Short Foot In The Door Poems

Loneliness is never funny
And one can't buy love with money
When lost in despair
Along comes an hare
With eggs he claims eased her bunny...

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I watch and wait at the foot of the door.
No other place is better than this floor.
When the doorknob jiggles.
My old hairy tail wiggles.
Happy that my daddy is home....

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One foot in and one foot out the door 
a clown mask that we chose to ignore;
Sewn lips unable to talk
knew all along but still gawk;
We can’t debate ourselves anymore....

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I’ll drink no more
I’ll smoke no more
I’ll swear no more my friends
I shall do these things no more
The day this old year ends

I’ll hate no more
Be late no more
Or gamble any more
Once a brand new year has put its foot inside my door

All these things I’ve done before
But I’m prepared to guess
Though I won’t do them any more
I shall not do them less...

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School's started up. sigh
I moved up a notch, of course
but virtual school sucks.

We should be walking
- no, swaggering - ivied halls
with new dominance.

Seniors rule, true,
but with one foot out the door
- Juniors set the tone.

One more viral theft,
that renders long traditions
unapproachable.

This virus changes lives
- bodied within its limits
- what future will rise?...

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From hereness to thereness
a heat flows-
in the height of fears. A timeless need to map
out the pain of earth, floating on clouds.

Lemon grass
cuts the swan lake. There was a devil  in water,
hiding under the rock. You must learn to walk
on waves. Death knows the way of gliding.

The foot under the door, unlocks
the light. You had undone, what I canned
whole life. The threads were weak. The
frost turns off the peaks.


Satish Verma...

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One thing is evident from all of this pain:

You can’t stop what’s coming in life,

Every attempt will be in vain.

 

It starts with a small disaster,

Woe sticking its foot in your door,

And from there it spirals faster.

 

Life attempts to pin you down

But you get up and fight through it

You won’t stay on the ground.

 

Life and pain do their worst with you,

But you push hack with all of your might.

Refusing to be the one it does this to....

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