Ghost in the Machine (Complete)

[James]

Hi James,
I've watched this poem develop for the past few days now and although I admit that I don't fully understand it, I am fascinated by it and the concepts and images within it.
Firstly I'll say that it is extremely well written, with certain poetic qualities that I particularly enjoyed from your other poem "Genesis".
I won't hazard any guesses as to the meanings of what you've written, I think in some ways it is very complex and philosophical. I did a little bit of research on the net but then found that I had about 10 different PDF documents all talking about "Ghost in the Machine" but yet they all seem to be talking about totally different topics and then my head got a bit mashed up and I was really none the wiser.
At one point while you were writing it, I thought it was heading towards an experiment which I read about that an astronaut carried out on the Moon involving a hammer and a feather dropped at the same time. Which seems to represent for some people an aspect of the original "ghost in the machine" concept/philoshophy. It's also been used as magic and to explain magic, which I know was a strong theme in your last poem.
As regards the bits that I like from your poem, there are passages towards the end and certain sentences like "Across everything, across something, across galaxies, across nothing" and "Across the wonder tracks lays a quiver The eternity cycle of the bound infinity" excellent poetically philisophical stuff.
Also you obviously know your stuff as regards space/universe, which has recently become a fascination of mine, so your descriptions of nebulas, rebirth and proto planets all appeal.
"Or the swamp's endless cycle of nebula calling I'm the cloaked murmur to the proto planet" I like this also even though I'm not totally sure why.
I will continue to read it and hopefully understand more as I do, but the poetic talent is definitely there, and I notice that nobody has commented as yet and I don't think that you will get very many comments here, although you never know. But I would say that don't view a lack of comments as a sign that people don't like it, because it doesn't always work like that here I've noticed.
Sorry if I never managed to unlock it's meaning, nevertheless I still enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks for the read.
AR

Hi Ambrosial

Thanks for the comment and yeah I didn't think anyone would comment either. As For the ghost in the Machine concept I went with the one from that book from 1967. Where basically The body and the spirit is not separated, as which is stated in it, There is no spirit in the brain, there is no location in the brain for that. As for the meaning of this, the main topic of it is in these lines "Crucify by Nebula" and "Blue flames of rebirth devour" . And another thing just to help you out, the moon may or may not be the narrator . Oh and I too share the fascination with space/ the universe, I actually wrote this so I can include lines about it. As for the elements from Genesis, I thought it would be the perfect way to write the last phase of this. And thanks again for your thoughts on it, I put just about a big part of May in this. Also there is a change in the narrators philosophy in every phase, the last being greatest, which begins at about the second stanza I believe.

-James