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Paula Sullaj May 2017
Lamtumirë*
in Albanian is greeting a loved one when,
you are leaving forever. It literally means
"We leave things well". It is finding
consensus in endings.
B
u
t
.
.
.
Things get so arduous when,
in Japan they offer an art for repairing
b r o k e n   pieces  with  golden  lacquer.
*K i n t s u g i
47 days and counting.
I have run out of gold
Paula Sullaj Nov 2017
The    physical     alienation
tilts  the entire spectrum of
  internal   parallel universes
  Which    generate  limitless  
  scenarios   of   "perhaps"-es
  and  bittersweet "what if"-s
  Up to the  point  where  the
  outside  dissolves   into   the
   inevitable           acceptance
ItAllMeltsWithinThisWhiteNoise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH0BQtwEAsM
Getaways from Soul Constipation
Paula Sullaj Oct 2017
\ \/ /  
As
the
cat
jumped
into the
lake. It realized
  \ \there had been no/ /
\ \ \fish to catch at all./ / /
\ \But it was too late / /
and our cat was
left with a wet
fur in the
cold
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWnIhMOCrQ
Attribution theory A social-cognitive approach to describing the ways the social perceiver uses information to generate causal explanations. (Source- Apa.org)
Paula Sullaj Jul 2017
The sun sets not far from midnight in Oslo
Enough to leave a little space to bedtime thoughts
In Vlorë the light fades just when the sea needs to rest
Birds fly to new places even though they know they will leave
"Better to have one bird in hand than ten on the roof"- Norwegian proverb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6s7FdWiUI
Paula Sullaj Oct 2017
We  are  both  receivers
Of each-other's pulses.
Shortening thus
the time
and
space
between our
souls and minds
Until I remain the
.
O
n
l
y

