Eye Sight: What I Saw
What would happen if we humans could free ourselves from self-criticism and worry about external judgment? Would creativity and innovation, awe and wonder, follow?
At the beginning of the year 2020—before the pandemic was known and understood—T. H. Gillis set out to write one poem per week without self-judgment or self-censorship. Mr. Gillis simply wanted to contemplate what he saw during 2020. This book of poetry creatively records his eye sight.
All book proceeds will be donated to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to alleviate suffering caused by mental illness. BBRF awards grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
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“A seasoned poet takes the usual and seemingly mundane and with the sharp edges of words in a craftsman’s hand scrapes its surface to reveal the true, the real and all that is finally too astonishing and too beautiful for words. Tim Gillis is a seasoned-by-life poet. Take your time and let these scar your senses, pierce you to the depths of your longings and help teach you the truer way to see.”
Selected Excerpt
Open Up
Somewhere inside
There is an artist, latent
Waiting to be revived
In the heart, in the soul
Afraid to observe, much less depict
What lies within
The complication of that is
The beauty of the missed
Opportunity to behold
An unwritten story
A tale of courage and glory
That deserves to be told
Product Details
ISBN: 978-0-578-79878-3
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 92