Satish Verma Poems

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651.
Naked Doll

The child was trembling inside you:
eliminated,
revived,
walking past an explosion
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652.
No Hurts

This was an embryonic stimulus
for a sprint.

Knowledge itself has no legs.
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653.
Fever Rising

What is the thing of poverty,
of frozen pain,
fury under the snow,
between fire and rain?
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654.
Deep Understanding

Tilted lips on the wet eyes.
Below the lids
was floating an island in a lake.
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655.
Integrity

For an ailing love maker
ending was optional.
Nobody wanted to extend the truth
and hear the distant voices.
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656.
Introspection

Living against the food amnesia
gold bricks call for austerity
in passage of the hunger.
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657.
Spellbound

Death sits in wait
in the empty valley
of your sleeper cell.
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658.
Pattern

Handprint of innerself was
writ large in your eyes.
I hear you in your becoming.
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659.
Thinning

Undating the memories
in final push to cauldron, I said:
let the words burn to ashes,
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660.
Wordless Silence

Yes, your name was sliced off
from the impasse. I will stand with you
to track the continental drift. How little
I knew about you and the prosthetic words.
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