I tend to have mix feelings whenever LazerLordz post a poem in DPS (S). I am glad because I know my imagination is going to be challenged and beside, time seems to pass so much faster reading poems on my daily MRT ride home. I rather expose my senses to perplexing phrases than the endless bombardment of noise and irritating ring-tones.
Okay back to the poem. To be frank I am not too sure what this poem is about, that is what I love/hate about his poems. The safest bet is to say that this poem is about the search/hunt for a lost love. From this perspective, let us explore the poem one stanza at a time.
The evening breeze caresses
the cooling nape of my neck
waking my dullard skin
and kissing the stubbled chin,
whom I have placed my owrrisome
fist, under its motherly charge.From the phrases ‘dullard skin’ and ‘stubbled chin’ (stubble?), we have the impression of someone who looks tired, haggard, maybe just awaken from his sleep (OMG the speaker is a vampire!!!)
I am not so sure about the fifth and sixth lines. What is the meaning of ‘orrisome fist’ and ‘motherly charge’? Did the author purposely omits the letter ‘w’ from the word ‘orrisome’ or is it a typo error? If he did it on purpose, what is the reason behind it? Hmm ...
At first I have the impression of someone in a sitting/resting position, placing his ‘orrisome fist’ under his chin. But after reading the first line of the next stanza, I change my mind.
Again, I stroll the windswept alley,
my eyes searching for you,
what an eternally unforgettable tune.
The leaves swirl, papers slam
against me, like the pin-pricks
of a conscience lost aeons ago. From the first line, clearly the speaker is in the state of motion i.e. strolling in search of something. Thus I may be wrong that he is in a sitting/resting position. What I don’t understand is if that person the speaker is searching for is very important to him, why the word ‘stroll’ which gives the impression that he is not in a hurry in his search?
Maybe because the speaker realizes that the search/hunt may not end as he dances to an ‘eternally unforgettable tune’.
This stanza also suggests that the search has been going on for quite some times as strongly suggested by the word ‘Again’ in the first line. The speaker also seems to be indifferent to his surroundings, like a walking dead wandering around in the night searching …
Might I see a flitting shadow
darting from portals of Kings,
Lords of the hallucination
and dervishes of wanton lust.
And this tiny glimpse of yore,
hastens my gait, now double-time
beckoning me to the parade
of life's greatest follies. The third stanza really puzzled me. How should I interpret this stanza? The only connection I can make is the word ‘Hunt’ in the title, which may be related to hunting as the favourite pastimes by royalties. But how to explain the rest and what are life’s greatest follies?
Should I find you
or lose sight of your soul,
mayst the canyons swallow
me.
Deep into the gaping maw,
I deserve not the scent
of angelic chords,
nor even partake in a
divine hiatus in Godly lore.As the final stanza of the poem, the speaker declares his love for that someone I guess he would rather goes to hell i.e. ‘mayst the canyons swallow me’ if he should be unfaithful to her.
What is your interpretation?
Typo error.