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Dream of the Lizard King

The beat, the beat it flows through dawn of day,
The kundalini of serpent's deadly ride.
In mindless rhythm does it hold its sway,
you rode it to final day that you died.

Yes Lizard King, speak, I call to you!

Particle tornadoes of destiny
whirl and alite
on the dust devil' back
to create patterns of play
and images of past portents as ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvfAYEaE8c

Swaying sands shift to wild wind's wandering,

(Riders on the storm!)

leaving sand castles of tormented time
on the dry beaches of wandering nomads.

A solitary traveller seeks
in past particles of present

to advance in his zealous journey
to the dry dunes of no time and space.

In hallucination's grip

he feels...

The storm of biting sand rising and piercing
all it touches, ripping bare skin to shreds.

A musical messiah throws himself on
the cross of uncaring and nails himself
on in unholy fashion.


In a state of sexual excess,
drunk in his power,
decaying in his genius

He loses himself 'in the word'
of mass produced psychosis
altering a culture proximity's

to death's reality

Moving...
Moving towards a destiny
leaving the footprints of musical history
in the ever shifting sands
of the morass of modern morality

through the broken hourglass of flowing time
flows the words that shape an American era
and yet the psychedelic guru knows
of only one heart's desire:

To seek an answer
to one question.

In his seclusion
a blink of god's eye
he sees...

the forgotten mirage,
the skewered vision,
the adept's dream

of the Lizard King

screaming nightmare obscenities
at those who woke him
from his long nap
of timeless death,

in the glare of the dying sun.

The ' lizard king' rises to his full height
as wings spread to a darkened sandy sky

He cries in an ancient tongue
The speak of a great serpent
Free me!


In rapid beat in deathless motion
rises...taking full flight
on leathery bat wings,


on a thermal of concentrated kinetics,
the wind worm spreads and glides

He seeks sustenance once again!

The sand man sees the dreams
of the children of Eve

and disappears into a swirling gust of wind.



A poet's woes, in lies the needles throes
of junkie's blues. In thoughts deluded will stand
the flesh of stinking doormat that decomposed.
In death his peace can lie in shaman's land.

How strange! such talent lost, empty madness
What fame, what name, a mystic legend in time.
Now does a lover shed tear, show sadness
at exit made by prose master sublime.

A door that opened in his acid trip
as he, in vain, just sought the other side
blood would bleed its true pain in silent drip
of someone on the white (death) horse astride.

Go Jim and seek the path of magic man
Cross into the land holding reaper's hand.



Shadow's substance flickers on walls of stone
as candles light the way to truth
The Mescaline shaman dances
painful throbs across the night sky
A wavering thought holds true to its mirrored form
as an ideal known by its reflection
Stars lose their lights as focus
turn inward to the esoteric images
of poetic death and a mystagogue's revels
Morning returns in a blaze of desert delirium
As we sway together as one  
Darkness retreats from the advancement of light
as that of non being runs from being.
In that moment, we know God.





Author notes

A tribute to Jim Morrison, The 'Lizard King'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvfAYEaE8c
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Comments

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  • lunarlunacy
    July 18
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    bummer, the vid got yanked.

    amazing write, a most befitting homage.

  • WOW!

    Now that one had some depth! You really caught my attention with:
    "The beat, the beat it flows through dawn of day,
    The kundalini of serpent"

    As my Shaman has shared many stories of the sensual serpent of the kundalini and how it is the release of energy that creates all life force. Your pen is excellent and deserved gold.

    Blessed Be~
    )O(
    DragonBlue


  • Symphony
    April 18

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    Er - right.

    I'm sorry, I didn't read it all, my brain sort of zoned out half way through, it just wasn't my style.

    Not a critique, as you can see below Fritz loved it [and I can tell you now that Fritz would have a far greater appreciation of such works than I would - he knows about these things] - so no offence meant. It seems a great masterpiece, just .. not my style, and I'm too tired to encourage my brain to pay attention

    but thanks for entering.


  • Fritz O skennick gold member
    January 29

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    Whoa!!! Fantastic...

    Wonderful narrative that flowed with grace & elogance, opening the mind & soul in its abstract explosion of emotional depth & surreal concepts that made for a compelling read & enthralled throughout...
    Keep up the good work...
    Well done!!!


  • Danzy007
    January 27
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    lustrust dragon out to get drunk.... interesting concept there


  • word20dragon
    January 21

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    Wow

    I love the images that I get when I read this poem I get the vision of a lizard= the lizard king with the history of the universe writen on the sepents scales, A storm= A lightning storm in the desert and dawns highway bleeding a shaman jumping into your body like the tribal medicen man that jumped into Jim. So this is a very good write keep up the good work.


  • word20dragon
    January 17
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    WOW

    "Mr. Morisson do you want to go and make a record?"Paul Rothchild from Oliver Stones movie The Doors this is fantastic surreal mixed with the real not knowing where reality lays only knowing we will know reality and the real truth when we see it, I think this is a great write I love the pictures you used inn this write. I think if Jim was alive today to read your words of praise and revelation he would be honnored with this poem.


    • Dark Otter
      January 21
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      Thank you!

      The movie, The Doors was a big inspiration for this.


  • BlancetNoir gold member
    December 15, 2008

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    Fantastic write. Morrison was one of the most fascinating artists of our generation, a mysterious, larger than life man with great curiosity and heart. I read his spirit in this, somewhere on the other side broken through to, I imagine he is loving this tribute.


  • Draig aine gold member
    November 7, 2008
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    thumbs up

    kit my fire

  • Draig aine gold member
    October 29, 2008
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    thumbs up

    he lives! awesome


  • ears2hearyou gold member
    October 20, 2008

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    you are brave dear poet...you took on mighty task...
    my heart has always ached for Jim Morrison....
    i thought his last song before his overdose death really
    took on lot of deep meanings for we poets to chew upon.

    the house of Judas, children of Judas....he obviously
    felt so betrayed his dreams, music, and the fame of
    what he thought would be so absolutely heavenly.

    the Killer on the road....and how he describes it...
    the agony of needing that fix....his hatred and desperate
    love for it....I've always wished he would have stayed
    in poet circles...and not allowed the music industry
    and rock star lifestyle to drown him....physically.

    This song is a great example..and a sad reminder,
    that this man died from addiction
    with many lyrics and poems inside his heart
    un-written.

    WEll done, you have gave us many metaphors and
    thoughts to chew upon.....and I think the length of
    it shows how you wrestled with it too....through
    cautious warnings, and tribute to a man...
    who had a lot of beauty in his soul.

    ears/Seattle
    That was truly brave to do!

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