Fish net

                     -Dwarakaithalaivan

Human chain extends along the road

In a demonstration.

It is a different kind of string

With fingers as links.

If a chain is made

With out a metallic link

Why can’t a fish net be made

Without neylon twine.

One fish bites the tail of another fish

That fish holds the tail of third one and so on.

Similarly thousands of fishes

Knit one big ‘fish net’

To move inside a human body as soul.

Gills of all the fishes

Move simultaneously –

A great synchronisation and symbol of liveliness.

Waves of life rise

With expectations and reality

As images on them.

Fish net spreads over them

To catch a thing or two.

Fishes drink some water

And the net comes out as an empty one.

Now the net is ready for the next catch.

brooding thorns in the sea of thoughts

May injure the fishes.

Some fishes will fall off due to age.

But the net never stops swaying.

Fishes of desire would jump in the air

And join the net again.

Every fish is trying to swallow the images in water

And bite the tail of other fish more strongly.

The whole net of human soul will tremble in pain.

It’s the time to end every thing.

Fishes will detach themselves

And move in all directions.

There is a rain of meteors.

Fishes are busy catching the tiny stars.

The moment at which they enter

The wide open mouth of fishes

There will be no tiny stars or fishes...

Reader's view

This is an intense,multi-layered poem that uses the metaphor of the fish and fishnet to deliver philosophical,social and political messages.Thanks for sharing this amazingly well- written poem, Dwarakaithalaivan Avl.

                                        Padmaja Iyengar, Secunderabad, AP, India

                                                                                          May 31,2014

   

courtesy : Muse India    may - june issue  2014