The Eyes
… the eyes are the window of the soul …
I absolutely identify with this observation … and it is true to say that once or twice, I’ve had the misfortune to see eyes in someone living and breathing, but soulless, spiritually not present.
A Thousand Dimensions
Volume 1 2022
The Eyes
WRITING over the years, both in poetry and prose, I find that I refer to the eyes as being the window of the soul. Many of us do, I think.
This is a purely personal observation, but when one sees a photograph of a person as a news item, even before I have heard that commentary, no matter how beautiful the portrait of the person might be, I sense a dullness.
Literally speaking: the light has gone out.
I know in that instant, that that person has died.
I find also that when I am presented with historical documents that include photographic portraits of people who have long been dead, the light in the eyes is restored.
This always takes my breath away.
I never comment about it to anyone because I regard it as a very private phenomenon that I feel privileged to observe.
It is, perhaps, a visual perception of that timeless saying … time heals.
10 November 2021
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
Written 3 September 2020
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