.
approaching source
And
you become a retreatant receiver.
.
The
connection
is
lost
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g8w1q6ywLE
Beyul- According to Tibetan Buddhism are places similar to paradise, which can only be reached with enormous hardship
Paula Sullaj May 2014
And you grow,
as a reflection of others mirrored in your soul
You grow colorful
In an eternal shaping of yourself, an indefinite shape
You grow empty
With an originality that absorbs others'
You grow wondering
Is there a you, or just a collection of souls in a shell?
You grow uncertain
While others know how to define you
But you grow
Unknowingly you grow...
Paula Sullaj May 2014
Repetition
Repetition, repetition, repetition
A dancing circle...
Round, around, round
Sun, rain
Sun, sun, Rain rain, Rain, sun.
Repetition
Life- Death, Death-Life
All as part of one.
Repetition...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCMDZ4grR4
Paula Sullaj May 2014
I feel my consciousness resting at the center of my chest
feeling nothing, thinking nothing...
Peace.
I feel thoughts struggling, fighting, discussing
within my brain...
Pain.
I feel the air touching my body. Penetrating
the pores, the lungs...
Cold.
I feel the echo of a tune in my ears, head, heart.
A connection.
I feel separated, divided, cut in three.
Body, Mind and Soul. For...
A moment.
A day.
Weeks, months...
Life.
While listening to this favorite track of mine, I get different feelings. Today I felt all I wrote above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJp5HHh5_Ys .
Paula Sullaj Mar 2015
Transform   me   to   the    point  of   death
Surrounding    my    scars     with   daisies,
Overloading  my   blood with  white light,
Explode   me   into   billions    of   sparkles.
Then    create    my   wings  out    of    frail
fairy  dust   and the  strength of a tornado.
After give me eyes to  see energy   floating
And antennas to feel every touch as a bliss
Turn   my   being   into     a          butterfly,
So    I     can      pop      around       prettily,
Colorfully,       energetically,        infinitely.
**Love me!
Paula Sullaj Apr 2017
Emptiness is created by the idea of something missing.
But what if it is merely a  failed  realization of fullness?
I am already alive, living, crying, laughing, experiencing
Even though you are not here.
Time will be filled with the process of filtering
What all this was about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEOXCQj_Zvs
Paula Sullaj Aug 2014
Let' s order words  
in the shape  of a bouquet,
So with each you can penetrate me,
And then ever so naturally be me, in me
A perpetual sonata of two entities, Dancing
deliberately when melted in one; Emotionally
colorful  and spiritually dissolving.
But you choose to eat me up
all at once
  Then spit
 me out
taste
less
...
..
.
Paula Sullaj Sep 2014
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f                                               o
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Paula Sullaj Feb 2017
Right now I am in my cabin
In the woods,with books,fire
And a lot of mud to recreate
What should have been reality.
Distant tastes of imaginary pleasures.
Fill me!
Paula Sullaj Jun 2014
As my favorite music plays on,
I sit naked polishing my nails,
Slowly and carefully I use the brush,
An attempt to feel like a drunk femme fatale.
As the smell of wine and nail polish
enters abruptly in my senses,
I stand straight and slowly I tilt my head,
And so my hair fondles my skin,
A need for a presence.
As my eyes stare at a self-improvement book,
Biting my lip I wonder if it will help me,
Another sip and taste blooms in my mouth,
The sun shines outside.
As I keep feeling the same,
Another sip,
Cheers to emptiness,
One sip more...
*Who and What am I?
Paula Sullaj Sep 2016
The music is slow.......................................
Sensual......sweet...­....... saddening...........
A  moment of    intimacy   with myself,
Beyond         the abilities of the physical,
Deja senti -s of you explode......................
An explosion       of                 sensations:
Smiles,emptiness,femininity,uncertainty
The mirage of old fantasies appears.........
Every cell is dru n k w i t h f o g g y j o y
...
Then in the f o g        y o u        v a n i s h
And sharply as a thunder
!!!!Your resiudes hit me!!!!
...Again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFzJt4yj1Rs
I missed feeling this!
Paula Sullaj Feb 2014
I’m War!
I live in you; I grow in the misery you create. It has always been this way, it will always be.
I’m the grey sky, filled with the nice smell of shoots.
I’m the metal rain, that injures the earth.
I’m the ****** river, which never drains.
I’m the dark fire which explodes grass, flowers, life.
I’m the one who feeds ravens, flies, hyenas, worms.
I’m the end of humanity, the life of disgusting.
I’m the empty helmet of a digested warrior.
Glory, as a synonym of Death.
Ideal is my food.
I am money, military business, your leaders.
I’m everything that you, my dear megalomaniacs want.
I’m the wound, in a mother’s heart.
I’m the soul’s tears of a wife.
Empty memories of a fatherless child.
I am your masochism!
I’m War!
This is a mere adaptation I made in English for something I wrote years ago. Hopefully it sounds nice.
Paula Sullaj Jan 2018
D  i s c overing
.
Qualia and the Causal-explanatory Approach
In a day like Today
As
Today is Infinite
.
E x p a n s i o n
Ikigai(Japanese)-  "A reason for living [being alive]; a meaning for [to] life; what [something that] makes life worth living; a raison d'etre"
Paula Sullaj Feb 2018
.
The wind screaming
Pine  trees shivering
Your eyes still feel like home
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d3ym-RePkE
Paula Sullaj Oct 2017
Wavelengths dissolve into
Vibrations, images, water
Every "Now" is perpetually temporary.
Ad infinitum  is thus a frivolous dream .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjft3iFc7bs
Kogarashi- (Japanese) The cold wind that signals winter's arrival. It blows off the last leaves of the trees
Paula Sullaj Jul 2017
Having "The photograph" playing in the background
As cicadas perplex the senses under the  dazzling  sun
To  Love,  one  sings  when  it  can  not  be       touched.
" The Love that moves the sun and stars"-Dante
Yet and as always, you refuse my touch.
Paula Sullaj Sep 2014
This won't
be a poem about a man
This is about the self that was lost .
Years spent to achieve the emptiness
I'm left with, Because yellow is the
color of the sun, and I'm the earthly
brown which covers corpses,
The symbol of a pathetic filthy
me emerges in your thoughts,
Whilst my caterpillar
self, Shall become
a butterfly
one
day
!!!
But for now, I'm struggling to find a word
that describes the act of swallowing tears
Paula Sullaj Oct 2016
Male muses |  |  are confusing
         their                                    and        
         absence                              you        
       dries                             wander      
          you                                       ­ in        
          out                                          a        ­
deserted..........|    |..........maze
"It feels like I only go backwards baby"
Paula Sullaj Dec 2016
Unsure if soaking in mahogany, sangria and lipstick
makes up for all the words I  want to make you feel...
*Square, chords, void, silence.
"XO"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohu2HhIFYFk
Paula Sullaj Feb 2017
Nature  is  a repetition of  rituals
To keep balances  and  motion ..
And this is how life  goes   while,
I  countdown  the days  to I feel
the   joy  of  summer  breeze  as
kittens grow under the sunshine
Almost 6 years
Paula Sullaj Oct 2014
eaking, I am
   *p
                                                       d
C    S                                                 ­                      i
Y          .      H                                  ­                                       s
L           .           E                                                            ­                  s
    L       y            M                  floating  with-        ­                                 o
       A   l              I               out any proprieties  left                                  l
        ­b           C                    formless, an original state of                                v
     i                                  nothingness. You ask for a solid                              e
     s                                 I am not;  But unknowingly you                              d
    i                   ­                  have respired me, Then  you c-                                i
    v                                      ombined with a container yo                                   n
       n                                      -u fit in,  As I am perpe-                                         ,         i                                          tually transforming                                           c
          ;                                                  ­                                                              o­
            s                                                 ­                                                       u
      ­      m                                                        ­                                     n
            o                                              ­                                         t
                  t                                        ­                                     l  
                  a                                      ­                          e
      *bubbly       s        s
Paula Sullaj Aug 2015
In summer nights
-like this-
The rain embraces earth
-after a while-
Flashbacks of fantasized men appear
-dangerously   in  my   emptiness-
Unlived memories scratch my naive insides
-misleading my disoriented senses-
My     mind     asks     for     reasons
-in the desert-
I    close   my    eyes
-anddecide-
To joyfully live
Paula Sullaj Jul 2014
It's 4:30 am,
And you just went to sleep.
I imagine you closing your eyes,
With a smile between the edge of your lips and cheeks.
Of course it should be a smile,
You should always smile, despite how weird you think you look.
Oh, how I love you.
Such a long time, such a peace.
A day will come, and you will love me back.
And I will wait,
For it is 4:30 in the morning
And sleepless from all these years,
*I am still waiting...
Paula Sullaj Dec 2017
Perhaps        I        You
        our         could     could    
              lives        forget    remember  
entangl­ed        about    the          
           so      another  love      
               man     for
                          and     a            
                                past
                                    woman
To                           
                 you         But                             
                        it             in          You                    
             was         one        are          
       bad          of          not    
            timing        my         letting        
                   infinite         me      
                            universes         go                   
                 
