When I walk alone in the meadow,
The only company of me is my shadow.
So we talk to each other like a padow.
As he has many qualities to endow.
Without failure he has the power to follow.
When I make a ring of smoke by puffing a cigar
He does the same but consciously suppresses the fire.
His activities are nothing but on me a big blow,
He has a sinister design and to disendow
He is heavenly cursed and a ninja ghost
He is the dusky and the obscure most
Now I do not have a shadow of doubt
So immediately I kicked him out.
I am now frightened of my own shadow.
If he still manages to follow
No option left to me but to blaze or glow.
Nice poem. Good imagination, but you could have avoided the ring part, because smoking is injurious to health and you might have used incense or something of that sort. I really enjoyed the concept of this poem..
stoics or introverts...or people who are not gregarious by nature like their own company, , , under their own shadow...such topic has always been favorite among poets...miss dickinson's...my soul selects her own society..is an example, though a bit different...but...what if shadow deceives....? ? ?
This is somehow very interesting, not only you tried to recapture the true meaning of dejection but you transferred the later meaning in a very Gothic approach. I'm not doubting that there is in any way a hidden meaning and a very fine target thoroughly mentioned in this poem. Good job, keep on writing. :)
the shadow can copy everything of me, even the smoke but he can not copy the fire and the fire which is inside me, he willingly suppress the fire...and more take the philosophical meaning of shadow....then the meaning of the poem is clear.
Yes, Dejection makes a person think negative. Your poem is very nice.
Your shadow up to cigar is o k Then you give sinister design to your shadow and want to covey something. Your shadow philosophy is not clear to me Wahap -KAVIN CHARALAN
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Very well written indeed, and with a nice rhyme. Excellent job, my friend.