An ode to jim morrison
iView Author: ahmad raza (Allahabad, India)
Email: raza000 [at] gmail [dot] com
An ode to jim morrison
Some say he was a poet
Some say he was a ghost
Sashayed on parapets
Of roofs and lives alike
Punctured with images
From an otherwise plain childhood
They pinched him every now and then
He dabbled with pain
Death was his high
Words were his flight
The snake was his respite
He traveled all alone
Whether they were his barred caves
With Indians and lions
He talked only to himself
And listened only to himself
Writing fresh chapters
Experiencing gravity-less highs
Words cascaded from his mouth
In the voice of gods
He listened to his voice when it came out
And heard gods speak through him
He saw life standing from a bridge
Which parted the known from unknown!
And felt torn apart in both directions
Like he felt torn between Pam and the rest
He reached every unknown destination
Riding the alcoholic ocean
He saw ever light
Through the marijuana rings
He rejected all the circles
Of reason and boundaries
And only saw circles
That connected him to it all
He freed himself from the locks
Of the cages that we aren’t born with
He chose the wilderness of pain
He believed in a long
Prolong derangement of the senses
To attain the unknown
He lived in the subconscious
He confronted them all
And made them a part of his trance
They burned everything
And filtered the pure from the ashes
Showed them the way
And told them that you have to walk alone
He told them of heartaches
And the loss of God
He wandered and wandered
Without direction, immaculately stoned
On life and death
Intermixing one for another
Some say he was a poet
Some say he was a ghost
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“If the DOORS of perception were cleansed; every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite”.
- William Blake
Oh!! Brilliant!!
Long live the lizard king!
PFC is turning into one big WTF! Why is an ode to Jim Morrison published here? some kind of showing off, is it? and I must say it was poor..
and @ Shekhar Simpi, I’m sorry, the quote is totally poser like and has no freakin relevance to anything in the post or “The Doors” in general. I mean just because the quote had the word “Doors”.. Hilarious!
@jmonk..lol
On a serious note, this has become a haven for posers. If someone wants to post any piece of weird crap you know where to go to..PFC !!!!
Sad really
@Dang: Why cant an ode be published here?You are sounding more like a poseur.Shekhar is merely trying co-relate something.
@jMonk:Where are you overreacting?Presumptuous!
@sudipto:thanks man…
@jmonk:its poetry brother!!something u cant relate to..
@dang:too uptight..and u r nobody to decide what should and what should not be published!!
@all: i didn’t intend to write it just for the heck of it…it came out when i couldn’t stop humming “the end” for 4 long days right in the middle of my 6th semester and the imagery became more acute when i saw the movie the doors by oliver stone….i thought a plain review wouldn’t match upto it!!and they’ve killed the metre in here by joining the paragraphs…it has reduced the effect,sorry for that!!
@PFC Admin:
In my opinion, I feel being at the administrative level,one should carefully use words.The above statement of yours could have been better worded.It is appalling to see such words being directed to me who has not been in any serious “flamewar”.May be at least not in a long time.
I think nobody is entitled to an absurdly confident position on subjectivity. Poetry is subjective. To each one his own and thus what resembles to the poet’s mind, a certain degree of fidelity to the sea of emotions witnessed by the poet himself, should not be a matter of contention. I am very junky.
What was the post about?
A wasted effort.
I thought it was a real nice effort to put forth such an ode. I personally dont know who Jim Morrison is/was and this one gave me a picture without showing a photograph or a wiki link which is quite nice. Keep writing bro!
Those who do not understand Jim Morrison or at least Oliver Stone’s “The Doors”..all the best!!
Watch the opening sequence of “Apocalypse Now” and you will understand who Jim Morrison is.Seems Oliver Stone is a great Door fan.
@Jaiganesh: Totally appreciate your effort to unravel Jim Morrison
@ Sourav-
Till I read comment # 10 by Ahmad, even I was wondering why is this here.Not that I dont know Jim Morrison, The Doors,Oliver’s Stone movie -The Doors or Val Kilmer’s superb characterisation of Jim Morrison ( I’ve been indirectly under the influence of the legend for a long time myself ) but why a cinema forum to show this ode.
@ Ahmad Raza-
This was certainly a nice ode to the legend who still lives on in the hearts of millions of people the world over.But yes it did take your comment # 10 to understand that this was your way of trying to go about expressing yourself over the film.
@Dang
Doors is my favorite band,
and I know every detail of it
you said my post has no freakin relevance!!!!
go do your Homework first,before commenting!!!
and if you are lazy, here it is the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors
The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley,
The Doors of Perception
That title was in turn taken from a line in a poem by the 18th-century artist and poet
William Blake:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite”.
(from Wiki)
Its “co-related” and I rest my case.(Courtesy:Shekhar)
Cool post: and thanks for paying tribute to a ‘genuine’ legend and a great artist. And never mind the detractors ‘people are strange’indeed!
Every soul is right. IMO he deserves a place here. He was related to cinema ……..
