Why Does the Narcissist Write Poetry? https://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/t6156 Runboard| Why Does the Narcissist Write Poetry? en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:29:36 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:29:36 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Why Does the Narcissist Write Poetry?https://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/p62624,from=rss#post62624https://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/p62624,from=rss#post62624They say, with a knowing smile: "If he is really a narcissist - how come he writes such beautiful poetry?". "Words are the sounds of emotions" - they add - "and he claims to have none". They are smug and comfortable in their well classified world, my doubters. But I use words as others use algebraic signs: with meticulousness, with caution, with the precision of the artisan. I sculpt in words. I stop. I tilt my head. I listen to the echoes. The tables of emotional resonance. The fine tuned reverberations of pain and love and fear. Air waves and photonic ricochets answered by chemicals secreted in my listeners and my readers. I know beauty. I have always known it in the biblical sense, it was my passionate mistress. We made love. We procreated the cold children of my texts. I measured its aesthetics admiringly. But this is the mathematics of grammar. It was merely the undulating geometry of syntax. Devoid of all emotions, I watch your reactions with the sated amusement of a Roman nobleman. I wrote: "My world is painted in shadows of fear and sadness. Perhaps they are related - I fear the sadness. To avoid the overweening, sepia melancholy that lurks in the dark corners of my being - I deny my own emotions. I do so thoroughly, with the single-mindedness of a survivor. I persevere through dehumanization. I automate my processes. Gradually, parts of my flesh turn into metal and I stand there, exposed to sheering winds, as grandiose as my disorder. Continue to read this article here (click on this link): http://samvak.tripod.com/narcissistpoetry.html nondisclosed_email@example.com (samvaknin)Mon, 11 May 2009 07:24:22 +0000