Poems by Satish Verma
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Rebirthing
It was a quaint feeling. Something was going to happen. I had asked the fading moon, are you... [read more]
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You Love Yourself
The beast draws a circle for winter, untelling. You climb the frozen falls, to reach the moon... [read more]
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Enormous Precipice
Ah, the statecraft of present times, was becoming agender. The strength of institution would... [read more]
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Only God Knows
There was no respite from the repeated assaults. When did I ask you to move slitherly with... [read more]
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Dying To Unsay
A lesser person walks in the dead man's street to meet his metastasized oncocytes to, kill for... [read more]
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A Sacrifice
Your face becomes an eye, a saga of holding the assaults. A body hails the sagacity. A child... [read more]
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Pummelled
It was a direct hit, meeting an immaculate moon tonight. Was it possible- that a star flew... [read more]
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In Darkness
Talking to Morpheus when moon was asleep. I was not guilty of waking you up. In splinters,... [read more]
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Crazy Thoughts
A blighted ovum demands a ransom for life. Unhinged, you rub with- the command and set free a... [read more]
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Singing In Dark
Will I know you- by unknowing myself in bleak- moments of giving wings to you? Raising your... [read more]
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Winter Backdrop
An earthy scent rises, when- you rain in me. The hole in heart. Naked as salt of eyes. My... [read more]
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Present Life
It is. What you don't think, and don't want to share. Nothing. Kamikaze- divine wind destroying... [read more]
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The Great Dilemma
Break your silence. Stay for me. Face-to-face, after my first inning, prey for me. To know... [read more]
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Against The Current
That mad truth. The unborn was knifed long back. Now you throw- the net in the crowd. I had... [read more]
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In Misty Day
Moment of truth. Bougainvilleas on grass. A visible absence. I was searching- you in poems.... [read more]
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Who Had Spoiled The Show?
Muzzle the ape, that bleeds the tall tree, tearing apart the blue birds. I saw it coming. I... [read more]
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Searching New Phrases
In twilight the sickle moon, waits for the dark. What a kill. Roses in bloom watch haying.... [read more]
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This Myth Of Life
Today I am alone- with myself, not even with wet eyes. A corona intends to go into flames.... [read more]
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From The Flames
Under your eyes shadows, my poems curl up. When do I call you? From wires, tiny drops of dew... [read more]
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Snake Dance
Silence was so loud- a pain ago, would you resume me now, between a scion and stock. The sap... [read more]
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Who Wears The Mantle Of War
I will pick up the dust in a swift scoop-from where the stars fell and step out, of the shadows... [read more]
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A Parting
I was once again- angry with me, for cheating the smile and wading into violence of tears. It... [read more]
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Barriers
Your frozen words float like flakes falling from invisible lips. Aimlessly I would pick up the... [read more]
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Will Not Breathe For A While
To know, who I am… in the name of truth. We move in different circuits. Our toes don't meet.... [read more]
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From Fairyland
Searching in your rainbow eyes relics of past. Your pride on the leash goes on a rampage,... [read more]
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A Long Road
Nothing to think for, at this moment. Faceless fears- like pine needles, prick the toes in walk.... [read more]
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Muffled Sounds
Like the xenia effect the terror was changing the landscape. Will you become my eyes in... [read more]
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Overwhelmed
Not scared by stings I will carry you in river to? put you behind sun. The maple has shed the... [read more]
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Imperfection
For image breaking I exile myself for one half-god to lick my scars. I have not touched you... [read more]
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When A God Bleeds
Cause of things- finding in myself in solitary manner, reaping the harvest of failures. The... [read more]
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No Contempt
Yearning to reach you like out of body experience. Dreams will not agree. He was stunned when... [read more]
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Many Things
The moment of truth for a flower seller. Sun will not rise today. Learning the- alphabets of... [read more]
