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To See What We Never See
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Saturday, April 7, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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To See What We Never See
By John Herlihy

We do not only see with our eyes;
Our inner vision sees what beyond our world lies.

We do not only smell with our nose;
Our inner smell reveals much more than the rose.

We do not only hear with our ears;
The listening of the heart produces prophetic tears.

We do not only taste with our tongue;
Our inner experience emerges as a song as yet unsung.

We do not only touch with our hands;
Our influence can build mountains from shifting sands.

We do not only think with our reasoned mind;
Our intuition protects a knowledge of another kind.

We take notice of what the outer senses proclaim;
We internalize as our own what the inner senses claim.

For all the miraculous wonders, we close our eyes to see
In order to open the inner eye, to see what lies within me
 

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 Reviews of "To See What We Never See"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on April 19, 2018
IT'S CALLED...FAITH. AMEN. THANKS FOR SHARING, JOHN, I REALLY ENJOYED THIS. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Choi Yearn
Reviewed on April 13, 2018
This poem is very simple, but it is unique in that it expands the senses of the five senses into the inner imaginary area. Believers always experience that they must close their eyes to open their spiritual eyes.

Reviewed on April 8, 2018
O how many facets a human personality has!... and all of them are linked together in the central hub by the name 'My Mind' -- the source of all our 'miraculous wonders.' A beautiful song of a strolling musician. Cheers, alex

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 8, 2018
I find myself looking at this fanciful poetry merely by the science that I know about the subject. Our brains are tuned by survival down through the ions long before written language came into existence. All of the senses were developed to keep us from harm and allow us to find food. The brain allows us to integrat senses in a powerful way that enhances even more, our survival.

Our brain also stores the information, especially when we are successful in our life journey or we make a mistake and it is imprinted in our memory. This inner eye, or intuition, is usually the result of experience, allowing us to think of things and solutions to life's problems before they even occur. Why you and I can write poetry without seemingly having experienced it.

Ron

PS. In the third line, you deviated and wrote "your," instead of "our."

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on April 8, 2018
Excellent. we can not lie to our inner self.

Reviewed on April 8, 2018
Oh! This is very good, John! "to see what lies within me".......very moving words.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on April 8, 2018

thought provoking read, excellent graphic

enjoyed the read

Never Stop Writing!

m

Reviewed by Eva Pasco
Reviewed on April 8, 2018
So true about our experiences and innate makeup shaping our inner senses of perception.


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