Short Inarticulate Poems

Sweet sun is setting scarlet as red fruit on high,
In a sizzling beauteous exit-apple pie in the sky!


Written on October 4, 2021
For: YOUR BEST RHYMING COUPLET #2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: L MILTON HANKINS...

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External conflict
(versus)
self-disaffection

The first a misdemeanor
(the second)
a higher crime

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
trapped in between

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
—of that forever lost

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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We never stop hoping
as if an incorrigible child
drowning in starry skies
watching confetti constellations
tumble into broken dreams
Wonder is nebulous
and never ceases to let go
even when rainbows melt
into colorless crayons of contempt
as we smear our wrinkled scars
across an inarticulate moon...

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And there they are
as if it were their duty to bloom
... like slow notes on a piano
from the depths of earth
suddenly rising
to fill the world with grace.
 
Much like writing a poem
a duty to ourselves
... inspired moments
bare, inarticulate strands
nuanced over time
suddenly rising
bursting onto the page....

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What difference does my endless pool of excuses make?

Do I not realize that my inarticulate sigh of agony 
is diluted in a sea of decomposing silence, 
with negative noise foaming at the pores of particle nonsense, 
and false memories of perfect bliss,
 in the process of reducing me
 to utterly insignificant screeching?...

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You’re warmer than a sultry summer’s day
and softer than my beloved blanket
physically we lay side by side, while
spiritually our souls vibrate across the universe.
Nothing can remove me from this holy moment.
Pure and wordless, inarticulate sentiment
spills straight from the heart
two humans into angel form
we have come around full circle...

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the words coagulate, stuck
in the back of my throat, I choke
on the words I cannot seem to
acknowledge, articulate, remember.
aphasia commandeers my body as her vessel
inarticulate and mute
and in so much pain
but she doesn't seem to care.
when it matters all the soliloquies falter
and stumble from my lips, lame
and inadequate
like everything else i touch....

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The moon titled her head 
and went inarticulate 
in black and white.

Seeding the earth with 
stupor, undoing my? 
poem in water.

An asteroid crashed in 
my blue lake. Sit beside me, 
I would say to a songbird.

The cardinal sin was 
to abandon the throne 
and climb down at night.

What was the designer’s 
love, I will ask, when I 
was preparing myself for a self-denial.


Satish Verma...

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I’ve been pumping the handle but it’s spitting out dust.
I grind away my eraser until the ferrule rips the empty page.
In the back of my mind, fragments pile up in a heap of worthless used parts.
Running my hand across every rough surface, every smooth groove, feeling every bump and every gorgeous imperfection; but my heart shrinks like leather in the sun, pulling taut my right hand, rendering it inarticulate. How does a doubter pray for rain?...

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Lost and inappropriate,
my lips spoke trivialities,
my hapless heart was inarticulate.
Fearfully I fumbled through 
my hazy days, spoiling opportunities, 
urgently hoping they wouldn't pick me.
A wraith within a wraith, I flittered by 
commitment like a man without a plan; 
I only knew the pleasures of denial, 
'til I was pushed into the present by
a crushing ultimatum, compelling me 
to find my way alone, now I greet 
each morning with a smile!...

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Can you grasp the need I have
One that overtakes me each day
Yet you remain just out of reach
Allowing only fingertips to touch
When I want to feel you pressed 
tightly against me in passion
Teasing my being so gently
Provoking ecstasy beyond words
My soul cries out to yours
My essence utters inarticulate 
sounds calling out to yours
Needing, in urgent want
the anticipation overpowering 
Leaving me shakened beyond words...

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Shaken Beyond Words

Can you grasp the need I have
One that overtakes me each day
Yet you remain just out of reach
Never quite touching
When I want to feel you pressed 
tightly against me in passion
Teasing my being so gently
Provoking ecstasy beyond words
My soul cries out to yours
My essence utters inarticulate 
sounds as it cries out 
Needing, an urgent want
the anticipation overpowering 
Leaving me shakened beyond words...

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Drifting, misappropriated,
my lips spoke trivialities,
my hapless heart was inarticulate.

Fearfully I fumbled through 
each day, frittering opportunities, 
fervently hoping they wouldn't pick me.

A wraith within a wraith, I flittered by 
commitment like a man without a plan; 
I only knew the pleasures of avoidance, 

'til I was pushed into the present by
a crushing ultimatum, compelling me 
to find my way alone, now I greet 
each morning with a smile....

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Drifting, misappropriated,
my lips spoke trivialities,
my hapless heart was inarticulate.

Fearfully I fumbled through 
each day, frittering opportunities, 
fervently hoping they wouldn't pick me.

A wraith within a wraith, I flittered by 
commitment like a man without a plan; 
I only knew the pleasures of avoidance, 

'til I was pushed into the present by
a crushing ultimatum, compelling me 
to find my way alone, now I greet 
each morning with a smile....

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Drifting, misappropriated,
my lips spoke trivialities,
my hapless heart was inarticulate.

Fearfully I fumbled through 
each morning frittering opportunities, 
fervently hoping they wouldn't pick me.

A wraith within a wraith, I flittered by 
commitment like a man without a plan; 
I only knew the pleasures of avoidance, 

till I was pushed into the present by
a crushing ultimatum, compelling me 
to find my way alone, now I greet 
each morning with a smile....

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In monysllables; in almost inarticulate speech
The murmer of life awakes my thought
Patterns impress upon my conciusness
Filagree of tree branches on the ground
Rumble of traffic a sound in staccato
All nessesary movement; cat and mouse I
Sense,  the fear; I shudder at a fervid pleasure
See the ice cream van, and the twin-set lady
Demure reposing, a reflecion of the impossible
Days demand; invade; the scenes I survey
I smooth out the twenty dollar bill; again
And  consider.'...

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