Emerging From The Blind Side

Emerging From The Blind Side

written by: Jan Sargeant

sitting by a window waiting for dawn,
expectations shiver, seek
warmth in the pale bonfire
of what once were the vanities
of a scalpel mind
now searching to find
colour in this washed out world of
distortions, scratched contortions,
monochrome stripped bare
ciarascuro of shadows,
images lost in translation,
an unfocused blur –

a new way of seeing
a kind of a dare – a gauntlet
thrown down, the hope
someone might care
enough to want to look through my eyes
to see what’s now there

will you sit by this window with me,
will you wait for the dawn
protect as shadows choke me
shelter me from this storm
can we escape the distortions,
the scratched contortions,
the misshapes and the mistakes
the landscapes and the seascapes,
the wordscapes and the best
of what was there before,
a camera obscura now obscured
by the pin holes we never foresaw

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Jan Sargeant

SEPTEMBER 2022 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com

Jan Sargeant has written for many years but only since retirement in 2016 has she had the time and opportunity to write poetry and novels rather than academic papers. “Still dancing,” an anthology of her poetry, was published three months ago with all profits going to Parkinson’s research. Her first novel, “Alan’s Lesswilling Chronicles” is a comedy, published in August 2023. She is working on the next part of this series but says she is sidetracked by the poetry she feels compelled to write. She lives in a conservation village with a lake near the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with her husband, three cats and Banksy, their small dog.

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