> Rather than joke - a trickery - the mind
> conceives something as perfect, the image is
> internalized as perfect, and fabricates feelings
> accordingly.
Ah, yeah, I sort of gathered this might be the case,
was back in January 2005, sometimes rather than the
perfect 'image' of the house there is the seeing, by
feeling, that there's no 'house' at all, and perhaps
that's one of my issues, I don't think of the 'soul'
if it exists as an album of images but rather as a
breathing breath, that place in the marrow of the
bone, that 'sees' through the image that the house is
not there, no matter how one's unfabricated feelings
may wish otherwise,
best,
Rebecca
--- deborah russell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Rather than joke - a trickery - the mind
> conceives something as perfect, the image is
> internalized as perfect, and fabricates feelings
> accordingly. Anyway, it probably needs
> some work or we wouldn't have a topic.
>
>
>
> >Deborah,
> >
> >I didn't get at all from the title and the poem
> that
> >it was meant as a 'bit of a joke'! And no, I don't
> >think there's 'perfect love'; it seems to me closer
> to
> >the 'heart stutter' in your poem, the pause in
> which
> >imperfection is allowed to exist and is, perhaps,
> even
> >loved. I don't know though, for my sense of the
> poem,
> >including the title, was that it was weaker where
> it
> >became more general, in the first couple of lines
> and
> >at the end, where it seemed to be more about the
> >abstract ideal of perfection than the particular
> >feeling that drove the rest of it.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Rebecca
> >
> >--- deborah russell <[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Rebecca,
> > >
> > > Is there perfect love? I've not met anyone that
> > > believes there is - the title and the poem is a
> bit
> > > of
> > > a joke, isn't it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Deborah
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >I like this, Deborah, though I don't know about
> the
> > > >'perfect images' of the title or repeated in
> the
> > > >second line. I especially like this:
> > > >
> > > > > crash the moon,
> > > > > there’s a stutter
> > > > > deep inside . . .
> > > > > pause the heart
> > > > > (long enough)
> > > >
> > > >though at the rest,
> > > >
> > > > > to make me believe
> > > > > again,
> > > > > in love
> > > >
> > > >I wonder if we're not back to the sort of
> implicit
> > > >'perfect images' of the soul, why is it
> important
> > > to
> > > >'believe, again, in love'? in the general, the
> > > >abstract. When you can't believe in it in the
> > > >particular. . . ? How do you believe in the
> > > stutter,
> > > >as the heart's pause, and then go on to an
> abstract
> > > >faith?
> > > >
> > > >Well, this just may be me, a way in which I
> think
> > > that
> > > >those who believe in love in the abstract are
> often
> > > >unwilling to accept any love in the particular
> > > because
> > > >it's never 'perfect images'. So I hope it's ok
> to
> > > say
> > > >so, since I'd guess from the copyright you
> wrote it
> > > >last year and might not be adverse to
> questions,
> > > >
> > > >best,
> > > >
> > > >Rebecca
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >--- deborah russell
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Perfect Images
> > > > >
> > > > > the soul’s eyes
> > > > > hold perfect images . . .
> > > > > long hair
> > > > > in fiery screams
> > > > > snow/ice suspended -
> > > > > breathless - drifting
> > > > > stellar flashes;
> > > > > white teeth,
> > > > > dark, dove eyes
> > > > > slices of sun, juice
> > > > > drips from your lips
> > > > > and skin...
> > > > > prismatic beads
> > > > > slip around your feet
> > > > > sift through hands
> > > > > shatter the stars,
> > > > > crash the moon,
> > > > > there’s a stutter
> > > > > deep inside . . .
> > > > > pause the heart
> > > > > (long enough)
> > > > > to make me believe
> > > > > again,
> > > > > in love
> > > > >
> > > > > Deborah Russell, © 2005
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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