Colonies Of Mind Poem by ONElia AVElar

Colonies Of Mind

Rating: 2.8


In exotic colonies
of pagan thoughts
my consciousness
is desperate roaming
since months,
with malaria fever
unshaved and thirsty
a christian missionary
in a heaven of nudity
deep in the jungle
amidst naked natives
my common sense
rambling odd Latin
with feverish haste
censures the flesh
for its primitive tastes.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Janice Windle 10 April 2009

Steamy and full of delicious guilt, Onelia! Lovely!

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Donall Dempsey 09 April 2009

I have treked across the vast stretches of your words and have been feverishly converted. It's like an intense Graham Green or Somerset Maugham story. love Dónall Dónall

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'If I could do it, this evening I'd hear some new plays by Rollo. I didn't hear her for a long time but this evening she's come back here'. Mrs Avelar comes back to primordial sensuality, there's an old language but it's the tidy and classic Latin. I dedicate my adapted translation of an old Italian rock song by De Gregori to her. 'If I could do it, this evening I'd hear Rollo with her Jets..'.

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Original Unknown Girl 06 April 2009

Tight crisp composition, fabulous imagery in so few words. Loved it. HG: -) xx

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Indira Babbellapati 06 April 2009

a very different version of colonization...

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Dr Antony Theodore 20 May 2010

Are u a missionary in a deep jungle. nice poem

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Original Unknown Girl 09 September 2009

Wow! I love this one, , maybe I've read it before but it still sounds as original as the first time I heard it... I see you wandering hot, rambling in a latin tongue, desperate for the touch of another human. Am I right? HG: -) xx

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Indira Renganathan 20 July 2009

A very different weave of pagan thoughts, , , ,10++++

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T McH 09 June 2009

One, just as in your notes you never cease to engage, provoke... finally, sometimes, acceptance; often, a lingering question mark. Brill. t x

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Mel Vincent Basconcillo 13 April 2009

poignant words you have here.. terrific and outstanding

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