Short Facsimile Poems

Red wine
Is a reasonable
Facsimile 
For sanity...

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visual
         abstracts
of the everyday
in
    facsimile
             conceptions...

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FACSIMILE
if we paint
we do not copy,
facsimile-
an appearance,we see
through who,we be

after Van Hoogstraten's dictum...

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minus certain bits

                                left for dead

                            or facsimile 




                 MagiCicada 13...

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    My pet horsefly is so darn finicky
    Dings every male in the vicinity  
       Only goes for rock stars
       Who play a mean guitar
    She will not accept a facsimile
...

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A man with a pen
Puts a pen to a paper
Moves a pen to create words
Silly words, arranged in operatic exhibitions
Facsimile egos, stitched together
From whispers of impossibility, or,
better yet,
Crushing normality....

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Inbetweeness 
    inwardsness
 in
     facsimile contrasts 

energy
     deployed innovatively

  an equilibrium 
of parallels pursued
     interwoven
 overlaid

 lines with circles 
in reciprocal
        motifs 
counterpoint 

        visualisaed 

slowly

    in 
        mosaical 

harmony....

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One  fringe of image
disconnected, a knife within,

in a trench
battle still continues between you
and yourself

for ending of animal. Did it bleed?

Home was still faraway
a secured period.
Bouncing euphoria.

blunted and bailed out
paper thin memory
of broken mirror.

O Unseen,
take a bow,
lightning for a requiem
in sky, was embossed !


SATISH VERMA...

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Hark!
It’s getting dark!
Long gone to nest, the lark…
But for the mongrels
Good nominees for Satan’s laurels,
Just for their vicious teeth that spark,
Time to interminably bark
And liberties take
With canines; uncanny mark
That resilient flesh break,
On their victims in amusement parks
Producing un-amusing facsimile of shark’s.
Night guard dogs,
Forever, I have cancelled night jogs....

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You are beautiful when the facsimile is complete,
flowers resplendent,
and the focus of eyes hungry for lost decorum,
the patterned tables, chairs,
wrought iron ornaments, mark
a harmony with the weaving weeds in the terrace,
and so too the planted trellis,

but now, in early spring,
while your neat rectangle of water remains drained,
I can't help but notice the sad fountain- 
a sputtering pipe,
exposed bone,
and the garden falls apart....

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The chap about to do a solo
Is proud of wearing a polo;
Facsimile of the one worn by another fellow
To whom he has already wired ‘A Humbling Hello’
That I should remember for being ‘Hopelessly Hollow’…

Only if he could his forehead furrow
And into a long brooding burrow,
He would some more classic trumpet blow
And in its notes glow,
His confidence causing to grow
And mean to never go down low
While trying to with the others flow....

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a facsimile of torture
candlelit in moony dark
i want to unread the anointed death 
on this tip of an arrow,

here it comes 
the hissed phrase
wrenching the gut –
for conceptual withdrawl,

dawn of dark secrets
without footprints of echo
extracting a price,

do not stop fighting,
smear me with blood
hot spurts of thrills to defend the pink

in valley of counterfeits blades,
the green was fake,
the red was fake,
pure white poison


SATISH VERMA...

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My husband bought me earrings
With an avian design.
They look like feathers of a hawk;
I’m happy that they’re mine.

At first they didn’t grab me
When within the box they lay,
But dangling from my ears they’re great,
As I found out today.

Since red tail hawks will mate for life
The symbolism fits,
For 40 years of marriage means
We’ll never call it quits.

I often witness red tail hawks
In flight or in a tree
And now in silver I can sport
A hawk facsimile....

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Under new management
his skin became more porous
epidermal squamous cells
more translucent,
maybe he was just getting older
maybe the new governor
of his think-machinery
did a better job of keeping up with
everyday maintenance.
His eyes were never the best
but he often did not need them
to see through the obvious,
the unconscious slight-of-hand
chicanery of other's.
He also saw where he had been
a facsimile and ersatz to the hilt.
He chuckles now
as he cleans house again....

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