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Namyh
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since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

0 posted 2019-10-27 09:38 PM

Reign of the Eyeball

I reign as the eyeball. I’m bathed by tears.
Bright worlds I image for man’s mental gears
to churn those depths where creative fractions
give birth to ideas made whole by actions.

Glands in my eyelid above me squeeze
their salty flush that bathes me clean
of wind, of dust and dirt injections
each time I blink, each eye deflection.

Though hearty laughter, anger and grief
are emotions strong, they demand me release
those glands when swollen liquid filled
and erupt my tear gushing cascade spills
to carry those feelings that make hearts stop
to the exits of the Soul in each teardrop.

They empty the body taking laughter with pain,
love with anger and loss with gain
and the Spirit is lightened and finds its calm
at the crossroad of tears where the blood slows down;
where the heart beats quiet and the lungs breathe air,
where the Soul rests cleansed of its trembling cares

and the light through me brings a clarity of mind
where tomorrow sips Hope from a chalice of Time.
And I reign as the eyeball, the collector of light
and the ejector of tears in the day and the night.

Namyh

Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

1 posted 2019-10-29 06:33 AM

Amazing! Well thought out and crafted. I would have never put all that together! Write on!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

2 posted 2019-11-02 05:30 PM

Love the "collecting light" ending... windows to the soul the eyes are.

Namyh
Senior Member

since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

3 posted 2019-11-03 11:21 AM

Gunslinger - Sometimes we poets "must" step out of the box to write the different. Thanks for droppin' in to enjoy one of my steps out. Namyh

Namyh
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since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

4 posted 2019-11-03 11:35 AM

Michael - I was in a doctor’s office waiting but reading a medical journal on the physiological construction and function of the human eye. It flared my imagination and resurrected the poet in me. This piece was the result. Our ideas to create come from the strangest places sometimes. Hallelujah for that! I’m so happy you stopped in for a look into the window of this poetic eye. Namyh

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