Ghairo Daniels Poet Free verse

EMILY DICKINSON: INNOCENT GENIUS: PART 1

Her poems like childhood marbles
contain luminous coloured 
feathery shafts sparkling sequins 
scrutinise them in Light —- brain cells
will swing     for each contain
revolving prisms exposing blings
          —   perceive     verbal see-saws 
to-fro before our corneas ——-
wisdom nuggets floating across
dimensions    
                   free from historia 

Not for shillings did Emily suffer
passings of close Beloveds 
when her translucent Heart with
parachute mind were shredded 
fine —- for this genius to grasp 
that Death-Life is one golden 
ring      both could sting or sing     
Choice is ours within The Voice 
—— tools we grasp in centre palms    
alms as canvasses to peruse   
                           They tumble down …

Her laced snow-white garb 
adorning spine erect      an 
Earth  Angel in solitude inking
                     poem after poem
near a thousand and eight hundred
             channeling for eternity ——
perceptions for mundane 
       humans to attain
Deep Love, politics, Nature
religion, law, Music did not escape 
a lens widened then wizened from 
unitary room on father’s fourteen 
acre loom — like sentinels subjects
marched along whilst she zoomed
for thirty years  
                         A l o n e
autistically      
                       m i c r o s c o p I n g 
 
her musing inner artist danced with
scientist swaying subtle moves —
—lashes signalling like butterfly 
                             antennae high 

probing the gamut of universal 
themes ….  Commerce, medicine 
fashion - - round-abouting detailing 
domestic activities to verse poetic
fondest blue jays receiving focus
sparrows, gnats  —- NO THING 
escaped her iris, yet not liberated 
from longing tears of joy or sorrow 

                         Emily stood moral !

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Daniel Henry Rodgers September 18, 2026 at 4:24 AM Dear Ghairo, Emily is one of my most favorite poets. When a mind operates with such intense sensitivity, what you beautifully term a "translucent Heart with parachute mind", the sheer volume of the world's grief and beauty can be entirely overwhelming. I think solitude becomes the necessary boundary that allows her genius to flourish without being neurologically or emotionally shredded. What a deeply reverent homage to one of literature's most singular minds. Magnificent and highly perceptive work, Ghairo. Blessings, Daniel Ghairo Daniels September 18, 2026 at 4:41 AM Ah ! ThkU for read, Daniel ~ I had to break poem into two parts to post here. She is one of my favourites too. I understand that her poems are so powerful since she wrote without seeking recognition or validation which meant her mind did no editing. I agree: genius needs some kind of solitude ~ I read that Isaac Asimov : (Inside the Atom) also spent 30 yrs alone in his room. How much inner strength such humans must have ! Blessings, Dear Poet. 😊