surrealism
Heath Carra
I don't know if this even really classifies as true surrealism or not. It's sort of a reserved exercise but I want to know what your ideas on it are. I'll post more soon but for now i'll leave you with this.
Surreal Exercise
Heaven is alive now
contorting with its torture
a sensual infirmary
brought on rejoicingly by its
birth
and the jaded dream of its conception.
Who conceives in the sky?
The lightning’s non-orthogential fiestas
are eternally relayed
down through time like some heirloom
of insurmountable worth.
No privacy in waking the world to come.
No discrepancies when
you’ve smothered faces in the rank
rest of your sheets.
The sky and I
swim together
taking over whole valleys in a ballet
of lips, tooth and toenail.
It’s an insane drama.
It’s poetic lunacy.
Its waterfall is the mercury
that exists within us all.
heath carra /98
Mink Stole
Just a few degrees short of ambrosial. Or maybe I'm just a
half-informed dilettante who can only offer up her (humble) opinions.
Either way, I enjoyed this concoction of vivid, juxtaposed images.
Especially liked the stanza about 'taking over valleys of...lips, tooth,
and toenail.' Mind if I join you? Just kidding. I'm sure it's a very
private, personal quest anyhow. Loved the abundance of 50-cent words,
by the way.
Heath Carra
into my work with both hands and pull out the things they liked and the things they
didn't. As for surrealism, aside from my little experiments and curiosities, it's
quite an odd thing really. Each time i bring it up, either in conversation or in a
posting on the internet i get a different response from each person who tries to
explain it. I am personally beginning to believe that it is one of those things in
this universe that lacks definition. After saying that, what do i think it is. I
don't really know. All I can say is that I have been defining surrealism by poems
deemed to be surrealist. I could go through all the poems that have inspired me and
put little quotes from breton and Eluard and crew but I'll take it that you know
what i mean. And that's the place that i'm trying to reach. Trying to make the
readers mind work in a sort of backwards fashion where they can realise an unseen
beauty in something common and every-day. Any ways, enough rambling. Thanks
again.....
Gabr...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> First the bad news, and then the good news...
>
> You've acquired the cliche quota of surrealism, that's for sure, e.g. "the
> jaded dream..." This is what I mean, there were a few good dadaists and
> surrealists, and the rest of the 20th century borrows futurism, e.g. those
> Italian car designs you all love so much. Dali, by the way, wasn't the
> 'dreamy visionary' type; he was a mad scientist type, who contrived his
> paintings through alliance with psychoanalytic theory. He wasn't a shaman a
> la Jim Morrison.
>
> On the other hand, "sensual infirmary," in a revision, would make a perfect
> title, and many lines are unique and possibly inspired, e.g. "lips, tooth,
> and toenail," though possibly held back by bad syntax, e.g. why not say
> "torture contorts Heaven" esp. since this aligns well with Revelation imagery
> of God smiling on eternally incinerating sinners. Also, something more
> intense, like "lightning relays [fill in the blank]'s heirloom." The image
> of a mercurial waterfall works, though that stanza needs lots of dusting...
>
> In article <35ADEEDF...@cadvision.com>,
> Heath Carra <car...@cadvision.com> wrote:
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> > alright now, this is just an exercise for me at present. I haven't decided
> > to change my entire life to follow after an artistic movement that flourished
> > 70-80 years ago. Surrealism has always snatched me up in its clutches when
> > ever i've passed it.
> > <BR>I don't know if this even really classifies as true surrealism or not.
> > It's sort of a reserved exercise but I want to know what your ideas on
> > it are. I'll post more soon but for now i'll leave you with this.
> >
> > <P><B>Surreal Exercise</B>
> >
> > <P>Heaven is alive now
> > <BR>contorting with its torture
> > <BR>a sensual infirmary
> > <BR>brought on rejoicingly by its
> > <BR>birth
> > <BR>and the jaded dream of its conception.
> >
> > <P>Who conceives in the sky?
> >
> > <P>The lightning’s non-orthogential fiestas
> > <BR>are eternally relayed
> > <BR>down through time like some heirloom
> > <BR>of insurmountable worth.
> >
> > <P>No privacy in waking the world to come.
> > <BR>No discrepancies when
> > <BR>you’ve smothered faces in the rank
> > <BR>rest of your sheets.
> >
> > <P>The sky and I
> > <BR>swim together
> > <BR>taking over whole valleys in a ballet
> > <BR>of lips, tooth and toenail.
> > <BR>It’s an insane drama.
> > <BR>It’s poetic lunacy.
> > <BR>Its waterfall is the mercury
> > <BR>that exists within us all.
> >
> > <P>heath carra /98</HTML>
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