Short Presaged Poems

When I started to write this rhyme
I thought that this very instant
Was my own, precious time
My presaged, peculiar moment
Maybe I was in my prime
Perhaps it was my promised minute
But the feeling was so sublime
That I would remember it forever...

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'Twas not the sin of sloth the Visigoth
rained down on Rome: the bitter taste of Gaul.
By moral indolence, His passions wroth.
Care lacked, and inward rot presaged their fall.


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for the Sin of Sloth Poetry Contest
sponsored by Margarita Lillico
written on 07/02/2022
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Again I scare myself
of the very thing.
Moon was landing on lake
for inward probe.

One presaged silence,
speaks, of the veracity of lovers
to grass, where no drop drives a sun,
the red bricks build a shade.

Ragweed in a daisy field :
Ambrosia, I will not taste you
till the rainbow sits
in the meadow.

Round eyes
keep the dawn hidden /
under the lashes, sleep my saint
for a while, door was waiting for a knock. 


SATISH VERMA...

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