Big Rock-candy Mountain
I’m sure you believe
those things you
claim to
aspire to
cling to
It’s all
too fanciful
too incredible to me
as the folk tale
of the big rock-candy
mountain
–LE
Big Rock-candy Mountain
CynOp
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4 responses to “Big Rock-candy Mountain”
On reading your poem, my first thought was of the “streets paved with gold”, and all the other descriptors of heaven in the Bible. My dad was a religious man, but he didn’t take the words of the Bible literally, nor he did automatically believe his minister’s interpretations to be fact. He told me he read the words, then studied on what he thought was figuratively implied.
I can still see him sitting in his chair by the big window that overlooked the dirt road and the pasture beyond, his land, with his reading “specks” on, Bible open in his lap.
A question…in your painting/drawing, on the left at the base of the mountain, I see a person walking. Is that my imagination putting them there?
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That’s what I like about abstracts; different people see different things, depending on their perceptions. I did not intensionally put a person walking anywhere in it… but that doesn’t mean that there’s no one there…; -)
Yes, I can see how ‘strees paved with gold’ can be conjured in my poem. The Big Rock Candy Mountain is from an old folk song: https://youtu.be/E6F0IhdaaWI?si=ac-_csK1sADjDp5Y
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Yes, I’ve heard it many times in the past. A couple of country singers covered it, but my favorite version is the one you linked to.
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Mine too…; -)
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