warm wishes for the eye of the beholder
coleen
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life is a sequence of moments
choices, dreams, philosophies
ever shifting and evolving
in our minds they sometimes crystalize
becoming images
some are stills while others continue to move
we edit, splice, re-shoot them in our minds
thumbing through the pages
rewinding, re-living those most precious
there is a moment approaching
filled with so many wishes and dreams and thoughts
that can't begin to fashion themselves into words
no matter how hard they've tried
and finding themselves ever more impossible to transmute to a voice
is it best to leave the moment
untouched, ignored, silent
or better perhaps to say something
say anything in this moment before it is gone
or is it possible to discover the means to translate these wishes into images
for you to thumb through as you wish
so the mind ponders how best to
represent in images the wishes
and hopes for another
that are even greater than the one's we can
want for ourselves
the image of a mountain standing against
the vast open sky
to represent a dream seemingly a bit higher than our grasp
turning to the next page only to find
an image taken from a vantage point atop that same mountain
surveying the whole of existence laid down before you
waiting for a path to blaze within it that can only be
imagined and executed by you
followed next by an image of a mountain spring
shimmering with a radiance that pales
the light of the sun
to represent the steady glow of your heart and soul
followed by an image of the ocean
waiting for you to allow yourself flow into it
thereby increasing its grandeur immeasurably
so many images in this album for you
that represent the wishes
of dreams, hope, joy, peace, love, unquenchable curiosity, endless possibility
a lifetime full of images to reflect upon
to strive for, to discover, to capture
and revisit for a lifetime
not a one comparable to the images
which are waiting for you to find them
moments that will never be anything more than
ghosts or spirits or wild imaginings
until the moment that you are ready to make them real
may each of them hold the peace, the love and the joy
worthy of the eye of its beholder
choices, dreams, philosophies
ever shifting and evolving
in our minds they sometimes crystalize
becoming images
some are stills while others continue to move
we edit, splice, re-shoot them in our minds
thumbing through the pages
rewinding, re-living those most precious
there is a moment approaching
filled with so many wishes and dreams and thoughts
that can't begin to fashion themselves into words
no matter how hard they've tried
and finding themselves ever more impossible to transmute to a voice
is it best to leave the moment
untouched, ignored, silent
or better perhaps to say something
say anything in this moment before it is gone
or is it possible to discover the means to translate these wishes into images
for you to thumb through as you wish
so the mind ponders how best to
represent in images the wishes
and hopes for another
that are even greater than the one's we can
want for ourselves
the image of a mountain standing against
the vast open sky
to represent a dream seemingly a bit higher than our grasp
turning to the next page only to find
an image taken from a vantage point atop that same mountain
surveying the whole of existence laid down before you
waiting for a path to blaze within it that can only be
imagined and executed by you
followed next by an image of a mountain spring
shimmering with a radiance that pales
the light of the sun
to represent the steady glow of your heart and soul
followed by an image of the ocean
waiting for you to allow yourself flow into it
thereby increasing its grandeur immeasurably
so many images in this album for you
that represent the wishes
of dreams, hope, joy, peace, love, unquenchable curiosity, endless possibility
a lifetime full of images to reflect upon
to strive for, to discover, to capture
and revisit for a lifetime
not a one comparable to the images
which are waiting for you to find them
moments that will never be anything more than
ghosts or spirits or wild imaginings
until the moment that you are ready to make them real
may each of them hold the peace, the love and the joy
worthy of the eye of its beholder
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images, dreams, wishes... I think I have them all
May you hold up your dreams to the light. So that they may shower us.
There's a moment in "A Passage To India" where mystical truth is almost perceived in a sideways glance, in the corner of an eye, at a passing Bulbul bird that disappears on a second, direct glance. Poetry knows one can never catch the slippery tail of truth, and, like Nietzsche said "Truths are illusions" because they are canonised by linguistic convention; poetry seeks to bend, fracture and pluralise language to try to get beyond the limitations of linguistic signification and communication to the suggestion, at least, of a greater, wordless truth.
Your poem says all this to me, Coleen. Thank you. I hadn't seen it before now.
you have often been encouraging of the little things i leave here. but you - kind, gentle man - always manage to make them seem like so much more than they are.
(((((((fpc))))))))
"is it best to leave the moment
untouched, ignored, silent
or better perhaps to say something
say anything in this moment before it is gone"
Carpe Diem..