AuthorsDen.com  Join (free) | Login 

 
 Visited by 1,400,000+ people monthly.
 Popular! Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry
Where Authors and Readers come together!
Signed Bookstore - Enjoy!

Signed Bookstore | Authors | Books | Stories | Articles | Poetry | Blogs | News | Events | Reviews | Videos | Success | Gold Members | Testimonials

Featured Authors: Paul Kogel, iGeorge Hutton, iMichael Volkin, iDavid Rumer, iGustavo Arellano, ibrenda munday gifford, iMaureen Miller, i
  Home > Poetry > Poetry
Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry     
Kate Burnside
• Become a Fan
• 742 titles
• 13,839 Reviews
• Share with a Friend
• Save to My Library
• Add to My Favorites
• 
Member Since: Feb, 2004

   Sitemap
   Contact Author
   Read Reviews


Poetry
• Hum

• Passion Versus Adoration

• Still Life

• Their Myth, My Man

• Beheaded

• Venus and Mars

• Flesh And Bone

• True Lover's Knot

• The Modern Girl's Boyfriend Meets The Folks

• Pearls

         More poetry...

Kate Burnside, click here to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.

Recent poems by Kate Burnside
Hum
Passion Versus Adoration
Still Life
Their Myth, My Man
Beheaded
Venus and Mars
Flesh And Bone
True Lover's Knot
The Modern Girl's Boyfriend Meets The Folks
Pearls
Cartwheel
Present Continuum
           >> View all 742
Perception
by Kate Burnside
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rated "PG13" by the Author.

Share   Print   Save Become a Fan

Inspiration is such a funny thing: from Michelle Mead's most elegant, lyrical poem, The Artist's Studio, emerged this rather square, geeky study, wrought especially from the lines:

"no longer to sculpt and paint this frame
pale and naked but for words or light..."

Thank you, Michelle! :)) xx I would also like to add a general debt of gratitude to all your wonderful comments on my work, adding greatly to what I myself see in and understand about what I have written. Inevitably and often I find myself delighted, surprised and fundamentally awed. Bless you! xx

candela = the intensity of light in a particular direction
footcandle = the amount of light which falls on a surface



PERCEPTION


Words are but
a trick of the light
played between
heart’s source
and mind’s
reflective surface;

luminaire hearts
cast candela-words
whose footcandle prints
forge passages
through minds’
darkest space.

When you feel me
breathing, I sense
my soul radiate
through far-flung
constellations,
seep into corners
of deepest unknown
thought.




Want to review or comment on this poem?
Click here to login!


Need a FREE Reader Membership?
Click here for your Membership!




Reviewed by Jon Willey 9/13/2009
perceptions, at the onset we form an impression based purely on the senses -- as time lapses we apply our own unique rationales, and that is when perception may prove to have been errant or too emotionally encumbered -- naked of all of our biases, the truth may appear to us, or stand rejected by us -- as our personal criteria dictate -- right or wrong -- peace and love my friend -- Jon Michael
Reviewed by Jackie (Micke) Jinks 8/30/2009
Kate - You always know how to "light up our lives..." with your thoughts and poetic words! In your interpretations...you reign supreme, dear friend!
hmmmm...candela...footcandle...such wonderful images.
Blessings and Love - Micke
Reviewed by Rose Rideout 8/30/2009
Very well written Kate. Thank you for sharing.

Newfie Hugs, Rose
Reviewed by Regis Auffray 8/29/2009
When you feel me
breathing, I sense
my soul radiate
through far-flung
constellations,
seep into corners
of deepest unknown
thought.

So uniquely and meaningfully expressed, Kate. Your verses always give me pause for reflection. Thank you. Love and best wishes to you,

Regis
Reviewed by Kate Clifford 8/29/2009
Yes it is what you feel that brings you a step closer to reality.......but the illusions sure are hard to get past some days!
Reviewed by La Belle Rouge 8/28/2009
You always make me think Kate and I always admire your thoughts and the way you express them. Mystical and beautiful.
Reviewed by David Hightower 8/28/2009
Kate - Enjoyed your "Percetion", and the expansiveness that reaches:

through far-flung
constellations,
seep into corners
of deepest unknown
thought.

