Ghost in the Machine (Complete)
#1
Phase 1- The Vine
Suburbia's silver nights sways low a hill roof vine
A hole in the sky, a hole in the spirit of the climb
In daylight sink this vow will not, dot plain be me, an astronaut
Oh moon may this ghost make mist oh jungle of moon
The spirit bleeds blue drops blending a fading dew spring
Make blisters of vacuum palms, vacant fairs, and vacant cares
Vile monsters and vile mares, make weeping waves wonder where
Nay sickly dorming, say not the theme, it is the sound of animals mourning
I do see the ground, I do see the town, I do see violets, but I hear the sound
Its haunting every time, lay this time a placid pond
Gentle air, winter stares, its calling thorns so bare
Here swims no leach lick, come crimson thorns in vice grip
Still air leave me, drown this vow will not, dot plain be me, an astronaut

28 days, 6 hours, 42 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
Lay the echoes through the vine, skyward incline is the hole through time
Over roof-lines, over valleys, rain red rivers past passage pines
Sky scrape sky steep, loom drape dye, lowly lasting wonder lie
Lay less or more, damp thorn chore lay not day, day stay with sycamore
Across everything, across something, across galaxies, across nothing
Astronaut, oh astronaut, glide me drift your wings or not
Say not awaken formula, never need caring nothing, crucify by nebula
Sky scrape space steep, loom drape dye, lowly lasting wonder lie

Phase 2- The Silver Jungle
24 days, 6 hours, 42 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
A moon in slumber, it is a moon, it is my moon
It sleeps on the pillow roof of the vine
It dwells for eternity, for centuries, for seconds
In this nothing I can feel it yearning
In this something I can feel it longing
The thorns became my fingertips
As the dreams became visions
Astronaut your wings have become a silver jungle
The swamps whisper sacred but ripples lie brown
Its tears point to oceans, still yearning
Visions circle a past sky, around the rim of my eye
I can see a world burning

23 days, 0 hours, 0 minuets, 0 seconds, that is when the world will end
Awaken a field, not of orchid
Our slumber turns to wake
Our ghosts become the air
The air, colourless but sold

16 days, 6 hours, 42 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
Roaring waves of time leads layer-less taste
A violent sea, is still a grey face
Its eyes, burning but it bleeds
Bleeding rivers but not red
Crystal blue but it is black
Wonder weaves and wonder tracks
Across the wonder tracks lays a quiver
The eternity cycle of the bound infinity rail-rode
Say it says, it is silver

Phase 3- Dark Genesis

8 days, 6 hours, 42 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
Visions paint a glowing sea calling to a full moon
The mirror of the silver swamp shows a hollow lion
The ghostly water sways to the lonely pool of birth
It won't be the ease of erasing by eclipse
It will be the mirror of earth
The air in its proto tales of nebula is slender, not surround
Moon says hither its thought hills howled its name
The hill that slumbers crescent
Is the hill that is bound
Its journey through the astral ocean of void
It floated onto the blank sea, that is when
It became full

2 days, 6 hours, 42 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
Visions mold a nest of crows that become earth with wings gliding crescent
I'm not the longing silver jungle's caped spirit shroud
Or the swamp's endless cycle of nebula calling
I'm the cloaked murmur to the proto planet
In the phantom's shifting eyes it shrieked
In the cry there was a drifting moon
Blue flames of rebirth devour
Behind there was nothing
Rebirth bared its death
Death becomes moon
That is
When
It became Crescent

0 days, 2 hours, 0 minuets, 12 seconds, that is when the world will end
Visions tell of explosion vanishing to a realm of astral new
I'm not a ghost in the machine
A new jungle would need a forest of spirits
A branch though space to trees calls
I watch it plead, but I will not leave
I must feel the jungle burn
The flames must seep a hole in my chest
A crater to cough so lungs can be blue
That is when
I became a new moon

0, 0 hours, 0 minuets, 0 seconds, that is when the world will end
A gaping hold bleeds to earth as I watched the moon burn




