Instantiation Poems | Examples

Aha: a Poetic Noetic Instantiation In Three Acts

Aha: a Poetic Noetic Instantiation in Three Acts

rushing inference, imminent insight
suddenly it’s clear, a gut feeling—
      swooning, reeling,
cross-connected hemispheres
syncopated, reverberated, totally aware

open byways, ahh blue-sky days, making up my mind
synapses shiver, axons quiver, dendrites deliver,
’lectrik neurons fire—suddenly—in time

aha! aha! oh gawd I see—I ran around ’n cried—
a fool I’ve been; all along it’s there, right in front of me

with a grin ’n a nod ’n twinkly-looking ’round
raised my arms ’n slapped my thighs
’n made a ruckus sound—

donned my hat ’n set it skewed
upon my big bright head,
set off to town in an uplifted mood,
while whistling a sweet sound—
forgot what I had found

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there’s a hole in my head
where the wounds of reason seep;
all words are dead inside my head—
what’s left is dark ’n deep

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I’ll always live
     and always die
          on the event horizon
               of my mind’s eye,
               where the flash
          of neuronal fires
     flowers into
sudden epiphany— --