A Child is a Flower | Photography & Poetry

This is a story about Jim Morrison, The Doors, a child, a flower, and my rose.

Technical Details	Info
Category	Macrophotography
Settings	1/125 sec. f/8 53mm ISO 100
Camera	Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens	Canon EF-S 18-55mm SLR Lens
Location	Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

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A child is a flower
His head is just floating in the
breeze.
          —Jim Morrison

I wanted to post one of my photography of flowers when I remembered him.

Jim Morrison, The Doors' vocalist, loved flower. In fact, the legend lived in time when flower became a movement: flower generation.

It was coincident the rock star died of heart failure on July 3, 1971, in a bathtub in Paris. I wanted to remember him by writing this post.

The above poem was part of Dawn's Highway lyric written by Jim. It was The Doors' song in the album An American Prayer (1978). This song told about the horror of "Indians scattered all over the highway, bleeding to death".

Patti Smith, in a review of the album in Creem Magazine (1979) wrote about the poem. She said:

The artist is blessed with the curse of unceasing labor. we slip our hands beneath the birth of his work. we hide in the rushes. we build a raft. work sails away.

Bill Osborn, in The Doors to Dionysos: The Nietzschean Jim Morrison, suggested a relationship between this poem with Greek mythology of Hyakinthos (Hyacinth), a handsome young Spartan loved by the gods Zephyros and Apollo. Zephyros, the west wind god, was jealous and tried to harm him. One day, as Zephyros and Apollo played discus, Zephyros blew the discus which striked Hyakinthos' head and killed him. Apollo cried and transformed him into a larkspur flower (hyakinthos in Greek). Spartan immortalized the tragedy in Hyacinth Festival every summer.

In Mythology (1942), Edith Hamilton described the tragedy more detail. When Hyakinthos died, Apollo caught him up in his arms and tried to stanch the wound. "While he held him the boy’s head fell back as a flower does when its stem is broken. He was dead and Apollo kneeling beside him wept for him, dying so young, so beautiful". Jim Morrison said that he always brought Hamilton's book around.

We didn't know exactly whether Hyakinthos story inspired Jim when writing the poem or not. But the dying youth was a big tragedy.

The Death of Hyacinthos by Jean Broc. Source: Wikimedia

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