Gladys was not so glad today, kind of a surprise
She had cornea surgery and saw better than ever
The old lady in the mirror stared at her with dull eyes
There were wrinkles that seemed to go on forever
When did I get old? She asked. How did this happen here?
You did not die yet, the mirror said. It was a mean mirror.
Glady did not feel aged, decrepit or ill, but she felt sad.
Thinking about the surgery she wished she’d never had.
Categories:
cornea, life,
Form: Rhyme
Striae eyes
Cornea detached
Crimson tears
Pupils stretched
Frazzled iris
Blinded white
Pressure builds
Salty sight
Categories:
cornea, courage,
Form: Free verse
Chivalry isn't dead
I saw it in bunch of roses
And unrequited lover's smile
I saw it in couple's hug and kisses
I just feel it, taste it, sweeten by time.
Love is the most addictive drug
Its effect touches the depth of my soul
Limitless flow of radiating energy into my cornea
Its power send a lover to paradise
Transport you in the future time machine.
There's special joy in receiving flowers
To special someone you dearly love
Small things of gesture send a big impact
An amazing sight to see to any age in love
Very gentleman to see a rose given to your love.
Categories:
cornea, appreciation, love, perspective, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Circular and square. And a little glimmer
Of peace -
Or agony.
Cool beneath the waters. A small touch
Of green -
Or sunny coral.
Clanking in mine ears -
But beauty in these eyes -
Through cornea and through
…Retina.
A painfully perfect tube is drilled - the long days
Pierced as if a sharp stare of a swordfish
Glare.
And a breath-taking fibre passes through the
Scar…and the blood covered by a glistening
Price sign.
Categories:
cornea, creation, fate, green, growth,
Form: Free verse
December 03, 2023
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Dissipating drowsiness
In the elmwood of the mind
Eras and realities collide
Having body crawl
In the gloomiest of night hazy drizzle.
Dullness seeps in
Across increasing veins
As faraway as the sunshine
Switches to a slower pace
Laughter from a bygone era
Cuts and scrapes
Leaving me breathless.
The resolve is unwavering
And sustains the ultimate breath
Every day in bitter shadows
In pursuit of Eden insight
My cornea has been burned.
Categories:
cornea, analogy, angst, character,
Form: Free verse
Creep, oh centipede!
A malady to my cornea.
Like kernels a decoy
In my Eden realm.
I'm infuriate to civility
Just us serenity intervene.
Serendipity smock my bones
In solitude.
Here it is, your servitude
Of search.
Categories:
cornea, addiction, devotion, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
The sounds creep
down to my cornea.
It responds like drum
beating the same
among the Solomon.
It always like
when one inspires.
It keeps on repeating, echoing
the tune of passionate
love affair to anyone,
like me.
Categories:
cornea, analogy, beauty, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse
Acknowledged UNDERSTANDING Spiritual TRUTH beyond Atmosphere
Seeking for those answers
Gleaning the positive positions
Desiring the voice Christ Jesus words
Meditated conditions seeking Elohim
Me in Him and He in Me
And not humanity religion
Circumcised my cornea eye on slot;
My self-taught reasoning my response really
Not to my own
It’s at naught
Understanding I acknowledge Jesus
Believe I in Him and God first foremost
Rather leave me endowed spiritually
As a seeing little child unblended
Resting in your blessings O’ God
I be your light I see your light
I trust giving my Father’s spiritual eyes
And ears spiritual truth beyond atmosphere
Renewing I new heart to love honestly renewed
As ABBA Father God
Does ONLY ALWAYS
AMEN
10/20/22
Written words by James Edward Lee, Sr. 2022©
Categories:
cornea, devotion, endurance, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
“Abracadabra, brass candelabra”
Bright, white light, to dark succumb
Ring the ears, trip tongues to slur
Annul sight, dim cornea
Cast your magic, mayhem, havoc
Advance enigma, elude stigma
Danger-gravid, power-avid
“Astral blast, come” cast penumbra
Blunt sweet senses, dense and numb
Rot and blot, aurora blur
Addle brain with morphia
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for The A's Have It Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
written on 09/07/2022
key:
Starting letters: abracadabra
Ending letters: abracadabra
“Alphabetic”
Alliteration
Rhyming
Rhyming and alliteration may overlap
Last word of 1st stanza rhymes/near-rhymes last word of 3rd stanza
Categories:
cornea, fantasy, magic,
Form: Verse
They gave me a new cornea, and I saw clearly for the first time.
I saw color, which I had never seen with my old eye.
I was amazed and excited, but then the eye began to talk.
What are you doing? The eye asked.