@ahmad nice effort man …. kudose.
@all the guy can write, the guy has a vision, havin an iView on pfc means he has a passion for cinema too ….. encourage him.
Ok people, especially the people who think jim morrison has nothing to do with cinema. Please before judging anyone, read up about him. May be the post doesn’t give an idea of what Jim morrison was cinema wise. He was the most important connoisseur or independant cinema that has become so important and relavant (esp PFC). Long before Easy rider came Feast of friends.
If you cant respect an ode to a harbinger like jim morrison, you have no right to mallign people or fans who do.
@Shekhar, I was thinking of posting an apology note yest immediately after my post..I did it due to my increasing hate for posts like this. I love listening to them but didn’t know that the quote was the origin for “Doors” and I am sorry.
I still do not believe this post was needed here at PFC.
@ Sourav Bhuyan, you support people without even knowing what you’re doing. I think I figured out what you are. You are very closely related to India’s most famous invention. (Think Aryabhatta!)So all I can do is feel sorry for you!
@ahmad raza
Brother, that’s poetry? no, seriously? How old are you mate? because I remember receiving such lines from kids who “thought” they wrote well..back in college..
So much for poetry!
@Dang: LOL. Having a bad day? Things not going your way?
Statement1:”You support people without even knowing what you’re doing.”
I do not support people.I like posts.It seems you are averse to amalgamations of 2 creative forms.
Statement2:”I think I figured out what you are.”
A desperate attempt to get back at me?
Statement3: “You are very closely related to India’s most famous invention.”
A desperate attempt:Part II? Personal attack? Saddest day of my life. :D
Statement4: (Think Aryabhatta!)
Oh! What a cryptic clue Mr.Indian Renaissance Man.It was quite a random statement. :O
Statement5:” So all I can do is feel sorry for you!”
All you should do is save the apologies for yourself.Do not waste “ALL” your time on me..I am closedey related to Aryabhatta..oh sorry..Zero. :P
You have failed to instigate me.This is just a response to your grouses against.Thought it needed to addressed.
That was cool Sudipto.
@ Sourav, your comments only added my intial belief. Infact they’ve become firm now.
bad day, for what? for missing on a trivial fact?
And why do you use so many smileys man? your post seems like a Rangoli, use better grammar instead.
“Thought it needed to addressed” – ??
@Dang – This is no poetry portal -yet, at the same time this poem was good enough to give me – who is a complete novice as to Jim Morrison a sketch of an artist. So at that very instant the post served its purpose. I hope you understand that.
@Dang – also pls refrain from guessing who another poster is and passing judgements on people.
@Jai Ganesh, There might be 10,000 things you or I might not know. But that does not mean one posts anything on a film related blog. My stand was against that point. The explanations given for supporting this post seem funny. This post is apt because Morrison’s song was used in some movie, etc..Kapil Dev’s bowling was discussed in a movie.. so let’s put a post on Kapil Dev??
and re: poetry, well, Ahmad was accusing someone of not being able to understand his “poetry”, so I had to react like that.
and reg. judgements, I stick to my thoughts about Mr. Bhuyan!
You are still at it Dang? I thought you be gone..banished into the oblivion due to the embarrassment of your “William Blake” goof up already.
Do you know why the author has put up the post?He has merely supplanted a regular review by a poem.
“The Doors” (the film) by Oliver Stone is a tribute to Jim Morrison.An apt example of 2 creative forms (music scene and films).(Too layman example for you?)
Further example of feature film covering music artists : A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles-1964)
No one is giving any explanation or defending.Everyone is citing examples.
Editor Note: Guys lets keep the discussion to the topic of the post. Lets not start pointing fingers at each other. Everyone has a varied taste, likes and dislikes.
When Che can have so much influence on Cinema, so can Jim. I have had profound influence on my life with his music, his poetry and his existence. Listen to the “American Prayer” and you’ll know what he is. In fact, Ahmad’s blog here derives a lot of influence from American Prayer… Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchhiker stood by the road and leveled his thumb
@jaiganesh,sethu,neil,shatik: shukriya
@dang:i’m 23…Ghalib wrote most of his poetry before he was 19…age has nothing to do with poetry and its not a parameter on which words can be judged…thank you very much..and i dont blame u bro, it doesn’t makes much sense with the mixing of the stanzas, since the metre gets disturbed..
@sudipto: i had no intention to tell abt morrison cinema wise…
@all: cut it out guys..
@saurav: hilarious responses…quite witty!!
@slip49: “a certain degree of fidelity to the sea of emotions witnessed by the poet himself, should not be a matter of contention”…saara jhagda ek taraf(including the post),aur ye do lines ek taraf..i think infidelity fits better!!
@ Bhuyan, I am not embarassed at that goof up. I am happy to admit my mistake there. But the problem with you is that neither you know something nor are you brave enough to admit it..every comment of yours is build up on someone’s view earlier..and yes your examples are laymanlike..
sorry dude, may be its time you get original..