tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post5907246307110325761..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: Another PilgrimageAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-2130898314292479182009-12-22T04:18:18.314-05:002009-12-22T04:18:18.314-05:00Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself: opening quote
...Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself: opening quote<br /><br />excerpted from OM, baby! a pilgrimage to the eternal self, by Jack Haas<br /><br /> <br /><br />"My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,<br />Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,<br />Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,<br />Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,<br />Making a fetish of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in<br />the circle of obis,<br />Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,<br />Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and<br />austere in the woods a gymnosophist,<br />Drinking mead from the skull-cap, to Shastas and Vedas admirant,<br />minding the Koran,<br />Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife,<br />beating the serpent-skin drum,<br />Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing<br />assuredly that he is divine,<br />To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting<br />patiently in a pew,<br />Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till<br />my spirit arouses me,<br />Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,<br />Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.<br /><br />One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a<br />man leaving charges before a journey.<br /><br />I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,<br />I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world…<br /><br />I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,<br />If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.<br /><br />You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,<br />But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,<br />And filter and fibre your blood.<br /><br />Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,<br />Missing me one place search another,<br />I stop somewhere waiting for you."<br /><br />Walt WhitmanSydney Hotelshttp://www.stay247.com/hotels/australia/sydney-hotels.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-37402284961978634422009-05-22T22:32:40.641-04:002009-05-22T22:32:40.641-04:00I googled the Whitman/Warhol connection and got se...I googled the Whitman/Warhol connection and got several hits from bloggers and such who find similar connections- the word 'emo' is used some, much like the deep soul expressions of poetry of Whitman's day. <br /><br />I wonder how today's 'slam poetry' and emo poetry/music relates to deep soul writings from the 19th century in today's world?<br /><br />Is 'lewort' (the verification word) a word that means some sort of leach plant that sucks at one's ankles when wearing the wrong shoes while having to hike through a mucky moor on a horribly moist day in late September? Or something one must substitute because all the mugwort is gone and the man at the alchemist shop can only speak French?Goat Yodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161189045950693399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-51163230617420109212009-05-22T06:57:01.622-04:002009-05-22T06:57:01.622-04:00Whoa, not Warhol scene! This is a guy who wrote le...Whoa, not Warhol scene! This is a guy who wrote letters home for dying Civil War soldiers. He had a deep soul. San Fran I can see.Anne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18083739996560380258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-45087188907919359792009-05-22T05:01:46.803-04:002009-05-22T05:01:46.803-04:00I think that if he were alive today, he'd either b...I think that if he were alive today, he'd either be part of the Andy Warhol-esk scene in NYC or live in San Francisco and be a gay rights activist.Goat Yodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161189045950693399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-89360677561527766892009-05-21T23:20:28.348-04:002009-05-21T23:20:28.348-04:00wow...pretty cool...i have a girlfriend who named...wow...pretty cool...i have a girlfriend who named her son camden new jersey..i asked why and she said i just thought it had a nice ring to it..yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-51184973583349649042009-05-21T19:35:12.816-04:002009-05-21T19:35:12.816-04:00What an amazing tour!What an amazing tour!Hecatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291488568404382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-49125073877952200952009-05-21T14:19:03.182-04:002009-05-21T14:19:03.182-04:00If Walt were alive today, I don't think he'd be a ...If Walt were alive today, I don't think he'd be a poet, unless he got off on examining the pointless, hopelessness, and sorrow of destiny realized. He'd look at the world in general and beg to get off.Alex Pendragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15877845166621794334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-26987050440375464122009-05-21T12:07:16.595-04:002009-05-21T12:07:16.595-04:00verr nicely writ! felt lack i wuz along fer the ri...verr nicely writ! felt lack i wuz along fer the ride. tiz a shame that such a house should be surrounded by decay ... twood be innerestin to see whut walt wood rite today ...<br /><br />i sing the body polluted ...<br /><br />by the say, the word verifcayshun is "cations" as in "vacations" n we are a bout to go on one!buddydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13506384697813040090noreply@blogger.com