Monday, 28 January 2013

Fiction Adaptation: Ideas

Whilst browsing on the internet to find ideas for my project, I started to consider doing a poem instead of a graphic novel for my fiction adaptation. I decided to search for poems by Jim Morrison; lead singer of The Doors, I had knowledge that he had written poems before so I had a look to see what kind of things he had write. I found a few poems written by him however this one stood out the most for me.


It was the greatest night of my life
Although I still had not found a wife
I had my friends right there beside me
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crown the young child's fragile eggshell mind
We scaled the wall
We tripped thru the graveyard
Ancient shapes were all around us
No music but the wet grass felt fresh beside the fog
Two made love in a silent spot
one chased a rabbit into the dark
A girl got drunk & made the dead
And I gave empty sermons to my head
Cemetery cool & quiet
Hate to leave
your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day


The moment I read this several ideas popped into my head of what I could do and how much I could play around with it. It's called "Graveyard Poem" and is about Morrison hanging around in a cemetery with his friends but I plan to not take the poem literally and plan to add my own twist to it.

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