Humility

While drinking the long night
you became taller than the eternal
question, bitten by the moon.

Witchhunting will not stop 
in oligarchy. A human right
stands on the ivory gate to enter the dust.

The weightlessness is paraded 
nude amongst the full-lipped
follies of ornamental speech.

The duende was lacking in palace.
Rivals held the moonlight.
Now the muse will become celibate.

A giant mantis hops on a podium 
to bless the dying god, and the candle
burns whole night.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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October 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Satish...stanza 2 ends in genius fashion! Jimbo
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