                                    How   ­   
                                     Naive
                                            **.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjz-c9G-mjc
But do I even cross your mind at late nights like this?
Do you?
Paula Sullaj Jan 2015
Your *******
 shines  in  a
constellation
 e v e r  s o
 d  i  s t a  n t
 f  r  o  m
 m i n e
 But
 The flowers
 of my most
 vivid planet
  seem to only
 need that
 silly slight
 light.
You will ruin this
with your childish
fears
Paula Sullaj Jun 2018
June ' s
m oo n
hi d e s
a g a in
C  a  t s
s  t  a y
a p a rt
f r o m
d o g s'
b a rks
                             The multiverse manifests
                             itself  in  d r e a m s ........
From the beginning of time to what comes after.
Ad infinitum.
Paula Sullaj Mar 2017
Truth is...
I will always feel
An ugly, independent, grown, asymmetrical woman
who puts barriers to herself and crashes barriers by herself
.
Truth is...
I don not know what makes a woman or a human
Perhaps I will always live in the duality
of self-sabotage
.
Wishing I wished I was "Me"
Paula Sullaj Apr 2017
Bare feet grounding firmly
Distant whistles of soulmate songs
Your name still playing in the back of my head.
It's been a month.
I would have kissed you by now.
Paula Sullaj Sep 2016
Autumn lightnings, heavy clouds, night sky
No stars, no lights, no one
Hiding in darkness, fantasizing of happiness, exposed by skylights
The realization, the loneliness, the search
Unable to be understood, incapable of feeling, frozen
Empty... mathematical words.... hungry
A drooling dry mouth, semi-closed red eyes, trembling soul
Inconsistent, Shapeless, Searching
I dive into the inevitable future
Aware of my vampire self accompanying me!
Is self-actualization actually good, after all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjOWufejcGc
Paula Sullaj Nov 2016
What  shape do wavelengths of a sudden snap of reality create,
When they scratch me from the peace
of an internal form-
-less diving
?
Apparently that of an "Anti-Christ"  Pyramid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAX3KY0AxJs
Paula Sullaj Oct 2016
Apa t h etic,
C u d  d l y,
E m  p  t y,
G e  n  t l e,
In trig ued,
L   o   s   t ,
Nos ta lgic,
Pe a c eful ,
R  u  s  t y ,
T  i  r  e  d ,
Victorious ,
Xant hous,
Z  a  n  y  .
And after all these years my heart still skips a beat, and my lips cannot control a smile on the thought of touching you.
Paula Sullaj Mar 2017
...
INSIDE DISCUSSING TRUCE

