With his fingers, he gently caressed her smooth, soft skin.
They were almost cutting through the surface so thin.
He felt blessed. He was at bliss.
Any moment now, he would ask the question.
As he almost did do the honour,
his mind had doubts in the harbour.
He felt queasy. He was uneasy.
From that moment, he was subject to torture.
As commanded by the laws of nature,
from his beauty, a beast did appear.
He felt mocked. He was shocked.
The beast sank into his beauty
and left him no place to be.
He felt sick. He was sick.
The beast had destroyed him utterly.
Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Week (October 6 – October 12, 2015) – 107 words.
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Beautiful poem Karthi! I take it that you see the ship as a beautiful woman. I read your poem three times because it is so lovely! Thank you for your participation. 🙂
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Well, poems are open to interpretation. I had initially thought the water to be a woman, the shadow of the trees to be the hero and the ship to be the best. Wow. You have a real talent for reinterpretation. 😎😎😎
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I went back and reread it and could see your interpretation and it certainly makes sense! It is a wonderful poem!
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Wow. That’s 4 times then. Thank you so much for this 😄😄
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Yes 😀
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Ooh. I interpreted the captain as the hero, the ship as the beauty, and the ocean as the beast. OR: the water as the hero, the ship as the beauty, and fallen ice chunks from a glacier as the beast. OOR: a massive man as the hero, a soft lover as the beauty, and a sudden natural disaster as the beast.
😀 But after reading your comments, I went back to reread it again. I love how open the poem is. Great job!
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Woah. Damn, that’s an excellent interpretation. All of them are great, infact.
Hence proven, the reader, the work and the author are all needed for the complete experience of reading. Thanks a lot for providing that to me. 🙂
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Gasp! That’s yet another one: The writer as the hero, the work as the beauty, and the audience as the beast.
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I am seriously loving this. Do carry on. 👏👏😎😎
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Beautiful poem…the way you described your boat.That was great!!
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Thank you so much for stopping by to read.
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🙂 🙂
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Great rhythm in your poetry it flows very nicely – doubts on the journey he is about to take in life, not too late to abandon ship, love the way the readers all take something different from your words.
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Thank you for those kind words. But I must say, it was the ability of the readers that enabled them to take what they wanted to take. 🙂 Thanks again.
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Oh I love this! I like how you constructed it and how every read brings new ideas and interpretations.
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Thank you for reading into it so much that you bring out those interpretations. 🙂
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What a beautiful poem. You are very talented. Too bad the beast won out!
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Thank you. Sad that the beast did win – might is right.
But only temporarily.
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