The fire casts red-lit shadows on the trees
Interspersed with the tall black silhouettes
Lurking soundlessly among the reeds with spears.
Hark! The dogs bark. The hunt begins with ease.
The pine branches’ stillness is disturbed by
The abrupt appearance of a ripple
That spreads, distorting the hills and the moon
Into wondrous shapes like clouds in the sky.
Beneath the blazing light of desert stars
At a lonely palm-shrouded oasis,
Two figures sleep among the sand dunes,
Unaware of the lion sniffing their scars.
As so much poetry starts to take form,
Somewhere in a silent unnoticed glade,
A quick lightning strike; a flower withers;
And a poem collapses in the storm.
Interspersed with the tall black silhouettes
Lurking soundlessly among the reeds with spears.
Hark! The dogs bark. The hunt begins with ease.
The pine branches’ stillness is disturbed by
The abrupt appearance of a ripple
That spreads, distorting the hills and the moon
Into wondrous shapes like clouds in the sky.
Beneath the blazing light of desert stars
At a lonely palm-shrouded oasis,
Two figures sleep among the sand dunes,
Unaware of the lion sniffing their scars.
As so much poetry starts to take form,
Somewhere in a silent unnoticed glade,
A quick lightning strike; a flower withers;
And a poem collapses in the storm.
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Picture: courtesy Sayan
7 comments:
It's fascinating how weaved words can be so subtle.
Beneath the blazing light of desert stars
At a lonely palm-shrouded oasis,
Two figures sleep among the sand dunes,
Unaware of the lion sniffing their scars.
I loved these lines.
"Somewhere in a silent unnoticed glade,
A quick lightning strike; a flower withers;
And a poem collapses in the storm."
Beautiful lines.
Its a bleak, ludicrous world and yet poetry makes so much sense.
Normality emerging from abnormality?
I can fly now, you can't stop me. ^_^
So it is a flicker of hope that arises out of words, spoken in a hesitant but resolute manner, in spite of the raging fire, in spite of the diminished forest, in spite of the resting minds and in spite of the collapsed rhyme.
:)
ohgod everyone can write suchgood comments but i can only just say beautiful.
and amazing.
*kicks weevil*
Shuddup. You hardly comment. :|
Beautiful,yes.
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