One too many
mornings
Two too many
nights
Three too many
warnings
An apostates
delight
Four too many
judgments
Five too many
fears
Six too many
curses
Raining
— too many tears
(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
Categories:
apostates, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
When existential angst and doubt meet faith,
the saved hold on and cleave unto their God
through prayer; like Job's wife, apostates oft' saith
“Curse God and die!” when lightning strikes the rod:
consumed by the bolt's power, it loses
hope in the celestial Creator (leaven
of doubt leavens the saints; even Moses,
the Nile-cruising infant sent as from heaven
by Lights, could not invoke ten commandments
from the Mount to erase Israel's trespass
of lacking faith.). The old and new testaments
of antique, ancient time (when giv'n en masse)
reveal and offer for posterity
faith's assured reward and reality!
Categories:
apostates, christian, death, faith, god,
Form: Sonnet
Write intrepid and unafraid…
your ink to stain their minds
Each word a dagger spilling truth,
new blood for all to find
Write intrepid and unafraid,
your message screaming loud
Where dead apostates felt your wrath
—disciples standing proud
(Sedona Arizona: February, 2019)
Categories:
apostates, courage, fear, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Coming to cephalic withdrawl,
sharing a deadly delusion,
O my world -
I will not ask,
I will not take back.
For my own liberation, I will set you free.
I am reversing myself,
my battles are still raging.
The flames have reached the tallest branches,
naked in sky :
Verga, why the drops are not going to come down?
Going alone in the woods,
to find the skeletons, in the shades of grief,
a deathless comp of apostates,
to start a revolution, we become
carpenters, carving totems.
The question marks are increasing
in wrinkles. On the shoulders of a lone tree
a black bird sings to an old moon.
Are there any worlds beyond the stars?
Inspired by a poem of famous urdu poet Allama Iqbal
ABHI ISHQ KE IMTIHAN AUR BHE HAIN
SITARON KE AAGAI JAHAN AUR BHE HAIN
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
apostates, anniversary
Form: I do not know?