poemranker ::The Mellifluous Sound of God: Musical Eden by Don-Quixote

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The Mellifluous Sound of God: Musical Eden

Member since 2003 · Posted 28 Aug 2003 · Edited 28 Aug 2003 · 16 comments

- I wish to tell the story explaining the day I experienced the joy of Musical Eden. It was a golden afternoon when I stood in that garage, its air warm and humid. The stage had a drummer and one guitarist in front of a microphone. He held something that he called a piano guitar, a secret instrument. It was an electric guitar with piano wire tuned perfectly to sing the exquisite melancholy of the supernatural. It was a drug synthesized into sound, delivered via the ear to be absorbed by my brain. Emotions of a thousand different spirits coursed through my mind, flashing images across my souls theatre. Phantasmagoric reality was injected into my universe, the melody crafted by a mad genius who studied the religion of sound. This music seeped into the ground and breathed life into the dead, causing them to dance in their pine coffins that rot for the rest of time. Earth holds decomposing flesh; hidden pain desperately buried in an attempt to forget what was lost. The singer was unreal, a holy ghost scorching the dreams of sleepers that try to escape their world. He was a messiah preaching with rock and roll, folk, and techno disco, radically broadcasting the human spirit in waves fluxing through the air, delivering the words of the wise, the understanding of knowledge sought but not studied.

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16 comments

[0] King Abdullah II 28-Aug-03/10:01 AM Reply
Whoa dude man that's like so you know just awesome like whoa
[n/a] Don-Quixote › King Abdullah II 28-Aug-03/10:28 AM Reply
Whoa? -shrug- just drugs man, just drugs, dont you know about them needles, joints, and lovely multi-colored pills? :P
[0] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 28-Aug-03/11:55 AM Reply
Extraordinarily pretentious title, even by your dictionary-obsessed standards. Nevertheless, great use of "delivered via the ear to be absorbed by my brain" as a beautifully concise synonym for "hearing something".

"exquisite melancholy of the supernatural" / 10
[n/a] Don-Quixote › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 28-Aug-03/12:19 PM Reply
its not concise.. and it wasnt meant to describe hearing something.. tsk. keep the 10, im not flattered. Give me another zero. :P
[5] <~> › Don-Quixote 28-Aug-03/12:37 PM Reply
lots and lots and lots of words used to say something that could be said directly--it's over-aggrandizing. it's bad form.

in term of poetry, concise is always good. (maybe lyrics are the exception). MAKE EVERY FUCKING WORD COUNT AND STOP BEING SO GODDAM LAZY.

end of rant.
[n/a] Don-Quixote › <~> 28-Aug-03/1:46 PM Reply
... i write what comes via my calloused fingers.. ok.. end of rant.

i enjoyed writing it, im happy with it, damn everyone else to hell, and thanks for again saying im lazy.. end of whine.

thanks for continuing to push.. end of expressing gratitude

[0] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Don-Quixote 28-Aug-03/3:42 PM Reply
Then why don't you write a little webpage on your own computer called don-quixotepoemranker which only you get to vote and comment on, rather than posting your self-indulgent twaddle on a PUBLIC POETRY FORUM?
[n/a] Y2kSlamPoet › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 28-Aug-03/4:05 PM Reply
you really have no ability to detect sarcasm.. and my god, your getting predictable. I dont like voting on my own shit, tsk.. not the kind of thing i do.

Why dont you just stop wasting your time, and discontinue to jump at these cute fish lures of mine..

Why do you continue to comment anyway? i wonder.. is it to educate me? belittle me? simply to anger me perhaps? prove to the whole site that im stupid? (your a good politician)

Might it be a social masturbation of some sort? are you attempting to save me and show me the truth of jesus (god, i hope not)

just.. shhhhh shhh my sweet little child..
[n/a] Settle › <~> 28-Aug-03/2:44 PM Reply
Or, if you're a genius like me, you can just copy and paste.
[n/a] Y2kSlamPoet › Settle 28-Aug-03/4:06 PM Reply
Man.. im overflowing with envy.. -fart-
[7] richa 28-Aug-03/1:46 PM Reply
not particularly poetic reads well as prose though lots of surprise images.

