Out-slept the Womb



Out-slept the Womb

Out-slept the womb, trancendent I,
Head resting on your belly sigh,
The crystal patchwork of my mind,
Attached to yours drinks from the vine,
My dreams beyond the clouding sky.

The first time that you smile belies,
You cannot turn away kind eyes,
From he who thinking love is blind,
Out-slept the womb.

I never knew I’d feel so high,
When from your touching strokes I lie,
And watch all ticking clocks unwind,
As all our cares are left behind,
As if unborn in stillness I,
Out-slept the womb.

About this poem

This poem is a Rondeau. My broad interpretation of Freud backed up in this case by Jung is that, from the moment we are born into this noisy world, part of our subconscious selves wants to return to the womb. It is the safe place and the Death wish. Throughout our lives it is balanced out by our egos. When the two combine in a moment of true love and stillness it represents the bliss moment of a life fulfilled.

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Written on December 12, 2022

Submitted by IainMcLean on February 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A bbcxb ddcA bbccbA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 516
Words 109
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 4, 6

Iain McLean

Iain lives in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid with his family. Having been blasted by wild love and cancer in his late fifties, the broad theme of Iain McLean’s work is that “passion and joy comes through, if the suffering is true”. Iain is a dramatist who, many years ago, won a national theatre prize in the UK and just kept on going, slipping between stage, film script writing and university teaching. For six-years he also wrote a monthly feature for a glossy mag in Spain. Healthy again, Iain has written two new screenplays and a first draft novel and reads his first anthology of poetry “Love Toxic” in clubs and slams in Granada. more…

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