James Douglas Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was born
in 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. He was best known for being the
lead singer of the rock group The Doors.
He was also a poet, song writer, film maker and writer. In the
twenty seven years of his life he, along with the other members
the Doors, recorded six albums, toured and performed throughout
the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico and produced two
award-Winning films. Yet the constant thread in his life was
writing. He published four books and by the summer of 1971 he had
written 1,600 pages of poems, anecdotes, lyrics, stories,
outlines for plays and film scripts.
As he himself said of poetry :
"Real poetry dosenīt say anything, it just ticks off the
possibilities. opens all doors. you can walk through any one that
suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, itīs to
deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
Jim died
in Paris in 1971, and was buried in the Pere-Lachaisse cemetery,
among other masters such as Honore De Balzac, Charles Baudelaire
and Paul Verlaine.