Writing about web page http://www.salon.com/nov96/ondaatje961118.html
Your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed
through a glass tube
like someone has just trod on a peacock
like wind howling in a coconut
like a rusty bible, like someone pulling barbed wire
across a stone courtyard, like a pig drowning,
a vattacka being fried
a bone shaking hands
a frog singing at Carnegie Hall.
Like a crow swimming in milk,
like a nose being hit by a mango
like the crowd at the Royal-Thornian match,
a womb full of twins, a pariah dog
with a magpie in its mouth
like the midnight jet from Casablanca
like Air Pakistan curry,
a typewriter on fire, like a spirit in the gas
which cooks your dinner, like a hundred
pappadans being crunched, like someone
uselessly trying to light 3 Roses matches in a dark room,
the clicking sound of a reef when you put your head into the sea,
a dolphin reciting epic poetry to a sleepy audience,
the sound of a fan when someone throws brinjals at it,
like pineapples being sliced in the Pettah market
like betel juice hitting a butterfly in mid-air
like a whole village running naked onto the street
and tearing their sarongs, like an angry family
pushing a jeep out of the mud, like dirt on the needle,
like 8 sharks being carried on the back of a bicycle
like 3 old ladies locked in the lavatory
like the sound I heard when having an afternoon sleep
and someone walked through my room in ankle bracelets.
Michael Ondaatje
cool poem
COMMENT:
Hey, I read that in my english class…what book is it from????
COMMENT:
Try
Previous Canoes by Michael Ondaatje?
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By: benny on 31 八月, 2005
at 6:39 下午
I don’t really get it, but i like a lot of the similies!! Good job keep up the good work..byee
By: sadaf on 15 十一月, 2006
at 6:10 上午
what does vattacka mean??
By: haha on 1 四月, 2007
at 4:45 上午
I was just thinking the same thing.. What is a Vattacka?
By the way, this poem is quite interesting and I love the different types of similies you’ve thought of. Very good job!
By: Sarah Alberta on 1 四月, 2007
at 4:50 上午
http://www.ogrishforum.com/archive/index.php/t-10109.html
I am not the poet. Please don’t be mistaken. This is written by Michael Ondaatje who’s born in Sri Lanka. I tried to google, wikipedia it, but it seems on the net the only thing associate to that word is this poem.
Anyone knows?
By: chitse on 1 四月, 2007
at 7:28 下午
COOL POEM
By: Daisy Pemenez on 13 三月, 2011
at 12:19 上午
What does Casablanca mean. Confused 🙂
By: Daisy Pemenez on 13 三月, 2011
at 12:20 上午
Casablanca is a place.
the poem kind of seems like an insult, look at the first line, “Your voice sounds like a scorpion pushed through a glass tube", I’m pretty sure that doesn’t sound good. Also, look at the line, “like an angry family pushing a Jeep out of the mud", that doesn’t sound good either.
By: Drake on 30 三月, 2011
at 10:03 下午
Is the author complementing the person’s voice or not?
By: A-dub32 on 24 二月, 2012
at 8:40 下午
I absolutly love this!
By: emjr11@yahoo.com on 5 二月, 2013
at 9:43 下午
to be honest i actually thought it was a little boring but for the most part i liked. 🙂
By: krystal larson on 18 六月, 2013
at 4:14 下午
發表迴響
By: allaboutmcpe on 1 十二月, 2015
at 12:13 上午