tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post4685383102924415240..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Xanadu: Issa's Sunday Service, #47Issa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-67270839308012413792010-03-24T06:00:19.239-04:002010-03-24T06:00:19.239-04:00op, means a lot, coming from you - many thanks.
D...op, means a lot, coming from you - many thanks.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-75994678088350815142010-03-23T22:49:20.988-04:002010-03-23T22:49:20.988-04:00As always, your work, the celebration of art and m...As always, your work, the celebration of art and meaning, is intense. I thank you.....pajamasold pajamashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10229885785933385293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-51709848638009624872010-03-23T06:35:01.475-04:002010-03-23T06:35:01.475-04:00Jim, oh, oh, I think it was the big "O",...Jim, oh, oh, I think it was the big "O", for medicinal purposes, natch ... I got a few things need treatin'<br /><br />Lyle, just think about all those magic potion poems/stories, particularly the German romantics. Even in the Eastern tradition. I think it is a great idea and the anthology would be formidable.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-18314249131908864132010-03-22T22:30:23.904-04:002010-03-22T22:30:23.904-04:00I've thought from time to time that it should ...I've thought from time to time that it should be possible to compile a small (possibly) but interesting anthology of pre-20th century poems influenced by mind-altering substances, or dealing in some way with the experience.<br /><br />Besides "Kublai Khan," the pre-eminent example, I think offhand of Tennyson's "The Lotos Eaters," various poems by Blake, probably some passages from Shakespeare (<i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> comes to mind right away), possibly Keats, surely others I'm not thinking of offhand.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-4461977222257411882010-03-22T09:59:26.109-04:002010-03-22T09:59:26.109-04:00I'll have some of what Coleridge was drinking ...I'll have some of what Coleridge was drinking (or smoking).Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-60578815795038793532010-03-21T11:57:15.037-04:002010-03-21T11:57:15.037-04:00Yes, Ed, the single note ...Yes, Ed, the single note ...Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-55931452790332157692010-03-21T10:36:48.655-04:002010-03-21T10:36:48.655-04:00well there's THAT Muse again (Mother of..):
...well there's THAT Muse again (Mother of..):<br /><br />A damsel with a dulcimer<br />In a vision once I saw:<br />It was an Abyssinian maid,<br />And on her dulcimer she played,<br /><br /><br />and:<br /><br />His flashing eyes, his floating hair!<br />Weave a circle round him thrice,<br />And close your eyes with holy dread,<br />For he on honey-dew hath fed,<br />And drunk the milk of Paradise.<br /><br /><br /><br />it may just be "all" about a music .. maybe even, beyond everything... a single note/tone?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com