Fiction

I can sympathise. I've started reading long-winded fantasy epics for the first time since I was a child. After years of reading "realistic" fiction, I'd like some escapism.

Oh me too! Can I be buried there too? That sounds amazing. :)

Me three.. Beautiful

Opheliac

You have offered a glimpse of your rabbithole which dazzles in its sheer brilliance.

Very alluring this is.:)

Sumeet

I want to come to. Take me out of this hell.

everyone's welcome, just keep on reading books.
thank you everyone for reading and commenting on my poem.

Yet another handsome Bonsai from thy enriched stable!!!!

I too would love to buried there. what you described is how I feel when I read.

im glad you can relate. thanks for stopping by :)

Nice poem.  I've felt that way at times, too.  But, to me, a "fictitious world" is obviously not real.  It's fine to want to escape the "real world" at times.  I try, too.  But I begin to notice that my feelings change from moment to moment and I almost have to force myself to go to that "fictitious" place.  Sometimes I go there (I am of impulsive, stubborn Irish descent) only to hurt myself more than if I take the real world (which has its beautiful side) on, reveal it, unmask it, perhaps rationalize it.  But that is part of my experience, too:  the real world of my experience.  Words always have the potential to "hurt," even if they are "beautifully written."  Fine poem.


marcella1

thank you for stopping by marcella :)
im glad you can relate to my poem even to some degree.

I I agree it's a nice place to be buried. Much better than mine: "winter grave"

Keep a place, where can I make reservations?

Sweet and deep at the same time.
I'll share it in twitter.

what an honour! thank you Luca!
i'll make the necessary arrangements :)

"Words" can't "hurt," unless you identify with them.  Beautiful poem, it moved my world.  And by the way, here is the Philosophers' start.  If you say, when someone has called you something you dislike, "I am hurt by that."  Is it the "essential I" which is hurt?  But if you say something (to yourself, like "hurt is within me") are you saying something quite different?  The "essential self" is not possessed by the hurt.  It can't be, otherwise it wouldn't be "essential."  Granted, these are words (essential self, the me), they are ways of using language and can't be taken too far.  Yet isn't there some meaning in this disidentification?  The "me" can be hurt.  In fact the "me" experiences and says all sorts of things which are correct and which are wrong.  If you are willing to make this distinction the "essential I" can only be inbliss, because it identifies with nothing (no-thing), not even bliss.

By the way, could you please "Message" or whatever it is called, my message-thing.  Thanks.

marcella1

I still read you
for no other reason
but  for your brevity
that deeps in gravity
in stillness
the silent earth
quivers