I have presbyopia, astigmatism and more than a dose of dyslexia to boot
And so I have to break up my poetry into stanzas or my writing goes mute
I fall between the letters and get lost upon the page
and nothing makes any sense
and my brain begins to rage
My eyes get tired fast, reading a page of unrelenting text
with no line breaks or paragraphs
to collect the thoughts best
This simple punctuation helps me keep the meter flow
but it also helps me read what I wrote
and encapsulate the storys growth
So break up those pages a bit eh?
give those eyes a rest
People will thank you for it
if you don't make it such a test.
- Artimus 9/29/23 8:24PM (C) Susan Manley
Categories:
astigmatism, education, funny, humorous, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Thunderous, roaring, booming, deafening
A hit so good got 'em begging
Begging for more, just pulling 'em in with magnetism
Hitting so LOUD causing astigmatism
Now, vision for the future is disrupted and obstructed
Drifting away from the blueprints of the ancestors that still have not been constructed
Cacophonous, blasting, ringing, piercing
A hit so good got 'em fading
Fading to an indolent and shiftless place
Far away from peace to shame and disgrace
Now sloth and aimlessness fill the day
No aim, no energy, 'cause LOUD got 'em quietly fading away
Yep! LOUD got 'em munchin' and cravin' a snack
Nutritionally destitute, wholesome sustenance they lack
LOUD getting louder; now they're really quiet
Indoors asleep when they should beout in a riot
LOUD just sippin' and sappin' that drive
Giving 'em allusions of feeling good and being alive
A political sedative, to say the least
LOUD has gotten louder while slowly silencing the beast
Categories:
astigmatism, abuse, addiction, community, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Angels observe in un-articulated anguish from above,
anxiety afflicted by appalling accelerated ambition of the aggregate
that redefines the archaic, apocalyptical allure
driving humanity to its brink of active self annihilation;
those moments of antiquated adversarial abstractions
when history goes awry in its accursedness
revels the atrocious alienation of poverty ignored,
that hidden appetency wherein
the very acquiescence of its anticipated allure,
blinds us in our astigmatism that can anesthetize living well;
the assuage ascendancy of life's pain and amplified existence
briefly lingers, dies
as we absolve ourselves with abstinence
surpassing the more auspicious moments lost
when we could have been assertively aggrandized,
to become
more augmented humanity.
for John Hamilton's Crazy A's contest
10/30/19
1. Anguish 2. Awry 3. Auspicious 4. Atrocious 5. Assuage 6. Appetency
7. Allure 8. Absolve
Categories:
astigmatism, dark,
Form: Free verse
The curvature of the eye,
marred by irregularity, distorts.
Rain falling through the aqueous orb
of eye or earth prisms,
propelling points of light skyward,
producing rainbows.
Sunlight following by the curve
curls rising ever skyward
from the steaming surface
of earth and sea to joining
on the wind.
The curvature of the eye
marred by irregularity distorts.
The child looks out and up
into the parental face, through the lashes
of this imperfect form and settles, smiling.
knowing no norm, only accepting the is.
The adult: cut, crisp, dried, and molded,
cries; mourning the loss of perfection
denying the value of imperfection
with a stubbornness born of naming.
Name nothing, for in not naming,
the eye can accept all things as beautiful.
First Published in Dual Coast Magazine Issue 1 2014
Categories:
astigmatism, birth,
Form: Free verse
This,
was the matter of non-matter,
permeating in every pore, cell,
thought. An elusive,
connection to unknown.
You,
want to create a Grail
to receive the blood, of heaven
to imbue,
the dark space.
A chilling,
belief to confer,
a glorified name to astigmatism
without the consent
of the eye.
Arboreal,
the naked soul
renunciates all the fruits
and departs for
another sky.
Satish Verma
Categories:
astigmatism, art,
Form: ABC
Limerick multiplication : Once an optimistic Optician
for Elodie
Once an optimistic Optician
Looked deep into her Client’s vision
Saw worlds unknown to her
And lost her way back here
Client left her in utter confusion
or
Client left but stark pessimism
or
Now straddles acute astigmatism
or
Now suffers from divided attention
or
Now has gone on a mystic mission
or
Optician and Client in mutation
or
Now both revel in sacred damnation
or
Client made Optician eye donation
or
Now both sell eye-drops in collusion
or
Now Client gives Optician eye lotion
or
Now Client gives lessons in eye motion
or
Optician gives Client sole solution
or
Client then rubs Optician in the shin
or
Optician then throws Client in the bin.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
astigmatism, fun, , cute,
Form: Limerick
Glasses for astigmatism
Helps one see even a prism
Without them black runs into white
But these glasses are not that nice
Presses on ears, rides on nose
Can't get colors to match clothes
To see or not to see
Now that is the question
Categories:
astigmatism, education, health, life
Form: Couplet