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Cari
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Englnand

0 posted 2016-04-12 08:21 AM



First Sight


Reassuring hands
Surgical clean
Soft voices
Priming courage
~
The first circle of bandage
Unwinding
Bruised eyes
Tensed shut
~
A whisper
Close to the ear
‘Gently now
Open to your new world’
~
Sunburst, jags of colour
Dancing in a mad gavotte
Blue, red, green, light and shade
Changing partners
~
Liquid eyes, peering
Blood lips, open, close
Brain overload
Scream
*
*

We look on restoring the gift of sight to the blind is something wonderful and it is but wouldn’t sight be equally terrifying to one who has no conception of sight?

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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2016-04-12 04:10 PM


It's surely like a second birth into a world of wonderment and your conclusion with the scream seems absolutely motivated.

It's an excellent exploration of an extraordinary event, Cari.

Margherita

"Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance."
(Rumi)

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2016-04-12 05:00 PM


Yes! I would well imagine it would be a piercing scream upon seeing for the very first time. That, or mute silence, unable to utter one single sound . . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

ice
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since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404
Pennsylvania
3 posted 2016-04-13 06:31 AM


You can always tell a good poet by their range of thought.  This poem reaches into a corner of the universe not uusualy explored.
It is the small, and unique areas of that universe that intrigues me the most..
like the place of thought of what a blind person feels when they first see..

Thanks , John, for taking me to that place.

[This message has been edited by ice (04-13-2016 10:43 AM).]

Ari Squire
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In The Phallus Lane
4 posted 2016-04-13 08:44 PM


If one were to consider the value in a sunrise having sat through a moonless, cloud covered night sky, you will have purchased a glimpse into such an experience of colors being born as if for the very first time.

Stellar poetry Cari.  


More feelings and fewer words please

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