dr_con Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Below That He sd I used the wrong direction when I sd higher although it didn’t matter Direction is misinformation no map no place no desire To the youngster I sd Know seven billion Secret Societies To his confusion sd Remember signifiers Mother Father safe secure My father beat me Mom saved me Below that Sinners and saints Truth and Lies Below that Surveillance privacy Liberation Oppression Below that She sd I understand know Mystery We sd No gurus and teachers to say we’re human Seven billion voices sd signs no destination Below that. Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedalus Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Very gd! Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Thanks Brendan! (sometimes the black mountain poets whisper to me, and I think of what an elegant statement they sd;-) Juris Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Read like expert beatnik to me. If that genre is to even HAVE experts..... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 I assure you that genre does! I miss the time when poetry was taken seriously, when I waited to see Ginsberg for an hour and a half in order to get into the 1'500 person theater, and many were turned away. I must admit that one of the reasons San francisco called was because of the City Lights legacy ;-) One of my first poetry teachers, Robert Creeley was an astounding example of 'living poetry...' (or so my impressionable college mind said) Now, as one poet said: Only poets come to poetry readings anymore... More on Black mountain & Creeley (nice poetry lesson I found while reminiscing, yesterday) https://sites.google.com/a/elc.edu.sa/drsuzanne/unit-three Con/Jur/D Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Wow, Doc, the commentary is as good as the poetry! Like you, I am royally bummed by the loss of readership and listenership for serious poetry. Some of it seems to be due to the loss of readers and listeners among the populace. Creeley, Ginsburg, and their kind had an audience hungry to be enlightened and guided by social commentary and an unflinching assessment of the human condition in a total world context. I think a kind of weariness has replaced the passion and optimism of those times, a certainty that we could change things. In the face of such disillusionment, it is nice to come here and find (for poets and their readers) The Beat Goes On! - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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