Refraction Poems

REFRACTION

REFRACTION

When a meaning’s span has no breadth
Or even being superficial with no depth
Then any intrinsic value would be scarce
Perhaps with origins on different worlds
Yet even when they are barely glimpsed
Or simply imagined and merely dreamt
By thick mist and clouds one is engulfed
Any claims of understanding can be false
For clarity of perception, one is obliged
As from the void it can never be gouged
But it’s like a burst balloon when pierced
And then none shall ever know its secret

The Refraction of Your Gaze

The Refraction of Your Gaze



The prism of your Rejection is held before me 

colors, breaking apart
to pierce my heart 
	with their meaning,
entering, 
	becoming:

the Violet of Penitence 
	though I seek not forgiveness
the Blue of Piety and Sadness
	the one color true
the Green of Faith and Envy
	my eternal hope and your selfish desire
the Yellow of Jealousy and Fear
	which neither of us may ever erase
the Orange of Fruitfulness
	wherein Love once grew, fragrant and sweet
the Red of Martyrs and Anger
	death of the innocent, whose blood-color is as rage

projected from the Black Void of 
your false Spirit, I am pierced as
you gaze beyond me, as though I were
a weak and fading spectrum 
already dead 
already powdered nothingness

Why must you 
	see me 
		through these colors  
when I looked upon you with
		 the clear light of Love?


C2009  Thomas Lee Rhymes  May 2009

Seasonal Refraction

My being is a mirror of the cold.
Flows through me, like wind and mold.
Flakes that can fly, bite, and hold.
The beauty of clear winter evenings unfolded.
Snowfall is enhanced by the trees exposed. 
When lakes freeze, the kids shift to rink mode.
We omit each item from the scold.
However, we do not know what winter will hold.
This is the real springtime prize foretold

Written: December 03, 2022

Prismatic Refraction

Delineation
By symbolisation
As the uttered word
Finds all hearts stirred
By the power of vibration
Coloured by their interpretation 
As of purity of their being
In resonation feeling
Marked by intent
With will bent
In surrender
In wonder
Co-creating
By experiencing
Stirrings in the heart
Wherein cognition starts
Anew at each given moment
Heightened by stillness quotient

12-October-2020

- a Refraction Time -

Soon nature will change color
A refraction time
Autumn has the highest price
A goodbye to warm and bright days

The air is fresh and the forest is quiet 
The migratory birds leave us
and those who remain
have to prepare for a new cold season

Autumn shines in orange, red and gold
When the sun sweeps low over the landscape
it gives a warm and nice light

Time for reflection, leaned back in a soft chair
Take a look at the starry sky, it's beautiful
The only thing you need to think about,
is to be present at the moment










30.08.2018
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Refraction

I wanted this infatuation stone
perched on the fringe of a great unknown
wading into warm shallows called hope
my eyes out of tune with the murky shoal.

Reaching out with lusty intent
bumping infatuation over the ledge
wobbling down a trail of salty nonchalance
following like a drunken, big footed clown
leaving sunlight behind with each foolish stroke
into a deep blue ball - unforgiving cold
blue relenting to a black pod abyss
until the soul struck the floor of godless
a million stones for a fool to blindly grope
with handfuls of infatuation, I quickly rose 
each stroke loosing a few more stones.

Breeching the surface with nothing left
but the refraction of lust and the ghost of regret.

Glassy-Eyed Refraction

Glassy-Eyed Refraction

There was a sweet girl of pure glass.
Met a merry man with no class.
She’d shattered this bloke.
He drank til she broke.
Both attended funeral mass.

7/6/2017

The Poets Refraction of Headline News

The bending light from the headline
News
As it enters my optic
Nerve
Resonates from eager
Fingertips
Coursing to my
Cortex
As the crisp crunch of
Paper
Crackles in self
Satisfaction
The pungent wisp of fresh
Paper
And strong
Ink
Refract
A
Poem

...I can touch



05/12/13

Refraction

 Refracting morn's light
Aurora Borealis
Beauty touched spirit
Sunrays pierce trees through forest
Moment captured forever

Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
Contest: Forest Lights

Refraction

Though Time has dwindled me to motes,
My dust remains in sunset’s light—
A pattern faintly forms and floats
Discernible before your sight.

Indefinite and vague, yet there,
A wisp of what I was persists
Split-second long upon bright air—
Then vanishes in violet mist.

Fulton-Refraction

T  H  U  N  D  E  R
T  E  M  P  E  S  T
S  H  I  N   I  N  G
S  H  O W  E  R  S
H  A  I   L  I  N  G
H  E  A  V  E  N  S
P  R  O  M  I  S  E

Spaces- Refraction

a rainbow on high



liquid to light

Hegelian Refraction

Expelled again from cosmic matters
The fool consults his satellite
Eager to shred to tatters
All ambition to fight
Structured tyranny
Rolling over
Civil minds
Without
Fear

Refraction...

Refraction explained as....
the bendinig of a ray or wave of light
or sound,as it passes from one
medium into another....

Example,
a clear glass half full of water
with a straw inside glass
as light passes through the glass
it creates an illusion of sight
the straw appears as two seperate
but,if you hold straw straight center
it become's as one straw again.

Theory,
if we look at our physical body
as a container filled with water
if we consider our spiritual self
as above example,being the straw
you can now understand 
the importance of centering,focus
the farther we lean in any direction
creates the illusion of spiritual sight
with the possibility of a broken spirit

The Holy Grail,or cup
is our physical body
containing our Holy Spirit....

Glass Smoked Refraction

Hey feather flick of wondrous need
Gossam dancing faded wonder
Floating frantic whispers freed
Pushing clouds of shadow under
Bringing light to intercede
In this an endless space of  ether
Swirling twirling mocking fate
Where were you thirty years or more
Slamming shut this dewy door
Of promises  and mirrored smoke
Wouldst I could tell this cosmic joke
That aged wine has better taste
A sweet aside young maiden fair
Enjoy the ride and dare to care
For memories will never waste
So make a few to share

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