Kingsbrae 15.3
15 June 2017
Eyeless in Kingsbrae
There’s warmth in a color,
and heat’s visible to the touch.
Shocking pink has a different
feel beneath the fingers,
and it has no name that you
and I, sighted, would ever know.
They push me, blindfolded,
around the garden. Gravel’s
crunch beneath the wheels
sharpens my inability to know,
to be sure of shadows and shapes
that are no longer there.
The ones who push me talk
and tell but cannot show.
How could they hold a rain
-bow before my eyes or
explain those lights that
crisp and crackle in the sky,
a visible Niagara Falls
with fairy lights
dancing up and down?
And those glorious choirs,
angel voices rising, falling,
grasping my eye-lashes,
trying to pry my eye-lids open.
Oh song of songs, and the singer
deaf to his own sublimity.
Oh dealer of false cards,
fingerless pianist, and dancer
shuffling on amputated stumps.
rogermoorepoet 
Beautiful expression.
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Did they walk you blindfolded? That is how I learned to ride horse in beginning dressage…
It is amazing what a person can feel.
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It was me testing my other senses! Very interesting experiment.
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This idea sounds familiar… were we talking about it? The visually impaired being able to sense color through touch? Oh these marvelous compensatory brains we have!
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We talked about it over the lunch table one day. Champagne flowing and a good conversation flowing from it. I made notes and wrote them up. Then I turned them into a poem.
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Excellent!
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