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    Thumbs up Who wrote it?

    Can you spot the author of this poem?

    Awake.
    Shake dreams from your hair
    My pretty child, my sweet one.
    Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
    The day’s divinity
    First thing you see.

    A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
    Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
    And we laugh like soft, mad children
    Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
    The music and voices are all around us.

    Choose they croon the ancient ones
    The time has come again
    Choose now, they croon
    Beneath the moon
    Beside an ancient lake.

    Enter again the sweet forest
    Enter the hot dream
    Come with us
    Everything is broken up and dances.

    Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding,
    Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

    We have assembled inside this ancient
    And insane theatre
    To propogate our lust for life,
    And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets.

    The barns are stormed, the windows kept,
    And only one of all the rest
    To dance and save us
    With divine mockery of words.
    Music inflames temperament.

    O great creator of being,
    Grant us one more hour to perform our art
    And perfect our lives.

    We need great golden copulations.

    When the true king's murderers
    Are allowed to run free,
    A thousand magicians arise
    In the land.

    Where are the feasts we were promised?
    Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
    - Jorge Luis Borges

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    Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding,
    Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

    I know those lines are in the song "Peace Frog" by the Doors, so I'll say Jim Morrison.

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    That's correct. They're also in an American Prayer and in the Ghost Song, but Morrison wrote the lyrics as poems first, and then The Doors gave music to them to include them in the film An American Prayer. A few days ago, someone loaned to me a book of poems by Jim Morrison, and I was deeply impressed by its contents. That guy had a talent for writing. Even more, I think he had a degree on Literature (we call that "Letras" here).

    Has anybody else read anything by Morrison? What are your opinions?
    Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
    - Jorge Luis Borges

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    As a Doors fan, I am honored by your posts
    for more "AN AMerican Prayer", see:

    http://www.thedoors.com/band/jim/?fa=poetry1

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