mixed-up monday: bésame mucho

on 10-22-2012

Click this image to be mesmerized by Muse’s “Madness.”

Last week, I was intrigued and haunted by BBC’s article about creativity and depression. So much so that it became the first thread in what I thought would evolve into this week’s theme — with Muse’s new song “Madness,” already loaded into the playlist, no shortage of quotes/ observations/ images and a new poem brewing, too.

Then, I pinned an image onto my “bésame” Pinterest board, and something shifted. Instead of splashing around in a pool of madness, I was lured into marveling about the power of a single kiss — the way it can ignite, transform, heal and inspire.

And those are just the ones that “land.” An imagined kiss can burn even more brilliantly in our minds, like the one in Sara Teasdale’s poem “The Look.”

Strephon kissed me in the spring,

Robin in the fall,

But Colin only looked at me

And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,

Robin’s lost in play,

But the kiss in Colin’s eyes

Haunts me night and day.

Maybe my creative madness musings just need more time to simmer before I can attempt to connect the dots. Or maybe sometimes everything we lug around with us as we travel through life needs to take a back seat to simple pleasures . . . like the magic of lips meeting along the way.

This week’s playlist, bésame mucho, was S.W.A.K. To tune in, click on the photo below.