Engulfed in Sonder (Original Poetry Video Reading)

Thank you tahminasyed 🙂

Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Those lines underpinned the rest of the poem for sur.

I'm kind of a distracted person, always looking for substance, usually disappointed by what passes for thought.

This is an interesting point, as my poetry tutor in university used to say to me all the time that it was best to stay away from trying to express modes of thought unless you could do it through actions, or descriptions of the actions of other people/things etc.

But she also used to say, "learn the rules, follow them until you're sure of your craft... and only then break them."

I kinda feel like this poem breaks some of the rules, but is successful in how it breaks them, if that even makes sense. It describes exactly how I view the world when one of my strange episodes overcomes me 😂

I'm glad the poem made you think 🙂

you used the two-line stanza to make the moment of realization stand out, and at the same time create that sense of realization for the reader, the pause when something comes with clarity to our consciousness.

You got it 100% Cliff, and although it often jars on my introverts soul to give myself props 😂 I did feel like I'd hit on the nail on the head with this poem. I think it is hard to describe internal thought processes, feelings and those strange moments when existence is brought into sharp focus (the feeling of Sonder) without reverting to cliché words like 'love' 'fear' etc.

There is something, very slight, that hearkens back to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Maybe just the journey along the city street.

This is high praise indeed and honestly makes me realize this is one of my better poems. I just re-read 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' for the first time in many years and I can see what you're saying, that poem does describe a kind of journey, like he's walking down a street unseen observing the sublime and absurd in equanimity.

As I was saying to agmoore in the comment above, this poem describes exactly how I view the world when one of my strange episodes overcomes me. It has a trippy feel, maybe it's all just a case of one too many dalliances with Shrooms of the magical variety as a youngster 😂

Thanks for your comment @cliffagreen, and for inspiring me to read a poem I haven't read in over 20 years.

Thank you Creative coin and cliffagreen.

I apprecate the support and curation 🙂

Thank you @blockchainbeth

I love your username btw 🙂

Such great metaphors, the idea of ideas as charms constantly being crafted within the collective "us".

You touch on something here that I definitely was trying to convey - that realization of the collective unconscious, I think that is the essence of the concept of Sonder. And it is something I've experienced fleetingly.

This poem was written while I was travelling through London (not my favourite city as I live in a smaller city) to go to Gatwick on my way to Egypt. I remember walking from different tube and train stations to make the connections to arrive at Gatwich airport in time for my flight and this feeling just came over me and I wrote that poem, all be it in a rougher draft.

A few years later I edited it and was very pleased with the results.

Thank you for your interesting and insightful comment 🙂

Thanks Joseito

I know I say it often, but it does make me so happy to know that my poems inspire people, and maybe sometimes share some new knowledge, or words, or concepts.

Thanks again. And hugs right back at you my friend 🙂

I'm glad you enjoyed it @rcaine.

I was really happy with it when i recorded it as i felt both the music, and my choice of words in the poem, really did describe that odd state of mind that the word sonder encapsulates 🙂

Thanks @deeanndmathews

It is linger of my favourites, as i felt it really does put you perfectly in that odd state of mind that the word sonder describes.

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