Bullfighters: The Bull Bullies Poem by s.zaynab kamoonpury
Bullfighters: The Bull Bullies
A fuming, fierce and moving target
On yor species will you place yor bet!
Aiming the blade into shoulder blade or beating heart
all toreadors hope to throw that fatal decisive dart!
This bullyboy to score a bloodied bullseye in bullfight!
O'course not for the fainthearted that gory sight.
Well, that counts timid me out from any bullring
naturally I a bulwark against this lurid thing.
I find in the sport a sort of sadism
Like cockfights it must reek of masochism.
The carmine cape, the only screen between him and the jaws of death
or should I say rather, the sickle horns of death
Oh no, what if the matador ain't ever allowed to catch his breath?
For promoters a thrilling spinechilling
Spanish folk art in arena
For objectors a bloodsport they wish as dead
as the myth of Athena.
The Spanish might be divided about their picadors
on this sporty bloody battle between man and beast
No telling till when spectators will throng to watch those matadors
while I wonder do they on the trophy bull then feast?
Ah ban it to history
or fan it to the future
Call it cruelty or not, oh the thrills of our humankind
Tis fair play or fair game for the raging bull tis half blind?
Yet if any bloodlust instincts be satiated by those stuntmen toreros
matadors maybe far better than murderers and war heroes.
The so-called Sport! Wickedness of mankind on earth! In the name of a culture. Bull bullies! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
I wonder what was in the heads of the men who first thought this would be a fun sport... Did they see it as a test of their manhood, their bravery, their ability to kill an animal slowly? Must have been related to the men who thought it would be fun to throw roosters at each other.... You wrote a stirring protest from the heart for all men who have hearts
Insightful write as always. Wonderful to read. Another action from humans that I do not understand.
I've never been to a bullfight, and don't think I will ever go. Thanks for a very thought-provoking poem.
Yeah me too. Thanks soo much for your nice thoughts on this.
i've been to bullfights in mexico, and i felt sympathy for the bull. perhaps you know one of my favorite children's picture books—" ferdinand" —about a bull who refuses to fight. your last two lines are thought provoking. -glen
Mexico too eh, I see. Nice to know you feel sympathy for the poor bull provoked to mad rage like that ah. Thanks so much for comment, i like to know poets thoughts.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Good observation and beautifully written...have you been to Spain....I was once at a bull fight performance....emotions rise to exaltation....Animal right people protest, but the cruel tradition outlives the protest voices...
Warmest thanks for comment. Noh I've never been to Spain, but they show the bullfighting shows on telly quite frequently. Yeah I showed both the pro and against, views. You are brave to have seen it live.