EYELIDS

Caption: “HELLO! Helloooooo down there!”

I had closed my eyes on the couch

One cozy afternoon

Amazed

At what was projected on back of my eyelids

At first

A small upside down evergreen tree-like shape

Like a small someday

Christmas Tree

Dazzling young and old

Yet looking closer . . . Even closer

Hum? Those aren’t

Limbs and foliage but a mass of

Tiny tiny dots

Jillions of them

Honeybees

Clustered around their rogue Queen

searching out a new home

WOW! Where’d that image come from?

I close my eyes again

And this time

On the sightless darkened lid-screen

This time - Notes a vast array posted notes and printed

Paperwork posted all over halls and walls

Photos, numbers, figures,

Typed and hand written

At least thirty or fifty or so plastered

Everwhere on the back of my eyelids

It was more real than a hallucination

I could see them clearly, even tried to read some

But couldn't make out the words for figures

Strange and amazing

Intrigued by what appears there

What a magical display

What an adventure

Persistent

Where do those images come from

Under the cover of my resting lids

There is a whole world within

Is any of it real

Or merely the winding down of

The cognitive day

And why the display?

Look for it,

Free your imagination

What do you see

As you respect

Fall fast asleep

First awake

tom tenbrunsel

Poet Laureate of Imagination

Author’s Note: How to look at your closed eyelids. Some call it looking into the “mind’s eye.” It’s like a Rorschach, a projective psychological technique.

Take a few moments. Get comfortable. Reclining in a quiet peaceful place undisturbed works best. Close your eyes. What do you see? After the initial negative of what you were looking at before you closed your eyes fades, “your mind’s eye” will begin to show you things as described above in the poem, “Eyelids.” The back of your eyelids become a palllet of shapes and things. It’s unlikely you will be able to read notes, texts, pictures, photos, etc. But with practice you can move thru scenes and themes. Yesterday I finished My Memoirs. Today when I close my eyelids, I see 8x10 pages and pages, at least 50 pages on a wall together. It looks like my memoir pages. I can even even scroll down and across them. Hallucinations? Naw, it’s the mind’s eye at work.

Try it! It’s fun. There’s a whole new dimension to explore with the mind’s eye. Enjoy your journey.

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