{"id":1114,"date":"2025-05-30T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:14:18","slug":"when-a-blind-man-sees-again-a-short-free-verse-philosophical-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/30\/when-a-blind-man-sees-again-a-short-free-verse-philosophical-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"When a blind man sees again | A short free verse philosophical poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>I wrote this poem to further elaborate on two complementary perspectives of the quotation &#8220;when a blind man sees again&#8221;. While the phrase may not necessarily resonate with everyone, I found that it had a profound meaning and can be interpreted in different ways. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When a blind man sees again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When a blind man sees again,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A world &#8211; once nothing but a mystery,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An entire phase of life, now cast to history,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in those books, a timbered staff lies-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one standing during the lows and highs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rose coloured glasses now undone with clarity,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He brought her freedom, truth and reality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a blind man sees again,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first act: the walking sticks disdain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a blind man sees again,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing he does is throw away the walking stick <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that helped him all his life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this poem to further elaborate on two complementary perspectives of the quotation &#8220;when a blind man sees again&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[115,160,12,22,15,159,156,162,161,157],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem","tag-education-blog","tag-free-verse-poems","tag-lucius","tag-lucius-de-almeida","tag-luciusdealmeida","tag-philosophical-poems","tag-poem","tag-short-poems","tag-teen-poetry","tag-when-a-blind-man-sees-again-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luciusalmeida.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}