THE DEFORMATIONAL IMAGE

THE SELF ABUZZ

One of my fav words is "bespeak". Bespeak means to indicate "as if". Bespeaking is an as-if language that chalks or marks out boundaries of things long before "things" ever actually appear. The image to keep upper most in mind in the word, "bespeak"  is that of a finger pointing for in its Greek root is deik, meaning digit, like the forefinger. There is a Greek god in the word, "bespeak" too. You can read more about that divinity, the holy action of language and fantasy's humor shaping poetic mind in the presence of horror and dread by clicking here.


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Poetic mind may express and does express a fantasy image representing interiority without the image having to have interiority or exteriority to express and/or give notice to its reality.

ORIGINAL HIDE ~NICE? ABSOLUTELY!

SCIENCE MAKES A NICE DISTINCTION

a nice distinction undoes it
nicely absolute is absolutely nice

©2014 ABSOLUTE VALUE stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
#ohj nice, absolutely #mythopoetics #tenwords #distich


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the collage is made from images taken from the following learning-math sites: http://tedfelix.com/TedChain/avalue.htm

http://www.mathfunny.com/absolute-value-positive-negative-8-bars/

http://www.onlinemath4all.com/absolute_value_function.html

http://www.linkstolearning.com/links/integers_opposites_absolute_value.htm

WRITING TOWARD THE BLOOM IN THE GENOME

photo credit House of Doves

FACING THE UNRESTRAINED

Listen, my heart, as only saints have listened: until the gigantic call lifted them off the ground
                     ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies/First Elegy


Pretty Pretender, thy artisan, soul-making
neither fails nor achieves in the same way
as this world of facts

©2014 IMAGINAL EGOS stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
#ohj artisan, fact #mythopoetics #tristich #micropoetry

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We conceptualize self in terms of dynamic multiplicity of relatively autonomous I positions in an imaginal landscape.  The I has the possibility to move, as in a space, from one position to another in accordance with changes in situation and time.  The I fluctuates among different and even opposed positions.  The I has the capacity to imaginatively endow each position with a voice so that dialogical relations between positions can be established.  The voices function like interacting characters in a story.  --Hermans, Kempen & van Loon, "The Dialogical Self"