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| I Close my Eyes | |
| By sallyj | ||||||||
| 14 October 2006 | ||||||||
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this emerged from a ten minute writing exercise based on listening I close my eyes against the stark power of the sun Whose ceaseless burn assaults my heat seared skin Children’s voices in the distance tell of surf-side fun I hear the constant hiss-suck of wavelets, out then in The screen of my closed eyelids shows a summer scene Bold swimmers, bright sailboats, sand play, banter ‘twixt kith and kin The scene recedes; the picture forms now shades of woodland green What was the sound of water becomes the tune of shivering leaves Silver birch, whispering beech, branches lit by twilight’s blue grey sheen Outside my fast closed doors the March wind swirls and heaves I feel the coal’s warmth brush soft against my cheek My eyelids flutter as I chase the dreams I weave Since blindness freed me from reality, so often harsh and bleak, To see just what I want to see, to track down any vision that I seek
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