Fabiyas M V Poet Free verse

The Love Jump

Human effort has a limit, yet Barshim and Tamberi try 

to fly over the horizontal bar. Alas! Their attempts end 

in frustration at 2.39 meters. Better than breaking the tie 

with a jump-off is sharing the gold – Barshim’s thought 

falls into Tamberi’s heart, touching the ceiling of feeling.

The rivals turn men, molting the Qatari and the Italian 

feathers. In the Land of the Rising Sun, they light the 

Olympic cauldron of love. The golden flames burn over 

the aching memory of the A-bomb holocaust. Their deed 

is entrancing as the Japanese quince flower on the thorny 

time. At the base of their sharing, there’s nectar for the world.



First published in The Literary Hatchet

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