4th Jul, 2023 10:00

Omega Showcase Sale - Guitars, Music Memorabilia and Rare Vinyl Records

 
  Lot 466
 

THE DOORS / JIM MORRISON - HANDWRITTEN POETRY.

A page of lined paper (18.2 x 29.5cm) bearing two poems (one to each side) in the hand of The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison. One titled 'Bright Flags': The great hiway [sic] of dawn stretching to slumber pouring out from her greedy palms a shore, to wander.., the middle verse addressing a viking, telling him that he cannot be saved, .... Time has claimed you/Coming for you. To the verso the second poem, untitled:

"the Form is a plane above the earth. A soldier bails out, leaving his entrails Fluttering, billowing, Scooped down, windy midwife wrench'd by the world from her rich belly, my metal mother, ripped cord, down & frozen. Following pilot the eye of the plane. Great Eye of Night? God on a windscreen, windscream,/wormwind trailing. (& hide among women like a toothless bird)..."

Provenance: ex-Christies, Rock and Pop Memorabilia, 30th November 2007. Further reading:

MORRISON, Jim Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1, New York; Vintage, 1988
www.thedoors.com/Danny Sugarman
www.wikipedia.com/Jim Morrison

Sold for £10,500

Hammer Price


 

A page of lined paper (18.2 x 29.5cm) bearing two poems (one to each side) in the hand of The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison. One titled 'Bright Flags': The great hiway [sic] of dawn stretching to slumber pouring out from her greedy palms a shore, to wander.., the middle verse addressing a viking, telling him that he cannot be saved, .... Time has claimed you/Coming for you. To the verso the second poem, untitled:

"the Form is a plane above the earth. A soldier bails out, leaving his entrails Fluttering, billowing, Scooped down, windy midwife wrench'd by the world from her rich belly, my metal mother, ripped cord, down & frozen. Following pilot the eye of the plane. Great Eye of Night? God on a windscreen, windscream,/wormwind trailing. (& hide among women like a toothless bird)..."

Provenance: ex-Christies, Rock and Pop Memorabilia, 30th November 2007. Further reading:

MORRISON, Jim Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1, New York; Vintage, 1988
www.thedoors.com/Danny Sugarman
www.wikipedia.com/Jim Morrison

Auction: Omega Showcase Sale - Guitars, Music Memorabilia and Rare Vinyl Records, 4th Jul, 2023

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