Comments on If You Were To Close Your Eyes

Go to Shelly's Poetry - Add a comment - Go to If You Were To Close Your Eyes

A little unsettling, because i'd probably trust you to give me a close shave with an open razor with your eyes closed--presuming, of course you are not also deft--in which case i'd probably still trust you.

posted by jfm32 on November 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM | link to this | reply

Shelly

What an interesting, many-layered poem! I can't close my eyes know, but I shall remember it and be inspired by it later tonight...

posted by Nautikos on November 25, 2008 at 6:04 PM | link to this | reply

SAM, WHAT A GREAT POEM, ONE OF MY FAVORITE HYMNS "BLESSED ASSURANCE" AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW WAS WRITTEN BY A BLIND LADY AND YET SHE WROTE LINES LIKE, "WATCHING AND WAITING, LOOKING ABOVE. WE SEE THINGS MUCH BETTER WHEN WE SEE WITH OUT HEART, THANKS , KENT

posted by Riversidepoet on November 25, 2008 at 5:21 PM | link to this | reply

Wonderful

This is an outstanding poem!  I am very moved by it.  So true...if we would close our eyes, imagine what we could suppose!  I am working on a poem now for my Grandmother for christmas and in one of the lines, I do mention how closing ones eye can bring us wherever we want to go.

posted by RASSE on November 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM | link to this | reply

"And if you were to close your eyes, imagine what you could suppose". You speak my language Shelly Fantasy will challenge our perspectives.Bravo Sam!

posted by merkie on November 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM | link to this | reply

Thought-provoking

and humbling I thought. Thanks also for your comment on my blog

posted by malcolm on November 25, 2008 at 8:58 AM | link to this | reply

Close your eyes... you take us on a different plane altogether.

posted by hardilaziz on November 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM | link to this | reply

This is another excellent piece Sam! Am I right to think you are speaking

of 'being in denial' that many of us do not wish to 'see all'? Whatever-wonderfull! Chris.

posted by Scramble on November 25, 2008 at 8:33 AM | link to this | reply

Sam

I like "Lion's" choice of words - striking!  It leaves the reader pondering and encourages them to close their eyes for a moment....

posted by Troosha on November 25, 2008 at 8:33 AM | link to this | reply

Striking verse

It completely grabs my attention and has set my brain to whirring

posted by lionreign on November 25, 2008 at 7:24 AM | link to this | reply