Anima
A Repressionist's Poem
A poem based on a dream and Jung's principle of Anima and Animus:
Anima
Anima
In the black shadow
The owl opens her wings -
And I am somewhere
Lost in dark magick
As it invokes a new me -
Sleek and crystalline
Sophia would be in love -
As the cyclic moon
Makes with the deepening lake -
Our Great Mother flies
Her feathers like snow
In the disconsolate sky -
Will I… never wake
Published by J L Carey Jr
J L Carey Jr, Author of the book Turning Pages, is a writer and an artist living in Michigan with his wife and three children. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from National University and a BA in Englis... View profile
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Post a CommentThis "Jung" seems to have had a few interesting ideas. Awesome poem... and the answer, perhaps, is that Anima will indeed awake and be fused to consciousness -- but only in the defeat of repression... and to undo that which was begun at birth wouldn't one perhaps need to start anew? Be born again, but into a different sort of reality, other than the one causing the development of various forms of repression? All very interesting stuff J L. Thanks for writing in this fashion!
Beautiful and haunting (in a good way)
Very mystical :)
In Psychology "Repression" is the unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind. What this repressionist piece explores is that unconscious state, the dream state and explores some of that imagery. Thank you for the comments.
Beautiful imagery and poetry...
Great imagery, Jeff, and an owl's feathers do feel like flakes of snow. Incredibly soft.
She seeks the animus to make her whole ... perhaps.