Cosmological Journey - by Bobby "Blackwolf" Tamburrino
Definition of Cosmological Journey: Finding the truth about
yourself
This song is something I wrote as background music to an American
Literature project about Walt Whitman. My part of the group project was
to show how Whitman's poetry was lyrical. So, I wrote this song to go
behind my "spoken word" reading of the poem during our report.
This song is called Cosmological Journey because that was our
Engilsh professor's favorite concept. I got a B in the course, even
though I was 30 minutes late to the final exam.
The following is the poem that I read over this song.
Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking - Walt Whitman
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child
leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
Down from the shower'd halo,
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they
were alive,
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and
fallings I heard,
From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with
tears,
From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurridly,
A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
A reminiscence sing.
