<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424682" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At First Sight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before false interferences twist mind, <br>distort perceptions caught, one ought to try<br>to focus clearly, spirit satisfy, <br>sharing impressions which should never die<br>while magic taps into soul’s spring to bind<br>one day’s events to sense. Here's underlined<br>empathy with which all identify, <br>walls fall, emotions' limitless supply.<br>One chance glance dance askance left half-truth, lie.<br> <br>Replete with red rose, awed, decor refined, <br>two former strangers kismet met, good-bye <br>forever was forgotten as July<br>supplanted January on the sly.<br>Earth's seasons topsy-turvy turned as eye<br>encountered eye which rich dreams decked behind<br>blocks' veil to comfort karma pre-designed.<br>Charmed pair shared earth, air, water, fire, entwined, <br>rebirth freed from dearth's desert dusty, dry.<br>27 October 1990 revised1 7 June 1991 3 May 2005 and <br>0 January 2012 for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once in a lifetime favoured few may find<br>such inspiration words can’t even try<br>to pin down, predefine, or qualify, <br>limit, understate or question why, <br>scorn karma as coincidence or lie.<br>Yesterday, by more than chance, I dined<br>across from eyes whose energies unwind, <br>sensed shocks synaptic instantly defy<br>Time itself, felt souls electrify.<br> <br>Here differences dissolved, fears undermined. <br>That first glance opened understanding. Blind<br>before ‘one’ must have been, with every tie<br>from gravity released, - no low, no high -<br>as everywhere twinned spirits teamed, naught awry.<br>Base substance shed, trite trammels left behind, <br>We walked on air, all purer felt, refined, <br>senses swam, consumed - hedged bets unwind -<br>completion's joy few mortals quantify.<br> <br>The message all embraced and somehow signed<br>dimensions new whose rainbow hues deny<br>time and space, displace doubts, multiply<br>empathy, empowering wings to fly.<br>Magnified magnficence might find<br>its place in all, for all was redefined ~<br>impression that itself was heightened by<br>acceptance shared, that nothing could deny.<br> <br>That message understanding underlined.<br>No need for questions, no need for reply, ~<br>answers sprang spontaneous to apply<br>bright lining, insight to identify<br>the meaning of the universe, to bind<br>its discords into harmony aligned, <br>no strain no reinn no pain, sight cleared, thereby<br>abolishing all need to feed ‘how? ’, ‘why? ’<br> <br>Like lightning current passed. Two intertwined, <br>upwards spiralled seven heavens high, <br>each could discover, reach, personify<br>both peace, release, within a soul-storm’s eye.<br>Within this ‘vortext’ top-like spun some kind<br>of symphony ~ enchantment predefined ~<br>responding, permeating all ~ as “my”<br>no sense retained, drained out by inner eye.<br> <br>We weightless whirled while everything combined<br>in all, through all, dimensions ~ instant tie.<br>Past ~ mirage pale ~ shed to transmogrify<br>emotions' surges, sudden signify<br>end to beginnings. Soul to soul could bind, <br>race, face much more than base touch, leave behind<br>waste walls, taste joys which logic strict defy.<br>Apart from all, yet part of all felt I! <br> <br>It seemed imagination, - much maligned, <br>by most as tinted outpost for a lie -<br>was in true colours seen as empty sigh -<br>a monochrome excuse or alibi<br>compared with glory storybook devined<br>that far outshines words' narrow worlds purblind.<br>Enlightenment at last could testify<br>to well-spring wonder's spell swell, never dry.<br> <br>We shared intense impressions counter-signed<br>by marvelment, as interactive high<br>engraved emotions, inklings, on the fly, <br>Rhyme’s splendour fans reflections, spans earth, sky, <br>touched, as it were, by karma to unwind<br>in every thought and everything, shared mind.<br>Allied perceptions alter for the best<br>our reach on life as here pen comes to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Before vague interferences the mind<br>distorts, today’s perceptions twists, I’ll try<br>to focus clearly, spirit satisfy, <br>sharing impressions which should never die<br>while magic taps into soul’s spring to bind<br>the day’s events to sense, as underlined<br>emotions are which all identify <br>as Jericho walls fallen, joy supply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once in a lifetime lucky few may find<br>such inspiration words can’t even try<br>to pin down, predefine, or qualify, <br>limit, understate or question why, <br>scorn karma as coincidence or lie.<br>Yesterday, by more than chance, I dined<br>across from eyes whose energies unwind, <br>felt shock synaptic instantly defy<br>Time itself, to soul electrify.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That first glance opened understanding. Blind<br>before ‘one’ must have been as every tie<br>to gravity dissolved, - no low, no high -<br>while everywhere the spirit seemed to fly.<br>Base substance shed, trite trammels left behind, <br>I walked on air, all purer felt, refined, <br>senses swam, consumed, reborn, as I<br>complete, broke surface, - joy none quantify.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The message all embraced and somehow signed<br>dimensions new of rainbow hue, thereby<br>offering a space to multiply<br>intuitions none can qualify.<br>Magnified magnficence did find<br>its place in all, as all was redefined ~<br>impression that itself was heightened by<br>acceptance shared, which nothing need deny</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The message understanding underlined.<br>No need for questions, no need for reply, ~<br>answers sprang spontaneous to apply<br>a lining bright to help identify<br>the meaning of the universe, to bind<br>its discords into harmony aligned<br>as limits disappeared, sight cleared, thereby<br>abolishing all need for ‘how ’ and ‘why’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like lightning current passed. Two intertwined, <br>upwards spiralled seven heavens high, <br>each could discover, reach, personify<br>both peace, release, within a soul-storm’s eye.<br>Within this ‘vortext’ top-like spun some kind<br>of harmony ~ unseen yet predefined ~<br>responding, permeating all, ~ as “my”<br>no sense retained, swept out by inner eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We weightless whirled while everything combined<br>in all, through all, dimensions ~ instant tie.<br>Past ~ mirage pale ~ shed to transmogrify<br>emotion surges, sudden signify<br>end to beginnings. Soul to soul could bind<br>with so much more than base touch, leave behind<br>all walls, felt joy which logic strict defy.<br>Apart from all, yet part of all felt I! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seemed imagination, - much maligned, <br>by most as tinted outpost for a lie -<br>was in true colours seen as empty sigh - <br>a monochrome excuse or alibi<br>compared with glory storybook devined<br>that far outshines this narrow world purblind.<br>Enlightenment at last could testify<br>to well-spring joy which never would run dry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We shared intense impressions counter-signed<br>by wonderment, as interactive high <br>engraved emotions, inklings, on the fly, <br>Rhyme’s splendour fans reflections, spans earth, sky, <br>touched, as it were, by karma to unwind<br>in every thought and everything, the mind.<br>These shared perceptions alter for the best<br>our reach on life as here pen comes to rest.<br>robi03_0423_robi03_0000 XXX_KLX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(27 October 1990 revised17 June 1991 and 3 May 2005)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424682" data-title="At First Sight de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Before false interferences twist mind, distort perceptions caught, one ought to try to focus clearly, spirit satisfy, sharing impressions which should never die while magic taps into soul’s spring to bind one day’s events to sense...."></div> </div> </div>

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