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| The Sphere at Las Vegas "Where your treasure is there is your heart also " - Matt: 6:21 |
"Go into the the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not
a way to make a living.They are a human way of
making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how
well or badly , is a way to make your soul grow, for
heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio.
Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
Do it as well as you possibly can.
You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
- K. Vonnegut
"Are you willing to keep writing and telling stories knowing you
will get nothing in return?"
- Whit Burnett to JD Salinger
Do know where you are going and why?
The Inspiration :
The Eternal Principle - Bill Moyers with Joseph Campbell
(In preparing this post the author "coincidentally" saw this video
confirming the original inspiration.
https://youtu.be/qX8j9TE7P38?si=uKDY83dzHjpC_l9D
"He who is not being born is busy dying" - B. Dylan
"The River flows ,it flows to the sea.
Wherever the river flows ,that's where I want to be "
- R. McGuinn ( The Ballad of Easy Rider)
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The Writing:
The Ballad of the Piano Man and The Pirate : The Eternal Principle
The Piano man and the pirate joined 50,000 souls in the
Cathedral of the Field of Dreams as they were
Christened novices of the Sgt Pepper's Broken Hearts Club Band.
They never dreamed that within a half century they would
Become fully consecrated Jedi,
Thanks to the the holy order of the Supreme Surgeons
Of the Sacred Heart.
They were one but not the same.
Sometimes in those magical moments
The self proclaimed dynamic duo got to carry
Each other from a distance.
The piano man tickled the ivories in between
Seconds of solemn solitary silence
echoing sentiments in songs
Of Chaucer tales while the pirate strayed along
The rivers and roads in the rain somehow searching
For that promised hidden treasure.
The Pirate weaving in and out
Those un-forecasted storms in the arriving autumn.
Estragon's commentary "perhaps one could dance first and think
Afterwards" echoed constantly as they waited .
Selecting two separate roads less travelled,
both leading to Emmaus,
The distracted two were not aware that maybe that secret
Treasure they had been seeking , just may be
Everp-present in all aspects of creation.
The pirate perturbed by the possibility
that the two reborn easy riders
Might come to the conclusion
Of their predecessors , Wyatt and Billy.
In the end Wyatt solemnly reflected - "We blew it."
The piano man piously postulated how
The circle would be unbroken,
Proposing that their Vegas venture would be a
Just another excursion on the way to Mandalay .
- JF Sobecki
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The Poems and Such:
"Poetry is a gateway into intuitive consciousness. It knocks on the doors
of the heart and the heart opens"
- Mirabai Starr
"Poetry is an Act of Peace . Peace goes into the making of a poet
as flour goes into the making of bread."
- Pablo Neruda
" To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.'
- Wm. Blake
The Music:
(Musical reflections on the inspiration)
