Happy Birthday, Frank Herbert

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to the late, great Frank Herbert (1920-1986), science fiction author and father of the incomparable Dune series.

In his honor, two of his more Halloween-friendly poems from Songs of Muad'dib: The Poetry of Frank Herbert.


You have loved Caladan
And lamented its lost host--
But pain discovers
New lovers cannot erase
Those forever ghost.

"Refrain from the Habbanya Lament," Frank Herbert


Nature's beauteous form
Contains a lovely essence
Called by some--decay.
By this lovely presence
New life finds its way.
Tears shed silently
Are but water of the soul:
They bring new life
To the pain of being--
A separation from that seeing
Which death makes whole.

"Zensunni Theme," Frank Herbert

Comments

[toddlyles.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I'll have to tell my wife, Joelle. _Dune_ is like, her favorite book ever!

T

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

A woman of great taste! :)

[estellye.livejournal.com]

All hail one of the great ones! What a mind that man posessed!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Well said indeed! I couldn't agree more.

[fenice-fu.livejournal.com]

What a great book and a great series! The poetry and...just the whole social structure and literature within the books are amazing. Not that it has anything to do with Halloween and I could be paraphrasing wrong, but the quote that always pops into my head is Gurnsey saying "Behold, like a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work" or some such. Great great books... they rank up there with the Foundation series (at least the first few Dune books) in my mind.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

What a great book and a great series! The poetry and...just the whole social structure and literature within the books are amazing.

I couldn't agree more! :)