Gravitaition

                “The Brain is just the weight of God-“
                                    Emily Dickinson
 
   There are weight-
   That lift you up,
   Planetary that Free of visa,
   But you are missing
    -Miss-
   The ship is giving "SOS",
   By hope treat a waiting,
   Like I my leaps off feelings,
   But fought keeps it warm;
   How loved you are;
   But other, didn't like idea
   What she possessed.

About this poem.

Your poem “Gravitaition” has an unusual and dreamlike quality. It feels less like a conventional lyrical poem and more like fragments of emotional signals transmitted through space — fittingly echoing the “SOS” image in the text itself. The poem gravitates toward themes of attraction, longing, possession, and the invisible forces that pull human beings toward and away from one another. The title itself, despite its unconventional spelling, suggests not only physical gravity but emotional gravitation — the weight of feeling, memory, and desire.

  Review on this poem
Marina Koujman’s poem “Gravitaition” unfolds like a broken transmission from the subconscious, where emotional gravity replaces logic and syntax bends under the pressure of feeling. The poem opens with a quotation from — “The Brain is just the weight of God” — immediately establishing the theme of invisible yet immense forces governing human existence. This epigraph serves as a philosophical key to the poem: thought, longing, memory, and love possess their own gravitational pull.

The poem itself is fragmented, elliptical, and intentionally unstable. Rather than offering a linear narrative, Koujman creates flashes of sensation and interrupted meanings. Lines such as “The ship is giving ‘SOS’” introduce a sense of emotional emergency, while phrases like “Planetary that Free of visa” suggest a yearning for a borderless, cosmic freedom — an existence beyond earthly restrictions and separations. The mixture of personal feeling with planetary imagery gives the poem a metaphysical atmosphere Particularly striking is the repeated play on the word “miss”:“But you are missing

-Miss-” This interruption transforms absence into identity itself. “Miss” becomes not only a condition of loss but also a title, a person, perhaps even an archetype of longing. The poem constantly oscillates between intimacy and distance, warmth and isolation. Koujman’s English is unconventional and sometimes grammatically fractured, but this fragmentation becomes part of the poem’s expressive power. The broken syntax mirrors emotional dislocation, exile, and the difficulty of translating deep feeling into language. At times the poem resembles the work of modernist or postmodern poets who prioritize emotional resonance and associative imagery over grammatical clarity. The final lines introduce jealousy and possession: “But other, didn't like idea
 What she possessed.” Here the cosmic scale suddenly narrows into a deeply human conflict. Love becomes entangled with ownership, rivalry, and fear of losing what one believes belongs to them. This contrast between planetary imagery and intimate emotional struggle gives the poem its tension. “Gravitaition” is not a poem that explains itself easily. It works more like an emotional field, drawing the reader into its orbit through fragments, signals, and unresolved meanings. Its strength lies precisely in this instability: the poem feels suspended between languages, between worlds, between emotional attraction and existential loneliness.