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barbsdad2003
Apr 27, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

blinds

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blinds

run horizontal,
tighten to slits; curtains, drawn,
engage in vertical

purse, brace against day-
light's out-of-doors; a world lies
there I cannot see

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— barbsdad2003, Apr 27, 2010

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Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 1 month ago

Fear.Another way of keeping

Fear. Another way of keeping the darkness in. ~A "The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses, but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as a creation of his senses." ~ Ernst Mach
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anonymous1

16 years 1 month ago

I like the feel of this poem.

This poem reminds me of my dark days when I rarely opened the curtains. It was a whole decade long and was awful. I like the poem and the feel of it. I think it's the word engage that gives me a sense of hope nonetheless. In fact, that whole line - 'engage in vertical' is good advice for the depressed souls. Good one. Thanks, Lisa
Janice Pearce

Janice Pearce

16 years 1 month ago

blinds

I liked the dark side of this one Chuck. ______________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous
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barbsdad2003

16 years 1 month ago

I like that ...

the metaphor was picked up so readily by commenters above. I've experienced chronic depression virtually my whole life, all, of course, with good reason, as my logic side so readily saw (given my contextual history). However, what I did not see (until very recently) was the well-understood (nowadays) fact that depression's often a prologue/prelude to type 2 diabetes. Wish I'd known earlier. Now that I've captured the rather tricky ability to stay within nondiabetics' blood-sugar ranges (no thanks to diabetes doctors, who almost invariably insist on a sadly errant standard of care subscribed to in the U.S. ... and who thus needlessly damage both current and future health states of diabetics) ... and am routinely successful in getting a (nondiabetic's) low A1c (of 4.2 usually), eureka! depression's lifted ... and stayed absent ever since. And what a relief it's been! Sun's out, shining brightly. Nice day. To all here, thanx, Chuck

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