Close Your Eyes to See

6 November 2019 Haiku/Tanka prompt “blind”

Andy Smallman
Nov 5 · 1 min read
Artwork by Internet artist Fish Astronaut.

Close your eyes to see.
Not to be blind, to access.
See with memory.

When I received this prompt, I immediately thought of the 1970’s American TV show “Kung Fu,” specifically the character of Master Po, a blind priest who mentors Kwai Chang Caine, the show’s protagonist, when he was a child and young man.

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