The Love Jump Poem by FABIYAS M V

Human effort has a limit, yet Barshim and Tamberi try

to fly over the horizontal bar. Alas! Their attempts end

in frustration at 2.39 meters. Better than breaking the tie

with a jump-off is sharing the gold - Barshim's thought

falls into Tamberi's heart, touching the ceiling of feeling.

The rivals turn men, molting the Qatari and the Italian

feathers. In the Land of the Rising Sun, they light the

Olympic cauldron of love. The golden flames burn over

the aching memory of the A-bomb holocaust. Their deed

is entrancing as the Japanese quince flower on the thorny

time. At the base of their sharing, there's nectar for the world.



First published in The Literary Hatchet