Short Lipless Poems

Drowning seas in eyes
with rising moon
in lipped up skies.

The night is waking up
in shadows of moonlight
in arms of seas embraced.

Eyes don't dream at all
only the seas
rise to dreamy eyes.

Clouds are living in moon
with eyebrows arched
and lipless face of seas.

Night looks out in skies
leaving aside its dark
moonlit blankets....

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I was ready to board the ship
laden with terror on mortal waves.
The patriarch was dying inside
the sleeve of hidden rocks. 

Hope and death,
death and hope
flicker in dark. What if the blasts
start again in the cool air?

The planks lick the salt of earth.
Lipless mouths cannot speak.
Departure of sun was blameless,
unanswerable to human wails.


SATISH VERMA...

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All the sounds ever uttered,
arise from that one first,
petulant cradle song
of
'why'?

A 'why'
reprised and voiced,
with infinite variations.

‘Mysterious ways’ test us constantly.

Both the hearing the
and the deaf,
dance with their hands,

seek answers with
inquiring fingers.

Sometimes,
hands harken to the heart,

and deep within a lipless silence
that: 'Why,'

answers every empty question.

...

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Most poets who on death obsess 
See white of bone through pale thin skin 
Aware men cold below sod wear 
A skinless face with lipless grin. 

Dark sockets deep instead of eyes 
Where daisy bulb instead of ball 
Replaces organs used for sight; 
While waiting on sweet rain to fall. 

Those poets know, in fact rely, 
On mysteries surrounding death; 
Inspired by it yet still possessed 
Until their final rale of breath....

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In pinnate physicals, the thing,
moves like a stark terror
savagely. A primal fear

takes over, because dead don’t
speak. The bullet had passed
through chest. Mutiny of dumb

dandelions, lipless voices in the
sea of madness. Search for a missing
truth begins. The mass grave

contains the dried bones of renegades.
You remember the promise ? Who said
we will end the war ?

Listen, he bows his head, before
the trespassing starts to kidnap the
bed. Jealousy kills the snakes.


SATISH VERMA...

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