Mashell Chapeyama
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Poem "The rescue from the cavern":
- written January 2012
- published February 7, 2012
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Other poems by Mashell Chapeyama:
»As many swim across the sea«
»Behold, you are beautiful«
»Breakfast of Tears«
»Bury me in Africa«
»Climbing the mountain with my mother«
»Deported people«
»Life as a Metamorphosis«
»My Poet Tutor (For Alison)«
»Only For Lonely Hearts«
»Real success«
»Real success«
»Schizophrenia, Insomnia and Heartbreak«
»Seeing the Fish shoals«
»Solar Eclipse 2003«
»The Catharsis«
»The long (After the Rape Case)«
»The mind, a palette«
»The Transmogrifier«
»This Learning«
»Where is fairness«
Visit Mashell Chapeyama's profile page
Poem "The rescue from the cavern":
- written January 2012
- published February 7, 2012
- viewed 0 times
Other poems by Mashell Chapeyama:
»As many swim across the sea«»Behold, you are beautiful«»Breakfast of Tears«»Bury me in Africa«
»Climbing the mountain with my mother«»Deported people«»Life as a Metamorphosis«»My Poet Tutor (For Alison)«»Only For Lonely Hearts«»Real success«»Real success«
»Schizophrenia, Insomnia and Heartbreak«»Seeing the Fish shoals«
»Solar Eclipse 2003«
»The Catharsis«
»The long (After the Rape Case)«»The mind, a palette«»The Transmogrifier«»This Learning«»Where is fairness«
»The rescue from the cavern«
I – a dot on Africa's edge
Who has never seen the ocean's rim
Never seen the island's seam
Nor tasted the sea brine;
I who have never seen dolphins spinning
Nor sharks shoals strutting the waterline-
Has in disbelief learnt of a whale that rescue a drowning refugee
A drowning full grown up man-
Who in the sea wave's slipstream was sifted, jettisoned
From a torpedoing boat-
Tossed in the oceanic black currents-
Tossed towards the sea nymph,
And the grotto of life-
But a whale, with Jonah's experience scurried-
An ocean beast with a human heart,
Caught him by the shoulder threw him to the sea shore-
Like a bag of eggs.
Who has never seen the ocean's rim
Never seen the island's seam
Nor tasted the sea brine;
I who have never seen dolphins spinning
Nor sharks shoals strutting the waterline-
Has in disbelief learnt of a whale that rescue a drowning refugee
A drowning full grown up man-
Who in the sea wave's slipstream was sifted, jettisoned
From a torpedoing boat-
Tossed in the oceanic black currents-
Tossed towards the sea nymph,
And the grotto of life-
But a whale, with Jonah's experience scurried-
An ocean beast with a human heart,
Caught him by the shoulder threw him to the sea shore-
Like a bag of eggs.
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