Wednesday 16 November 2016

POETS UNITED - INVISIBILITY

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Poets United mid-week motif is “invisibility”. We are gifted with sight to see what is readily visible to all, however, relatively few people have vision and see what is invisible to most. We are surrounded by optical illusions, distorting mirrors and smoke screens in a world that has become more and more shrouded in deception and falseness. What is true, fundamental and crucial to us lies hidden and invisible. To see the essential we have to use more than our eyes…
Here is my poem:

The Invisible

The eyes are blind to the essential
And that is why we must have an open heart,
With which to see the invisible.

A beautiful face can hide an evil mind,
And that is why we must have a pure soul
With which to sense the invisible.

Hypocrisy, flattery, cant are rife
And that is why we must have wisdom,
With which to reason the invisible.

Sweet words and lulling music dull our ears,
And that is why we must have clean hands
With which to feel the invisible.

The world around us is corrupt and filled with devils,
And that is why we need faith and love and hope
With which to make the invisible, visible;
To make the hidden manifest;
To uncover the truth obscured by lies;
To find the innocent amongst the damned.

12 comments:

  1. OMG! To see. To sense. To reason. To feel. I think we find more than the innocent: We take part in the Mystery. Your introductory narrative is as good as your poem. We really are making the invisible visible today!

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  2. You are right. We must see and touch what is beneath.
    Tis so that those devils amongst us do too and skilfully manipulate those who refuse or are unable to see what is in front of their very eyes.
    Kind regards
    Anna :o]

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  3. Sweet words and lulling music dull our ears,
    And that is why we must have clean hands
    With which to feel the invisible.

    Such deep and poignant lines!!❤️

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  4. aha, we all need that inner eye to be able to look beyond....

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  5. luv these of your poem

    "And that is why we need faith and love and hope
    With which to make the invisible, visible;"

    Have a nice Wednesday

    much love...

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  6. Wonderfully stated, Nicholas. Those of us who can see are distressed at what we are looking at these days. It seems the smoke and mirrors are working. Hopefully only temporarily.

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  7. In its entirety, an awesome post.

    Elizabeth

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  8. Yes, we need to look for that so-often invisible truth that is obscured by lies. But so many of us have become blind and do not see and will not see until it is too late.

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  9. Wise words in this well written poem. I usually use my intuition "to uncover the truth" and I am mostly right but not always, some people wear really good masks.

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  10. So many things we need to make the invisible visible! Who is up to the task?

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  11. Sweet words and lulling music dull our ears,

    And that is why we must have clean hands

    With which to feel the invisible.

    being able to feel the invisible...that is what I take away from here, nice...bkm

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