Subj: MegaLimerick/LM/spirit/rel/personal
Date: Wed, Apr 5, 1995 2:38 AM CDT
From: GregMeier@aol.com
To: old-ways@tomservo.edaal.ingr.com
Greetings gentle readers!
I've been working on this for some time, trying to get it "perfect" ::-)
I have been inspired by the spirituality/religion discussions that I have
been reading since November and have done several other "normal" letters
that I trashed instead of sending because they felt rather hollow and
meaningless. I am not really done with this and reserve the right to add
verses later, as they develop.
I joined the Old-Ways right at the end of the major spirituality thread last year,
missing all but the last few posts, yet I felt an immediate close tie with the
group as this was an important part of my own listening experience. This
"poem" tries to convey my feelings about how LM's music relates to my life.
Many of my thoughts have been strongly affected by my desire to understand
the universe. My feeble, amateurish attempts to try to project my mind
outward, to try to imagine what may be out "there", only resulted in the
total trivialization of my mundane existence.
Zaphod Beeblebrox I was not!
It was a very humbling occasion, but I survived and as with any such journey,
have grown, or have, at least, regained my confidence.
So now we have reached the point where I am offering this to you. I hope you
all read this, as I have obsessively read all of your messages, great or
small. None can deny that LM's music has a lot of spiritual/religious connections.
None can deny that LM's music has soul. I seem to classify her music as basically
Christian trying to discover it's historical roots.
(Whoa! See if that doesn't get something started)
Please Enjoy!
Songs old and new by Loreena
Have acquired a deep, rich patina
of apparent great age
while remaining the rage
of listeners in the Old-Ways arena.
Tho I never go far from home
My mind, when unleashed, does roam.
freed from my head
(and I'm not even dead)
I'll explore, then relate with a poem.
If the result of new knowledge is pain
that could be why I'm *Insane*
but as long as I know
There's new places to go
I'll forge onward, come hell or high rain.
When science was once my god
I wouldn't have dared to have trod
beyond the confines
of books with hard spines
now I venture beyond my own bod.
I once was a star gazing fool
thinking the telescope just the tool
that I could peruse
to delight and amuse
then discovered 'twas vacuum did rule.
So then I came back to earth
trying to find my own worth
ego shrunk small
almost ceasing at all
my inner-being invaded by dearth.
'Tis Loreena then brought a salvation
when discovering her lyric creation
my spirits did soar
I needed no more
to heal my souls laceration.
MegaLimerick by Greg Meier 4/1/95
Jack of many trades, Master of none
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Subj: Re: MegaLimerick/LM/spirit/rel/personal
Date: Thu, Apr 6, 1995 12:18 AM CDT
From: sirbrand@u.washington.edu
X-From: sirbrand@u.washington.edu (GregRobin Smith)
To: GregMeier@aol.com
Laddie!!! The Limerick is one of the most difficult forms to write in
(when you are NOT trying to write either a sexually suggestive or really
puned one) Good Work! "The Bards will point out what's to see, and we
trust them."
:-)
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GregRobin Smith | Sir M. Brand McLiam, IC, MPel, KSCA
5932 - 37th Ave SW | Poet, Bard, Educator.
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