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LISTENING
English Poetry |
They walk in dreams
nightmarishly
spirits of nameless faces
staring without eyes.
The screams:
of a child
on whom you poured boiling water.
The screams:
of a girl made to wear only flesh, because
she ran away with a priest.
The screams:
of a wipped woman
who tasted the laughing moonlight.
Death makes a big hole
in a spooky silence!
Are you listening?
Satish Verma
Satish,
the refrain forces an examination of the succeeding lines for the often ignored common denominator.
“who tasted the laughing moonlight.” – beautiful expression.
“Death makes a big hole
in a spooky silence!” – the words “silence” and “death” resonate for me – “The Silent People” Walter Macken (set in the Great Famine) and a description of Ireland I heard reported from a woman who had survived into post-famine times (a silence descended over the country)
Fergus