{"id":66370,"date":"2025-04-04T00:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=66370"},"modified":"2025-04-08T01:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:11:59","slug":"blindsight-by-julie-dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/blindsight-by-julie-dexter\/","title":{"rendered":"Blindsight by Julie Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blindsight<\/h2>\n

Blindsight<\/h2>\n

by Julie Dexter<\/p>\n

Before the world was ember and ash,
\nbefore we knew the sky by name,
\nbefore mycelium laced the dark,
\nnetworking nourishment through its roots.<\/p>\n

Before I could lose myself in the
\nvast expanse of star and tree,
\nor think of the green-lit-calm of a garden.
\nBefore language cracked the silence,<\/p>\n

before creed laid testament to all that was.
\nBefore being, before stillness, star, and void,
\nbefore the first ripple of thought. Before DNA spiralled like a prayer,
\nbefore krill assuaged the sea\u2019s first hunger \u2014<\/p>\n

What was there?<\/p>\n

As painting is to light,
\nso poetry is to time and
\nwe have already lived a thousand lives;
\nhybrids of stone and fire,<\/p>\n

kings and beggars, saints and beasts.
\nYet knowing this will not unmake hunger
\nfor war and power,
\nborn from myth, might and greed.<\/p>\n

Knowing this will not return the lost, or make the broken whole again.
\nWe are blindsided by the promise of escape. With fecundity we dream of vanishing,
\nof sinking back into earth again,
\nthreading ourselves through the dark, regenerating, reliving without choice. Without knowing why.<\/p>\n

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Julie Dexter is a writer and poet, born in Leicestershire, currently living at the North Sea coast, Kent. Her writing explores themes of imbalance, seasonal change, climate change and how this interconnectedness impacts the human condition. Her main key achievements that demonstrate her current artistic trajectory include:<\/p>\n