My blood surges
To its boiling point
I am about to snap
And the meanest animal
Is about to be released.
The animal's wrath will unfurl
It will hurt
And destroy life
Including mine
But I took a long deep breath.
I shouted at the top of my voice
In the dense forest
My screams were answered
By the birds
With their sweetest songs.
I yelled on the tunnel
The things that came out
Of my mouth were pieces of trash
The words that I swore
It came back to me
I am ashamed of myself.
Copyright 2018, Rose Marie Juan-Austin, All Rights Reserved
In the first stanza you have expressed the vibrating effect anger developing a kind of animal instinct in a person. In the second stanza you have noted the dire consequences of it ……then you think of meditating. In the next stanza, your screams are answered by birds…… And finally, a great realization! What a beautiful poem Rose! Loved reading it............10
Your beautiful insights are just wonderful, Dr. Dillip. Thank you.
Tense! ! Sense! In the dense forest. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
The beauty of the text lies in the fact that it does not convey its message directly; instead, it employs metaphors drawn from the natural world.
Nature—with its inanimate objects, birds, and cosmic laws—teaches us a beautiful paradox and an even more beautiful lesson: to realign ourselves whenever we stray from our innate human nature.
I shouted at the top of my voice In the dense forest My screams were answered By the birds With their sweetest songs.
What comes out of our mouth can hurt and destroy or sweeten like the song of birds!
Exact depiction of anger in a body.But harms self certainly, whether it affects the person on the otherside is uncertain.Worth visiting many times this poem because it embodies a powerful insight
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Anger is an animal...very true...you have very well described its animal instinct and its consequences....a well crafted poem that deserves a big 10 and more....thank you Rose
Absolutely true, Indira. Thank you for your great comment.