Short Topples Poems

a garden storm —
pecan tree topples
offing tattered flags

6/30/2018...

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sharp, tight, seething fear
anxiety absorbs control
soul's strength topples...

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Improper placement of a soup spoon
  topples a marriage gone wrong

Recalling your voice in a war zone
  keeps my heart beating strong...

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It echoes in me 
For her voice topples me all
Am I in trouble



















































- for you mamibeah...

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Albeit, the time truck topples
Through the tracks ranges; roving
Mitt, making the switfness subtle. 
The time combustion caresses the
Manhood of my pathos peck no-strings. 
       19:04:24:15:15...

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Crabbing Ahead in Topples

Creepy the crab longed to walk straight ahead
But his lanky legs spread, side to side led.
The skips he tried were all flops
The same can be said for his hops.
But with his topples, he tumbled ahead instead....

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Winter topples the 
sting 
of muddled tongue.

The bottle 
breaks the stasis
of eye.

I cede the smile 
of history.
Somebody has left the home.

I become my enemy 
in dark
for the acid taste of truth.

The moon 
had the malignant stain.
My shirt has become dirty.

O god,
I never believed in you
nor in your ugly world !



Satish Verma...

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P-earl of the orient, 
H-ome to mixed races with
I-ndigenous inhabitants 
L-iving 
I-nterdependently, 
P-rided with rich
P-atrimony, 
I-nherited customs and traditions and 
N-atural resources, graced by 
E-xquisite maiden beauties and competitive human 
S-pirit that topples down even the strongest storm. 

September 13, 2022

Can't sleep once again because of power interruption. I'm glad I thought of penning this....

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The bones are loud and heavy
they don't like exercise anymore.
The treadmill chugs along
while vertigo topples unready toes.
Nothing can push these bones along,
time has filled them with concrete,
the rubble of marathons once run.
A young woman sprinting effortlessly
beside me smirks my way
as I stumble through a flat-footed mile.
Maybe she cannot see her future yet
while mine is clearly
painted on a wall I will soon hit....

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She drowns herself in pints and quarts
And finds solace in liquor bottles
She uses it to mend her broken hearts
Though she stumbles and topples

She decides her fate with alcohol
And speaks through sealed lips
And harshness bounces off her breath like a wall
After she has had a few sips

But dear God bless the tongue of the drunken
Lady, gentleman or naïve child 
Blinded by the bliss of wild desires,
Wasted away like rubbish beguiled....

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Normal is the space between horror realised and glory assumed, when the lust of the eye is calmed and briefly quenched by complacency.

Normal is the monent between remembering and forgetting the evil done in the name of good, when pride and selfrighteousness overwhelms compassion and decency.

Normal is the dreaming season before the swell of power and arrogance takes us once more to the very edge of hope, then topples us into war.

Normal is the waiting time....

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