Monthly Archives: September 2009

quote i

The psychological state of being in love could be described as an obsession complex.
– C.G. Jung

The key part of this sentence is the “could be”.

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    words in search of a poem — smitten

    Dreams fade
    and dreams return
    early morning dreams.

    Soft pillow
    beneath your head
    you sinking into it
    an arm around your shoulder.

    Vague hesitation
    a secret world at your doorstep
    a single thought away.

    Emotional inhibition
    ideological obstruction
    lay me gently on the bed
    whisper intimate secrets
    velvet covered steel
    malleable.

    The knees shake
    the heart pounds
    the face flushes
    somatic innervations
    countless body sensations
    falling into time — again
    a streak of perspiration
    a wry twist
    a catching smile
    village bells chiming
    somewhere far off.

    Each lock of hair
    a yellow bouncing curl
    that tortures me exquisitely.

    Psychic manifestations
    synchronous chains of associations
    alterations of the will
    a strange power
    nervous energy mounting up
    hands moving over the warmness
    searching.

    Painful reminiscences
    hallucinatory delirium
    autochthonous ideas
    sudden impulses
    hands dipping into solid softness.

    Mouth parted
    ordinary words
    that never emerge
    instead
    stimulus words that hit a complex
    a striking effect
    smitten
    sinking into amnesia
    little gasps of pleasure along the way.

    – suraab

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      paranoia

      Private moments
      public
      your illicit thoughts
      my sins
      universal slander.

      – Leonov

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        Ataxia

        Flopping with the wind
        to tremendous effect
        a kite losing distinction
        falling

        I still think of you
        I still think of you
        lost to me forever
        I still think of you

        riffling through my brain
        repetitions of stimulus words
        perseveration
        lack of inhibition
        voluptuous thoughts
        fill me
        ’cause you are here

        frozen in time
        panicked
        looking for a place to hide
        in the middle of a field
        full of you
        space of my enemy

        I’ll reach out and touch you
        a small gentle touch
        warm, soft, lasting
        but dispassionate
        the connection severed
        leaving
        no solace for a lonely world

        speech confusion
        ideation floundering
        the directing idea
        gone

        violent excitements over nothing
        parade around me
        we must ask
        where the ordinary crosses over
        to the unordinary

        I’d grab you
        hold you near
        but you’d scream
        bloody Mary
        and the world would shatter around us
        brilliant shards of glass
        sparkling

        associative clauses
        small nothings leading
        to violent excitements
        absolutely incongruous to you
        absolute darkness

        batty, hell’s bat
        coming down from up on that cliff
        flames in his after flow
        he’ll rip me into shreds
        and leave me with nothing
        but the fading thought
        of that brief touch
        I stole from you.

        – Kasper Tannen

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          early autumn haiku

          Shadows grow down in
          the valley, while mountains bathe
          in twilight orange.

          – matt at shadow of iris

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