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Re: I'd call for help!
posted by
2902
on January 14, 2012 at 8:07 AM
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A excellent poem! What would you do? Open or closed?
posted by
adnohr
on January 13, 2012 at 9:04 PM
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PS, Shamasehar, Your concept of a Third Eye really got
me thinking.
posted by
2902
on January 13, 2012 at 12:09 AM
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Re: Some humble thought! Theree's something to the parable, I suspect.
Thanks for giving it a shot!
posted by
2902
on January 13, 2012 at 12:07 AM
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Re: Thank you. I got the idea of a new color from the late
Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden. He said that, as a kid, he'd read some science fiction story about the possibility. His point was that now, as a scientist, he knew there
could be no other colors. But what stuck in my mind? That lovely impossible premise.
posted by
2902
on January 13, 2012 at 12:03 AM
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I thought it was deeply layered in that the hue, search for the color justifies the journey. The accompaning imagery speaks to the journey but what intrigued me the most is its spirituality in the reference to the eye for in the New Testament is the lamp of the boby. It was spectacular to leave the eye closed at the end for that is what sets it up to be an awesome parable! The reader is lead to the conclusion of the eye closed with life waiting to happen, but it bigger than the physical and thus the eye will remained close until the seeker gains the understanding that it could indeed be all about univeral oneness hence we go back to the one color, it's not new, it been there all along, it's a matter of seeing and thus the eye will open when realized! Anyway, just my humble thoughts as to what I saw in this dynamic piece! sam 
posted by
sam444
on January 12, 2012 at 7:14 AM
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wow! Its the third eye visualizing a hue the outer senses are incapable of seeing or understanding.....beautifully said.
posted by
shamasehar
on January 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM
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Maybe that's it. I've always been fascinated by the trade-off he faces,
the risk of losing something so rare. Practically speaking, it's just a dreamer's problem.
posted by
2902
on January 12, 2012 at 6:31 AM
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Hmmm... Maybe we do overthink.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 12, 2012 at 5:42 AM
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