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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