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Looking
What does it mean to look?
To really look at something?
To absorb it fully.
A flower
A tree
A painting
A partner
A lover
Making something your world
Your focus
For a moment
However long it is
To feel it
Beyond your senses
Tendrils of your being
Reaching out
Making it a part of yourself
To really look
To understand
More than just shapes
To understand
Loving
To really look at something?
To absorb it fully.
A flower
A tree
A painting
A partner
A lover
Making something your world
Your focus
For a moment
However long it is
To feel it
Beyond your senses
Tendrils of your being
Reaching out
Making it a part of yourself
To really look
To understand
More than just shapes
To understand
Loving
Published 16th Sep 2024
Author's Note
This was inspired by a quote from Georgia O’Keeffe. “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”
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16th Sep 2024 7:43am
16th Sep 2024 2:57pm
16th Sep 2024 10:53am
I love this, my friend.
Too often we’re absorbed in the business of what we think is living that we don’t see what’s in front of us. Stopping for a moment to pay attention to the little things usually shows us more than what we thought we saw. But I really like the idea of studying something. Really looking at it. I’m going to do this. Thank you.
Too often we’re absorbed in the business of what we think is living that we don’t see what’s in front of us. Stopping for a moment to pay attention to the little things usually shows us more than what we thought we saw. But I really like the idea of studying something. Really looking at it. I’m going to do this. Thank you.
Dear H,
Taking time to really look is so important and really discouraged in our society. Take some time to look at the Fitzgerald painting- so much going on in it.
Taking time to really look is so important and really discouraged in our society. Take some time to look at the Fitzgerald painting- so much going on in it.
16th Sep 2024 5:57pm
Anonymous
26th Oct 2024 9:24pm
I really like this poem of yours...❤️
