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Thursday, May 15, 2008
{6:19 AM}
One poem I spent quite a lot of time (almost two weeks) doing. I hope you'll like it. It's about war (I like stating the obvious cuz it's easy). The Titans and the Olympians is actually a reference to Greek mythology where, due to complicated family problems, the Titans started a war with the Olympians. These two names were used to invoke a sense of ultimate power. And then at the last stanza, the 'badgers' and the 'reptiles' refers to the Titans and the Olympians and how they were actually like the animals in a way that...well, just read and find out, why dontcha.
The smoky, colourless grey dawn
Dazedly comes to consciousness
Like a bar of writhing metallic haze
Dry wind shrieks and scours pass
The shards of parched and shattered earth
Razing the lichens and insects
That infests the ground
Distant thunders rumble
In noxious black clouds
Where lightning-forks taste the arid air
Like tongues of storm-drakes they flicker and play
Glorious had this field been where
The Titans and the Olympians had struggled
For domination, in many years past:
Where flaming bazooka like comets trailed
Streaks of burning fires across the sky
Machine guns yammered and cannons roared
Planes shrieked as they let rockets fly
Humans scream in agony while they die
And then the war moved on,
From one indistinguishable terrain to another
Leaving the battlefield deformed and scarred.
But yet not dead:
Reptiles in their scale armor
Continue waging their eternal war
Against the night-furred badgers
Fighting over scraps of beetles and worms:
Trembling they huddle beneath bare shattered trees
Intent in their inconsequential grievances
Passing each day like crabs trading blows
Living, as they had, and living, as they will
Bickering over nothing, until
Again does a thoughtless hand
Brush them away from the living land
OOPS I FORGOT EDIT EDIT EDIT: Wang YiHua (28)
