Poem Rocket, By Allen Ginsberg.

this is an excerpt:

‘Moon politicians earth-weeping and warring in eternity

tho not one star disturbed by screaming madmen from

Hollywood

Oil tycoons from Romania making secret deals with flabby green

Plutonians-

slave camps on Saturn Cuban revolutions on Mars?

Old life and new life side by side, will Catholic Church find Christ

on Jupiter?

Mohammed rave in Uranus will Buddha be acceptable on the

stolid planets

or will we find Zorastarian temples flowering on Neptune?

What monstrous new ecclesiastical design on the entire universe

unfolds in the dying Pope’s brain?

This is ‘Poem Rocket’ , by Allen Ginsberg who died in 1997. I started a

conversation about him on a poetry forum ;

http://www.poetryireland.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=570

and the response was so good that a whole lot of hyperlinks were

made available to me , which I will add in later. The Poem comes from

a City Lights (pocket) publication of Ginsberg’s Kaddish, which was

composed  in grief…

the hebrew mourning prayer; The Kaddish had not been recited

at the funeral of Naomi Ginsberg, as there were not enough men

present to make the Minyan- Ginsberg had not attended so he

reclaimed his grief and the Kaddish in the small book here described.

Its a good start to a blog about words and colours, language and image.

but it shall take a little time to get it off the ground.