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Getting Acclimated
Fear is on rise. How long would you live with that? Terrible questions bring arousal bouts.... [read more]
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Drawing A Circle
Nudging the contempt, he wanted to become homeless again. I had never seen such human... [read more]
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Beginning Of Voyage
A fear stalks you in the dead city of broken paths. If god wills. Listening to truth in golden... [read more]
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It Happened Once
You wanted to possess me and I sought to drink the stars. An optics? Tears and blood.... [read more]
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Ambiance
Trying to face fiction, poetry was falling apart between the glasses. Telltale signs betray... [read more]
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Snowblinks
Scythe of a moon swings, between tall palm leaves. Wanting to see the midnight fall of white... [read more]
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The Blame Game Begins
The trauma gives me a severe jolt. The paper nest of wasps remains unbroken. There was an... [read more]
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Behind The Brick Walls
Winter is round the corner. A single dew drop- cedes a concession to tall trees. Watchers of... [read more]
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In Trembling Smile
The age has taken away the bones of tall trees. I am drinking from the lips of moon, the tiny... [read more]
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That Was
Turning over your signature page, holding your poem in nude. What else was needed to commit a... [read more]
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What Now
Locating the perceived footprints of moon- in my dark house. My homegrown precision brings the... [read more]
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Taking A Form
Like a falcon you dive with a notched nose. There was an element of absurd in your style.... [read more]
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After The Ceremony
I would be riding your stumps- to byzantine castle of ardor. It was not my thesis- to make... [read more]
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Voicelessly
Listening from the walls what was not sacred. * A bipolar body- slaps the weird space,... [read more]
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Not Guilty
Undone in dark you strike back with ardor. The end was not near. It was only the beginning of... [read more]
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A Blackbird Will Not Sing
How would you describe the stampede, when there was no crowd sourcing? You can draw a perfect... [read more]
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What A Wrath
Another woman sits on rose hips and talks about the spirits. At sunset point, I watch you... [read more]
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Orgy Of Pain
There should not have been any question marks on your forehead. I am afraid- you were becoming... [read more]
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My Injured Self
In your big eyes my mission ends. I lower the flag to half-mast. The steps were small to... [read more]
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Antithesis
Strangly enough- it was the most silent night… I hear the footfalls of your absence. There... [read more]
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It Is
Telling a big no was easier than conveying one painful truth. The hollyhocks come back again,... [read more]
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For Whom The Sky Weeps
You stop at the brink, to flirt with the rim of the lake. Reading yourself in water you wanted... [read more]
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From Suicidal Angle
You become a crimson dusk in a sea of greens. The cost of the murder had increased. With lock... [read more]
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Snaky Paths
In deafening silence I was hearing you, trying to taste and smell the traces left by you.... [read more]
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Coming Face To Face
When a gravedigger mourns- the impasse ends. A robot turns on the rains. With horror, you... [read more]
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Improbabilis
Forever the rituals of hate and love continue. The sun survives the feet. You cannot run. It... [read more]
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Engraving Your Name On Trees
Telling the truth was becoming difficult. You want to become a cult. A sinister design takes... [read more]
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Green Waters
Gifting yourself the speed- you betray me, when I was trying to heal- the injured wings of time.... [read more]
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The Broken Statue
A sleepchaser brings a quantum of pain to fight the ugly night. The patient attack on the lids... [read more]
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Ghostwriting
Flaunting your new skin like a salamander, ready to endure fire, O stranger, read me, read my... [read more]
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Pulsating Moods
Advent of strange sign on forehead was asking for the laughing eye. A cessation of botched... [read more]
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Not A Banal Taste
