Eye of the Beholder

[changeling67]

So, what does my eye see?

Fissures of a tree trunk, aged, weathered - silver and grey, with rust lines throughout. It has seen the sun, it has felt the rain, it has heard the dry whispers of the wind. Openings, new beginnings or a doorway to the end? A cracked eye, sun radials and a partial eclipse. Trapped faces, wooden ghosts, forked lightning.  Steps of a ladder, slates of a roof - a sickle, a star, a rose.  Chasms, a secret, cup bearer to the gods.  Nautilus. A broken smile, half a parasole, a shrouded woman.  A man asleep, spiderweb, eels swimming.  Laughter lines on an old man's face, feathers, a vortex.  Sperm meeting an egg, rebrith - cinders and ashes.  A clock showing ten to one in the morning.  Kaleidoscope.  Gyroscope.  Panopticon.

Scarred protection - of whose heart and whose mind? Eye of the Beholder - what do you find?

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh a drawbridge to a platform, with designs on the floor and a pointed dark finger - in front of me is a 'mountaineers chimney' lined with charred fires up which I must climb. There are other 'chimneys' but they are not the right ones for escape.

A dress pattern... the skirt laid out to cut out - the sleeve, the mark for the waist.

A large ear cleaner for a giant. handle and the curved digger bit.

The surface of a planet with tall pointy daggers of rock pointing up.
Oh a sort of 'ouch' grin but someone has stuck his eye ....

That was a tree on the right... it was burnt... but it will grow.

Little lakes and rivers that all point to Valhalla...

Tis a lovely trunk... I'd love to have it here to stroke and gaze upon. It must be very very old.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

It looks like it could be quite tactile, smooth, then edgy - I love that kind of stuff. Could take loads of photos and write about it afterwards :-)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You see way more than I saw. I have a sliver of a moon, an eye, a Pacman (I'm a child of the 70's after all), the obvious tree, and centuries of living.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Paceman, definitely - I was ace at that game :-)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I was garbage at it, but it was fun.

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this! So many excellent things.