Short Contriving Poems

Ecstasy is evasive. It's like candy for the soul
Contriving it rarely works and
searching for its manifestation daily
teeters on an addiction of sorts
Americans are obsessed with feeling good
Seems like we missed something somewhere
yet, now I'm writing about it. I prefer living it...

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We cling to rocks in the oceans
like ants aboard a rotting corpse;
feeding off a decaying heart;
oblivious to its demise.
Warring over choice carrion,
contriving bigger colonies
on the disintegrating flesh;
slowly consuming the life raft.
Soon, all that will remain is sea;
blue sphere in an ocean of stars....

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Dying daily in eternity
for it to be,
a tear drop held all the pain of life.
You were lost in words,
between the phrases
time was in, time was out.

The color, the theme was fading,
a seduced century 
contriving the reasons to commit
the destruction of self-being.
I was struggling to empty my mind
completely.

To remain human in the loneliness
of ruins
I want to walk straight.


SATISH VERMA...

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My keyboard is an extension
of my soul; every key I punch
reveals muted intimacy
by contriving words and phrases
given voice through  recitation.
An intimacy in peril
especially in poetry
where I lay bare emotions and
thoughts to catholic criticism.
Nevertheless, I do not write
expressively for consensus;
if I did, the first bad review
would force me to give up writing
and seek a different endeavor....

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Emergence dying

Emerging crying feeding moving lying
Growing crying feeding crawling
Seeing hearing crying feeding trying
Walking talking falling crying trying
Learning reading writing playing trying
Learning thinking writing playing trying
Planning learning finding deducting trying
Scheming planning learning reasoning trying
Realising planning learning earning festering
Contriving trying earning loving yearning
Parenting working living doing dying...

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