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[title] => 21st century thoughts...
[time] => 2007-08-17 15:52:45
[hometext] => Inspired by some of my favorite poets of the 20th century--Alan Ginsberg, Robert Creely etc
[bodytext] => What now? The 20th century arrived and vanished, exploded into millions of ticking time bombs left in place for my generation. When Ginsberg and Creely watched the atom bomb drop, what did they think? It seems clear, the shattered shrapnel imbedded itself in every person(s) soul, so that now I can look back and retrace through history its mercilessly unwavered imprint. In that desparate lonely era I see Ginsberg. I see Creely. Where am I? They are dead, gone to return to that knowing place, and while their death puts their life in perspective, I have nothing to place in context, the modern mind. It is up to me to create this vision, so that fifty years from now young readers will see humanity's predicament, from which consciousness continues the evolution. I see now how it must happen. I must create. But how? With no knowledge, I have only memories of Ginsberg, Creely, Paz, Neruda, their take, their tales, their feelings, their fears--But my fear is to tritely rehash the voice of the dead. Where is my voice? What do I have to give? These questions need not consume themselves with worry, for while I know that I know nothing, I know that life steadily evolves, and these answers will reveal themselves as I write, unthinking, reflecting mind in this time. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 174 [topic] => 21 [informant] => zenmind [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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