Short Featureless Poems

A weak sunlight
backlights a featureless window,
until a reflection looks out
clearly defining a world
locked into its mind...

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inviting
enticing
decorative
        seemingly... 
     featureless
and strange    
        archaic 
           petrified
 in silhouette
 And yet
            ....resonant..
alive...

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Red raw 
Featureless flesh 
No eyes to see
No nose to smell
A hole for a mouth
Tubes to feed and breathe…

…Survivor of shotgun suicide*


For Ann's Suicide contest

*based on a tragic photograph I once saw...

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featureless blur

sharp rapier claws
fend a black featureless blur...
death is no lap cat

(haiku)


04/07/2022

Black Cat Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori...

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One seed - just one.

Be like a blackbird that glows,
in a blind featureless night,
knowing you are
all that is, was,
and ever will be.

Be like a black cat in a dark room -
shine like that.

One thought....

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An infinite schriek
Passing through nature,
Featureless, ungendered,
Not an individual creature
Frozen in time
Overlooking a fjord
More than a century later
Is still highly adored






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November 22, 2019
F G I series 11 riddle
Brian Strand, sponsor...

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What are you, if not yet dead
Living out, beforehand
Its lost forever moment
In its featureless land!

Feel now what, never too late
Through what of its power
Redemptive, fails not , smiled out:
A loving compassion.
Winter in the heart's limbo
As spring-time, sunned upon....

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A predator's rapier claws,
maintains her in good health.
And mingling with the shadows,
she stalks her prey with stealth.

Pouncing at nearly lightning speed,
she's a featureless blur.
And yet...when cuddled in my lap
Death wears...the softest fur.




Mar. 27, 2015
(Verse)...

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Sandblasted heat ground into granite skintone 
muscles beaten and torn over broken legbone 
sweat glazed face featureless in comprehension 
too much hell to pay to get an extension 
can't hurt no more, can't feel 
too tired to heal 
and the slambone man rides away 
with your soul on a Grity Tuesday...

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THE  MIST  LIES  STILL


The morning mist slipped into the park

As easily as a lie told in the dark.

Grey and seemingly harmless,

A little cold, but still and featureless,

Obscuring all the trees, the paths, the lake,

Confusing distance and  direction to take,

It hid the truth, it hid the view:

Distorted everything we knew....

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In lucid dreams.

Her silhouette appeared.

Out of deep azure.

Into fusion. 

To recall the time of us.

Ethereal reverb.

Noetic divine.

Coalesced.

Her heart did with mine.

Though In better times.

At last the dream faded.

As did the time of she.

Her face now featureless.

Returning forever.

Into the azure deep....

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I did not know for sure
that the mouth is a very rich
and fertile source of slander,
arrow for rumors, back-plowing,
a reliable servant of the heart;
and master of every passion.
Running errands for lost soul
Releasing fire from hidden caves
If humans did not have  mouth,
and lived as plants fixed, dump,
the world would be boring boat
eventless, featureless and dead...

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Long forgotten shadows cowarding away
jealous of all they have lost
envious of the day
The flight that has landed them in hell 
has departed deserting them
heading not the toll nor the bell
with every ounce of measured pain
bearing down on them
and driving the holy ghost insane
the featureless shapes sulk constantly
drained of all hope and peace
humbly,insatiably lost in humility...

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Sparks are dimmed. No use
collecting them. I will burn my home
to get light.
My god was sleeping.

Let me use the night goggles.
On the ridge walks a silhouette of
limping  buddha,
his neck broken. 

I did not help myself
falling. He had asked me
“Are you me ?”

The anxiety of lifting the rock
again. I gather the grass leaves
on my toes.

Nobody wants to ruin the day
looking at baby silence,
featureless, mute.


SATISH VERMA...

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Sparks are dimmed. No use
collecting them. I will burn my home
to get light.
My god was sleeping.

Let me use the night goggles.
On the ridge walks a silhouette of
limping  buddha,
his neck broken. 

I did not help myself
falling. He had asked me
“Are you me ?”

The anxiety of lifting the rock
again. I gather the grass leaves
on my toes.

Nobody wants to ruin the day
looking at baby silence,
featureless, mute.


SATISH VERMA...

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On a chilly night
I miss the sunlight
Hopeless sun left me behind
Like a torrent passed by
My body frosty
My heart icy
Life in deep darkness
Life of featureless
I condole self-mind
In the gloomy blind

Graceful dawn awakes me
Greets through the window
Soft light wipes out the sorrow
Awakened birdsongs on the trees

Yeah… I forgot completely
After a night has gone
Will be coming another dawn
To embrace me joyfully

19 April 2009...

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How could I have missed facts in my awareness?
And how much I overlooked a word of hurtfulness.
How often do I come across someone featureless?
I am sure, and I do not critique my carelessness. 
How far did you go to justify neither fear nor sadness?
It's the strength of my character and my faithfulness.
I was gracious to all who battled and found success.  
Surely my Lord will bestow me for my kindness.

Written: Nov 09, 2021...

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A leopardess dies on a tree.
No molestation was reported.
Exploring your breast 
why were you throwing salt ?

As if almost needing a space 
you ran to top. A solid truth
looks like a quasicrystal
against the nature.

Unbosoming myself I am
traveling in vacuum. Empty 
hands don’t hold any ancestors.
I am carrying my unborn voice.

Now don’t cry, don’t. You are
reaching home at the end of a
tunnel. A featureless fog will let you in,
in a fatherless world.


Satish Verma...

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Oh what superficial facades we build
So featureless in this menagerie filled
Oppressing humanitarians and the like
Hysterically mocking honesty divine
Brutally molesting innocence in kind
Blindly we follow fools gold
Materials we tower and uphold
Savagely flouting righteousness athrust
Unappreciating sincerities must
And pouncing on words so true
What unhappiness we must imbue
Alas I slowly bid morals adieu
Shedding all values true 
Realising the world anew...

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Standing in the shadow of solitude I’m mesmerized, staring up at a splendiferous star-studded sky with a rubicund moon pinned to its heart; juxtaposed by a featureless sea of ebony silently expanding the shores of eternity; hidden in plain view, outside the reach of light and sight.


the universe flaunts
billions of sparkling jewels...
darkness can't be seen


(Haibun)


08/13/2020
Let the Pens Flow - Haibun Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas...

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That elusive answer
which ricocheted to land
in a bush, throws you in tizzy.
Are you sure, you want 
to hurl more questions ?

This was a qualified Higg’s 
boson, which bowed out
from the race of God’s creation
to become invisible.

A gecko climbs on the wall
shutting the soul. The huge crowd
was pushing the chariot, addressing
the shadows behind the glass. The 
featureless becomes untouchable.

A moon beam glides on the carpet.
Priest will go to sleep.


Satish Verma...

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