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Retinal Poems - Poems about Retinal

The Invisible Army

...It was August 1st,
Army Day in China—
when I was escorted through concrete arteries
deep beneath the pulse of the city.

No cameras. No phones.
Just retinal scans, encrypted codes,
and a silen...
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Categories: retinal, anniversary, conflict, science, science
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTwenty Twenty Vision

...Jacques Daviel
A brilliant eye specialist Jaques Daviel,
does his cataract field at all ring a bell?
the word cataract used with utmost respect,
on his vision and foresight I duly reflect


Fr...
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Categories: retinal, blessing, care, caregiving, character,
Form: Clerihew



Premium MemberBlurry Lines

...My eyes ache hard in a steady throb
A retinal crack…a nagging sob
I crave the words and lines which flow
The pain reminds me to take it slow

I reach for verses sharp and bright
My vision blurs...
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Categories: retinal, pain,
Form: Lyric

Dying Embers

...The day was ending,
But a window was open 
To a view of dying embers
Ablaze on the coastal horizon.
Like a canvas in motion,
It captured amazement,
Reaching out hypnotically
Through clouds awa...
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Categories: retinal, allusion, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRETINALISTA

...
RETINALISTA
random
  & chaotic
an incoherent
   scattering
abroad
  amplified
stimulalated
to
radiate
     & emit

filter
 the spectacuar
forward
  & back
to
 & fro
made to flow
...
...
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Categories: retinal, light, visionary,
Form: Didactic



Premium MemberS3t Entry Code - Space 3d Time

...i...t'was just outside, um...

with a camera's eye
on glistening snow trails
colored rainbow by setting sun

what the eye hides means...

for both retinal and brain cells time
has evolve(d) ...
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Categories: retinal, addiction, senses,
Form: Free verse

Bobby Bandwidth In Dogs Humping Act 2

...both sides use conscience for a hook
it's a con artist's suitcase
fill your cup in the Ocean of Tears
there's enough of everything in there
toasters glowing blenders humming
dogs humping on lawn...
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Categories: retinal, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberColour Banquet

...twist of the wrist,
jingle of glass bangles,
a play of light,
kaleidoscope of colours!
patterns of bright reflections,
each different from another,
and never ever the same!
a garden of...
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Categories: retinal, art, bird, color, earth
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat a Spectacle

...he took the paintball on one sunken cheek

it hurt to be lopsided but the anger subsided

          the umpire declared the shot out of bounds

                    but the capsule brought colou...
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Categories: retinal, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClick, Click

...Spotted black, crouching low,
Approaching silent,very slow,
Large big eyes,spot him quick,
Race for life! Eyes click click!

Soaring high, measured round,
focussed search on the ground,
Talons...
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Categories: retinal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Strange Galaxy

...When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea of blue-green-gray,
   photoreceptors painting post-Impressionistic explosions of ...
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Categories: retinal, stars,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVision- -

...In a kingdom full of perspectives
Much I marveled the ideal principle
Deep into that darkness hunching
Vision - tormentor of my dreams
When I thought of the Vision

~


I hear...
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Categories: retinal, analogy, appreciation, perspective, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnniversary of the Fall of the Wall

...President Reagan's dulcet tones breathed fire and brimstone
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall," demanded he, histrionically
When the wall did us all a favor, complying, falling of its own accord
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Categories: retinal, anniversary, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Pantoum

Reluctant Dawn

...

Hesitant awakening ... 
misty veil reveals another
24 sixty 
incremental uncertainty

Retinal unwillingness
Indecision guides each fretful,
retrograde step
Nocturnal blurred moral ...
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Categories: retinal, age, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Imp-Ulse Attraction

...
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers:    Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV

Have no bewitching faith in y...
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Categories: retinal, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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