Ferlinghetti: A Vast Confusion

(http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/ferlinghetti.html)
no copyright infringement intended

Long long I lay in the sands

Sounds of trains in the surf

in subways of the sea

And an even greater undersound

of a vast confusion in the universe

a rumbling and a roaring

as of some enormous creature turning

under sea and earth

a billion sotto voices murmuring

a vast muttering

a swelling stuttering

in ocean's speakers

world's voice-box heard with ear to sand

a shocked echoing

a shocking shouting

of all life's voices lost in night

And the tape of it

somehow running backwards now

through the Moog Synthesizer of time

Chaos unscrambled

back to the first

harmonies

And the first light

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-vast-confusion/)

Read by Erik LeCar
(video by Behind the Wall of Words)

(video by SarbearK)

Says SarbearK, no matter how much I can't stand English class, there are some projects that are just flat out fun to work on; this was one of them; it's an artistic representation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, A Vast Confusion (1976); I drew out each and every frame....all 69 of them, scanned them to the computer, edited them, and finally assembled it on WMM; I have to apologize for the subtitles though; they go by pretty fast; music is by Hans Zimmer from the Gladiator soundtrack (I think its titled The Battle).


(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)