Genius

When we think about “genius”. When we are in front of a work of genius, when we experience the art of a “genius”, when we read a poem that makes us inhale, exhale, and say “Wow”.
When we experience that, in the end, what we get, what we are left with, it’s “inspiration”.
It is not the work “per se”, it is not in the contingency of that creation that the genius lies. It is in what it inspires, in the doors it opens.

So, to me, a work of genius is something that inspire, it is about the things that comes because of that, after that, because of that idea, that door, that vision. What is even more amazing and beautiful about all that, is in the universality of it.
The same holds in fact true for all aspects and spheres of the world. It is like this both for science and art, both for the spiritual and the factual. It was like this for relativity, it was like this for ancient philosophers, it is like this about new math theories, it is like this for the works of Renoir, the poems of William Blake, Quantum Physics, and on and on and on.

It is like this for acts of Love. Too

#kittymichele – Oct 2020

On Names

Because a name may by itself be a prayer.

Because its sound can express an entire universe and letting it go from our lips can be life

What is there in a name?
In the end, in it there is all that we charge it with
So, for me, yesterday night, it was “Her name”.
It was closing the eyes and whispering it.

A “name” can be many things to us.
A name can be life, breath,
a name can be terror,
a name can be music,
a name can be tears,
a name can be …

The name will never truly be what we FORCE it to be, it will just be what it represent within us, for us.
What we feel it is.

It can be everything but at the same time we cannot make it to be everything.

In the end
every day, every night
if we close the eyes to “feel”
and chant “the name”,
then it will respond
it will speak its nature to us.

Last night I stopped the book I was reading.
I whispered those syllables.
I listened to what they filled me with
and they spoke.
In my bed I whispered.
I listened to it all
till exhaustion killed the shouts
till staying down killed the shouts
I got flooded with it all
I got cuddled with it all

Moments

The evening is mild, yet cold
a man, under a street light,
whistles at the sound of a tune
It is an old song, 
a tune that seems to come
from a distant time.

We do not even know why, but we stop,
all of our thoughts fade.
Those ones we thought we couldn’t delay
those ones that seemed so important, they vanish.

We stop,
we do pretend we are waiting for someone, 
we smile at ourselves, a silly thing to do, but we stop. 
Not a word,  we do smile, secretly stare, and listen.
We stand there and we watch at the scene:
a man’s silhouette, his whistling, 
like kidnapped into a magic carpet: we fly.

Suddenly, for no reason, we do feel small
there is a tear wanting to wet our eyes.
We do feel small, very small
small like those tears, reflecting the streetlights.
Tiny like that we do feel 
and it makes us feel like giants.

His music fades,
a girl approaches the man.
The young man stops whistling,
he stops singing, he smiles.

He takes her hand, 
not a word, 
but a smile and a kiss.
Like voyeurs we see them,
walking away, together.

We stay there, for a little while,
no words are needed. 
We watch the pillar
the place where the man was,
It takes time to get back.

We take our hands to each other’s eyes 
we caress our mutual surfaced tears.

A smile, arise on both you and me
it draws on you like the most beautiful painting

We take each others tear on each others lips,
And we know the evening will be perfect.

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