I was dancing, in a happy, joyful, excited, thrilled mood.
I kicked up my legs for joy.
Stop that! The eye commanded, in an angry way.
A really mean, annoying “mind me” now voice.
I loved knowing for the first time ever
The difference between red and green
But my joy was overshadowed
For this eye is nasty, and never stops commanding
This eye does not like to dance, sing or whistle.
She does not want to run, hike, or play racquetball.
I finally realized when I am swimming she is silent.
I have been swimming for two hours now.
Categories:
cornea, satire,
Form: Free verse
THROUGH THE POET'S EYES
The soul that can speak through the eyes
is the thought that execute it infinite mastery
with a passion like a refiners fire,
unquenchable by roaring waters.
Just like the window to the body
where the soul is housed,
In the in-depth eyes of a poet,
unique light strikes & turns it into a color
that doesn't exist except in the moment.
The world see the lens,
the poet sees the tense,
the world see the sclera,
poets see words & paper,
the world see the cornea & Iris,
creativity oozes from the poet's chambers;
word darts makes his soul restless,
shooting punchlines that becomes endless.
The poet eyes sees beyond this realm,
and so...this eyes:
Seen the highs & lows,
witnessed the maglinant friends & foes,
peer through impediments with allergies
of fear, of self & frienemies,
seen darkness you could ever imagine
and the illumination that finally transform
this embodiment of grace.
The mastery of my pen has always been
and is in the mystery of my being.
VickWizzy
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}.
Copyright © June 24th, 2020.
Categories:
cornea, 1st grade, perspective, poets,
Form: Concrete
Whenever I was seeing her eyes, it was remembering me,
The hue of huge sky...
It was a rare thing I had ever seen,
The colour of her eyeball was making me delight
Me, the stupid don't know 'why'
The day without her was the day wasted..
Perhaps, she was reflecting in my every atom.
Love was the ocean in our life,
But, god's aspire was unfair...
And she left me....alone.
But,her twinkling eyes till now seeing this world.
Why did she leave me alone?
In every tears of mine,there was she..
In my every sight ,there was only her blink.
But, the reason for her leave was unknown.
The neighbour of mine got a vision
To the world through the same cornea...of my love.
Once I asked her with falling tears,'how are you?'
But, she said,'I'll never let you to miss these eyes'.
7/14/2018
Categories:
cornea, blue, farewell, sad, sky,
Form: Free verse
On the verge of turning
In the edges she stood
Blinking the eyelids slower
The cornea that brightened
Long way to go, she knew
Which way to travel, less she knew
Shivering feet, trembling legs
Unconscious mind, diluted thinking
Two roads diverged ahead
Two paths to choose from
One that led towards her dreams
Other that was for her wishes
Little did she know the endings
Tiny was her idea about the climax
Flares of dreams that attracted
Her little heart that shattered
Flickering wishes that she wanted
Her thinkings that taunted
She knew the theory of life
The journey to decide from
Losing one was definate
Choosing the best was the challenge
Lost were her emotions
Tangled were her feelings
Ah! She was exhausted
Yah! Let the destiny decide, She smiled and murmered...
*Life is a challenge*
Categories:
cornea, adventure, confusion, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
I have always been told that some eyes
carried labyrinths in them,
which of course the skepticism in me made
me laugh at the idea;
retina, cornea and optic vessels are one of the things
I only knew made up our eyes.
One day,
I scrutinized a stranger's eyes in a dark alley,
as I tried to decode their deathly stillness;
my bones felt rigid and distant.
Within a flash,
my mind was intertwined with the Unknown
like a Rubik's cube. Everything I knew
was diluted, altered and misplaced. My eyes
ushered me to a labyrinth that was designed to keep
me trapped in my own fears and paranoia.....
Categories:
cornea, dark, fantasy, horror, imagery,
Form: Narrative
A throbbing heart moistens cornea
worries of the mind puffs a face
a dripping nose is most ugly
vulnerable spirits cling to bodies
A cave is dark all day long
Rains make nights darker
men can dance in darkness
but who notes the music?
The musician dreads sunshine
the cave will remain his kingdom
so longs as he makes every note sweet
with promise and hope of a bright dawn
A promise builds hope
swirl of dance prepares soul for ejaculation
of a confetti of spirit, new cave, green tune
a bonfire to rival the yellow shy ball
The cruel nimbus breaks its waters
The caveman retreats like a tortoise
for the sun has aborted its rays
No music today
The hope maker is away
to sweeten his notes with money
Only if the caveman sweetens his dance
with honey...
Categories:
cornea, africa, anger, betrayal, change,
Form: Verse
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