Sighted Unsighted
December 30, 2016
A botanist would know, might tell me what this is
A rough dry calx, a ball surounding leafy shoots,
This close I had not seen the like of such before,
Or understood
How ignorant of observation I by nature was;
Have acquiesced in, careless to inquire
By sense or mode what copious variation
Moves things galore
A season or a situation scatters
Wantonly-wise, abundance with some over
No nomenclature fine enough should capture all
Its computation
One sees and does not see unless adverted
And sensitised; brought to a realisation
Of earth’s profuse phenomena concerted:
Mortal Creation
Re-educated from an urban block's hubbubs'
Imperative attention-seeking stir
Its traction on the vacuum where one’s mordant levity
Rests self-assured
And so cut loose from taut determinations
Which lead by nose sleek city-dwelling sorts
Into their honeypot preoccupations
Jailkeeping holds
Acquitted instead, parolled, released, unbounden
Freed indolent to be oneself withal
Sound grounded on what close deliberations,
Upon sensations say
And on what vital furbishments provision
One’s daily round, to astound; give cantilever
Recourse; would solace sullen drudge municipals,
Bestranded Lotus Eaters
Whose goings know not how to estimate
What vibrant amplitudes disclaim their blighted night
And underwrite its countermand with golden stylus
Beneath the moon
Where plentintudes from God, graced and abiding
Renew, are handed round, refreshments scented
With recondite unstated understanding
Infusing sweets
Of prayers heavenwards like transpirations
From leafy bud or flounced fritillary
Dear compliments exuberant from Creation
Lofting away
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