The Mind’s Eye Collection

By Chris Halpin

While poetry allows a reader to gain different perspectives, this work of poetry will delve into the darkness of mental illness as well as the search for enlightenment. It is written with the hope that it touches the heart, soul, and mind of those who choose to examine it, all while it allows a person to examine themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9781647507893

Chris Halpin

Chris Halpin discovered a talent for poetry in his 20s. The passion for it grew over the years and he “idolized” several of the more popular poets, combining their styles together to create his own unique vision of what his poems should be.

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About the Author

Chris Halpin discovered a talent for poetry in his 20s. The passion for it grew over the years and he idolized several of the more popular poets, combining their styles together to create his own unique vision of what his poems should be.

Dedication

Mom, I miss you. I wish you were still alive to share in the happiness involved with this accomplishment. I dedicate this to you.

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Chris Halpin 2023

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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

Halpin, Chris

The Mind’s Eye Collection

ISBN 9781647507886 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781647507893 (ePub e-book)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023906284

www.austinmacauley.com/us

First Published 2023

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Acknowledgment

My teachers at Southern New Hampshire University and all those who have read and liked my poetry.

Sunday, July 28, 2019… 23:54

Wretched State of the Union

We have arrived at a dystopian realm

With a rhetoric unabashed

To foresee who is at the helm

Has rendered our minds as trashed

That we could not hold onto the dream

Where our conscience held no fear

Now our hearts and minds do scream

For we know our end is near

Set upon the verge of minds panic stricken

Dreamscapes turn dark and cold

Just to survive, the skin must so thicken

On our venture into the untold.

Sunday, July 28, 2019… 23:54

What Will Remain of Us

To assuage away the prophecies

Bans the judgement our heart sees

For life is lived within a moment’s repose

When our dream is all that knows

That our future tense is but ethereal

A singular rhapsody is the control

Prophets know not of heaven or hell

But within or without, we are bound towards one

Let it be known false prophets exist

Whose words shall, at once, cease and desist

No judgement can happen in that inevitable place

Where our time ends and begins again

Severed the soul from the flesh’s trace

No more sense of time relived just then.

Sunday, July 28, 2019… 23:55

We Ended (Quicker Than

These Words)

I was but fodder for her heart

A little white lie converging on my soul

Gained ground from the very start

And now I perceive us as void and null.

Sunday, July 28, 2019… 23:58

What I Try to Hide

As I stare into the pitch black night

Longing for