Eyes Expanded
Michael Lester 1987 (Dundee)
Eyes expanded,
Mind illuminated.
Is this imagined?
Is this fated?
Is this it,
Is this just a glimpse?
Nothing in the world matters,
But this.
Intuition, that there is no ‘I’,
Life is looking at itself through its own eyes.
And all is well in this soup of peace,
For all but a moment did the person cease?
About this poem
From the book Divine Rhyme, edited by Michael Lester.
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Submitted by michael.lester2 on October 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA XX XX XX XX BB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 297 |
Words | 58 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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