-David
Reviewed by Joyce Bell 8/28/2009
TO FEEL A POET'S MESSAGE AS THE POET'S INTENDS IT...IS INDEED A BLESSING, BUT AS YOU SAY, 'SEEPING INTO CORNERS OF DEEPEST UNKNOWN THOUGHT', IT IS ALSO A BLESSING TO KNOW THAT A POET'S MESSAGE CAN AND SHOULD MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE DEPENDING ON ONE'S EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS AND THEFORE THEIR 'DIFFERING' PERCEPTIONS. THIS IS WRITTEN WELL AND APPRECIATED. THANKS FOR SHARING. BLESSINGS. JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Reviewed by Carole Mathys 8/27/2009
Kate, this poem is exquisite excellence as only your talented pen could write...touched me deeply

Carole~
Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner 8/27/2009
Kate,

Undone by minimist words to capture the flickering soul of poetry and what it does for us, the fortunate few who pen it - well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg 8/26/2009
i love every flickering thing about it :)
Reviewed by Cryssa C 8/26/2009
What a description of poetry! At least, that is what I feel when I write from the inner reaches of my soul... The words that result come out somewhere in between what is in my heart and in my mind... maybe there is a protective covering put on the soul's words by the mind--enough to add mystique and to not reveal the soul's inner secrets, but the words must find voice or pen and be released, despite the tweaking the mind puts on them.
The second and third stanzas, to me, related more to having others read our poetry... casting that somewhat timid light forward to begin with and having it illuminate the corners of others minds, and often even our own.
Maybe that is why writing is so cathartic...because it allows us to see those dusty cobwebbed corners of our minds and illuminates our own view into our own souls.

Wonderful food for thought in this gem! One of my favorites...
Cryssa :~)
Reviewed by Sheila Roy 8/26/2009
Interesting perspective in this write, Kate. Very creative:)
Sheila
Reviewed by Debashish Haar 8/26/2009
I like the minimalism, the economy of words. Here every word is growing and glowing like a star. The poem has a life of its own. I particularly liked the second and third strophes, and also could see why you used short lines.

Reviewed by Charlie 8/26/2009
What if... what if words have brains... Can you imagine the adventures some of them share? --to be a part of something grotesque one second, in one part of the world, and part of something glorious in another part of the world the very next second--then a part of something sacred, and maybe something slurred... little words sent out of our mouths on the air--precious little precocious things that may or may not twist your intentions into all sorts of knotty things (naughty?) You never know the journey your words will take. I personally love your constellation idea. Perhaps it's your echo I hear when I'm out star-gazing in the early pre-dawn with Elizabeth in tow. Great idea, Kate. --Charlie
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton 8/26/2009
Damn! I thought I was tracking you. I am now. Sorry about that, you are a super poet in my opinion and I can't believe I didn't have you in my sights. To illuminate the darkness of our souls is a magical thing to have happen. Maintaining that "footcandle" is an even more difficult process, but when this miracle is apparent the darkness is banished forever. I just love your work.
Reviewed by SOULFUL SHEE G. Pulsing In Passionate Purple PassionS 8/26/2009
Deep transfixed expressive writing Kate!
I feel you reaching out!
I must read you more, I missed your expressive guiding pen!
The last verse brings to mind "UNITY" I love it!

