The Predicament

Joined by the funeral, we sit down,
under the blue sky, fire watching, sequentialling
the processions. Ultimately one by one they come,
to dust, hands turned down. After close of the rainbow
there is an explosion and a transition
censored by stone age. They flee from the shrapnels
to swathe in bioluminence of death. The penury
makes a fanciest atrocity.

A pockmarked moon stands there to listen
the scandalized whispers of crulest legends
in century’s hopelessness, guilt’s bleeding.
You never chained the voice of booms. A god
mourns in fading light.


SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Iloduba Jnr Avatar
June 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM
in ur works u swim through the tidal waves of traditional poetry.this evokes pain, sadness, pensive tones of reflection.
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