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These introspective poems embark on a journey through the enigmatic landscape of the human mind. They explore the complexities of thoughts, emotions, and consciousness, contemplating the power of imagination and the depths of introspection.
These poems may touch on identity, self-awareness, and the eternal quest for understanding. With intricate language and philosophical musings, these verses inspire readers to ponder the vastness and intricacies of their minds.
‘Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance’ is about a struggle to reconcile the immediacy of experience with the abstraction of meaning.
Thus should have been our travels:
serious, engravable.
The Seven Wonders of the World are tired
and a touch familiar, but the other scenes,
Stevenson’s ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ marvels at the precise design of a baby’s body, exploring the mind and body dualism.
The spirit is too blunt an instrument
to have made this baby.
Nothing so unskilful as human passions
could have managed the intricate
Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ is a meditation on the spirit of beauty that bestows spiritual awakening, meaning, and transcendental truth.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Lowell’s ‘Night Sweat’ portrays his struggle with writer’s block and profound distress, finding solace in his wife’s comforting presence.
Work-table, litter, books and standing lamp,
plain things, my stalled equipment, the old broom---
but I am living in a tidied room,
‘Rubble’ by Jackie Kay is a dramatic monologue that was included in her collection, Darling: New & Selected Poems. It conveys an individual’s cluttered and chaotic mind.
What was the thought that I just had in my head?
Ted Hughes’ ‘The Thought-Fox’ explores a poet’s creative process, using a fox’s movements as a metaphor for the writer’s inspiration.
I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
‘A Plate’ is a modernist abstract experimental prose poem that explores thoughts triggered by ordinary objects.
A PLATE.
An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying and how soon does washing enable a selection of the same thing neater. If the party is small a clever song is in order.
‘La Figlia Che Piange’ presents the internal conflict of the speaker as he cannot come to terms with the memories of his breakup.
So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
‘One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted’ by Emily Dickinson explores the nature of the human mind. She presents the reader with images of mental and physical threats and how they can be confronted.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
‘Preludes’ is a chilling exploration of life amidst urban decay, alienation, and absence of meaning in the dark modern world.
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
‘A Portable Paradise’ by Roger Robinson is an inspiring poem that reminds readers of how peace and calm can be found within even the most stressful moments.
And if I speak of Paradise,
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
In ‘Sonnet 129,’ William Shakespeare describes the nature of lust and its effect on an individual’s mind and spirit.
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
‘The Question’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley tells of a dream where the speaker visits a fantastic forest of pristine, blooming flowers.
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,
And gentle odours led my steps astray,
Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring
Jill Alexander Essbaum’s ‘The Heart’ is a short poem that dictates the intricacies of dealing with heartfelt emotions. It describes the human heart as a room with four chambers and thousands of doors.
The Heart
Four Simple Chambers.
A thousand Complicated Doors.
One of them is yours.
‘The Pornographer’ appears in Robert Hass’s Yale Series of Younger Poets Award-winning collection Field Guide (1973). This poem is all about an artist who finds it difficult to get rid of his thoughts.
He has finished a day's work.
Placing his pencil in a marmalade jar
which is colored the soft grey
of a crumbling Chinese wall
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