Re: You Are Right, Sahara
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:16 am
Hello Judy:-) Yes, you connecting this poem to Zen caused it to make a bit more sense to me. I especially like what you said about The Collapse of Zen. Zen clearly did not ultimately "collapse" for LC. I see Sahara first appears in the first and last stanzas of Collapse of Zen, when he asks how enlightenment can be better than Sahara's sexual hunger for him.
Regarding My Consort, Doron since you pointed out the line from Lucky Old Sun, I notice the line following the 'roll around heaven' one also echoes the song:
We 'roll around heaven'
several miles above the pine trees
While that lucky old sun got nothin' to do
But roll around heaven all day
Dear Lord above, can't you know I'm pining, tears all in my eyes
Send down that cloud with a silver lining, lift me to Paradise
Show me that river, take me across
Wash all my troubles away
Both 'pine' (as a verb instead of a tree) and 'above' are repeated. (There are a few references in BoL to Pine trees, doubtless because Mt Baldy Zen Centre "is set amidst giant pine trees, some of them at least 150 feet high".)
In My Consort, a fantasy about a heavenly consort is sufficiently vivid to allow him to temporarily stop pining for Sahara.
You Are Right Sahara, to me is by far the superior piece of the three.
Thanks for introducing this excellent Israeli Jewish/Arab ensemble Bustan Avraham!! (The third track Metamorphosis has especially intricate layers of instrumentation and is out of this world.)
Las Vegas does look a bit ghastly, but the meets with the others and the concerts I am sure meant that didn't matter much. It's fantastic that you found the concert "beyond words". Yes, I heard that everyone has been taken ill since the trip. That'll teach you all for staying out all night drinking and gambling.
Regarding My Consort, Doron since you pointed out the line from Lucky Old Sun, I notice the line following the 'roll around heaven' one also echoes the song:
We 'roll around heaven'
several miles above the pine trees
While that lucky old sun got nothin' to do
But roll around heaven all day
Dear Lord above, can't you know I'm pining, tears all in my eyes
Send down that cloud with a silver lining, lift me to Paradise
Show me that river, take me across
Wash all my troubles away
Both 'pine' (as a verb instead of a tree) and 'above' are repeated. (There are a few references in BoL to Pine trees, doubtless because Mt Baldy Zen Centre "is set amidst giant pine trees, some of them at least 150 feet high".)
In My Consort, a fantasy about a heavenly consort is sufficiently vivid to allow him to temporarily stop pining for Sahara.
You Are Right Sahara, to me is by far the superior piece of the three.
Thanks for introducing this excellent Israeli Jewish/Arab ensemble Bustan Avraham!! (The third track Metamorphosis has especially intricate layers of instrumentation and is out of this world.)
Las Vegas does look a bit ghastly, but the meets with the others and the concerts I am sure meant that didn't matter much. It's fantastic that you found the concert "beyond words". Yes, I heard that everyone has been taken ill since the trip. That'll teach you all for staying out all night drinking and gambling.