this oyster spins and twirls
my golden wrinkles
and silvering curls
oh this life is a whirl
sift through rosy scenes
press your flowers
and fold your wings
think your secret things
you take your life from magazines
dye your hair
apply your creams
hang out your blessings
on your waistline
feel what others feel
head down beetling
on your hamster's wheel
for your three square meals
so hoist your hidden sails
peel your scabs
and tell tall tales
because it never fails
your flag it flaps
on ether's breeze
on ether's breeze
you wave your fist
from on your knees
grind your axes
on your own dime
paste is paste and
pearls are pearls
you must crave
what you don't hold
and trade in your silver
for this fool's gold
and all the worries in the world
clip your wings
your flowers curl
you squeeze in your life
before the deadline
but it's squeezing your life
until the deadline
What a very different choice of poem you’ve chosen for this week, Mr. Adrian. Most of the previous poems all had bright and teasing tones to read, but this one had a heavy atmosphere. It’s sardonic, but it does not contain the same sarcastic and light tone as ‘Everyone’s Green’. As the first picture shows, the title references the phrase ‘the world is your oyster’, which is used to tell people that you can go out and do anything. But in this poem, it is used to criticize the world and the lifestyle most people have adopted that restricts themselves from living to the fullest. My favorite part of them poem is the fourth to last stanza, where the writer scrutinizes about how materialistic people have become, obsessed with things they don’t need. I got chills reading that part. Though perhaps what left me feeling haunted were the last two lines and the last picture. It made me realize just how short the life given to us really is. Maybe if it had the same playful and light tone the previous poems had, I wouldn’t have taken the message behind it seriously.
ReplyDeleteThe poem has a lot of pretty use of words and metaphors in it that makes it really nice to read but at the same time it is hard for me to know what the meaning of the poem is. I think the writer is trying to comment on people’s lifestyles and us being blind to things like makeup and jewelry and things that aren’t important. They aren’t important but people still spend so much time and money to pay attention to the things we don’t need and because of that we don’t enjoy life. The writer is trying to say that if we become like this for too long, our life might be shortened by it. Life is a beautiful thing given to us that has very short time and if we focus too much on stuff like that, we will not live life to the fullest. I don’t know for sure if this is what it means though, I just read it like that.
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