A Midnight Walk In Atazar....Sonnet Poem by Johnny Psalm

A Midnight Walk In Atazar....Sonnet

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I marked the funeral pile of summer leaves,
The headless stumps and fireflie fluttering the wings,
The rustic spade captively stuck to the field.
I picked the spade and glided down the glittering rills
Where I saw many children earlier gathering fireflies,
The mothers gathering awls, the fathers tilling,
And babies cooing to partake in chasing fireflies,
The masters drinking and the peasants grumbling
I grabbed the spade and thought of other way,
Than chasing fireflies or grumbling like the peasants.
The peasants strives in vain, their rusting spade
interpreted their dreams, the fireflies chase through Ignorance.
Then I dropped the spade and left the rustic farm
To search the undergrowth for the morning stars.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I'm indebted to the 'the song of a black panther' written by the poet 'Pedro Moshood'-a renown poet in humble, an African-American poet in Iceland.He is an active member on this website, and his works have been published in various international magazines.
The lines that interest and inspired me most is line 48-53:
'All things have their course,
The kids chasing fireflies.
We move within-out of our course
When the elders hasten after the starlight.
Thought is deed, deed is thought,
And our vile thought afflict us with fright'.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sudebi Giri 07 December 2012

a beautiful exploration.....the function of the fireflies give a manifold symbolic dimension to the poem.worth reading!

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Johnny Psalm 28 November 2012

The pen will interpret my dreams for me and not my ancestral spade.

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