February 7, 2012
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I'll Be Your Guide On This Trip
Coleridge did it, Ginsburg too. Baudelaire wrote about it, and it's ALL Cheech and Chong ever talked about. My turn to write a drug poem, Salvia Dinvinorum gets a co-authoring credit.
Crystalline showers on titanium trees
A river of light flows down to a shiny sea
faceted mountains fall, in their place castles rise
and grow, til they touch pearl skies
Every atom's a sun, every thing is so bright
i see into it all with my own inner light
and all becomes nothing, no night ever darker
no change more sudden, no contrast starker
And He says to me, "it's going well, according to plan"
don't worry , don't fear, you're in good hands"
The words rang true in my darkened world,
Voice became light, and the world unfurled
It was the world I knew, yet it wasn't the same
But I can deal now, I have a friend in the game.
Comments (10)
Chorus: Lucy in the sky, with diamonds b/w 'Fall mountains. jus' don' fall on me (Hendrix: If 6 were 9)
very nice
@jsolberg - @godfatherofgreenbay - Dammit! I keep forgetting to privatize my WIP's!
Oh well, stay tuned as I work on it.
you got a cool idea here....
Ok, you can look now
@jsolberg -
As is customary for us, the 'Experienced', I need not change my original comment, not hardly at all. It's Lucy and Jimi for the win.
I do recall, thru the haze, a day in '67 when I said: 'Well goddamn, this is shore-enuf a new way to see reality!" Moments later words lost their meanings.
This is a successful poem, although unclear who is the guide near the bottom. I never found one save myself.
@jsolberg - I have no idea who it was either,but it seemed pretty natural to be listening to him in an otherwise totally sensory-deprived situation. Native American tribes used Salvia to get in touch with the gods. I can well believe that they thought they were talking to God when they did the stuff.
this is awesome.
not sure if i should admit or not that i thought salvia was a person. apparently i am admitting it. you may laugh.
G., whatever you do, don't read Carlos Castaneda and do Salvia Divinorum.....you will meet your guide.
who knew purple salvia would make ya wax poetic !!
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