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Icarus, the Elder

Labyrinth jgyoungmd Icarus, now 72, flying in his head to some distant star twilight years away from callow youth looking to find the edges of t/his multi-verse before plunging into that unconscious sea, like his father Daedalus who fashioned 
his ascent, … Continue reading

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pony up

I took my erroneous pony to the tire store two tired to buy another phony war pitched battle of broken words towering babble misrepresenting why I went there, mistook alimony for matrimony, misspoken for mistaken, palimony for patrimony, tough in … Continue reading

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New Music 130413c

Got back into creating music. 130413c is an edited free improv work. Go to www.soundclick.com/jgyoungmd to listen to this and 478 other original pieces of music I have created. This song made the charts today   130413c # 88 in … Continue reading

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Alcoholism in n-Dimensions

[from the award-winning video, The Creative Adventure] Although typographically you might think I was drunk when I wrote this poem, I was quite sober. I had been reading the poems of e. e. cummings and was paying attention to his use … Continue reading

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Comments on the video, “Light”

My friend Don Yanacito, who is an instructor in the film department at the University of Colorado gave me this feedback on my video, “Light”: John, I took a look.  It puts me in an interesting conundrum.  I’m in awe … Continue reading

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Negative Spaces

[This article was first published in Young, J. “Negative Spaces,” The Journal of Creative Behavior Volume 16, Number 4 1982 and later included as a chapter in my book,  Therapeutic Awareness and Creative Expression.  I find it still has relevance.] NEGATIVE … Continue reading

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Path not taken, taken

Some recent poems are taking the path not taken. I have been writing new poems, broken moon, mining, trying to dig deeper into random sets of words that pop into consciousness. I take the sets of words that surprise me … Continue reading

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Light

I was struck by the light shimmering so I decided to create a video and add 120320, an emotion pad music piece I had done earlier.

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Broken Moon

I saw a broken moon over a broken heart in a broken village too soon to bare the surprise of seeing you there apart at least alive being there over and over tough going there then not going there broken … Continue reading

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130402 abstract

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