(Inspired by Michael Ondaatje's "Sweet Like A Crow")
Your voice sounds like a cup of iced Americano
brimming with crystal-clear cubes
Like the shattered iPhone screen
reflecting the blazing sunlight
through its minuscule fragments
through its minuscule fragments
Like a page of words torn off
from my favourite science fiction
Like a spoiled cabbage
a smashed watermelon
an overcooked egg
an overcooked egg
Like a prolonged lecture,
A professor rambling on endlessly
unaware of the dozing audience
Like a deflating balloon
venting in unrestrained delight
Like the dry, cracked, fissured skin
unable to be soothed by an emollient cream
Like a roasting chicken dropped into the crackling fire,
much to the dismay of the famished campers
Like the wind that carries away pieces of loose paper,
forcing the child to chase in vain;
the ominous dark clouds,
foreboding the coming storm;
the rain that poured down on an amusement park,
muffling the scream of teenagers on a roller coaster
Like the suffocating heat in a packed school bus,
and the bone-chilling current from North Pole
Like a girl uttering an unsympathetic rejection,
like a guy frowning upon a handmade card
Like a melted ice cream, a trampled rose
Like your shrill voice,
when mispronounced my name.
This is such a wonderful poem! I love the flowing and rich vocabulary and the vivid imageries.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Loved yours too ;)
DeleteGreat imagery! Hope you can get your phone screen repaired (and teach that guy how to say your name properly ............)
ReplyDeleteLOL thanks! :))
DeleteI love how you could create such imageries that refelct your personal experiences into each line. Hahahah and also the title <3 Overall great job!!
ReplyDeleteTotally inspired by Blenz Coffee ;) it's interesting how even the most frivolous thing in our life can serve as an inspiration to a 32-line poem :P thank you <3
DeleteI like the part where you used words good job.
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