The Inner Eye of Reason

Poems written at the end of the pandemic. Will the pandemic come back? Will everything remain the same as it once was before? Nothing is the same except the recycling of historical patterns captured in poetry. The voice of reason may hold out. Or, it may not. The logic of poetry extends over time and space. Choose a poem for your birthday; read it aloud in order to seek the recurring presence of rhyme or reason to match the psyche's quixotic quest for a dreamer's cosmos. Reading poems may awaken the irreverent logic of the dreamer, within and without. Poetry may harmonize with memories of happier days. Poetry may offer and gift you with a ray of hope as you travel through this topsy turvy world without fear.