A collection of poetry exploring the Borderland between the realm of waking senses and the sphere of dreams - a frontier between Reality and the Beyond. It is an anthology of poems that make sense with poems that do not make sense and those that are strictly "no nonsense". It is a puzzling compilation of poetry that will stretch you in many directions at once!
"Where did I leave my soul? - was it left in a jar? where did I forget my body? - am I still in the car? I follow the stars in their paths but I soon lose the tracks and end up in a bar. - Time it rides on the back of a sword held aloft by a templar knight." Edouard d'Araille
The Original Preface: PREAMBULUM
"Nowhere is out there where anywhere ends Nonsense is not what it seems - some know it not"
Between our Eyelids and the World, between the Land of Waking Sense and the Sphere of Dreams, - what is found out there on the Borderlands of Space? Where does Somewhere end and Nowhere begin, how can we travel beyond the bounds of Sense and experience the Super-Reality of the Cosmos Existent? When do the extremities of the body's sense organs no longer transmit to us the reality Outside and In? Where does sense leave off : non-sense commence? The Answers are no less known to me now than when I began - I do not know and the Unknown can necessarily not be said, only the boundaries thereof. Is the nomad's land but a desert of unknowing or does it have more to teach than we are ready to learn quite yet? What can we do but look from afar? Gazing through the eye of a lens - do you keep your feet rooted on the Earth or fly on the wings of an ostrich high above? Do you know what no/nsense is? I have heard the words from beyond the Dream but I cannot understand what they mean: do you come from this country have you learnt its native tongue? Many Contributors - One Theme - Not all it Seems... no/nsense views from the borderland
Extracts: hello Mr. Neutron Bomb
hello Mr. Neutron Bomb! you kept me waiting long
hello Mr. Neutron Bomb! you said you'd be along
did it have a reason tell me was it all for fun?
hello Mr. Neutron Bomb, thank God you came along! [lc]
nuance. expression
An argument for existence? No, no, no - there should be no need to justify that. There will never be a need to justify existence, not a rational de-mystifying 'reasonable' solution. Not in my mind, while I breathe the same air as the others - air we should freely share. I have to breathe your pollution: putrefied 'solution'. "No need for drawings anymore - an image will suffice" - that picture did say a thousand words. Words proclaiming the death of a language that had been misunderstood. It was the arrogant appropriation of a weak mind. [gmh]
the flying atheist
we still fly in the dark believing that a runway will light up below us
to comfort each other we say that after millennia of struggle there must be something behind it all
ignoring the cast iron fact that we continue to crash too soon into mountains or smash up spray in the sea
to fly blind flees the thought that at our journey’s end we are mostly superfluous [jc]
dog hotel
I left You at the Dog Hotel and I said - I won’t be long three weeks passed when I came back - they tell me She is Gone! You were my Beloved my Chihuahua Dachsund Labrador You were my Afghan Buddha You were my Holy Dog after all! [eda]
the way it is
why is the Orb on the Throne?
is it moving or has it always been there?
or am I moving or was I always there?
let it be my humblest suggestion that it just is where it is
it doesn’t matter how it got there
and I guess to me that’s just the way it is [jt]
- If this collection of poems does not leave you bamboozled and befuddled and confused and dizzy with the meaning and meaninglessness of words - then it will not have accomplished its purpose! This is a time to let go of all sense and embrace the absurdity of life!