A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
Poetry has been praised, feared, footnoted, and force-fed to students for centuries. But here at The Rhyming Mind, we’re not reciting it reverently—we’re interrogating it like it owes us rent. These are not your classroom chalk-and-dust dissections. This is poetry in its full, chaotic glory: with stanzas under the scanner, similes in therapy, and metaphors stripped of their false modesty.
Poet’s Introduction — Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was one of the most influential American thinkers, poets, and essayists of the nineteenth century. He is best known as the leading voice of American Transcendentalism, a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized self-reliance, intuition, the divine presence in nature, and the spiritual unity of […]
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Fate BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose. There is a melody born of melody, Which melts the world into a sea: Toil could never compass it; Art its height could
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Transformation – Sri Aurobindo My breath runs in a subtle rhythmic stream;It fills my members with a might divine:I have drunk the Infinite like a giant’s wine.Time is my drama or my pageant dream.Now are my illumined cells joy’s flaming schemeAnd changed my thrilled and branching nerves to fineChannels of rapture opal and hyalineFor the
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A Poem Where Nature Rebels, the Streets Get Philosophical, and Resilience Grows Between the Cracks ABS Believes:Some flowers bloom because they’re nurtured. Others bloom because they weren’t supposed to.Concrete doesn’t scare a rose that knows what it’s worth. Tupac: The Poet Behind the Persona Before he was a rapper, icon, or revolution with a gold
A Poem Where Death Pauses, Patriarchy Panics, and a Woman on a Rope Redefines Power ABS Believes:Some poems aren’t written—they’re whispered by the nearly dead.And sometimes survival is the loudest poem of all. Atwood: Chronicler of Wrath in Whispered Monologues Margaret Atwood doesn’t write women. She summons them. Half-Hanged Mary is one such conjuring—a poem
A Poem Where Silence Talks Louder, Meaning Retires, and the Lines Try Not to Mean… Anything ABS Believes:Some poems don’t want to be understood. They want to stand in the corner looking timeless and mysterious.Poetry isn’t supposed to explain. It’s supposed to haunt. MacLeish: The Poet Who Gagged the Poem and Called It Art Archibald
A Poem Where Time Gets Cancelled, Science Gets Flirted With, and the Sun Is Just a Nosy Boomer ABS Believes:Some mornings, love doesn’t rise with the sun—it tells it to shut the blinds.Donne didn’t just defy nature—he metaphorically slapped it with a silk bedsheet. Donne: The Metaphysical Flirt Who Made Suns Nervous John Donne was
A Poem Where Babies Cry, Prostitutes Curse, and Even the Thames Has Morally Checked Out ABS Believes:Blake didn’t just walk through London—he did a mental autopsy on its conscience.An unreal city doesn’t need CGI—it just needs indifference, smog, and well-dressed despair. Blake the Visionary: Prophet in a Sewer-Cloaked City William Blake was that guy who
A Poem Where Nature Bakes Itself Golden and Sings Softly About Rotting Beautifully ABS Believes:Keats didn’t just write about Autumn—he airbrushed it with metaphor and sprinkled it with warm-toned immortality.Some seasons don’t fade. They ferment. John Keats: The Master of Melancholic Ripeness If Shakespeare had a botanical cousin who wept over sunsets and hallucinated the
A Poem Where Pain Bows, Darkness Waits, and the Poet’s Spine Doesn’t Flinch ABS Believes:Some poems wear armor. This one is the armor.If dignity had a literary anthem, it would rhyme like this and walk like thunder. Henley: Poet, Amputee, and Unshakable Human Tank William Ernest Henley didn’t write Invictus to impress the Victorian literati.