Televisor (An Original Poem Inspired By Father Ernetti's Chronovisor)I have a visionI watch the deadWatch them danceWatch them singthey live, they laughthey grow, they crythey love, they hatethey dieI rest and wonder whyI get up and wanderthrough the river LifewonderingAm I betterfor all their strife?Now, how would one go about making a motion picture out of my short simple poem? Impossible!
Filmmakers have tried to capture the essence of poetry, to accolades and criticisms!
The word
"televisor" eventually gave way to "television" and you can read more about the
"chronovisor" and its quirky fabricator
here.
The idea for this poem came suddenly while I was driving. I dictated the words, as they came to me, into my mobile phone. It could either be interpreted as a work of literary zen, or perhaps more accurately, a poem questioning the usefulness of watching television, specifically, old movies from the 1930s where all of the actors are now dead. Celluloid ghosts, representations of beings that once were.