Alright so tell me what you think, I worked pretty hard on this, and let me know which phase was your favourite.
Thanks
-James
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#2
Hi James,
I've watched this poem develop for the past few days now and although I admit that I don't fully understand it, I am fascinated by it and the concepts and images within it.
Firstly I'll say that it is extremely well written, with certain poetic qualities that I particularly enjoyed from your other poem "Genesis".
I won't hazard any guesses as to the meanings of what you've written, I think in some ways it is very complex and philosophical. I did a little bit of research on the net but then found that I had about 10 different PDF documents all talking about "Ghost in the Machine" but yet they all seem to be talking about totally different topics and then my head got a bit mashed up and I was really none the wiser.
At one point while you were writing it, I thought it was heading towards an experiment which I read about that an astronaut carried out on the Moon involving a hammer and a feather dropped at the same time. Which seems to represent for some people an aspect of the original "ghost in the machine" concept/philoshophy. It's also been used as magic and to explain magic, which I know was a strong theme in your last poem.
As regards the bits that I like from your poem, there are passages towards the end and certain sentences like "Across everything, across something, across galaxies, across nothing" and "Across the wonder tracks lays a quiver The eternity cycle of the bound infinity" excellent poetically philisophical stuff.
Also you obviously know your stuff as regards space/universe, which has recently become a fascination of mine, so your descriptions of nebulas, rebirth and proto planets all appeal.
"Or the swamp's endless cycle of nebula calling I'm the cloaked murmur to the proto planet" I like this also even though I'm not totally sure why.
I will continue to read it and hopefully understand more as I do, but the poetic talent is definitely there, and I notice that nobody has commented as yet and I don't think that you will get very many comments here, although you never know. But I would say that don't view a lack of comments as a sign that people don't like it, because it doesn't always work like that here I've noticed.
Sorry if I never managed to unlock it's meaning, nevertheless I still enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks for the read.
AR
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#3
(05-19-2013, 11:11 AM)ambrosial revelation Wrote:  Hi James,
I've watched this poem develop for the past few days now and although I admit that I don't fully understand it, I am fascinated by it and the concepts and images within it.
Firstly I'll say that it is extremely well written, with certain poetic qualities that I particularly enjoyed from your other poem "Genesis".
I won't hazard any guesses as to the meanings of what you've written, I think in some ways it is very complex and philosophical. I did a little bit of research on the net but then found that I had about 10 different PDF documents all talking about "Ghost in the Machine" but yet they all seem to be talking about totally different topics and then my head got a bit mashed up and I was really none the wiser.
At one point while you were writing it, I thought it was heading towards an experiment which I read about that an astronaut carried out on the Moon involving a hammer and a feather dropped at the same time. Which seems to represent for some people an aspect of the original "ghost in the machine" concept/philoshophy. It's also been used as magic and to explain magic, which I know was a strong theme in your last poem.
As regards the bits that I like from your poem, there are passages towards the end and certain sentences like "Across everything, across something, across galaxies, across nothing" and "Across the wonder tracks lays a quiver The eternity cycle of the bound infinity" excellent poetically philisophical stuff.
Also you obviously know your stuff as regards space/universe, which has recently become a fascination of mine, so your descriptions of nebulas, rebirth and proto planets all appeal.
"Or the swamp's endless cycle of nebula calling I'm the cloaked murmur to the proto planet" I like this also even though I'm not totally sure why.
I will continue to read it and hopefully understand more as I do, but the poetic talent is definitely there, and I notice that nobody has commented as yet and I don't think that you will get very many comments here, although you never know. But I would say that don't view a lack of comments as a sign that people don't like it, because it doesn't always work like that here I've noticed.
Sorry if I never managed to unlock it's meaning, nevertheless I still enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks for the read.
AR

Hi Ambrosial

Thanks for the comment and yeah I didn't think anyone would comment either. As For the ghost in the Machine concept I went with the one from that book from 1967. Where basically The body and the spirit is not separated, as which is stated in it, There is no spirit in the brain, there is no location in the brain for that. As for the meaning of this, the main topic of it is in these lines "Crucify by Nebula" and "Blue flames of rebirth devour" Smile . And another thing just to help you out, the moon may or may not be the narrator Wink . Oh and I too share the fascination with space/ the universe, I actually wrote this so I can include lines about it. As for the elements from Genesis, I thought it would be the perfect way to write the last phase of this. And thanks again for your thoughts on it, I put just about a big part of May in this. Also there is a change in the narrators philosophy in every phase, the last being greatest, which begins at about the second stanza I believe.

-James
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