Long slender boats…slim.. black.. shiny
Like the women we make love to….
A wild, wild river….calmness
floats in its surface just to deceive the unfortunate.
Water…black as eyes of a crow….glittering as a mirror.
Its mangrove, its dark forest all around our boats…hiding the primitive desires.
Trees fighting to reach for the sun….yet no surrender….
Even the sapling joust with mighty old trees
And don’t even care for pity.
We don’t care for pity either…..
grass….as tall as a man standing high
hides the deadly tiger.
Tiger…mighty tiger….
cruel like the yellow lightning…
and certain as fate.
Tiger mighty tiger…sharps its claws are
Sharp its teeth are…and even sharper its intentions.
Slender boats…slender boats…mass of human face.. crouched together
To catch a few fish..
And to catch a few dreams…
feed our children….make love to our women
when we return home.
Yet…the darkness of the forest….depth of the seductive water….clouds in the western sky..
and tiger… mighty tiger…..
They are more real than dreams….direct than desires….
Slender boats…slender boats…shiny as my woman’s skin…
Brought back home….
Fistful of fish….tired souls,
my lifeless body…ashore.
Trivial dreams…trivial desires….
Hang like…an old rag…from
tiger’s cruel claws.
Author notes
This piece is dedicated to fishermen of Sundarban…who fight with death and deathly poverty everyday…
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Great Write.
nicely penned, wish you luck
anyway
thanks for entering
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Quite a creative poem. I really liked its fantastic imagery and metaphors. Excellent! Thanks for entering my contest. I’m honored to read your work.
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the first two lines almost turned me off entirely. like, all the way.
this is decent, but not what i'm looking for.
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