Intellectualizing Poems | Examples


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The Music of Me

I am two different people
Superficially the same

One inside the romantic
and totally right brained

the other is pragmatic
intellectualizing all

A dichotomy of thought on two different keys
a melody together, two harmonies apart

A symphony when played
cacophony to part

The Music of Me -(C) Susan Manley AKA Artimus 1986

The Sad Truth

While you spend the time intellectualizing and politicizing Jodiann's death 
Remember someone pickney dead 
Because of discrimination and power play let's call it as it is .

A child don't have her mother.

Yes another report comes out without hope because a nuh one big man pickney dead 
My question is ...would you want anyone to treat your pickney suh
Mi afraid to cough and sneeze because you will think is COVID-19 ...you think you any better than them doctor...just watch your own reaction when someone cough and sneeze ...yuh ask is that COVID-19 

Discrimination is real 

Many call for Tufton to resign ...a him did discriminate?
In case you never hear... he was never there.
Stop the politics and call out the doctor them name 
Because them never care.
There was a time when doctors believe that all lives matters but today mi question that  
Now a child without her mother 
A mother without a daughter 
A sister without her sister 
And a lover without his mate 
Just because a doctor discriminate
they never cared
At the end of the day that what it boil down to ...them never care .. only their life matters.

Melancholy

Feeling a touch of melancholy today..
Do I need to know why?
Do I need to know how?
Quite often the intellectual mind takes over.
As to why I feel a touch of melancholy..

A touch of melancholy it is..
Followed by a side of feeling the blues..
No intellectualizing is necessary here
It just simply is..

Need not chase the melancholy blues away..
By chasing it..
It may just return with a vengence.

Instead..
Go with the flow
Apply a sprinkle of loving care..
Along with an embrace..
An act of love is always an answer..  

Tomorrow is another day..
Tomorrow is a new day..
The sun shall rise tomorrow at dawn..
Dawn's early magnificent light..

Feeling a touch of melancholy today..
Tomorrow a joyful, bright, cup of cheer awaits me..


Intellectualizing

My Grandmother died, and I have not penned my loss
 nor I have stooped to pick her rose
and smell the scent of her.

I can not allow the sights to emerge, 
when I must close my eyes,
 I can not afford to let her go

nor allow myself to go with.

There is a world of grief and screaming
covered in my intellectualizing

but I can neither nod hello or whisper goodbye,
I must stay this path she set.

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