Kaleidoscope
The poem I would like to submit is called Kaleidoscope. It was published in a chapbook called “Casting for Meteors” by David Scheler and was also published in the poetry journal Avocet in the Fall issue 2010.
David and I have been friends for over 40 years. We have had many conversations about the meaning of life and how things work, and what it means to live with an open heart, and our placement in the scheme of things. He “gets” me and I “get” him, and I greatly admire his “way with words”. Enjoy! Colleen Akkerman
Kaleidoscope By David Scheler (2007)
He looks through a hole
in the woven straw hat
that covers his face in the sun.
The glint that he sees there
creates prisms of spun glass
on a palette of sunset pastels
that lie behind black lines
which pattern themselves
as the organic rhythms
of tree rings, as malachite
and crystals
spilling the spectrum,
as striations swirling
like phantom fractals
embedded in a jewel.
In the hole of his hat:
the universe.
