Emerald Eyes

This poem is offered in response to prompt #25 for 2010 at Writer’s Island,
also offered “off-topic” to the October 15th prompt at Big Tent Poetry.

Emerald Eyes

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emerald eyes captivate
fix me in their gaze
lift me
carry me
to the realm of unfinished dreams

they strip me of fear
longing
of inhibition
to render me transparent

I rise weightless
unburdened of care
an untethered being of pure moment
soaring through universes within universes

a traveler in time and space
ever-expanding consciousness
aware of all
riding the strand continuum
drawing it forward
reeling it back
slipping all temporal bounds

a being of universal presence
adrift in the infinite now
lost in the mystery
veiled in those emerald eyes

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rob kistner © 2010

21 thoughts on “Emerald Eyes”

    1. Thank you Viv — the composite of the Emerald Eyes image that appears above my poem was created from a close-up photo I had of my wife Kathy’s (who you see with me at the top of the right sidebar of this blog) left eye, mirrored and augmented in Photoshop. I was playing around and thought the result was interesting, so I archived it a couple years ago, and pulled it out for this post.

  1. So very very beautiful, and must say, your beautiful wife shows those emerald eyes in those photos to the extreme beauty near “haunting”! What a wonderful poem of expression! 🙂 ~April

  2. The thing I find most often in your poetry, Rob, is a definite sense of enchantment and this one is no exception. A flawless flow that begins with the image and doesn’t end until the final word.

    Elizabeth

  3. Rob, you won’t believe this, but my husband’s best friend had a cat named… Emerald Eyes. It’s true, although we used to call her Miss Em for short.

    Lost in the mystery of those emerald eyes. Be she cat or woman, you are blessed!

    Amy Barlow Liberatore

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