CREATIVE PROCESS
SAMUEL ASEIN
Scented ideas floating
in the mind’s suspension
court my soul
like an evasive lady
on a first appointment
with love.
Mosaic of hued ideas
tender-lipped words
sink and float,
weights and balances
of flagellating concepts
like sperms
dazzling vanishing points
of intermittent illuminations
of glow worms;
faint suggestions and rejections
the ravished mind
in ecstasy;
possessed of tangled notions
and messages sieved
into shapes:
records of the poet’s mind
the poetry of ideas
which is the poem.
Editor’s note: First published in Nigeria Magazine, Sunday, March 1, 1970. Source: Archiving.