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Machi Fish

No water only sky fills this fish's brain. No water but a longing to fly is in this fish's body. Into the brimming ocean she is emptying herself incessantly, over centuries. She passes by small fish, big fish. Lost in thought, this fish asks herself oh, where did your ocean go? The swimming fish repeats this question as if it were a prayer-mantra. The fish does not know that sky has filled her brain that the skull-smashing ritual has already begun inside her.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 11/2/2015 1:09:00 AM
Hi Gagan The poem is nice, but it is not Ghazal. This is Google's definition of Ghazal" a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music."
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Date: 10/26/2015 10:23:00 AM
Intriguing. Obviously outside of my reference points. Am curious. First thing I thought of was a cloud.
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Date: 10/22/2015 5:15:00 PM
Interesting work..I wonder exactly the interpertation of this one...Thanks for stopping by..Sara
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