Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Lover dreams to be a maggot

When the Maggot lost his soul,
He felt something very awesome in all.

His foot walked a bloodless Antarctica,
then an absconding mind got captured in Sahara;
His hands curled along the Amazon’s deadly imagica,
Whilst a pair of eyes stuck deep in the Marina.


When the Maggot lost his love,
He found his face hung on a multiplying web.

An army of drizzle might rescue him,
And through the unending pain of his wound,
He'd sense nature beckoning by his window,
Close, vivid and achingly fragile than ever.


When the Maggot lost his mind,
He saw things, original and animated.

His skin evenly peeled off to reveal,
A Foliage that had replaced the dead mattress.
A bare breasted skimming blue stoops down,
Low and he find his mamma and her kiss.


When the Maggot lost his heart,
He borrowed one from the Flintstone.

Stabbing it amidst a scorching vacuum,
He’d watch the scarlet drops bloom,
With his new bosom struggling to get set,
But the dark descended and his drive got lost.

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The Maggot fell into a deep haze,
after closing all exits and the rest,
From a world that’s never existed,
To a land where lived Peter pan and Alice.

Then he found his absconding soul,
Floating or dancing above his skull.

The Maggot turned for the first time,
And saw his siblings and the parents,
Working at the fields, and their home,
Alive and rusty, happy and peaceful.

Then the Maggot caught his mind,
That was busy with its unreal find.

The Maggot quit the chase,
For he’d woke up into a giant butterfly,
Waving its elegant blazing symmetry,
to find himself no more a maggot.

Hence the Maggot discovered the love,
Who looked awfully dissimilar but alike his heart.

3 comments:

  1. How are the other poems coming along?

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  2. Metamorphosis? Why the italics, Dileep?

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  3. italics alone can be read as a poem. but thats not the intention. italics are the occurances and the ensuing passage is the effect. thank you nisha.

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