Satish Verma Poems

You want to cover your
amnesia. Death
has no other color.
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You are waiting
amid fears. The fretting
does not end.
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The dancing paper,
humilates the pen.
A stunning defeat for morality.
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A severed hand, after
the blast, working on a script
writes about the
musicality of blood.
...

Overlooks the juvenility.
The shrinking genitals.
It was the militancy.
The freedom, brought
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Downy mildew,
blinks. The sun
will not come back
to rein in its own might.
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Uncannily sanguine,
wounded by biting gnats―
you return home.
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This September. It is
going to be very quiet.

I am trying to caress
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Ceaselessly,
the September moon
was sending poems
in quick succession.
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Under a sickle moon,
the effect was colossal.
The mute words
were floating like vespae.
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