Yoga Poems
Yoga Poems
While Jim Morrison never claimed to adhere to any particular theology, philosophy, religion or religious practice, much of what I see in his poetry brings to my mind yoga-related thoughts and ideas. I wouldn’t be so presumptuous to say that this was Jim’s intention. Only he knows his true intention with anything he penned. But much of what I’ve read on yoga philosophy, that is, finding your true self by looking within, seems to resonate in many of Jim’s poems. These are a few that especially stand out in that light.
"There are images I need to complete my own reality."
Yoga Powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one’s deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.
- The Lords
"In the womb we are blind cave fish."
Metamorphose. An object is cut off from its name, habits, associations. Detached, it become only the thing, in and of itself. When this disintegration into pure existence is at last achieved, the object is free to become endlessly anything.
-- The New Creatures
The desert--roseate metallic blue & insect green; blank mirrors & pools of silver; a universe in one body.
THE END OF THE DREAM
The end of the dream
will be when it
matters
all things lie
Buddha will forgive me
Buddha will
-Notebook Poems
"When there are as yet no objects."
Inside the dream, button sleep
around your body like a glove.
Free now of space and time.
Free to dissolve
in the streaming summer.
--The Lords
The Forum, Mexico
Power
I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.
I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.
I can
I am
-Wilderness
Blessings
accept this ancient
wisdom
which has traveled
far to greet us
From the East
w/the sun
Call out to him
From the mountain
high, from high
towers
as the mind
rebels
& wends its way
to freedom
grant us one more day
& hour
the hero of this dream
who heals & guides us
-Wilderness
Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within my skull, to rival the real. --The New Creatures
IT HAS BEEN SAID…
It has been said that
on birth we are trying
to find a proper womb
for the growth of our
Buddha nature, & that
on dying we find a
womb in the tomb of the
earth. This is my
father’s greatest
fear. It shouldn’t be.
Instead, he should
be trying to find me
a better tomb.
-Notebooks Poems
