Salience

A Poem by Pete

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Thoreau

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sight, sound, smell. taste, touch

doors of perception unhinged

unaware of such

© 2024 Pete

Author's Note

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring." - Thoreau

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Added on May 22, 2024
Last Updated on May 22, 2024

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

About

I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..