POET OF SITUATIONS

POET OF SITUATIONS

As fledglings caught in wildfire

perched in the poem

mother bird brushes its beak

against poet's fingers.

As drowned companion

and fisherman lost in the seas

resurrect in verse

salt water soaks his bosom.

Childhood nodding to granny tales

and youthful quest of camaraderie

join in dance of metaphors

to turn through leaves

of variegated colors

in the book of life.

Expectations of love

and sighs of rejection

throb in lines

clouding rainbows.

Paying poetic homage

to mother who proceeded

from ventilator to white shroud

and father who didn't wake up

one fine morning,

son's shadow lends him myopic.

When he baptizes her,

the ravaged, in verse,

his daughter burns in fever.

As furnace-like streets of hate

emit smell of burning flesh,

poet's sepulcher catch fire.

Settling scores with rotten age,

poet puts on sheep skin

to snow peaks of compromise.

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(21-02-2013)