WRITE ON!
Blessings, Peace and WARM Hugs, Purple_Passions, SHEExooo
Reviewed by Walt Hardester 8/26/2009
Love the first lines of this. One way of understanding, yet words can also darken the deepest recesses of our being. Pen mightier than the sword and all that.
~W~
Reviewed by Mr. Ed 8/26/2009
Quite illuminating, Kate, and quite good.
Reviewed by Felix Perry 8/26/2009
Ahhhh sweet Kate as always, your words illuminate, to steal your theme or perhaps continue it, the value or romance, heart moods and the way we express ourselves in the language of love. Love is delicate and although like a candle it can light up a room...a slight breeze or a gentle puff of breath can also extinguish it and cast us into complete darkness. Excellant write Kate...touched me.
hugs
Pops
Reviewed by Amber Moonstone 8/25/2009
Kate, your last stanza speaks to my soul. I feel your heart soaring, and feeling alive with wonderment!
Lovely as always,
Much peace, love, and light,
Amber "V"
Reviewed by Georg Mateos 8/25/2009
The above is the epitomise of saying that poet's work should inspire other poet to even higher peaks.

Georg

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 8/25/2009
lovely writing-great inspiration
Reviewed by Paul D Berube 8/25/2009
Beautifully written, Kate.
Reviewed by Christine Alwin 8/25/2009
..this is such a timely poem for me...
"Words are but
a trick of the light
played between
heart’s source
and mind’s"......so true Kate..soooo true... Great Poem!!!
Reviewed by jude forese 8/25/2009
i like the momentum this poem generates as well as its inspired ingredients ...
Reviewed by Lori Moore 8/25/2009
... between heart's source and mind's reflective surface..." Brilliant.
Reviewed by E T Waldron 8/25/2009
Absolutely magical,this captivates the senses!Divine work,Kate!
Reviewed by LadyJtalks LadyJzTalkZone 8/25/2009
well done. LadyJ
Reviewed by John Flanagan 8/25/2009
Kate,
It's all in the seeing at first and we should never deny that, but then when it moves to feeling as it inevitably does another response at a different and often more enduring level takes hold, and you've explored that deeply, beautifully.

John
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 8/25/2009
Luminiferous of piscatorial thinking, angling for the rainbow scales blueprinted onto the trout fish from Evolution, reflecting upon the waters, flailing away with the Burnside fly rod and quill, from thin tributaries to planetary gills, breathing in extraordinary Perception to candling wine, to test its clarity by holding a candle to the goblet...to the bright slash of a meteor, pointing to it with a laser beam penlight, quick, before it gets away, hooking the mind's eye...perceiving the trout's and the poet's main victim is the cutthroat...Perception is the long pursuit of the practice of intuitive thinking, reflecting on where we have been and where we are going...remember gasping for oxygen in the thin mountain air of Telluride, Colorado, Kate...candela and footcandle measures light for better spawning beds, knitting the planetary and earthly tributaries together, channeling Perception...be well.

"Words are but
a trick of the light
played between
heart’s source
and mind’s
reflective surface;"

Love,
Sage
Reviewed by George Carroll 8/25/2009
This shows the brilliance of your thought process and the excellence of your poetry which will be around for others to admire in years hence.
Reviewed by Ted Bossis 8/25/2009
You are always in a reaching mode & seepest the deepest)(reguardless of how~far~flung the constellation * Such a resuscitator of words(*_*)evol-Ted
Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado 8/25/2009
So pretty, Kate; well done, (((my dear)))! BRAVA!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas :D
Reviewed by Dallas D'Angelo-Gary 8/25/2009
True beauty, presented at the Speed of Word. Nicely done, Kate. I like the idea of words having foot-candle prints.
Popular
Poetry
(Poetry)
  1. At the Dawn
  2. Why Am I Bound?
  3. blank verse
  4. A New Beginning
  5. The Liar
  6. Faith, Courage, Wisdom, Strength, and Hope
  7. Relationships
  8. Mother's death
  9. On Your Wedding Day
  10. Pink Lotus – Villanelle
  11. Forever Dreams
  12. Fat Peoples' Poem
  13. Old Friends
  14. Conspire To Ignite
  15. moved by another ...





You can also search authors by alphabetical listing: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Bookmark this page to your Favorites

Featured Authors
| New to AuthorsDen? | Add AuthorsDen to your Site
Share AD with your friends | Need Help? | About us


Problem with this page?   Report it to AuthorsDen

© AuthorsDen, Inc. All rights reserved.