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• Diegas from BrasilI never heard about the meaning of the title, and made an interpretation that the poem was about a birth labor.
  Now now reading it with this context, it fits more, but still does the birth labor also fit.
• Armin from Dallas/fort WorthI first made the connection between the poem's title and Jim Morrison's lyrics when I learned about a phenomenon known as the doldrums in a solar astronomy class. This phenomenon, in which the earth's air currents void at subtropical lattitudes, seemed to be described in Morrison's poem to a "T." I just now learned the origin of the term used for the poems title, where sailors would throw dying horses overboard because of the delayed journey and drought---a very sad affair indeed. Nonetheless, the poem is an excellent example of Morrison's talent and imagination as a poet.
• Nady from Adelaide, Australiaits such an intence piece of poetry. i.ve got it on dvd live at the hollywood bowl in 1968, its extraordinary
• Michael from Jacksonvillw, FlBest poem Jim ever wrote.
• Madison from Norway, MeThis is the saddest song I have ever heard. The visuals this song conjures up are distubing to say the least. I can't even listen to it anymore.
• Andrew from Adelaide, AustraliaThis one of the first poems that Morrison ever wrote. It instills a deep fear of drowning and a love of nature.
• Christina from Baltimore, MdJim was a very profound writer and til' now, I had NO IDEA this was taken from a "Nostradamus prophecy"...that makes it even COOLER! Some complex writing there...LONG LIVE MORRISON!
• Ashley from Moncton, CanadaThis has some amazing poetry in it. A lot of what Jim Morrison wrote inspires my writing, actually.
• Elanor from Zagreb, MoOne of the first Jim's poems ever written.
• Loretta from Liverpool, Englandthe first part is from a nostradamus prophecy

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