<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Five A.M.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Elan that lifts me above the clouds<br>into pure space, timeless, yea eternal<br>Breath transmuted into words<br>Transmuted back to breath<br>in one hundred two hundred years<br>nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries<br>of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks, empires, bodies, cars,<br>chariots, rocket ships skyscrapers, Nation empires<br>brass walls, polished marble, Inca Artwork<br>of the mind -- but where's it come from?<br>Inspiration? The muses drawing breath for you? God?<br>Nah, don't believe it, you'll get entangled in Heaven or Hell --<br>Guilt power, that makes the heart beat wake all night<br>flooding mind with space, echoing through future cities, Megalopolis or<br>Cretan village, Zeus' birth cave Lassithi Plains -- Otsego County<br>farmhouse, Kansas front porch?<br>Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana --<br>coffee, alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, marijuana, laughing gas?<br>Nope, too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky<br>at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th street --<br>Where does it come from, where does it go forever?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Allen+Ginsberg">Allen Ginsberg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342338" data-title="Five A.M. de Allen Ginsberg" data-description="Elan that lifts me above the clouds into pure space, timeless, yea eternal Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to breath in one hundred two hundred years nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks,..."></div> </div> </div>

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