Privileged of remaining grey in the hands of enemy, I say to myself- why not turn dark. You... [read more]
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The Mysterious Fire
I was a poem reinventing the estranged diaspora of words. No regrets. Eliciting the sane... [read more]
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Twisting The Watercolors
Lost on the way to find the wetland where lily of the valley grows. Have you seen a... [read more]
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Winter Solstice
The chase, the speed- the kill. How far you go to- retrieve the dead horse from the river.... [read more]
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Let Me Kiss A Flame
In my pensive moon I knew you better. Never to come back from the winds of East. I ask my... [read more]
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The Thinning Faith
The whipped up temper for a mass destruction- of thoughts. A squeaking floor, summons the-... [read more]
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The Words Of Blank Paper
Not reading your eyes today, walking on burning cinders. In search of green darkness, to sleep... [read more]
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Blue Dragons
When you would not be there where I was, my fingers will twist like questionmarks not getting... [read more]
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Creamy Swipes
The virgin moon and young lover- talking in hushed tones. The speed was the limit of suspended... [read more]
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Audio Pain
I cannot hear you in my absence- for a transient heartache. Life gives you a dirty slap and... [read more]
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I Will Know
Time was short and I was in hurry. In Prophet of grief- humility of pain was evident, when you... [read more]
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Without Vendetta
You are putting stones in empty coffin. It may harbor the - methane after the tribal savagery.... [read more]
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Who Will Stop You
The white ribbon gives you an angle. Moon will rise from that point. The summer dwells in your... [read more]
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Moon Child
Blessed dying like a fading moon- with no watermark. A candle's flame makes a hole in your... [read more]
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Extraversion
Being outsider, you will not be excused. Deluded perfectly. This was a holy crime to be burned... [read more]
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For A Pinch Of Light
The black thread tied on your wrist was meant to end the siege. The fire-eaters were back. I... [read more]
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Into Her Deep Eyes
To read a map- listening to your inner voice, for changing the green color of eyes. I was... [read more]
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Burning With Flames
Who calls my name when I am absent from the stage? Do you want me for the endgame, my future... [read more]
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Like An Old Song
Walking in mental fog, you become a swaying tree. In mistiness one becomes lonely like a... [read more]
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The Invisible
Debt laden I turn the ashes where you left the footmarks. My native pain will not go, for a... [read more]
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Opening The Fist
Scavenging the art of life, you strip to the bones … The wild hunt for the blue jay ends in... [read more]
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The Delicate Dives
You always speak from the eyes. My sun will send the clouds. No it isn't. You wanted to look... [read more]
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My Other Poem
It was me. Real not surrogate, behind the words. A way of lips, without you, with few things... [read more]
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Stone Eyes
The wayward words will not make any difference. I am filling the pit with singing stones after... [read more]
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Chameleonic
Like a birthmark you will remain on my forehead. Round cups and blue drinks, the dark side... [read more]
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The Golden Gate
Was it too late to find out, who was morally wrong? It was an art of dying for you.... [read more]
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Haunted
In a cruel joke, the torturer becomes the tortured. The colossus in its aloneness, meets the... [read more]
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Standing In Canyons
Treading- through self, you will discover your other side. A gateway lotus pond, where you... [read more]
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Blinking Lights
I let it go, sometimes my unborn poem- listening to my wilderness inside. Spreads the pain in... [read more]
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Improvising
Like a snake girl, the black tresses trailing behind the heels. The wavering moon was, gliding... [read more]
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Cuckoo Will Sing Again
Way off at point-of-no-return, my geometry, collided with you for the last spell. Lines, angles... [read more]
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Unmoving
Investing your hands to write something unique- the parrots flew out from your lips. You will... [read more]
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Aftereffects
