Short Perforated Poems

Perky pink python plays a piccolo
Perforated opossum practicing as pro
Pretty prancing porcupine poke Pinocchio
Pronunciation phrases performed in pleasing prose....

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Grate them like cheese, these
Hushed memories, so I no longer
Obsess, on my perforated chest,
Scrape them off of my plate, no    
Time to waste, Sorrow
Salivates...

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Dusk seeps lapis
The horizon looms in blood and coral
Crows emerge from peacock plumes
shrieking caws of darkness
wings flap their incessant onyx
Talon wounds of starlight 
multiply and meld
into the coming day
the cover of night perforated
into salmon blooms and cornflowers

6/9/17...

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If you touch me I bleed
so many perforated scars crissXcrosing,
if you touch me
I flinch
from cruel hands
the only hands i have ever
known.
If you touch me
I break
made whole only to be
broken again,
so
IF you touch me
let it be with
FIRM hands but gentle hands
for I
have bled by the hands
of those whom I have
LOVED....

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Punctured psyches leak their essence out,
Seized by fear, diminished by the lees;
Courage, perforated by the brain’s fool doubt,
Unreservoired, cascades towards Death’s black seas.

Dyke your valor, dam your pooled-up will!
Panic breaches sea-walls in your heart.
Brave the craven ocean’s salty chill
Till cowardice recedes, its tides depart....

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dimwit damping desires
punctured passion pulsing
puking, sopped plenary
impregnated zeal gnashing
odd offshoot scolding

cremated cusses cobbling
hewn nosy tracery
strapped self scrunching

jumpy jazz jolting
mystic mist moaning
lusty limbs lurching

felon feigning ally;
perforated pulpy pedigree.
19:11:30:5:00

Note: To all corrupt Police Officers!...

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eerie vision vied
pluming perforated plights
dark dribbles dug
masticating munching mug
hoisted hankerings smothered
felon zeal fostered

moaning mist cloned
thorn ocean thrown
gloating gaunt glows

salient shaver sucked
la-de-da lures lust
wielded wits gulped

airy alakazam ailed
porous pupils' plight
      '20:05:13:18:47

Note: Of porous perception....

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moaning myth's mug
bounty blitzkrieg's bug
seeped wanky wits
porous platter splits
dark contractions dribbled
heaving eerie hurdle

ember etched eyes
fuming felon fries
voluptuous visions vie

salient sage smiled
smothering sumptuous strife:
furious fear's heist

drools met doom
courage crushed gloom.
      '20:05:05:19:23

Note: Of perforated perception....

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The late December air rings
with the silence
crisp and chill.

Oceans of drifted, white, snow
crest barn doors and windows.

Frosted panes 
sheets of crystalline parchment 
roll, perforated like strips of ribbon candy
from tin roofs as
icicles hang from gutters 
fringed like shawls.

The sharp snap of branches 
masks the bark of distant dogs....

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The Pillar Falls
the pillar, an act of craftsmanship
solid, festooned and decorated
beautifully designed and plated,
its each brick hooked and slated,
stood as proud attraction in the chapel.
then, aged with seasons and weathers
craven, cracked and dilapidated
dreadfully deserted and haunted,
its each edge blunt, surface perforated,
fell into a pile of shapeless rubble...

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its not behind me till i turn
straining eyes at sides
was that movement or just the eyeballs turn
peripheral visions of perforated what could be's
was that my breaths end
i'm sure mine was shorter
that shadow space behind me
of shape yet invented
is that the scrape of nail
in the hollow of my neck
now natures noises
need explained
heart won't stop its speech
am i here
just beyond its reach...

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yearning years yawned
plying punctured pawn
voluptuous vein shriek
taking taunted tier
porous passion perforated
hoisted hankering hibernated

callous conspiracy crowed
gaunt crest cloned
feeble flesh flown

bounty blitzkrieg bruised
dark dribbles drooled
perfidious age pruned

sumptuous syllables seeped'n
crumbling cruising creed.
     '20:04:05:11:51

Note: Of Kanta Roy, a fellow poet, a distant mother....

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Destiny about to catch up,
Time clemently limited,
Kisses of power flowing outside a cup,
Feelings of Darling perforated, 
Give me a catapult to smash the ancient serpent,
Noah's ark wasn't his figment, 
Just a tree in the garden,
Disobedience breeding death,
That's when the heart is hardened, 
Painfully subjected to dreg,
Church and the lamb,
Fenced by Agape love,
Bride and Bridegroom still holding up.
The friendship goes calm....

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muttering mist moaned
consoling callous clone
bruised odds birthed:
lanky lust cremated
eerie contractions crumbled
gaunt contraptions grumbled

wanky wind wept
ferocious fills fetched
licking fir's flesh

nocturnal nature nimble
felon fostering fumbled
hoisted end hurdled

bewitched vision feeds
drooling dark dream.
     '20:04:16:15:02

Note: Of perforated picture. Inspired by a picture I saved from a Facebook writing group....

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During the pre-evening liturgy
Betwixt a shabby stall
Irate I sit scribing seasoned verses
Silent as an infant in production

Whilst the slaughtering of pacifism
Across the universe ‘tis my soundness
Perforated by the eerie current
‘Twas delivered via the vapors of her breath

Curtly, such graphic memories gnaw the very bones
Of what I had thought to be timeless romance
Though once again I’ve been forsaken
To drink all ‘twas left unsaid and unknown...

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a mystic poetess in her thought patterns
of iambic heartbeats, makes new rhythms
with a symphony...joy and pain in cadence. 

in her confetti of stars moonbeams cadence
caressing love in ivory and ebony patterns
perforated feelings careen melodic rhythms

in her sonnets, words entice in rhythms 
lovebird's lyrics drift in endless cadence
cratered lands embellish crystallic patterns

Catharsis traces passionate patterns of rhythms in cadence....

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callous clouds cremating
hoisted horizon hibernating
mystic mirror birthed
meagre mimick mounted
pulpy punctures lent
lanky lust wretched 

bounty boulevard bruised
humpty-dumpty craving cruise
perforated pilgrims puked

sassy similitude seeped'n
vulnerable voluptuous trees
dark dribbles creaked

airy aura tripped
nocturnal nature gripped.
     '20:04:12:09:29

Note: Of nocturnal nature. Inspired by a picture saved from Temi Otedola's....

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A Ruptured Heart

A ruptured heart spews out
all its love, all its care,
like a punctured balloon 
frenzied flitting through the air.

A deflated heart lies
on the floor of the mind
like an old used condom,
moist memories entwined.

A perforated heart,
like a sponge once steeped
in the lubricant of love,
dries stiff in a loveless heap.

If you sore wound the heart
of one you profess to love,
then your only legacy
is the betrayal thereof....

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like walking in a tulip garden
i undo the aquablue,
how many steps you were away,

entwined like mangrove:
our roots were standing upright
to breath in moist silhouette

of equatorial sun, blooming
in anguish of separation: come
one day to leave me forever,

a train in desert going nowhere
on ancient wheels of time;
and i will aim for a perforated flight

one day to be reborn and the shadowed
ride under the truth will open
the husky lips of pain


SATISH VERMA...

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