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Mindless Hysteric
by Kate Burnside → (All Poetry by Kate Burnside)
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh... Don't mind me... I'm fine. :)) K xx


MINDLESS HYSTERIC


A century apart, almost to the day,
and I’m outside trying to get back in,

inside your lobes like overblown walnuts,
that flying fist punching holes in past ignorance

and sailing Superman onwards,
disrupting the discretion of our
politely mute, empirical skies;

applying mud and spittle to eyes,
redeeming the blindness of our
psychological cartography.

Like an exotic map, I want to touch
your crenellated thoughts,
the contours and lie of them;

slice through the sedimentary strata
and rough-handle the rocks and the slime,

the x and the y of your mental equations,
your nightmare chemistry that makes me up:
the test-tube smoke and bubble of me.

Fixing your gaze, I would look unflinching
into your pendulum pocket-watch eye
wait for you to say that I have found you out,

and know your crazy mind, Sigmund.



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 Reviews of "Mindless Hysteric"
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on November 29, 2006
You left me dumb struck and in awe I think...Have you been out on a date with Andy and Paul??

Sigmund huh??

Love Tinka :)

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on November 29, 2006
You Go Where Few Have Gone Before (or is that Star Trek?)

AND LOL at Submariner Andy!

Reviewed by Victor Buhagiar (Reader)
Reviewed on November 29, 2006
You sure know how to deliver a punch, lady. I'm in awe. To dissect a super being and even call him Sigmund, that takes guts and I admire guts. Victor

Reviewed by Cynth'ya Reed
Reviewed on November 29, 2006
So, you've been lost manuerving around unknown small towns too, huh?
(smile). Enjoyed!
blessin's
cynth'ya

Reviewed by Lori Moore
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Some great images. I love the "pendulum pocket-watch eye."

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
a mindful and stimulating tour de force slicing through the sedimentary strata of psychological dilemma, embellished with shall i say, therapeutic imagery ...



Reviewed by Dawn Richerson
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
I have so much to say I can't figure out what to say here, Kate. take note: that's a sign that this has great force of power as a poem and also touches something deep within me. Freudian slip of a poem here? sweet dreams! Dawn

Reviewed by Janet Parker
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Your words are amazing, Kate. But I didn't have a clue as to what it was about. At the end, I assummed it was about Sigmund Freud. I envy the other's who comment and seem to understand what this is all about. I just think you are brilliant.

Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz (Reader)
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
And oh...how the books on Bi-Polar syndrome do dissect many a genius, including Sigmund.
There are geniuses on the DEN, as well, and mayhap many of THEM are Bi-Polar victims...but what beautiful poetry sprouts from the depths of their agonies!
Not to say that YOU are in that category, dearest Kate, but your words in verse always amaze me with their "dancing brilliance."

Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Wow! An up close and personal wish to disect a genious's mind.
Of I had my wishes it would be to do the same with my old friend Salvador Dali. Make a vow with you...whomever gets there first tells the other.
Love,
Susan

Reviewed by Taylor Ryan
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Mesmerizing Kate, right down to the pendulum pocket-watch eye...hypnotized as I dig into the layers of your genius...Freud can step aside.
Love, Taylor

Reviewed by Joyce Bowling
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
loved it...especially the x and y of your mental equations...great write!
Blessings,
Joyce Bowling

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Is there a doctor in the house? Help! All in all you never cease to amaze with the magnificient use of your native language.

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
A powerful rant Kate! Quite umbrageous in spirit too. Wow!

You probe mysteries here laced heavily with the threads of injustice, as if the subjective mind is warring against the objective mind.

Light and Wisdom ...
Richard Lloyd Cederberg

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Weird, I was in the bath (Thinks, playing submarines, up periscope) and I thought that he was a crazy cracker.. Jung seemed more on the ball..
Now lie down and what do you see a Hindless Mysteric...

Reviewed by J M (Reader)
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
This one is well written Kate the wordsmith never disapoints when reading your writes.... XX Joselyn

Reviewed by Rusty Daily
Reviewed on November 28, 2006
Your words, language and thought process are a constant delight Kate
Rusty


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