Vacant Visionaries

by Samantha Terrell / August 23rd, 2015

empty eyes
use
a looking-glass to see
reality

that’s fabrication,
making images to suit the occasion;
finding what isn’t
present,

and using false
as witness.
to say nothing of fact,
these glassy-eyes reflect falsehoods, diverting truthful impact.

Samantha Terrell is a Pushcart-nominated poet and the author of multiple five-star collections, most recently Dismantling Mountains (Vellum Publishing UK, 2023). Her poems have been widely anthologized in publications such as Dissident Voice, Green Ink Poetry, In Parentheses, Misfit Magazine, Nine Cloud Journal, Open Journal of Arts & Letters, Poetry Quarterly, Red Ogre Review, and others. Originally from the American Midwest, Terrell and her family now reside in Upstate New York. Read other articles by Samantha, or visit Samantha's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.