*********JULY MICROPOETRY MYTHOPOETRY******* ********* Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock **********

Ovid, Metapmorhoses 8

Fated beautician, Scylla Ovid's story, daddy's purple lock such an awkward, oddly heart-throbbing hearth-robbing shock stephanie pope ©2013 mythopoetry.com

#ohj Micropoetry: OPENING LINES

no lineman specializes in ball play when
the line of scrimmage is another
scrivener, a root metaphor
with a poetic nuance at work
in the background

that’s where
o
pen
ing lines draws to itself
a sticky thickener quickening
the inner line; an interface is
the line facing itself under erasure
the loosener of lines, dichter & bard

no specialist shows forth; already
outsides are dead and insides are living
the empowering resource, a
mythos in the logos making repair

©2013 “Opening Lines” stephanie pope mythopoetry.com

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notes

#ohj nuance and lineman June 12, 2013 micropoetics and mythopoetics

#ohj ODD HIPPIE JOURNEY

           Bringing In The Sheaves One Sheaf At A Time

“The trip had a dual purpose. One was to turn America on to this particular form of enlightenment, the other was to publicize [Kesey's] new book”   ~ Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“The durability of that myth… [purpose #1] is rooted in American ideals of freedom. Carolyn Garcia, aka Mountain Girl, the prankster who would later marry Jerry Garcia of the rock band the Grateful Dead, says Kesey felt that a film of the bus trip would spread the gospel of freedom through LSD. "They didn't know they were starting the 60s.
 ~Edward Helmore, The Observer

Sixties
Hippie
Electric kool-aid acid test
Astral, baby, but also
Fractious


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notes

1. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe's book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. One of the great books about how LSD invaded America's consciousness, peaking during the Summer of Love. A tribute to Kesey, the Pranksters (including Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, Mountain Girl and Wavy Gravy), and the whole psychedelic generation. Good insight into how the torch was passed from the Beats to the hippies. It also contrasts Kesey's "up front", experiential movement versus Timothy Leary's experimental, insightful approach to the LSD trip.

2. For more hippie terms see http://hippy.com/glossary-f.htm#F

3. Edward Helmore. “How Ken Kesey's LSD-fuelled bus trip created the psychedelic 60s”.  The Guardian/The Observer,  Saturday August 6, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/06/lsd-ken-kesey-pranksters-film accessed May 28, 2013.  accessed May 28, 2013.

4. #ohj [odd hippie journey] sheaf, fractious and bonus fun; the letter "N" is banned today May 28, 2013 except in hashtag.

5. The bus, "Further" from the 1960's road trip that begat the '60's.

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Thank you to the following url for providing the free clipart. http://americanhistory.phillipmartin.info/americanhistory_hippies.htm

#OHJ[1]  Lines For May

The light-hearted
free
spirit

is a timeless hippie.

On the shelf
a hippie handbook

how to lead such a life (even now).


down inside
the shelf, an image, an etymology

of split wood ―


”split”; in coming to sense the apo-sense here:
a spiritual disinheritance, away, afar, apart

a thou-making unconcealing itself.


“On the shelf” means set aside
(prolly rejected bits set aside for such thou-making)

an aesthetic arrest in a lighted heart.

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[1] See twitter hashtag #OHJ May 22, 2013  OHJ stands for “Old Hippie Journey”  I like the notion of the h-space; H= a space for turning images in psyche-making. this month all month the H-space stands for "hippie".  Each day two new words are given.  This day’s words are “shelf” and “frantic".


#OHJ:  Lines For May stephanie pope  micropoetics
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