Emergency Brake Poem by ONElia AVElar

Emergency Brake

Rating: 3.1


An emergency brake
and noise of motor horn.
No, no, they did not
bring me to a stop,
they did not warn.

They catapulted me!
My consciousness,
again in world,
where cars, head-lights and races
imitate motion...eyes...faces

Excuse me please,
I was immersed in dreams...
where car-less pedestrians
walk barefoot and carefree
in an exotic paradise...

Wake up, Eve! 21. Century!
You are on the Earth!
Road cops (no angels) .
Stop your nostalgic, paradisiac,
parasitic, parabolic, daydreams!

Sofia, 30. June 2008

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Flora Gillingham 30 June 2008

As you say, in our minds all is green grass and hillsides and the only hum is of the droning bees. Just back from Glastonbury - perhaps I'm still intoxicated! Fx

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Our dear One had an accident. So I shall send her a kiss surplus from my Catullus's translation. The Latin poet told well our ambivalences towards the sweetheart. The dynamic of this poem is violent and there's a feeling of death. That's another reason for sending her a kiss.

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Rema Prasanna 30 June 2008

It is a well scripted emergency brake on day dreams from one exotic paradise to worldly blocks of cops or(I guess angelic cops so you escape....from interesting drive dreams to real roads of 21st Century. It is so splendid a write Onelia. Rgs Rema

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Original Unknown Girl 30 June 2008

This is lovely, though I don't suppose I should say that. It's not lovely that you had a little accident, it is lovely though the way that you phrase such events. Sending over an ether hug just in case... HG: -) xx

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Donall Dempsey 30 June 2008

Ah Eve...expelled from the perfect paradise of your dreams to the rude awakening of this rude modern world. Keep dreaming your persistently playful poems but...watch your step! love donall donall

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Mystic Indian 06 September 2009

waking up to reality and 'existing' in the presence of 'beings' is a brilliant analogy.10/10

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Ted M 08 August 2009

This is Wonderful reading. Eve on Earth. Your style of Poetry is so unique and holds us till the very end.........10+++

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C. P. Sharma 22 July 2009

Onelia, Dreamy derives are dangerous here. Poetry is not permitted on roads. They smoke away the roads. LOL cp

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Akram Awadat 03 February 2009

very well done, nice poem thanks a lot

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Ashraful Musaddeq 04 September 2008

The content, presentation, & composition is really different. An exotic taste! The art of writing is so interesting that as a reader I've gone through this poem from strarting to the end with the curicity. And finally, I've got a marvellous taste & offered my 10. B-e-a-t-i-f-u-l!

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