Was Jim Morrison a good Poet?

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That's straight.

 

His poetry is a matter of taste, but when you say he ruined the Doors I assume you mean they went downhill along with him. After his death the surviving Doors released 2 albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which went straight to the discount bin. Rather than try to find a lead singer to replace him they broke up. The Doors were much more than Jim Morrison, but without him they couldn't make it.

 

I think he was a genius and one of my fave rock singers of all time; wife thinks he was a drunk asshole.

Anyhow:

I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnite alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman...So alone, so alone

 

I think he was both.

 

lol...true

 

Sure. Read the lyrics to The Crystal Ship or When the Music's Over.

 

I did not find his poetry to be anything special.

 

it like modern art some will like it others want,some will see where the artist was coming from and others will never see, but no one sees it the same,

 

I voted yes but I dont think his poetry was as good as those by Ian Curtis and lets not forget that the whole of ians poetry was a goodbye note to his suicide, jim just died a drunken bum on drugs but ian died as a result of killing himself because he hated being epileptic and also his marriage ended and he just killed himself but his poetry is so great

jim morrison was a great poet but i dont think his words actually said anything very deep

 

I think Jim was a good poet who didin't fit into any frames. Yes, his poetry is modern art. It's something fast, veird and incredible. Jim Morrison is one of those people who inspires me.

 

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LMAO Jim Morrisson a cia agent lol, he wasnt even in the army and would have had to go through all sorts of tests and training LOL Jim Morrisson a cia agent LOL next you'll be telling us Lou Reed was a secret mole for the KGB

 

the cia requires no army training
its about information trafficking
they tried to recruit me at age 20 after Panama
[thats 33 yrs ago]

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The Grateful Dead is the name given to a cabal of right-wing activists and ... group to infiltrate the hippy world and run drugs for the CIA.
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For other people of the same name, see Robert Hunter (disambiguation). ... University's research covertly sponsored by the CIA in their MKULTRA program.

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Add to this list Timothy Leary who imv definately worked for the CIA long before involvment with LSD Mkultra
[he wrote a profiling paper as a psychologist]

Geeze thats qyuite a few CO-INCIDENTS isnt it ?

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If you follow the lives closely of these ppl who had CIA connections thru the MKultra operation ... you will see them differently that those groupies following the hippie fad do !

 

hey morrison was awesome just listen to his tunes and read the book no one gets out of here alive

 

His poetry has hidden depth its not black and white it radiates a million colours inbetween- Jim was a medicine man struggling in a society that was not geared up to understand him - a tortured soul a magik man, he touched many lives and continues to do so to this day
:love:

 

$$$hooot that man ... I got out ALIVE no Jive !

Haha

Wazzzup brotha trucka ?

Lets make a #uc#°n storm and ride it !

 

One of the best indeed

 

please show me why u think that.

 

Much of Morrison's imagism hardly ceases to confound me..

-- 'Hitler Poem'

Jim's poetry seems to me too often to lack direction. But such is merely opinion; I'm still exploring his use of surrealism. I can appreciate his handling of the axiom. But I've yet to withhold his prose above any lyrical piece.
Still, I always liked..

'I’m Me!
Can you dig it.
My meat is real.
My hands— how they move
balanced like lithe demons
My hair— so twined and writhing
The skin of my face— pinch the cheeks
My flaming sword tongue
spraying verbal fire-flys
I’m real.
I’m human
But I’m not an ordinary man
No No No'

from 'The Opening of the Trunk'. And..

'I am not mad.
I am interested
in freedom.
Good luck,
J. Morrison.'

written to Dave Marsh. Those bits always stuck out to me, for reasons that should prove fairly obvious.