have enjoyed your writing.
     

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