Prospective
Panoramic Prospective
Heart sight is the wide-angle lens
that encompasses Life's landscapes.
Opened wide, one sees clearly
the vastness of possibility and hope.
© 2019 Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
This poem is the result of a prompt for the April Poetry Month Poem-A-Day Challenge in Poetic Asides. After posting and reading it, the thought came for using the metaphor of a camera as a means to view life expanded, much like the perspective through the view finder when going from micro to macro.
Love is the wide-angled lens of Life. Other lenses add to how we see the world. Compassion is the deep-focus lens and kindness is a filter used to sharpen the view.
The Columbia Film Language Glossary states, "Deep focus is a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously. A deep-focus shot includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-background objects, all in focus."
In life, we most often view things in relative tunnel vision. We see what is immediately in front of us but fail to notice the entire scene. Our perspective is limited and often skewed.
By looking at life with a "deep focus," we can see a situation or event sharply and clearly. Our eyes and heart open at just the right aperture to allow for a panoramic view.
However, just as opening a lens too much or too little will cause the picture to either be flooded with light or drowned in darkness, so too, we must learn to adjust our "sight" in order to not be blinded by the glitz or led into murkiness of indecision.
When we employ critical thinking, compassion and acceptance to the context of a situation, we obtain a crisp, unimpeded view. We are better equipped to make solid decisions and to take decisive action.
Blessings.
In life, we most often view things in relative tunnel vision. We see what is immediately in front of us but fail to notice the entire scene. Our perspective is limited and often skewed.
By looking at life with a "deep focus," we can see a situation or event sharply and clearly. Our eyes and heart open at just the right aperture to allow for a panoramic view.
However, just as opening a lens too much or too little will cause the picture to either be flooded with light or drowned in darkness, so too, we must learn to adjust our "sight" in order to not be blinded by the glitz or led into murkiness of indecision.
When we employ critical thinking, compassion and acceptance to the context of a situation, we obtain a crisp, unimpeded view. We are better equipped to make solid decisions and to take decisive action.
Blessings.
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