Short Past Glory Poems

You live today,
Still,
On 
Past glory.

Like an old man, in a cafe,
Wrapped, capped, wizened
– and lonely,
You pay for your bill
By telling old stories
Again
And 
Again,
Tipping by doffing....

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do not discard
now seemingly tired old books 
their youthful souls can be found
awakened by a kiss
and brought into the present 
again and again 
and enchant all 
with their past glory
until the last story
is told....

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The wingless eagle
went to the party of the owls
with his own wisdom
Intimidating the impostors
of the night
with his past glory
Exposing the shadows
of their dark indulgence
—with a killers eye

(Stone Harbor New Jersey: January, 1992)...

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There’s a zone beyond safety
  where the timid can’t go

Beyond reasoned decision
  intuition to flow

Past valor and triumph
  past glory and fame

There’s a zone beyond safety
 —last moth to the flame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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An outcast, stripped and beaten
up, the sickle moon
smears the clouds with blood.

I hate to wait for –
the sun to undo this mess,
an ethnic mutilation will bring a chaos.

Nursing the peripheries,
tribes were in pursuit of bayonets;
will not surrender the arms

to mate.Unceasingly they are
digging up an abysmal grave
to throw in the truths in uniform-

in pursuit of feathers, offering
for temple archways, turning
on the future, for past glory !



SATISH VERMA...

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