#absences

[chateauofmymind]

TURING TEST_PROBLEM SOLVING, Franny Choi

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

il faudra travailler avec les blancs de l’action

pour faire taire les torpeurs

il faudra réveiller les deuils inachevés

pour concrétiser les absences

il faudra que la construction du jour y trouve son rempart

ce qui n’a pas été réalisé consomme autant d’espace que nos vies abouties

--

it will be necessary to work with the gaps in action

to silence the languors

it will be necessary to awaken unfinished griefs

to make absences tangible

it will be necessary for the construction of the day to find its rampart there

what has not been accomplished takes up as much space as our fulfilled lives

.

© Pierre Cressant

(mercredi 4 décembre 2024)

[gaymajin]

Now, only these poor snow-flowers in a heap,

Like the memory of a white dress cast down . . .

So much has fallen.

                                    And I, who have listened for a step

All afternoon, hear it now, but already falling away,

Already in memory. And the terrible scales descending

On the silent piano; the snow; and the absent flowers

      abounding..

[protoslacker]

News networks cover bombings, shootings, and other forms of kinetic violence because they are loud, finite events that seize our attention, invite investigation and intrigue, and whose victims can be counted, named, and mourned. By contrast, the everyday structural violence of Israel’s occupation and apartheid is comparatively uneventful. Instead of loss, it inflicts absence. Instead of killing, it simply aborts. Its first casualties are dreams and destinies. Even its victims cannot offer a full accounting, because how can you miss that of which you were always deprived?

Alexei Sisulu Abrahams in +972 Magazine. How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine

The uneventful nature of structural violence renders it unfit for media coverage compared to kinetic violence. But the two are inextricably linked.

[macrolit]

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

Illuminations (1968), Walter Benjamin 

[thatpoemguy]

---Absences---

I'm sorry for my absences I've tried to find what balance is like practicing some abstinence between my rite of passages

exploring moments passionate like letting go of passiveness I'm never one to pass on it succumbing to attractiveness

I don't care what the damage is sating desires ravenous as I embrace my savageness and dust off with a rapidness

a certain air of sanguineness lips to bottle I handle fifths when moments become scandalous I bet few minds could handle this

[epilepsyqueen]

When you’ve been seizure free for almost a year and then.... you have a seizure...