Welcome, Sophie-Louise and your charcoal foot slamming poem.
Bill
On 02/11/2012, at 8:10 AM, Sophie-Louise Hyde <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a newbie to this discussion list and a poet, currently undertaking study as postgraduate student in Creative Writing at Loughborough University.
>
> I have been receiving emails of some of your work and thought I might try my hand at posting something of mine for some well-informed feedback as it has been fantastic to receive your work through.
>
> I look forward to receiving your thoughts!
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> ***
>
> Indian Elephant
>
>
> Towering over the plains of Brahmaputra,
> he stands tall.
> He hollers, wanting to be heard,
> a shriek that is so low in sound.
> A commander.
>
> Black holes as small as buttons
> for eyes, ready
> to engulf the world as he sees it.
>
> Tusks, one missing,
> the other, boned and chipped.
>
> Evidence of ivory-men come for their raw material.
>
> Wrinkles, a usual sign of age in my naanii, but
> these lines, instead,
> a symbol of suffering.
>
> The spine barely visible in the
> shape of his back, a
> rounded stomach that appears full,
> and yet, unsatisfied.
> Suffering.
>
> His foot slams the Earth.
> A stamp, another cry.
> Charcoal grey man.
>
> His fifth leg so – L O N G – it sways,
> only one centimetre
> above the dust
> below.
>
> The flap of his wings as he rises to power to hear the birds as they sing.
>
> And as I watch in the distance, a
> shadow of the smile he once held spreads across his soul.
>
> Charcoal grey man,
> Suffering.
>
>
> ***
>
> (c) Sophie-Louise Hyde 2012.
> Blog: www.thestudentwordsmith.com
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