YOU DO NOT SEE

Michael Edwards

 

 

 

YOU DO NOT SEE

 

 

On mountain outlines to the east

as bats begin to fly

the staining sun supports its chin

before departing from the sky

and searching where you saw him flee

the ebbing light revealing not

you look yet do not see.

 

 

  • Author: Michael Edwards (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 5th, 2019 01:36
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Goldfinch60

    Good write Michael. There are so many who look but do not see.

    Good cartoon, I never get the winning card.

  • Fay Slimm.

    Love it - - love the style and metre of these semi-archaic lines Michael - and what a chuckle the sketch gave me - you are really artful my friend.

    • Michael Edwards

      Thanks Fay. As a non-Christian I was always a bit iffy about these but I'm pleased to say that they well received and adopted by a couple of religious magazines (one of them a glossy) - everyone should be able to step back and see the bunny side - it would be a sad world if we couldn't.

    • orchidee

      A fine write and pic M. You had tips form Gold and I? as in 'archaic lines'?!
      It's a spiritual thing too - it's said some folk 'see, but don't perceive'; they 'hear but don't understand'.
      An idiom - the outcome or result is expressed as though it were the intention.
      What's all this from me this time of morning?You with me still? You know Waff Earl, or Earl Waff?

      • Michael Edwards

        I know Waff Earl - he's friends with that little chap - what's his name? Ah yes - Shaw Tarse.

      • dusk arising

        You brought out the bat in me until i realised the blood had gone to my head. All that blood and as blind as a bat. No wonder i was useless at cricket.
        Love that line "the staining sun supports it's chin".. my future sunsets are going to be haunted by your phrase.

        • Michael Edwards

          Aw thanks Dusk - at least it won't be a scary haunting.

        • orchidee

          Help lol. I was online, but not 'seen'. It said 'No users are online'. Well I was in the E-mail section. heehee.

          • Michael Edwards

            At least you weren't in the Fe-mail section.

          • Neville

            there is far more to this than meets the eye.. am sure there will be many ways to interpret these words.. for me tho.. I see myself standing in the shadow of a minaret, a church and a temple looking out across the rooftops as the sun sets and wondering... I have been there before and thank you for taking me there again.... Neville

            • Michael Edwards

              Love your interpretation - I won't be able to read this again without your thoughts coming to mind. Thanks Neville.

              • Neville

                you made it happen... so thank you again Michael...

              • orchidee

                Goodbye sun for today. We saw some of it! Bit better than being caught in a hailstorm yesterday!
                Those evenings still dark there? Let there be light soon, though we force it, by losing the hour.

                • Michael Edwards

                  It is dark - especially when you put the lights out. Actually it would be better if we just switched them off rather than put them out in the rain.

                  • orchidee

                    Yes, strange that - why nights are dark?! Hmm. Have they always been so?

                  • MendedFences27

                    Bingo, another winner. East vs. West. The fleeing Sun drops for the night, and the bats know what to do.We often see what is not there and as you say we"look yet do not see." Human foibles abound. A richness for the poet. Got a good chuckle and an eye opener. Thanks .-Phil A.

                  • ANGELA & BRIAN

                    Thanks UNCLE MIKE : Im on my WEDNESDAY LUNCH BREAK (I think BRIAN is aleep in his bed !) and vainly trying to catch up on MPS : even UNCLE STEVE is in chuckle mode today and not preaching ! lots of good stuff today. Sometimes when Im early for Church and they are still filling in the Hymn numbers I feel like shouting BONGO when the last number goes up ! Love your picture and enigmatic Poem :
                    Blessings & love through MPS : ANGELA 🧡🧡🧡🧡

                  • Suresh

                    Whether it's in the form of a cartoon or words, in the worst moment possible look for something to make you smile.
                    Thnx



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