Give me your smile like dew drops of rose- the tears like pearls. The flight of swans- writing... [read more]
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Thinking Of You
Once I had asked the nightingale, why did you need to remain in my thoughts? And cloning of... [read more]
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Very Unsettling
This was the collective fall, unsolving the riddle of life. In memoriam, I light- tens of... [read more]
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Sometimes
Under the denuded chinars, I stand again, waiting for you. The hawks were pining, for a prey-... [read more]
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In Darkened Mood
Deflecting the logistical guide, you were becoming a juggernaut- running after the shadows of... [read more]
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Gift Of Takers
The poster boy was a blind hunter waiting for the blast. The salt mausoleum melts in moonlight... [read more]
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Not Seeking Retribution
Struggling with- a fakir's heart, at random fall, remembering a reverie in quest for unstopping... [read more]
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The Perspective Fault
With a live moon between- us, you were staring beyond me in blank looks. Shackled, you hang-... [read more]
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Too Old
In times of stress- the island sinks. Will plant a tree today. Will dream again of the fall.... [read more]
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Posing Questions
It bewilders me, when I follow you. Why the savaged retribution starts for a separate mouth? I... [read more]
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Not Reproaching
Robbed- of my aloneness, by an army of ravens- thoughts. I meditate and weave your face- in... [read more]
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Being Trust
Don't speak the truth- loudly. Bipeds are listening. I will not blame any one ever, for my... [read more]
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A Mask Done
Your time was not my time. An arrow had pierced the space. There was no past, no present.... [read more]
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Silent Wails
Humanoids fill the universe. Where does the humanity live? Back and forth the song birds fly... [read more]
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Midnight Blues
Like godfather, moon was giving a benevolent smile. Picking at bedclothes. Cannot sleep- moon... [read more]
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Taking Off Frills
Copper-brown I was always looking at your face. One of trinity, the fallen spirit, that did't... [read more]
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It Was Outlandish
The genial face of nephrite. Jade, stone of the flank, was becoming sectarian. The pain was... [read more]
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Beyond Discernment
The last thing I wanted to say before the sun went down. Heal thyself, Oh seer, stoking the... [read more]
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Clean Hands
Deeply troubled inside, I become silent like a quiet, serene sea. Impatience. It has erupted... [read more]
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Clinging To Hope
Revealing id, without ego, and hunger. I may not touch you ever, placing my palm down face on... [read more]
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A Leap Of Faith
Nothing left to do anything today. Snow falling incessantly. Did not believe ever in... [read more]
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It Hurts
You start forgetting the absence of existence. Wishing to remain dead for sometime- to see what... [read more]
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Where A God Sleeps
At the end of the day, standing before a shut window- in fear of power game under a cataract of... [read more]
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The Shaken Faith
Incandescent- the oil lamps floating on the holy river, have started bleeding. So much blood... [read more]
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Quite Palpable
In a wasp moment- alone with myself I was struggling to find the signs. This was an out-of-body... [read more]
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Black Woods
The hanged girls, unraped? Or the slit throats? What your antennae are sensing? Unlifting the... [read more]
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Different Pathways
Why silently burns- the red moon, in moaning night? Why in my absence, you started picking... [read more]
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Marking The Graves
Remaining hawk in voyage of tears, birthing a poem. If art of communicating was via... [read more]
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Silent Perception
The crowds, I was always afraid of them. When you were battling for a space, you became a... [read more]
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Coming And Going
In last breath, when the door remained open, you walked out. Accepting the truth was my fault.... [read more]
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Bald Arguments
How do I remember you, I ask grammarly between life and death. You were not very keen to know,... [read more]
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The Deep Anguish
In city of thousand sacrifices the dominion reads- your mind. When you were putting salve on... [read more]
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Do You See?
