Short Committal Poems

Equipped to write but not to share
Damn thoughts spill out somehow
Never with intention of soul to bare 
Rein in, veil them, obscure them now!
Nonchalant I'll be if you express care
Ta-ra*, I'll exit with non-committal bow

*Informal British way of saying goodbye...

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Companion.
Comparable, compassionate compatibility.
Committal, compound or common availability.
Glorification panoistic or repudiation ability. 
Inattentive, inappreciable, impudent cruelity.
Repletion straggled and monolith joky stability. 
Licentious, monolatry rendering ostensibility....

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Take off the glasses and 
look at it closely, the infant 
universe of the ? 
receding age.

I said, weapons should not 
be allowed to speak, cheating 
the all terrain of 
humankind.

The legality has to be 
defined to earn the daily 
bread for impregnable 
hunger.

Whatsoever, there was no 
precedence to take the occult
into the homes of non-
committal voices.

You become the temple 
without god, who was 
waiting at the gate.


Satish Verma...

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Feeling sluggish, shelled.
Lithely lingering in the dust and grime.
Palette grey and dull, devoid of crisp bright hues,
Brushes all furry, frayed, blunt, incapable of fine detail.
Apathy and complacency palls to gloom and doom in my room.
Inactivity and being non-committal, chokes the creative urge, to be stillborn.
But then, words and poetry flood into the brain during sleepless nights.
There's no stopping it. 
Its spell, dispels the squashes, and quells the squishes to splats....

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