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:
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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:
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