Distrusting a sure rise of moon- if clouds were there. From inside a voice comes to haul a... [read more]
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Death Was Lucky
I will find another indigo in you, when you were linked to exercising talons. Stealing my... [read more]
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Unclaimed
You create a hybrid without protocol. A body of clay lies- in the morgue. The fear guides you.... [read more]
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Breakdown
When you talk of a war on the behalf... you become a sinner. A self-deceit wants to believe in... [read more]
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Evening Smoke
It was like a combat exercise at sunset. I won't call any deity for my prayers, and expect to... [read more]
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Hole In The Heart
It was all white. You wanted to see the interruption by black rocks. In frost you don't leave... [read more]
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In Hubris
Talking to vanishing lights- then I panicked. Historic low. Ghost will not leave. I see him... [read more]
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Strange Eyebaths
Looking into yourself, one day you will say I am not an alien. The unborn nightmare takes a... [read more]
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Suspended Fog
Charred- blueberries. I am returning your gifts of cruel times, when none was crying. Chewed-... [read more]
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Morning Hour
The grass clings to earth- for a feel of mother. A tall conifer sends the message to sky.... [read more]
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Within The Apparition
How will you undo the legacy of violence? A thought persistently bothers me. You need high... [read more]
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The Parable
Fear of staying in sidelines, as a waning voice, and falling in a drain. You stand at the door... [read more]
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Sudden Flurries
A vinyl god hardens. Forsakes affinity. I take a dip in tears. Rains freeze in my turbulent... [read more]
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No One Was Real
In aloneless, searching for you- in a dark truth trying to find a place between the eyes.... [read more]
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If God Wills
In a sneaky way I liked to distrust him. A between of daemon and man. The fake guru. There was... [read more]
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What Else
Was trying to- make eye contact with unknown in dark. Shadows become real people, when I ask... [read more]
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Not To Be Understood
We were not in the same book. Gods different, we were placing dots and dashes, smelling nights... [read more]
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No Makeup
Milk thistle cheated me. There was no incarnation. The solitary purple flower was my leitmotif.... [read more]
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Swift Descent
In cascading tresses, when moon got stuck. I held your face to see the frightened fish in... [read more]
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Inertia
The night had dumped the moon on the hill. I was going to drop your name in rose bushes.... [read more]
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How Blue Was My Country
The godman also had an underbelly. He lost his vision, came full circle. Now paper lamps... [read more]
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In Celebration
The giant pain was nameless. Held captive in tearless screaming. I have come back in my... [read more]
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The Naked Book
Come and sleep with me, I said to moon. We have to talk about earth's fidelity. Don't become a... [read more]
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Collapsing Lights
There was no ending of questions. I grope, I miss. Memory plays tricks. I have come afar in... [read more]
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Stray Moments
Even a lizard- stops and looks at you intently. How the things have gone- wrong without... [read more]
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Cause And Reality
In the moment of reckoning or nemesis, I call you from the clouds. It was a poetic whisper, no... [read more]
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Numberless Crimes
I was badly shaken- by the strange gene expression. When a bullet- made a hole in your chest,... [read more]
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Hot Corridors
Shame of centuries, you wanted to erase. Breasts were empty Strafing nonstop, you throw the... [read more]
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How Will You Do It?
In transition, of a starry namesake, holding hand? in priceless moment, of anthropic lineage.... [read more]
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No Reason
Collecting more luggage while moving on. The hostages were left behind. A chilling reminder.... [read more]
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Beyond Imagination
A truth a day was not sufficient. There were many snakes. The tree will speak under the sky.... [read more]
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Yawning
What organicity! Moon was coming down on me. A visual alacrity, accepting the surrender.... [read more]
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Slow Melting
Trap unplugged, There was a hairy assault, when you started playing the sitar of three strings.... [read more]
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Some Thinking Space
Asking for privacy, a green snake becomes deviant, and turns lunatic. Lunacy demands... [read more]
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Not Your Doings
A solemn moon talking to hills, plunged in pain of tainted love. I steer quietly out of this... [read more]
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In Restraint
Of many gods, I chose the rock-cut Buddha. At night we would talk daily. Like at talkathon- I... [read more]
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In Vacuum
Before you eat your words, smear the dust of rose- on your eyes. The incense will blend with... [read more]
