The Mushroom Blues

[Blue]

Hey Guys,

First post for this day tripper, hope some of you can relate. It is just a bit of creative writing that spewed out of me after a particularly special blue full moon in the forest this past fungi season. Here goes:

The Mushroom Blues

It behaved as innumerable separate organisms working in absolute harmony, guided by the group consciousness of the massive multi organism entity that was the forest.

The fire flames consumed all combustible excess leaving the unalterable charcoal deposits of carbon, the most basic of building blocks. This organic melting pot where dead, lifeless timbers reanimate through the energy of fire to meld, morph, melt and weld before reducing to simplest form.

The fire antics forecast a broader phenomenon characterised by overlapping layers of movement. Superficial flame dancing over fire fuel material amalgamating into the lowest denominator, one common carbon element, and a life force apparent from below the hearth.

Heartbeats rolling in waves through the earth, obvious in the surrounding grounds, providing impetus to the mass of single minded organisms all carrying out their perfectly choreographed dance of life. The trees stand solid and stable providing stability and structure to a virtual fluid world consisting of separate actions specific to the energy vibration levels of the individuals, but acting in perfect synchronicity.

Regardless of the energetic swaying flip flops of the overhead sapling branches which are encompassed by a canopy of more mature branches protectively embracing and massaging the more fragile undergrowth, the tallest of trees sway in unison hanging masses of branches and leaves, all as one to fill the spaces, shelter the delicates, and dance to the earth based heartbeat which permeates the most insignificant movements to co-ordinate the writhing hordes of leaves, twigs, branches, trunks, vines, grasses and flowers, resulting in a symbiosis only achieved by the governance of mother nature, the goddess herself.

Hope my spew didn't make anyone sick, but have been trying to put my experiences to paper for a long time and this is as close as I have got to a decent job.

[narayan]

wow, this is really nice

I felt like I was sitting in the forest tripping on mushrooms while I was reading it.

[Benzito]

nice first post.

Welcome Mushroomblue, nice to have you aboard.

[ShiningPlain]

sweet man. i have some writing like this somewhere. back in the day i was sort of the stereotype of the alienated postmodern poet.

[dracos6]

wow, puts me in a very serene place.

welcome mushroomblue

[Blue]

sweet man. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> i have some writing like this somewhere. back in the day i was sort of the stereotype of the alienated postmodern poet.

Does that mean you think I am the stereotypical alienated postmodern poet?

I thought my writing was classical and is constructed as carefully as possible with accepted rules of language to provide an image and feeling for the reader, i.e. purely descriptive compared to post-modernism which was actually a deliberate attempt to deconstruct the english language and call into question the adequacy of our language in its current form to actually capture concepts. I agree that postmodernists doubt the very existence/nature of objective reality but they take it one step further than I will ever be able to do (straight anyway!) by deconstructing language and then reconstructing it into something that seems foreign to us but maybe is better suited to describing alternative realities.

I would much rather be an alien poet than an alienated poet too by the way.

When was "back in the day", the deep dark early 2000's? ;)

Cheers for the replies though guys, good to strike a chord with likeminds, gives a little confidence in chosen path, not that I doubt it. Much!