I must warn you, don’t board that ship, Ishmael.
The captain has an obsession, and is doomed to fail.
He seeks to kill this legendary white whale.
There are many other ships in this place you can board.
Many whaling vessels sail in and out of New Bedford.
On a previous journey sailing to the southeast,
the captain lost a leg to that elusive white beast.
He bears the name of an infamous Israel king.
Boarding the Pequod will be quite a foolish thing.
Based on the novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville.
Categories:
ishmael, adventure, film,
Form: Rhyme
South province where Mattru jong is located!
Intriguing issues as a young boy!
Escaped from drugs and the war!
Rebels – They don’t agree with the government and think everyone is the enemy!
Ready to start over!
A lhaji close friend of Ishmael!
Lonely waking around by himself at the age of 12!
Evaluated but never understood!
One world with terrible memories!
Never being able to let go of memories!
Elated at being with his uncle!
Categories:
ishmael, adventure, black african american,
Form: ABC
My face tiled in rubbles
make my troubles visible,
result of my lamed fights,
became my life unfeasible.
Don't talk about my mojo,
if you don't like it,
it will chase you all the time,
if you don't stop it.
Child soldier Ishmael Beah,
who jumped to peace,
who let go the bullets,
to embrace world of man free.
Categories:
ishmael, life
Form: Quatrain
Call me Ishmael, I am the slave to
desires and dreams of others and
their destinies preclude my own;
the seven seas may inoculate or
infect with depths of drowning dark my
turmoil twisting aimless and alone.
Obsessions of their quests for
peaceful vindication scars my
fraught objectives livid white;
Whilst they can settle down in waves of
salvage, sleep, serenity, all I can
claim is everlasting night.
My treasures sink into the beach, waste
marooned, bare glimpsed receded gaze,
oxidised on salt eroded shores;
with no control of my design, call
me Ishmael by default, do with me what you will
for by default I am, regrettably, yours.
Categories:
ishmael, allegory, death, life, philosophy,
Form: Blank verse