  AM   The  windows  have railings,    W 
 
   I    Which are protected by a wall  I

      AS   Outside  lays the entire world   TH  

M  Y             D  E  M  O  N  S
...
Love is how you want it to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qtlT96weU
Paula Sullaj Oct 2017
You are slowly occupying me,
...
D
e
e
p
l
y
...
Inserting your complementary energy
   in my multi-electron soul.
(But)
The sedimentary stones of experiences
twist my perceptions.
!
U
n
w
i
l
l
i
n
g
l
y
!
.
Devour me slowly.
.
Paula Sullaj Dec 2016
When  the  internal  righteousness is a mixture of  all  outside  realities
You shift in many "devils" up to the point where "You" no longer exist
Once   in   a  while, Seeking becomes monotonously an exciting habit
But the latest iPhone and Burberry collection definitely make everything better.
"I am what I am"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q2h6oGD6UA
Paula Sullaj Feb 2017
There is this one movie about
colorlessness  and  sensations
And then there is you
colorful as a tropical island
whose white sands and green trees
hold within the entire spectrum of  experiences.
How    perplexing.
Paula Sullaj Sep 2015
One Me,
Two ME...
To Me?
Who is Me?
Let's keep counting!
...Three Me
Four Me...
For Me?
MEow!
Ten Me... A hundred Me... Billions Me
Infinitely Me
!Empty!
Most of times we misjudge the Ego
Considering it negatively.
But how easily we, oh, forget
That everything only wants to  
Be cuddled perpetually.
Paula Sullaj Aug 2014
I am a composition
of all human doings in 2014 years,
I am not ME
just a mix of pre-created things,
Even if a glimpse of originality hits me
still it isn't me,
But the need of the already created world
and its result in a certain time and space.
Yet futilely I keep searching ...
Paula Sullaj Sep 2014
...As memories correlate themselves with the past...
You notice the scars you've made to your
body and soul and mind,
Only to realize
that you
were
not
the
pr
o
t
a
g
o
n
i
s
...t...
Paula Sullaj Mar 2017
I remember the day you met the love of your life
She sat in a bonsai garden, g r o w i ng your
imagination with vivid stories and melodious notes
An exotic oriental sensation elegantly wining
against me, a disordered mass of molecules
that had been creating countless scenarios for years!
Oh, so unambiguously!
Obvious is obvious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtZCdJIBIU
Paula Sullaj Nov 2016
This                         smoke                                                     on  air            
               cigarette's                                floats carelessly                              


As      I       have            c h a n g e d                                                          
                             ­                  my life prophecy              
                                                           ­                           thrice today!    
                  
 Howbeit  ,   the     sun      shines     on        deserted              lands        
...
All is Violent, All is Bright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKFDYdaSyng
Paula Sullaj Jun 2017
When  I   was    young   I   was told  that
the eclipse was  a  rendezvous  of kisses
between the Sun and the Moon
Science   lets   us   know   that it'd be the end
if the Earth  is     close     to  kissing the Sun
I     am    the   Earth
You, as always, shine
The fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, while the Earth revolves about the Sun" — Archimedes

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