Short Chastening Poems

Of course, there will always be that one
that leaves a smoking hole in your being,
a wound from a bullet
that was mistaken for love.

It is chastening to know that
that special person has quite forgotten,
nor will even note
your long disappearing trick.

More importantly, you now realize,
that it was you
who shot yourself....

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Giving thanks every day
Receiving grace the old-fashioned way,
And pondering how lucky I am
That Jesus came as a little lamb
Instead of a chastening rod;
That this path I have trod,
Unusually rough and perilously steep,
Delivers me safely
Ever closer to blessed serenity.

written January 23, 2022...

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Belief will lynch all the vistas,
one by one,
for art of living,
to break the silence of innocence.

I will scream, when hurts bruise
in temporal sleep,
for man’s hymns of wheeled corpses
wafting in eternal cliffs of truth –

being proud strings of a forgotten song
in the valley of death
chastening the majesty of scars.

I will pray for the brief funeral
of old age,
I shall not beg for mercy.						


SATISH VERMA...

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It’s hard again
And the loneliness
Abrades the skin and soul
I am yours
With assurance I am whole
But not today
The saints seem
All so far away
And claiming victory
Even in the smallest things
While I doubt much
And fear the strokes
That chastening brings.
But Father this is just
Denial of your love
You feel and touch
And timely send your
Rescue from above
Mine to wait and watch
And speak those words
Of timeless writ
Til I see the joy of it....

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