Two new poems from Raymond Sigimet
03 June 2022
I Froze
It happened so quickly
that initial shock
and I am arrested by
my helplessness
my failure to prevent
and I froze ...
I pitched a scream
I reached out
flailing, but in vain
it happened so fast
I failed to prevent
and I froze ...
I cannot unsee now
a witness to life's tragedies
that I am no immortal
I am as vulnerable
my failure to prevent
and I froze ...
as I saw a body struck
ran over by a truck
I did reach out
flailing, but in vain
I failed to prevent
Yangpela Marit
Yangpela em laikim pasin marit
Em i hat tru long sindaunim em yet
Em wokabaut raun long de na long nait
Yangpela em gat tingting blong em yet
Taim papa toktok em les long harim
Em lusim haus na go painim boipren
Taim mama singaut em les long bekim
Em gat Tok Pisin long tokim gelpren
Yangpela em laikim pasin tambu
Em harim stori na em laik save
Em bihainim rot go long as mambu
Na rausim klos i go stap arere
Bihain papamama karim hevi
Taim yangpela i kamapim bebi
Mr Sigimet dignifies the causation and the perchance,
with columnated, beamed, braced, summation.
Readers are alerted, yet will feel accommodated.
Posted by: Lindsay F Bond | 05 June 2022 at 03:24 PM
Brilliant pieces from Sigimet, entering a new elevated phase of his poetic creativity.
The stylised prosaic construction is engaging and reveals an internalised dialogue to which I can relate.
It is how I felt when "I saw her that morning, across the road, / Watched her supple curves, her steps firm in grace / I witnessed sweet beauty smashed like a toad! / Smacked her booty into deaths cold embrace".
The sonet toksingsing is exceptional, an instant classic to me, with a lifetime of turmoil in fourteen lines. Ating Shakespeare mas seksek liklik long matmat.
Em tasol ia!
Posted by: Michael Dom | 04 June 2022 at 07:38 PM