With your sweet words, Lover, tempt me
not, if you've come empty-handed.
These are the closing lines of the poem "Tropical Love" by Oliver Senior. The woman in this poem asks her lover to not tempt her with hollow words that sweet sound but mean nothing. She says she has responsibilities of children and family on her shoulders and asks her lover to leave her if he has come empty-handed. She’d rather be working on the roadside than stay with him.
But we suspected
something so we sent our most
skilled detectives to make him spill it.
The poet describes a tree that was planted and it bore almost all kinds of eatables. But a pig found out about it and he was selfish. Therefore, he kept this secret of the tree to himself and used to sneak out at night to eat his fill. People suspected that something was amiss, so they send their most skilled detectives to make the pig spill his secret.
Gardening in the Tropics, you never know
what you'll turn up. Quite often, bones.
These are the opening lines of the poem "Brief Lives" by Oliver Senior. The poet, in these lines, tells about the political conflict that shows the brief lives of people stuck in the political tensions. He says that when tending to the gardens in the tropics, anything can turn up. He then says bones which clarifies what he is talking about. The bones of long forgotten corpse turn up from the gardens.