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Evening Prayers
I plant my last kiss on the wall of mausoleum, and turn back to face the inevitable... [read more]
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Grim Reminder
You come like undersea quake, hitting the sleeping moon. No headlines, no bleeding hearts,... [read more]
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In Praise Of Unknowing
The unthinkable, has happened. I am still alive. After the harvest moon, there were- many... [read more]
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Going For Vendetta
Take me in moonlight when it is dark, outreaching every ache. I will not ask you anything when... [read more]
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Sailing Incense
No wintering. I have come to stay warm-blooded. Recreating the swelled knobs of loaves.... [read more]
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No Prophet Speaks
You decide first-whom to blame? As if I am- on threshold of denial and anger. When to kill a... [read more]
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Way Back To Indolence
You nurse the tender pains to feed your soul. In sunshine of nothingness, that was falling apart.... [read more]
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Bull's-Eye
The divination. A broom- becomes a wager. The penury begets the rags. How much you need?... [read more]
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A Celestial Missive
One strange movement stops. You won't conform an angel's thought dream. And I will not give in... [read more]
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Euphoria
Moon, eye of night, will watch your mandarins. Deep orange-red? No.I would prefer hard cider.... [read more]
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Walking Without Shadows
I will talk of human conflicts. No one was targeted. Like you pick up a slug- and make a... [read more]
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Remembering An Unknown
The moon at the window tonight, was like a dreamcatcher. I am going to sleep in your charm.... [read more]
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Not My Angst
Tribal instinct spares none. You change the script, and come out to see the murmuration of a... [read more]
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The Eagle Swoops
Why ending your life, on death bar, close to terror- of life? This is how your dreams come... [read more]
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Entering Sanctum Sanctorum
A sacred lotus emerges from the navel, while you rest on trembling waves. I am shedding my... [read more]
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Giving A Miss
Backlash of scars becomes glamorous. It was not my fault. Pulverized temple- rebuilds the god... [read more]
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In Upheaval...
This was the rise of animal after dividing the pain of man. The shared past- would guide the... [read more]
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Without Fetters
He was not at guilt, it was the neuro- hormones, hired from moon. You were burning inside,... [read more]
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Repeating Again
Not a single word was written today, watching the masks being perfected. A nosedive, of what I... [read more]
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Behind The Glass
I will write a very soft poem for you today. Moon had promised to standby. You cannot stay... [read more]
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Not Ready To Forget
Very scary, I admit- your vintage- lovemaking with a ghost. Life in a crate was creating... [read more]
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He Did Not Return
It was not a jubilee, but I had come to pay my debt. Stepping gingerly in your father's study,... [read more]
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Coming Near You
Like a walking fern, you were. I was talking to you. Why would you nose down to touch my... [read more]
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Violent Shaking
Colored truth, becomes a hot balloon in denial mode. For your own- relevance, negativity will... [read more]
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Unbendingly
You went tounveil your own statue, before being shot- dead, for telling the fiction. Day was... [read more]
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Life In Dewdrops
In unblemished irish, the vision was a link in blankness of thoughts, when I was weaving a dream... [read more]
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Elusive Answers
Constrained. The starlings will not fly today. There was a hole in the sky. The god particles... [read more]
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The Explosion
I sleep, I wake for a vigil. What was time? The godhood fails, when you become a beast. The... [read more]
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Be Deceived
Living a death daily, becomes a normal chore. It was an intense realization about the... [read more]
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The Nightmares
Like Sequoia, you wanted to grow tall. But fear of fall and right to die become two opposite... [read more]
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Dying Flames
When white mushrooms come in procession after the rains, you bring back my ache- O pink rose... [read more]
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Very Discreetly
Tonight moon was gliding like a swan, white and graceful. But you slept on my hand like a... [read more]
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Ennui
In a frame of a- window, I watch daily, a saddest, star, and a palm holding the clouds like... [read more]
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The Final Retreat
In reality- you were in a ring of fire. I had been left with no claim on you. Your failure had... [read more]
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The Fugitive
Bending the gravity you start falling upward. There was- no distinction between earth and sky.... [read more]
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Self-Portrait
Life inside the doors- mocks the nature. Still life. Cup and Vase. You lived for others and... [read more]
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