dark roads here art and heart devotions spirituality in praise of naughtiness poetry sexuality nigredo and rubedo of a pantywise sub-plato the dark madness and mania love's torture memoir alchemies bad girls eros buried in the garden
space   I have always loved bad girls, those wild women whose sugardark ways seemed so beyond my reach, beyond repair, whose delights so seared my imagination as to torch all good commands, those ways in which mother, world and … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

memoir death the future is here the future new technology shmology culture poetry mind madness and mania poem history consciousness quantum world
  Humankind is co-evolving with its artifacts, and the genes that can’t cope with that new reality will not survive into future millennia. — Michael Schrage, Wired magazine (1995)   The new technology manager sat in my office the other … ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

memoir music dionysia floridiana poetry sexuality culture the dark new wave dancing poetics myth and archetype turning japanese punk girl madness and mania post-christianity new wave rock lobster bisque devotions spirituality noir greek mythology celestial events skinny tie jive
space There would be a pause—-archly lush, enveloping the noisy bar’s party mash as if a mouth had sucked it in—-and then one of Spit Night’s anthems would blast forth, igniting the whole boozed-up, sweaty crowd with The Psychedelic Furs … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

post-christianity madness and mania myth and archetype rootie tabootie nature the dark farty arty culture poetry totem and taboo migraine alchemies celestial events whale farts exhuming the ghoul spirituality butts in bloom whiff of the divine who cut the cheese shamanism delphic musk prayer
space The Nineteenth Letter To A Dead Shaman Colonel Collins (who published his impressions in 1798) reports that among the Port Jackson ((Australia)) tribes, one becomes a medicine man if one slept on a grave. ‘The spirit of the deceased … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

infernos devotions big night music noir oran feral animals of the soul immrama notes from underground ship of fools this is my box on the road the dead alcoholism addiction memoir otherworlds lives of the poets madness and mania natural supernatural forest shenanagans neolithics the dark boning the ghoul
space I spent years in booze’s blackest forest, blundering every night from road to bar to road to bed like some hunter-gatherer of the Abyssal Age, so deep and lost inside the wild of uncorked spirits that blackout was the only … Continue reading U... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

spirituality literature dream creativity aphrodite's rhetoric marilyn monroe art and heart writing life grails myth and archetype madness and mania the goddess and me poem culture sexuality love mind love and poetry archetypal mythology
space It’s winter in Connecticut, snowing up a gale; Marilyn is home alone this Christmas. Arthur is away, demanding a solitude she knows is iced with the old contempt of her having found her naked self (and probably already with … Continue reading &... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

feral animals of the soul oran water-folk big night music noir octoberals paleolithics otherworlds puddlefootin' sounds like earish celtic myth the dark poetry forest shenanagans natural supernatural nature madness and mania
space Hear me and you’re witched; sort and I’ll derange; scatter and I’m found. But name me and I’m gone, into wilds you’ll never recognize as such. Nothing’s changed down all these years, though my folk have dried to vellum: … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

greek mythology art and heart scythe guitar love remembrance poetry harvest poem nature madness and mania death music looking for eurydice life
space I. During that summer in Pennsylvania when I was twenty–a bridge between first love and long winters— I scythed a field behind my father’s house. The field was ringed by oak and beech and maple, puritans all of wild … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

ship of fools this is my box feral animals of the soul notes from underground immrama oran noir big night music infernos devotions the dark boning the ghoul forest shenanagans neolithics natural supernatural lives of the poets madness and mania addiction memoir otherworlds the dead alcoholism on the road
space I spent years in booze’s black forest, blundering every night from road to bar to road to bed like some hunter-gatherer of the Abyssal Age, so deep and lost inside the wild of uncorked spirits that blackout was the only … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

mystery additions and subtractions art and heart pagan hours global warming the library down under immrama the sea shamanism oran big night music spirituality devotions mind the dark poetry culture natural supernatural madness and mania nature myth and archetype death the dead alcoholism floridiana the future mythology
  Tonight, thank Heaven, Your hand is close,even heavy on my brow. Has it been that long?Like a mineshaft is History, deep and cold; all our past lives labor somewhere in it, hearingthrough the wall the voices of distant singersfrom … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

post-christianity madness and mania the dark mind poetry culture war and peace the dead mythology the future death otherworlds additions and subtractions history noir big night music
space He’s a bit of every one of us who failed to come back from the Great War. Observe how he was assembled from the charnel loam of Passchandaele: torso of the Brit picked off barbed wire, hand of Boche … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

otherworlds alchemies blue madness and mania garden lore dream oran big night music noir jazz art and heart mystery
space The apartment in my dream is an old one, the sort of place where despair wrecks eternal. A cold, used-up address, harrowed by too many bad nights and rude coming-to’s. The walls yellow with age and rafters so rotted … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

madness and mania myth and archetype poetry sexuality alcoholism life mythology migraine memoir shaman consciousness rock n roll the sea shamanism
  ac “Shamanic initiation proper includes not only an ecstatic experience but … a course in theoretical and practical instruction too complicated to be within the grasp of a neurotic. Whether they still are or are not subject to real … Continue reading ... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com

otherworlds puddlefootin' earish sounds like poetry forest shenanagans the dark celtic myth nature madness and mania natural supernatural water-folk oran feral animals of the soul noir big night music octoberals paleolithics
space Hear me and you’re witched; sort and I’ll derange; scatter and I’m found. But name me and I’m gone, into wilds you’ll never recognize as such. Nothing’s changed down all these years, though my folk have dried to vellum: … Continue reading →... mehr auf blueoran.wordpress.com