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A Tree Was Talking

He returned empty hands.
Death was casually running around
on charred bodies.

Was lank poetry of a ruthless god.
The house was on fire after
selling its children. The days were becoming
longer than life.

Casus belli, whom do you want to name
the culprit, when everybody was fighting
on a new front ? We talk of truth in small
tablets, in small moments.

The hills were burning, one after the other.
Barefoot walking, all mind, mother earth
don’t go to sleep.


SATISH VERMA

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 1/17/2010 6:18:00 AM
Thank you for sharing your amazing poetry with us all here at PoetrySoup this beautiful Sunday morning. Hope to see your deep poetry posted here for many years to come Satish. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/16/2010 12:21:00 PM
This speaks to me of grief- trying to justify one's self to Nature, while She is talking to you through the trees with her beauty- in the hell of war. Such begging- and loss.... You know it's breathtaking.
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