To take a photograph is to align the head,
the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
In twos, borne
sclera grapes,
socket twins,
camera duets
note lens shifts.
Panoptic seas,
eagles to snails,
eyes of newborn
until final closing.
In color surprises
to weepy accepts
discern silhouettes;
sweet Arbus furs
to sulphur-stung
correspondents’
captured stares,
to media fairs.
Interactive
prisms.
Top image by Diane Arbus
Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Bjorn says:
So today for you you are to write a Quadrille, 44 words which have to include the word eye in the main body of the poem,
Tao Talk 
It is amazing what you can capture through the eyes of a lens. Love the sclera grapes
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Thanks much, Bjorn.
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Wow, Lisa! Love this!
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Dale, thanks and happy you connect with it 🙂
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Yes ma’am!
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I like the broken nature of this poem – it reminded me of the photogarpher giving instructions. Of course, we are all photographers now.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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Wow. I impressive ways to think of the eyes.
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Glad you like, Ali, thank you 🙂
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Our lenses and the camera’s–very creative, Lisa.
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Thanks, Merril. I started thinking about what eyes actually are, concluding they pretty much are organic cameras.
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You’re welcome, Lisa. Yes, true.
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Nice one!!!
It looked kind of long the way it is presented. I counted.
Much love
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Haha! Gotcha! Thanks, Gillena 🙂
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Wow! All through a lens.
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🙂
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Quadrilliffic, Lisa. Salute!
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Thanks, Ron.
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Absolutely stunning, lyrical and lexigraphically sexy. Loved it.
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Ooh! Happy to receive such high praise, Christopher, thank you.
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This reads as a list poem of that lens shifting. Eyes of the newborn is special.
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Grace, thank you, much appreciated.
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I was forced to cheat to find out what sclera were..no idea. Such an eclectic array of imagery
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You cheater you! Thanks for reading and your comment, Larry.
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I like the chopped up rhythm in this, Lisa, and the photo is priceless.
JIM
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Thanks much, Jim! If you click on that photo link it will take you to a bunch of her photos. She was a phenomenal photographer.
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hi ms, what strikes me is the quote not also a deeper less scary way into the other, the dream image…? aligned they may not be scary? (Not for me to know, it’s your dream). Thanks for writing,
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May be. Thanks for your pondering, Barbara. Good food for thought.
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What I feel here are the many angles of the prism….the views of many eyes…the listing of many eyes. The subject’s, the photographer’s, the cameras. All the lenses as they focus. I enjoyed this take on the word very much.
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I like what you see with your eyes, Lillian. Thank you.
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Wild poem Lisa, loved it!
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Rob, my friend, thank you. Happy to geek you up with it 🙂
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Arresting, both words and image. (K)
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Kerfe, not sure if I ever asked you about Diane Arbus before? Do you know anything about her from a NYC dweller POV?
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Not really. I just know her images are always discomfiting. But then life often is.
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Well done Lisa. I have to think as I watch the news guys over covering the war, “I wonder what the people think who are watching their performance!”
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Dwight, thank you. I am only hearing bits & pieces about what is going on over there but it’s enough to admire anyone who hasn’t run in the opposite direction.
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It is not good news for sure! You are right, they are very courageous to stand up against the Russian bear!
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The lens has caught many images from snails to eagles. My lens always follows the eagle until I can no longer see it.
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Thanks for reading, Truedessa. I have a visual of a sea of eyeballs floating throughout the cosmoplasm in pairs, looking here and there….
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I like this take on the prompt. Well done.
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Miss Arcadia I am pleased you are pleased. Thank you very much.
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The hairdo of the lady in the photo is remarkable, as is your poem!
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Christian, many thanks to you. Arbus was a first class photographer. She didn’t shy away from those who were different. She welcomed them with open arms.
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Real versatile wordplay in this poetry of duality of ideas..
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Thank you, Ain. I wish you would say more about the duality you see in it?
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A very creative poem Li
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🙂 Thank you!
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You’re welcome
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That picture just catches your attention…I like “Panoptic seas” and “color suprises”
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Thank you, Max, glad you connect with it.
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I could hear the click of old-fashioned camera shutter after each line! The eye of the camera often captures for eternity what the human eye misses.
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Punam, I appreciate your perception of it, hadn’t thought of camera clicking but yes, like snapshots, so awesome! Thank you so much. ❤
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Thank you 🙂and you are welcome. ❤️
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the many perspectives and layers of visions – this is the main feeling i got from these deliciously done poem. 🙂
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Rosemarie, thank you for your impressions of the poem 🙂
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I love the many aspect of eyes that you give, and the shape of the poem too! And to top it off a hero of mine, Arbus, a great post as well as a great poem.
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Paul thank you, glad the post was a hit with you 🙂 ❤
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So many imaginative ways of seeing eyes – lovely poem Lisa.
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Trying to imagine a world without eyes is difficult. Thanks much, Marion 🙂
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I particularly liked
“color surprises
to weepy accepts
discern silhouettes”
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Thanks, Phillip!
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Lisa, how creative to feature a photographer in your poem. Think of all the eyes she’s stared into. Brilliant! ❤
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Colleen, thank you very much for noticing 🙂
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This is stunning, Lisa! I simply echo the high praise from those who commented before me …………
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Helen, thank you! Since I love cameras, I was delighted to see Bjorn’s prompt word.
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