Short Steppingstone Poems

tall bridge steppingstone
to a paradise so bright
world gone instantly...

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    Failure was just a steppingstone to success
    Every loss brought you a step closer

      Now your picture’s on that poster
      In the limelight you effloresced

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musical, melodic, lilting, lovely poetic stage
inspired, sentimental, readily expressive
sparkly, brilliant, shiny, glittering diamond
quintessential classy, chic, savory, steppingstone
leading to lively, perky, brilliant dazzling, gorgeous poetry...

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The music trying to catch up with itself
as I sit here in the dark
—a figment of a lost dimension
—a remnant of some other duality
This place becoming a steppingstone
to what is now already gone
and the melody so close, so distant, and so far,
passing through itself to what might have been 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2020)...

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It was coming up, the politics
like dirty sex
in tall Parthenium grass.

The panther was hiding on a steppingstone
watching the hot, field hockey
played with skulls of peers.

Mauled, the peach skin was
entertaining sunlight in
the metaphoric village.

Prisoners of false ceilings,
we sing the anthem with
the crowd of wolves.



Satish Verma...

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to long for a brief moment
of something is to yearn in
many minuscule portions
of episodic bliss that is like
a mirage with a heartbeat
using the vulnerability of a
eagerly awaiting person as
a steppingstone to the the
coldest part of the heart that
had no apparent button for the
main purpose to restart a pivotal
part that would return previously
as well as current forward motion
decisions to the most welcoming
description of "Smart".......

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