“When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light” by Eleanor Wilner

April 5, 2024

“When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light” by Eleanor Wilner

The only online source I could find to show you this poem. A podcast (and it’s a wonderful array of poetry and commentary) called The Slowdown https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2019/05/15/123-when-vision-narrows-to-a-single-beam-of-light

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10 responses to ““When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light” by Eleanor Wilner”

dalechamp

April 5, 2024 at 6:26 pm

Wonderful, Sher

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Anonymous

April 6, 2024 at 8:11 am

What external force illuminates and stirs the sleeping tiger within?

What damage might I cause if I am awakened?

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  April 6, 2024 at 8:43 am
  
  Is the tiger that once slept now awakened necessarily dangerous? This is the question/comment that arose from your observation. Thanks for commenting… makes richer…
  
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2. Sher Schwartz
  
  April 6, 2024 at 8:48 am
  
  The last 4 lines ask us to consider what is the tiger. It’s coming closer… the light is insight , illumination…I love swimming in the mystery of this poem…
  
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Anonymous

April 7, 2024 at 10:21 am

The creature seemed very alive to me but interesting to hear your vision, which makes sense – “like a sphinx”. I would not have guessed tiger, but that makes sense too.

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  April 7, 2024 at 10:30 am
  
  Thank you for sharing your impressions!
  
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ponderosad9077b927d

April 7, 2024 at 9:30 pm

Dear Sher,

I enjoyed this poem and your commentary very much. I found your comments thoughtful and interesting. Thank you!

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  April 8, 2024 at 6:53 am
  
  Hello, and thank you for taking the time to listen and to comment. I appreciate you being here…
  
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Anonymous

April 12, 2024 at 12:36 pm

Thank you, Sher, for reading this wonderful Wilner poem. Hearing this again, who can forget Blake’s poem “Tiger, Tiger” that stands behind this one. Wilner transmutes his query about a fearful creation to a quieter rumination on the connection between all living creatures, if only we are still and patient enough to notice.

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  April 12, 2024 at 2:58 pm
  
  A wonderful commentary thank you. I hope to post more Wilner later this year; her poems are some of my favorites.
  
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“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.