For dVerse Poets Pub, haibun Monday
For dVerse Poets Pub – Where Frank Tassone is our host.
Frank Tassone here, your host for today’s Haibun Monday, where we blend prose and haiku to fashion the poet Basho’s favorite form.
Today, let’s talk about vision! What does vision mean to you? Is it ordinary eyesight? Extraordinary perception? Is it the eagle’s glare, whether perched or in flight? Or a certain Marvel superhero? Whatever vision is for you, incarnate it in your haibun!
Haibun Monday 9-28-26: vision
The World in HD
For fifteen years, I looked at the world through the same kind of lenses. I managed, adjusted, moved things closer or farther away, and occasionally blamed the lighting. Then, in May, I finally changed to progressive glasses.
The first time I put them on, I laughed.
Apparently, someone had upgraded the world to HD.
Edges sharpened. Letters behaved themselves. Details I had stopped noticing quietly returned. Even the familiar seemed slightly new.
The greatest difference, though, has been in my writing. These days I spend hours moving between the screen, books, notes, and the world beyond my window. With progressive lenses, my eyes no longer have to fight quite so hard to follow wherever my words take me.
Vision is a curious thing. We rarely notice how gradually something has blurred until clarity is handed back to us.
And perhaps that is true beyond eyesight too.
Sometimes we need a different lens before we realise how much we have been missing.
new lenses settle
the ordinary world returns
wearing sharper light
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With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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