Loses it a bit with phantasmagoric though
[n/a] Don-Quixote › richa 28-Aug-03/2:08 PM Reply
;/ whats wrong with phantasmogoric? just wanted you to elaborate, if you dont mind.

It is prosey.. i have a problem writing in prosey fashion recently.. hrmm.. ill fix that soon enough. thanks.
[0] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Don-Quixote 28-Aug-03/5:41 PM Reply
Your poetry is tediously verbose because you overuse the dictionary and, to make matters worse, you happen to be the pretentious sort so you end up choosing words like "mellifluous" and phrases like "souls theatre". Your idea of what constitutes poetical wonderment is pretty much anything containing obscure language fused with line breaks and frequent refrences to spirits, messiahs, edens, cherubs, greek gods, dreamscapes, marble statues, melancholy, the whispering wind, xanthous brick roads, phantoms, reflections and musings.

You're absolutely right.

But what you lack is the uncompromisingly austere upbringing that was my priveledge. I am adept in my application of such words and phrases as mellifluous, xanthous, ruminate, maleficence, opprobrium, and "that would be an ecumenical matter", because they are not strangers to my daily vocabulary. You, on the other hand, wield the dictionary in much the same way a disabled wields an AK47 - as a strange, heavy object thrust into your hands by people who should have known better.
[n/a] SupremeDreamer › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 28-Aug-03/7:12 PM Reply
now, lets add some FACT concerning my use of the dictionary: mellifluous and phantasmagoric are the two new words i learned today.

melancholy i knew when i was 10. Maleficence i learned in the 7th grade. Xanthous is also another word that i knew before discovering the dictionary.

pretentious? tsk. you fail you stupid arrogant fool.. you want to know why i even bothered to write this, with that big fucking show off title? so you can do EXACTLY what your doing now. i made myself a bet about whether or not id be correct about how you would react: ive won 80% of this bet.

The nice bit about the moon, that was also another production for you to yap about my use of a dictionary.. i shouldnt learn new words, or try using them? does it fucking matter? no. its just your cute way to show everyone that im all about big words and looking my best, with my hair gelled, my hands gloved, and my trusty dark brown leather jacket worn cool cat style.

who cares if your code of the gentlemans upbringing endowed you with the knowledge of nice lil words? lets speculate:

mommy spanked you each night if you didnt read 20 pages from the dictionary 10 times over. Right? daddy was never proud when his son wasnt ruminating about his vocabulary.. im sure he enjoyed spanking your bottom with a need to discipline an unworthy child.

obscure? no, not really.. its plain and simple to understand, really, its not that confusing.. your simply skimming over things and highlighting phrases and large words, like the good english detective that you are.

moon mystery/musical eden: pure fucking crap created to see how well i could predict your pathetic ranting.

my picasso pieces.. well those were works of love, and no, this doesnt mean that picking them apart will bother me darkie.

you wish to reveal the "secret" (im not hiding, i have no fear, expose all that you think ive tucked away into my closet of bones)that i write to prove that i can do it like a master.. your a moron.. i dont give a shit what you think, theres a slight few that have any effect on me, and i never let such influences do much imprinting, but i can do better acting than you, thats for sure.

Your the man who has something to prove.. a need to convince folks of my retardation, fraudulant wannabe writing, and brown nosing social attitude.. also that im a hypocrit. all these things meaning nothing, for you have gotten NOWHERE.. nada, zip, zero. your my guitar.. i pluck some strings, you make some noise.. add some drums played in a unharmonious manner, and we have your sideshow amusement english punk rock. bingo.

now (excuse my Good Will Hunting quotes) HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?
[0] Crakyamuni 28-Aug-03/3:44 PM Reply
8th grade pool parties.
[n/a] Y2kSlamPoet › Crakyamuni 28-Aug-03/4:08 PM Reply
... do you have a traumatic memory of the 8th grade or something? did the whole school see your tiny dick and laugh at you, take pictures and hang it allover the walls of the campus?

Is that why your obsessed with masturbation, so obsessed that you named yourself after your lover?