Short Emblematic Poems

    tin cans are now all aluminum
                                     ~ tin emblematic of a bum
...

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Tranqil besuty,emblematic
breakfact pieces to satisfy the soul.
Light and lustre captured in grandeur..
the lifeless comes ..alive...

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swirls
      spirals
          mosaic
in emblematic
         notions
an allegory
        rounded
         undulating
in ornamental
      perspective
of thoughts
        in time...

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Are you seized, Camellia
Of a secret grief
To let slip, uncontrollably
A blessing too brief?

A silly thought, true; only
What for it grasssed, glows
Of father's death at the prime
Emblematic shows....

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GLAMOUR
mores
shown off
ae moral
 imperatives
symbolic
 to its core s
  emblematic
&superficial

a  potential
 put together
 the spectaculare
scrutinised
embroidered
& paraded
insights
of the
 passive
barely
 visible
idealised
 faces
 brightened
loved caressed
 to an
inner
 perfection...

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An ascetic dies in a shoe
spilling blood.
A surreal moon
wants to investigate –

a sectarian divide of
fraudulent sky.
And you want to be buried
under rose petals –

courting controversies
to clean the polluted river.
A lifeboat was needed
to take you for a quiz –

singing national anthem.
Emblematic,
You were sharpening
your nails.



Satish Verma...

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intimate
   domestiques
pensive
   melancholic
juxtaposed
   clips in apparent
                 inactivity

inward thought
             exposed
composed
slowly
    graduated
      in
accentuated contours
glazed

  opaque
        layers
where
     light
       floods
the mood
     highlights
emphasises
the
  subtle
    symbolic
with
   significance...

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After the moon 
it was an unkempt night.

I wanted to kill the narrative 
and recast the frozen history.

A dirt road leads to a new trajectory now, 
splattered with blood.

A double tongued thought brings
the ire of screaming horror.

Strapped for knowledge, he believed
in resurrection of a black hole.

The pain, it hurts terrible.
Emblematic was the bending of candles.



Satish Verma...

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Unfurled in magisterial splendor
To minds memory forever render
Glorious vision of red, white, and blue
Steadfastly waving, our hearts to renew
Emblematic embodiment we embrace
Thirteen stripes of valor, purity, and grace
Vigilance, justice, emblazoned by blue
Fifty white stars twinkle in united hue
Flying in freedom, tell our nations story
Liberties bulwark, our flag, Old Glory!...

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white
 a sensation of floating
 suspended
    in
an emblematic
essence
of infinity

distilled down
 transcending
   the conventional

a pure form
  an absence
of colour
  as a timeless presence
perfectly aligned
 questioning
    reshaping
the undertones
    of enigma
with
an interplay of shades
meditative,
 therapeutic
as
 a whisper
in the
  maze
     of imagination
...

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Brilliantly Blue Sky with Wispy Wondering Nebulous Cumulus Clouds
A bench. The scarred magpie 
Emblematic
The dull thud of realisation
Easily mistaken for a heartbeat
And our conversation;
Itself a Venn diagram of times very non linearity
Our elliptical orbit spun me dizzyingly to it's furthest reaches and back again
Events of a million years ago fondly remembered 
But for you and I
Only yesterday...

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ILLUSIONS
perspectives
  energised
fragments
  absorbed
silotary
  intermission
of
pleasures
suggestively
  frozen
in
different
&deliberate
vertical
dramatic
  divisions
&demarcations
  implicit
&
unsettling
mysterious
  &unreal
distinctive
  articulate
 of
conscious
  reality

encounters
of
  emblematic
compositions
in
shadows
  subverted
with menace
in
vestiges
 of  tranquillity
...

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Sitting here

in igneous space

wrestling with naked thoughts

finds me face to face

with sad beauty:

the navel of time

is emblematic

that the poetic seed

must first fertilize the mind

that its womb may birth forth

yet another mused child of light

to shatter the unique ghost darkness

hidden within fibers of fading blank pages,

fading blank pages, awaiting poetic revival:-

 

 






...

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Without narrative, isolated as is moments of figuration..sunlight on the side of a wall..frozen in time..conversations of unheard voices.Within, stillness and a paradox..a welcome to the world to come  inside.. to reside.. commune.
This interplay of imagination..soundless tunes..emblematic silences..symbolism saturated with suggestion.Soft realism where an inner life slowly cries.. gestates..to lay forever on canvas..the whole answer..there... before our eyes....

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To Kissing Poetic Limbo Good-Bye 
Because Silence Is No Longer Welcomed

Sitting here
in igneous space
wrestling with naked thoughts
finds me face to face
with sad beauty:
the navel of time
is an emblematic sign
that the poetic seed
must first fertilize the mind
that its womb may birth forth
yet another mused child of light
to shatter the unique ghost of darkness
hidden within fibers of fading blank pages;
fading blank pages awaiting poetic revival....

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Fear can consume you wholly.
It takes your mind into the darkness of its wrath
It taunts you when you face it.
Fear will take over you if it gets the chance
And once you turn to it,
You are lost in the vines of hesitation and helplessness.
Fear will wrap its emblematic arms around you
And pull you deep within yourself.
Fear can keep you from anything
And that is what it wants.
It is up to you to pull yourself
From its damaging grasp,
For your fears are just as afraid of you....

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