Mantra is tired of romance and blog hops and Follies and everything else being on the wrong day, so she has hijacked today. You have been warned.
The world she describes is one which has been hijacked. The reasons are as selfish as any other hijacking. Some of the groups are readily identifiable. We are in them. Some are the murky “they” about which you hear so many people tell.
With a title of Mating Season, rest assured Mantra has not hijacked today merely to lull you with romance and sweet nothings. It is your conscience and your consciousness she is tugging. If your heartstrings get in the way, again, you were warned.
Care to go for a swim?
Mating Season
Three-eyed fish swimming upstream
Trying to escape a mate…
Or maybe ten.
Brackish, black water flowing
Over burnt orange, thin gills.
No oxygen.
Elder fish, blind in one eye,
Feeding on tiny morsels.
It is not roe,
But lumps of flesh which were once
The products of the last spawn.
Not one could know.
Beyond the river delta
The sharks circle nurseries,
Not of their own,
But of clean feeders and some
To spawn the delicacy
Of youngling bone
To be ground in toothy maws
Into powdery, fine meal
And shat upstream,
Driving three-eyed mates to sea
To entertain and expire
Caught in love’s dream.
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What is the bone Mantra has stuck in her gullet with the filet? Pick a metaphor (or three) and tell me what it means to you. How many eyes do you have?
Have a terrific weekend.
Laurie
/ November 30, 2012Maybe I’m just weird but I got that they were living in polluted waters.
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Red
/ November 30, 2012You are not. They are.
raymond alexander kukkee
/ November 30, 2012Mutants swim past the corner office at times, eying the pristine water in the water cooler, trying to find consolation in 3-eyed gummy bears…since they don’t like soylent green fish-cookies…..
Red
/ December 1, 2012Perhaps, that would be an excellent recipe to pen 😉 It could be in the exclusive RP cookbook!
Gail Thornton
/ November 30, 2012Profound poem, Mantra has penned this time. I feel a sense of dread and filth. Still, the urge to love and mate surpasses all. Excellent, Red, thank you!
Red
/ December 1, 2012I like what you got out of this one! The avenues for this poem are wide for interpretation. You got something completely different from Lizzie, and I like them both <3 xxx
Binky
/ November 30, 2012The future’s so bright I’ve got to wear shades! From an old song about a not so nice future.
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Red
/ December 1, 2012I think you are going to get a kick out of some of the videos planned for later posts 😉
Soma Mukherjee
/ November 30, 2012I have four eyes ..the fourth forces others to turn blind at times and chides the third one for not opening right time
Red
/ December 1, 2012ROFL! I love it! So great to see you today, Soma <3 xxx
Lizzie Cracked
/ December 1, 2012I have heard of having three shoes .not three eyes.. ok the third eye i have heard of as divine – or derogatory.. but lets just say the fish are privileged and not wanting to do it the way it has always been done.. not understanding that is what created the balance.. everything is out of whack.. the elders are blind so just eating like always thinking it is the same and not paying attention to the younger generations… i dunno ..parents children, social classes…destructiveness of complacency….
smells like fish tho whew!
<3 Lizzie
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Red
/ December 1, 2012Good analogies, Lizzie. I especially like your take on who is privileged. Interesting. *note to self: buy air freshener* Giggles <3 xxx
prenin
/ December 1, 2012The curse of mankind’s pollution of the world we live in… 🙁
We have fish living in our local rivers where none had lived in my entire lifetime.
We’re cleaning up our mess, but slowly…
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
Red
/ December 1, 2012I love the transplant fish. They get into places when their eggs are deposited from the feet of wading birds. I am always amazed when we catch a new species in one of our lakes. I know what we put in there, but there are so many more now. I am very glad you have cleaned it up enough for them to survive. 🙂 {HUGZ}
Phil
/ December 3, 2012Could the three-eye fish represent the singleton who is viewed as weird due to wanting to remain single and free ?
They swim upstream in the murky polluted waters which indicate going against a supposed mainstream norm, which they find dark and murky.
However once they swim pass some of the opposing norms, they realise that there are larger opposition to contend with.
Forcing them to swim out even further to continue in their exploration of self and singleness…(My take on it 😉 )
I think I also would also be viewed as having 3 eyes…for differing reasons.
Red
/ December 3, 2012Your interpretation of the metaphor of expected couplehood is very apt, Phil. That is a great reason to want a third eye 😉
Tess Kann
/ December 6, 2012Interesting what everyone picked up from ‘Mating Season’. Alas, I was not one of them…this was a tough one for me but I enjoyed reading it, Red.
Red
/ December 6, 2012This one was different from most of what comes to M3. Every now and then, Mantra embraces some really metaphoric roots. Glad the read was not too bad. 😉 More discussion on this one in the forum.