Links View all jlindsaysmith39's friends Login Find all Posts by jlindsaysmith39 Find all threads started by jlindsaysmith39 Status N/A Statistics Profile Views: 163 Friends: 0 Files: 0 Last Update: 2008-03-31 Signup Date: 2007-07-11 Rating: (info) Activity points: (info) Total Posts 0 Refferals 0 Last Forum Activity 2007-07-11 03:00:00 AM Forum Rank Junior Member Personal Information Name Lindsay Smith  Birthday 1939-12-16 Send a private message to jlindsaysmith39 Gender Male Orientation Straight Relationship Status Married Religion Other Location Rockhampton Australia About Me No information available Recent blog entries    The resurrection effect    An Opening at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre    Spiritual Gifts harvested [view all 56 of jlindsaysmith39's blog] Recent Surveys No survey entries found Recent blog comments It's a dirge for the American people & for their deadbeat president who wears pair of crocodile skin boots when he's feeling like a hero. (posted in The American Eagle) Your poem is about love. I think what I wrote was in jest & probably more about lust. Sometimes lust can to turn to love, sometimes things don't go anywhere as happened in this case, we were just ships passing in the night. (posted in pad) 'Series' grew from things that I observed in 1967 when I was composing this poem. Things that struck me as vivid & memorable I put down on paper like word sketches. Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' comes to mind as the model. He wrote that score after going to the opening of an exhibition of paintings at an art gallery. He even wrote 'promenade, for leisurely walking from one painting to the next. Mussorgsky wrote his original piece for piano & Ravel orchestrated the version that is played at concerts. I also wanted to convey what I had observed from a young age that people often miss what is going on. People talk a lot but often do not really say anything much. They are lost in a waking nightmare. In fact a lot of what is said unless it is important to you the listener is in fact background noise, sometimes distracting & annoying. The little girl in the final illustration swinging on the door is in her own world. She is paying attention completely to what she is doing. She is living in the moment, 'stubbornly involved.' (posted in series) Recent Photos          [view all 5 photos] Friends No friends found Recent podcasts No podcasts found Recent movies No movies found Recent topics No topics found Signature(Forum)