Michael Ondatjee
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son's room.
He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.
Why do I give my emotion an animal's name, give it that dark squeeze of death?
This is the hug which collects all his small bones and his warm neck against me.
The thin tough body under the pyjamas locks to me like a magnet of blood.
How long was he standing there like that, before I came?
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them.
I am a good driver, nothing shocks me.
(Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
On the warm July river head back
upside down river for a roof
slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees
there's a dog learning to swim near me friends on shore
my head dips back to the eyebrow
I'm the prow on an ancient vessel, this afternoon
I'm going down to Peru soul between my teeth
a blue heron with its awkward broken backed flap upside down
one of us is wrong
he his blue grey thud thinking he knows the blue way out of here
or me
I choose this poet because of his outstanding work in poetry. Michael Ondaatje is a great poet because of his work and the way he expresses emotion through his poetry. I have recognized that there is a lot of animals in his poems, think this is either due to his love for animals or him simply describing the beauty in nature. A quote from one of his poems is “there’s a dog learning to swim near me on the shore.” I think that Michaels work is outstanding in comparison to other poets. Throughout Michaels work there is a use of many themes such as nature is beautiful and things aren’t as they seem. I think me and this poet are related in ways because we both have the same love for animals and if I am
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son's room.
He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.
Why do I give my emotion an animal's name, give it that dark squeeze of death?
This is the hug which collects all his small bones and his warm neck against me.
The thin tough body under the pyjamas locks to me like a magnet of blood.
How long was he standing there like that, before I came?
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them.
I am a good driver, nothing shocks me.
(Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
On the warm July river head back
upside down river for a roof
slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees
there's a dog learning to swim near me friends on shore
my head dips back to the eyebrow
I'm the prow on an ancient vessel, this afternoon
I'm going down to Peru soul between my teeth
a blue heron with its awkward broken backed flap upside down
one of us is wrong
he his blue grey thud thinking he knows the blue way out of here
or me
I choose this poet because of his outstanding work in poetry. Michael Ondaatje is a great poet because of his work and the way he expresses emotion through his poetry. I have recognized that there is a lot of animals in his poems, think this is either due to his love for animals or him simply describing the beauty in nature. A quote from one of his poems is “there’s a dog learning to swim near me on the shore.” I think that Michaels work is outstanding in comparison to other poets. Throughout Michaels work there is a use of many themes such as nature is beautiful and things aren’t as they seem. I think me and this poet are related in ways because we both have the same love for animals and if I am