Reminiscence but gives to them that seek it.
Nostalgia haunts the loneliness of your soul.
But let it seek to set free your heart’s empire
And search to set free your soul’s desire.
 
Laura Simoes
  
  
 
 
 
The dimensions of nostalgic appeal advocate an alluring path that works to streamline a resounding and noble framework to attain a refinement of vision and thought in all those who desire to achieve liberal significance. Nostalgia haunts minds and hearts of places where people gather … where voices are heard … as emptiness perpetuates in intensity, heightening to escalate a freedom that is prisoner in its expanse. Loneliness is apparent in seclusion of thought, as it is ingrained in the mind of an individual, who has somehow lost touch with reality and its nostalgic suffusion. 
 
The alchemy of nostalgia finds its realm in the appetite of its appeal to people who endure the emphasis of a memory, nurturing to embrace a fiesta of thoughts, leveling to withhold an emphatic juxtaposition in all that behooves to hasten its surrounding recognition. A vestibule of nostalgia will attempt to delicately affirm and carve out the profuse synergy abounding through a nostalgic diffusion of self and its worthy adulation in the context of its approach to the mind and heart of the reader.
 
A vestibule to nostalgia is frequented by acquiesce into a space in the mind honoring to procure the finest memoirs in a lifetime for an individual searching the efficacy of instinctive joy as he or she is taken down memory lane, in an effort worth pursuing. Nostalgia, in its true sense, offers a yearning and a dormant memory to the mind’s eye by the activation effort to prod and initiate some relief to the heart in a situation with concurring precision. Towards this quest, we can only employ a subservient attitude and an open mind as we delve into this wondrous mysticism that nestles tranquility to the soul.
 
 
The Many Faces of Nostalgia
 
The human spirit reminiscences to pursue a dream – that which intensifies to ratify what triggers one to be nostalgic and what establishes a whimsical relationship between the heart and mind when we think of nostalgia. Nostalgia is a nonplussed reaction inlaid in each individual, which nature has perfected, allowing the mind to project a tangible means of defense – to go back in time with sentimentality – seeking for answers - or just a solution to one’s need, where one can reflect upon a myriad of thoughts and wistfulness. This dovetails a momentous sense of accomplishment and delineates a progressive tendency to reinforce the importance of nostalgia in daily living.
 
Memories retain a prominent place in hearts and will remain etched in minds as long as the individual has the ability to do so; this section will try to decipher the humane need which encourages the individual to infer some degree of nostalgia to penetrate life.
 
Nostalgia is a vivacious and ebullient attribute which effectively desires edification, enduring an uplifting trend in one’s life, and reaching to elucidate actions which sensitively engulf the heart and mind. As individuals, we capture the ornamentation of nostalgic memories and memoirs, with lively pursuit and embellishment, as we replay or recall childhood and growing up sentiments. Nostalgia brings a person home … to a place in the heart … wherein there is a heightening of emotion and a yearning to live some of the years left behind. There is also the drive of desolation, abandonment and isolation … emptiness … that nostalgic hunger … needing to be thirsty and fulfilled.
 
Nostalgia serves a permanence to exemplify a worthy gravitation to a subsistence that is hurting to go back in time and abide therein. Such a soul encounters hindrance in a marked way by those exhibiting that such a longing is a weakening of the human condition, in an exhaustive and painstaking spectacle. Herein, nostalgia weaves a web of inordinate and unwarranted extreme … sometimes a departure from the freedom to express oneself and epitomize a symbolic persona.
 
Nostalgia is an expedient supposition of undulating synergy in the life of an individual. In its expansive formulation, it is a comprehensible, sympathetic adorning of gratification to the mind; it is a well-distilled immensity to a forlorn heart … it behooves a purified survival to one’s soul. Nostalgic memories can be seen as a phenomenal and wondrous opportunity to every individual; they bear a common bonding with being in perfect symphony with one’s essence … a wondrous unprecedented acclaim with the delicate bounty inherent to the richness of creative and impromptu extant.
 
 
A Poetic Response to a Vestibule of Nostalgia
 
Poetry beatifies the boundaries of nostalgia in an enigmatic vision by its pure existence and its signification of artistic hemisphere. Each poetic verse is a paragon of excellence when it refers to nostalgic memoirs by the poet. Poetry allures to bring forth an archetype of perfection as a celebration of nostalgia through the words and rhyme vested in it.
 
The creativity ingrained in poetry draws merely on past resourcefulness by the poet; this leads to imaginative and nostalgic thinking put on paper in the form of a poem or prose, and is a credulous manuscript that formulates a worthy and plausible fecundity, leading the reader deep into nostalgic territory. The demeanor of the poet is well versed into the art of writing about nostalgic events and personal disposition, demystifying how it feels to be a “person of nostalgia” seeking behavior.
 
The art of poetry writing is devout dedication with a nostalgic zeal; using visualization, one can be taken back to an era by the dexterous capability of the poet and the earnest faculty expressed in a readable fashion. Poetry enables us today to reap a harvest of nostalgia and criticism through the persuasive and diaphanous works of poets from centuries lived, but not forgotten. Poetry is an instrument of didactic effort, and a manifesto of recollections and chronicles that infiltrate our world today in a medley of nostalgic retrospection and unforgettable, momentous beliefs.
 
 
Wake up your mind to nostalgia
 
Allow your mind to take you to your favorite memory through the use of visualization and let eidetic memory refresh your sentimentality, as you succumb to that pleasure and benevolence through your remembering. The longing and yearning may impress upon you the remarkable, noteworthy face of pure nostalgic bliss. 
 
In your world of tradition and convention, try to reminiscence each day as you turn your clock back and reap the bewildering flummox that beseeches your mind and alerts your soul to the days of simplistic, yet bountiful little pleasures.
 
 
 
 
© Laura Simoes 2008