Short Cataract Poems

to look is not to see…
optical differences 
cataract impaired...

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CATARACT

this mist lifts slowly


a new vista is unveiled...

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Crystals flowing down
Mother of milk excretions
White conceal blended...

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A sea mist rolls inshore this morning
The optician proposes a cataract op...

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A sea mist rolls inshore this morning
The optician proposes a cataract op...

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Splashing cataract 
Runs nimbly down the calm brook
It is crystal and chill....

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Splashing cataract 
Runs nimbly down the calm brook
It is crystal and chill....

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cold blustery winds
roaring sound of cataract
breaking over rocks
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where did we go wrong-

waterfalls of wistfulness,

hearts frozen in time




Inspired by latest  Raul's photo...

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The whistling winds blow
 Stroking tender dancing leaves 
The chains of copper oak, 
Gently sways in heighten gay
 And creates a jovial summer....

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the mountain mother
                                       cries over her son's folly
                                             opaque cataract...

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tears begin to fall.
emotion becomes a flood-
a cataract of regret flows


TRISTICH IS A PARALLEL VERSE(Inspired by Hebrew Biblical parallels) it comprises  L1 theme L2 ECHO of theme L3 Punchline/observation...

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reflections
in the lake
sky
      moving 
          on the breeze-
                      trees
ripple and
sigh
         mesmorised
         hypnotised
landscape
shadows
          cataract
          my
eye...

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Sometimes(now) I dislike
(hate) indecision
many fates //now//spill
horrified goldfish meeting
air/myopic eyes; live cataract-like
but still & now I unlike
that Inde-CISION cuts me 
through the ghost-bone

:: ~ ::...

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A sea mist rolls inshore this morning
The optician proposes a cataract op

BANTU an imagist couplet Each line a compete idea,the 2nd however constrasts with a complementary description or explanation or metaphor thereof...

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Ever flowing
Over-bowling
Borne along,
     Again,
By class-five rapids,
A cataract thro’ jagged crags

There is danger here
Out of (my) control
Guided by Peace 
Protected by Joy
     Himself
The mighty rush of God’s
Poured-out, turbulent love...

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Wardrobes, full of clothes,
crossstitch cluttered walls-
her shadow still clouds my mind

tears begin to fall.
emotion becomes a flood-
a cataract of regret flows

a realisation dawns,
fleeting thoughts crystallize-
as 'as is' moment of hope is born...

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in the cataract of anxiety
The rock gets worn away
The misty water hides his deity
Noise drowns my voice when I pray 
The love of the world, Lord, take it away
The love of self first, then fear
I cannot stand in water, I am clay
Fire me, till no dross is there....

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A closer gaze
Yet they see not
A keener look
Clarification not found
What is to be
To see this bleakness
Cataract covering up their eyes

They couldn't see
What traitors around

Spectacles!
Spectacles of the mind
Let lenses be attached to their eyes
All they need is spectacles...

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There was a man from Thomaston
Of real good vision he had none
Glasses weren't any help
They sat upon the shelf
From his surgery he's left stunned 

My husband has had cataract surgery this week..
He says that he can't see any better out of the eye
upon which he had surgery....

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High cloudy gloomy
Head; unseen; in wispy bars
Of skies; shaking rails

With closed-in thunder—
For miles. Lightning's bare fingers
Fall limp after so 

Many strikes. Peak of 
Sun— blue; cataract rims stung;
The rain sliding down

This dam in my soul;
It slams like me, my pain's pound—
Where I'm now stormbound....

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            My Wise Granny

        She needs surgery
        Not with virus in progress
        May be gone forthwith
        Her one cataract doth stay
        To a hospital, no chance
        Wherein much viruses dance


                   July 6, 2020
                   2:30pm PST


Edited. Was originally marked Senryu, is a rhyme. Panagiota

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The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space 
Turnbull  called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ ....

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The broken limb hangs by a gnat's breath
waiting for a wind
To stir the leafy attached limbs
releasing it to blend

Back into the soil of the earth
Giving of itself again
Its life used to give up oxygen
Now grow life where it has been

Cataract grows where lens did work
Knuckles ache, also the feet
Heart grows weak; getting time to sleep
Live goes on, but heaven greets ...

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