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Dennis: Thank you your second poetic conquest, Prisoner; it's great pleasure to listen to your words, phrases and complex ideas. Prisoners we are, about that there is no doubt. Maybe you would consider a poem entitled "Savior" or "Conquerer" about what it must be like to be cured and permanently "on"? Thanks, again, Dennis. John Bjork (60/20) Dennis Greene wrote: > Some while ago, in response to a discussion on this list on the subject of > what it was like to be 'Off', I wrote a poem called "Waiting". > > More recently, during my little holiday from the list, I entered a period > of, for me, prolific writing which produced a flurry of poems including 2 > of the type I call PD poems. One of these was "Do not think badly of me" > which I posted the other day - the other was a complete re-write of > "Waiting" which in the process became "Prisoner". Whilst "Prisoner" is > less obviously a PD poem than "Do not........" it is very much an attempt to > put "being Off" into words. I am posting it in the hope that some of you may > identify with it. > > Prisoner > ------------ > > "Shape without form, shade without colour, > Paralysed force, gesture without motion;" T.S. Eliot > > Thoughts flowing across event horizons are > compressed to emptiness at the core, and I > am poured into infinity, poured until I am no > more than parameters collapsing into potential. > > Now I am Icarus locked in the instance of tragedy; > tiny, ignored, never knowing the full depths of > mystery; torn from my life by a terrible gravity > that warps space around me, bending the light. > > Small birds moving at the edge of my vision > announce with their movements a new continuum; > from which time and place I'll want to know > if Icarus, when he fell from light to darkness, > > found in oblivion an infinity of choices; and if > enough has changed that, taking the long view > from here or anywhere, we can see more than > the history of stars still running from being born. > > (c) Dennis Greene March 1999 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dennis Greene 49/dx 37/ onset 32 > There's nothing wrong with me that a cure for PD won't fix! > [log in to unmask] > http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++