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Colonizers

Arun Sankar (Waldensoul) 1979

February 24 
Free verse
Maybe I exist in empty spaces
Quick glances, vacant stares,
Vacuum chambers of yearning
Void of air and touch, bereft of purpose and meaning
Alternating between belligerence and helplessness,

Waiting to dry up like raisins;
Sweet on the tongue,
Swallowed up by larger things
And expelled into space
Like dead skin from a body.
Floating through the daily dust bowl
of recycled needs,
to be dropped ashore;
The peninsular colonization of the groin
Lays waste to everything
Rail tracks of desire laid into the hinterlands
For my riches to be borne away.

About this poem

This poem is about desire, the relentless need for affection and intimacy and how the lack of it consumes and ravages one akin to the economic and social destruction left behind by colonizers.

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Written on August 05, 2023

Submitted by Waldensoul on February 10, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAAX XXXXXXXXXAXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 101
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 12
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Arun Sankar (Waldensoul)

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  • Thomasroose11
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    This poem is so effective. I immediately ascribed a type of people/person to this poem - upon reading it I was surprised by its ambiguity, and that there was no mention of a particular place.

    The metaphors are beautifully impactful. I felt as though I was having a story from someone’s life recounted to me.

    It’s not trying to be too clever, it’s not trying to tell us what it’s about or how we should feel - that’s what I loved the most. There’s so much room for our own lives and the lives of others in this poem.     
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