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Dual Mind

In my open mind
I am kind like Jean Henri Dunant
like him I can spend my possessions for humanitarian causes.
I can make sacrifices like Imam Bukhari did for his Uzbek Princess.
I am an ardent lover like Giovanni Giacomo Casanova,
whose love made crazy the girls of Italia.
I can become a painter like Leonardo da Vinci,
and paint another mystifying Mona Lisa.
I am the builder who builds Aztec pyramids.

In my enigmatic mind
I am the fire who destroys.
I am vengeful like a snake that finds his enemies and gives deadly bites.
I am a furious rebel like Mangal Pandey,
who stands against an Empire.
I am hard core fighter of the Waffen SS,
who kills mercilessly for his ideology.
I am the Jack the Ripper,
who murders to clean the Victorian London City.

Author notes

I am a fan of Freud’s psychoanalysis theory. This poem looks at conscious and unconscious sides of human mind.
1.Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910)was a Swiss philanthropist and the founder of the Red Cross.
2.Casanova (1725-1798) was an Italian adventurer and a legendary lover.
3.Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)was a Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.
4.Aztec Empire was the native American state that ruled much of what is now Mexico from about 1428 until 1521.
5.Waffen SS was the military arm of the most vicious of Hitler's Nazi organizations.
6.Jack The Ripper is the name for the unidentified serial killer of women who from August to November 1888 brought terror to east London,UK.
(Source: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2007)
7.Mangal Pandey was the rebel soldier of the British East India Company's Army who started the Great Mutiny of 1857.
8.Imam Bukhari was a famous Islamic scholar.He loved a Princess of his native Uzbekistan. She died and Imam Bukhari remained unmarried for rest of his life.I read this story somewhere but do not remember the source.

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  • Previn
    September 6, 2007

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    Good stuff, interesting style.

    Thanks for the explanations, it gives clarity.

    Thanks for entering.

    Regards
    Previn

  • Leaving Today
    August 18, 2007

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    Little complicated for me since I am not aware of some of the references you used in the poem, but I did understand the 'dual mind' theme; different sort of things work in the open mind and in the enigmatic mind.


    • Sabir Abdus Samee
      August 23, 2007
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      My dear Miss Strawberry,
      Thank you my darling for the comment.I added information in the author's box.
      Your friend,
      Mr. Pocha Fruit