Catfish you are strong
Making the river swirl
In a violent dance of blues
As you drive below waves
Your tail-fin endlessly working
Beneath the churning surface
Heading to the capital
On a mysterious voyage
Below high earthy banks
Listening to the sound
Of the distant universe
And its lonely heartbeat
Beautiful dark swimmer
Your dreams are complete
And their meaning clear
As the stars guide you
On this summer night
To the golden city's waters
Carefully bypassing man
To a secret ancient place
That has never changed
The river is a snake
Chaotic, wide and winding
But it can be the bridge
Catfish reads somehow ordinary, not known worldwide like
salmon perhaps. But you have created an adventurer, a creature, that endlessly sees and feels everything, everywhere it goes. As to its means of 'travelling',
'Carefully bypassing man
To a secret ancient place
That has never changed
The river is a snake
Chaotic, wide and winding
But it can be the bridge'
Seems the catfish is wise, feels life as it goes, time after time, discovering, learning - a bridge to All, if observed and used. Perhaps. Read twice, can only leave what I feel.
This is well done. Great imagery and inspiring an ethereal quality to the world. I like the mystifying intangible nature of the catfish in this. Very nice.
Ah, glorious! Holds so much talent right here - the flow, vision...the wrapping up...what the sight means, the Universe always palpable, only ever a thought away, loved this xo
Good writing. Theirs also a slang term for cat fish or catfishing.
It was an MTV show about people luring people online by pretending to be someone else, something like that... I never watched the show. :-)
Always enjoy your poetry my good friend.
Posted 10 Years Ago
10 Years Ago
Useful info :-) I will try and watch that, thanks for your review. Meow
10 Years Ago
Lol! Fish don't say meow.
10 Years Ago
Catfish might, in fact they say 'Meow bubble bubble'
Interesting, fluid write. It's probably just me, and wildly incongruous to the tone of your lines, but I almost heard Tweety way that last line. :D LOL
I know you didn't intend it that way. My brain just plopped that reference on me!
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It is funny all the same. I can take it
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