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Joyce Akesson

We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre.

About Me

I live in the South of Sweden and the building on the left is the University Library. I enjoy very much reading and writing. I have written two books about linguistics and a few articles in different international journals. I'm currently working on a book about relations. I love literature, different languages, music, philosophy, psychology, mythology, astrology, synchronicity and everything contributing to one's spiritual growth.

My Interests

Literature, Films, Music, Art, Philosophy, Mythology, Psychology, Spirituality, Languages, Astrology, Interesting and deep conversations, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists, creative and inspiring persons, people who are on a spiritual path.

Music:

80s, 90s, popular music of all kinds, Kate Bush, Melissa Etheridges, Dixie Chicks, Leonard Cohen, the Beetles, Bee Gees, Vivaldi, Grieg, French songs and many others.

Movies:

Suspense, thrillers, films about all kinds of relations and human destinies. Films by Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Roman Polanski and many others.

Books:

Books by Kundera, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Ishiguro, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Maugham, Samantha Dunn, Joyce Carol Oates, Moravia, Zadie Smith, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Truman Capote, Sarah Waters, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Chekhov, Michael Cunnigham, Naipaul, Gao Xingjian, Jhumpa Lahiri and many, many more.

My Blog

BLISS

BLISSWords of love, thrown in the emptiness,rolling like waves,swelling in my heartFluid feelings,days, liquid with desire,transporting me,unclosing meWho were we before this very hour?What revelation...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:20:00 PST

IT’S A PARALLEL WORLD

IT'S A PARALLEL WORLDIt's a parallel worldIt's a gothic forestIt's a bluish valleyIt's a deep gorgeIt's a déjà vuIt's a sleeping townIt's an old neighborhoodIt's a familiar houseYou go up the stairs o...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:07:00 PST

IN MOVEMENT

IN MOVEMENTUnrecognizable climatesstir the feelings of buoyancy Time contracts and stretchesShadows shrink and swell in the nightLovers part and meet againChanges talk without a voiceLove has a mouth ...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:10:00 PST

A MOMENT

A MOMENTReality whizzes through the air,smashing against the wall of disjointed illusionsSudden heavy thoughts,a set of reversals and misfortunes; intruders morbidly drawing attention to themselves;ga...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:20:00 PST

LOVE’S LABYRINTH

LOVE'S LABYRINTHI have kept my windows openso that the landscapes can cross your line of sightHave you been longing for windfalls?A treasure trove is found at the end of the rainbowYou can fill your p...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST

I WONDER

The future stands diagonallyover these horizontal days of yoursThe gesture is frozensomewhere in betwixt and betweenreality and illusionsTime stands almost stillbehind the unlocked door of a moonbeama...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:30:00 PST

THE JOURNEY

Where does this road lead to, my dear? It has no end.We create our eternitywith our love for our immortalityTime never ceases to exist for usWe rise in the darkness and live againWe carry loving momen...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:35:00 PST

YOUR WORDS

Your wordsCircular as the spheresTriangular as the pyramidsStraight as columnsBending as snakesAbsorbing as black holesDeluging as rainsWild as whirlwindsShining as sunsBrilliant as stratagemsBewilder...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:23:00 PST

I fear

I fear one day that you will awakewithout recognizing mein a cold roomin an austere beddevoid of feelingsAnd that you will forget everythingand even the tiny fragmentsof those gigantic dreamsthat used...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:30:00 PST

LOVE ENCOUNTER

LOVE ENCOUNTER The unavoidable moment cameIt took me by surpriseYour loving eyes bored themselves into mineI'm in awe of their expressionOblivious of every distractionThat can disp...
Posted by Joyce Akesson on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:46:00 PST