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Retina Poems - Poems about Retina

Red

Rosie Registered Retinas 
Evidence Erased Easily 
Dogma Driven Division

Categories: retina, africa, break up, conflict,
Form: Acrostic

Image In Light

Image in Light  

Images are light
Well an image is recorded 
by  and in  light
Light which passes through a lens to strike a retina  or a
photosensitive surface with an attached brain  either
physiological or material  
to percieve

I could say that an observer gives existence to an image
  though this existence

Categories: retina, color, education, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Obtaining a New Retina

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

Categories: retina, satire,
Form: Free verse

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Mr Battiwalla's Eye

She enters right into the ward and ends the slumber of the night.
Sister is robust in voice, and broad in bust and shoulder. 
Regrets the man who told her, once, how best he might recover.

Ten timid men still further slip below the blanket beds,
and fingers grip night-loosened sheets pulling higher over heads.
When on the floor,

Categories: retina, humor,
Form: Narrative

Retina Picture

The surgeons took a photograph
And saw her killer pictured there,
Imprinted on her retina:
The Ripper’s face upon her stare.

*People used to believe that the last thing a person saw before death was imprinted on the retina and this was tried in the Jack the Ripper case – I just imagined if it had worked…

For Deb’s ‘What

Categories: retina, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Retina of the Soul

When all opinions are the ink of newsprint
Repetitious in the speech
A presented little gift
Wrapped up in the tinsel glittering eye full
Of something called the truth
But is bought the cheapest wall paper
To cover up all the crack inside their proof

Religion is the grand avenue of neon
The bright and sucking casino of a thoughtless heaven
The immediate acquiescence
To

Categories: retina, life
Form: Free verse