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Cathexis Poems - Poems about Cathexis

Whispers of My Heart

...'Love at first sight' ain't a truth for me
Hearts like mine are too robust to melt that quickly

Yet, more as I saw him
My childlike heart took a dip
In his ocean-like eyes in which I wanted to ...

Categories: cathexis, boy, break up, childhood,
Form: Verse

Melancholy's Garden

...Lost in a wistful arbor, where malaise blooms,
Mists flower in hypnotic bleak violet dusks
Shades of brooding melancholy  
Bruise my treasured bouquets of dreams
And plod through ponderous mists ...

Categories: cathexis, garden, sad,
Form: Free verse

Cathexis

...Psychic energy that is misspent on an idea, 
perhaps an object, and often on a person,
is referred to as a cathexis, an action 
to satisfy an urge or need that can worsen.

In his explored psych...

Categories: cathexis, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cathexis

...I was born with the spirit and soul of a writer. The cathexis to invest emotions,
and have a great affection for my poetry.  I love the children born of my pen
and pour my heart into each write. My...

Categories: cathexis, poetry, writing,
Form: Haibun

Cathexis

...Chasing stars
Aligned with brilliance


Forging hearts
In stormy signatures

Rain falls as reverence 
Wetting the face of forgiveness
Extinguishing the fire of this soul’s madness
That drif...

Categories: cathexis, emotions, encouraging, growth, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse

Parcel 38 Grave No 509

...Rufescent clouds descend on the Victorian horizon as the sky dies
Beneath them bone chilling winds roar as salvos,
I feel like an acceptor who adheres to the doctrine of disguise
While looking thr...

Categories: cathexis, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Grow Up

...faithful + libidinal
misbehavior is alien
one above is inside me
spitting it out is nauseating
a withdrawal from swallowing
from something I once did I once
I said, I never did at all, I never ...

Categories: cathexis, growing up,
Form: I do not know?

Cathexis

...Cathexis

I see you silhouetted in a vague haze,
On the far end of this breathing hallway,
Way off in the strange distance there,
Amid the suffocating cigarette smoke, 
And the obscene wallpain...

Categories: cathexis, dream,
Form: Free verse

Love

...Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity... Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom... love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or ano...

Categories: cathexis, love, love,
Form: Free verse