Short Tousling Poems

tunefully tousling
where I go you shall follow
summertime caress...

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Sighting the plankton,
it was the moondown 
entry, of heron 
in the lake.

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Flawless, a big fish 
eats the small fish. 
It was not a 
faux pas.

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The animalism 
outreaches. Would you 
now go for a 
favourite deity ?


Satish Verma...

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With stiff balmy sea breeze tousling our hair, 
We used to walk barefoot along the shore, 
Feeling the water over our feet and the sand
And admire and wonder at the crabs


Date: 04/20/2021
Submitted for: Liberum Divisa 5 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden

Original Poem: A Drizzle of Memories dated 04/04/2021...

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Breaking my chains
    expanding horizons
  swerving past roadblocks
    escaping cages I once died in

  A wayward wind now guides me
    tousling my thinning hair
  Beads of sweat blind my conscience
    evaporate in nightmares 

  Landing softly on a riverbank
    where beauty's swept downstream
  It matters not where the current takes me
    ~ only that I follow the dream...

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Tousling the opulence was
not modesty.
Who will adore the clan ?

I am not yet ‘me’, 
the refuge of elevated moon.
The heat and dust of nascent money 

was burning like a loud prayer 
in dark sun. Perfection tends
to terrify the stings.

A mogul of arts outlines the 
script of drowning a desert storm,
when two flames went to bed.

Do not pick up the nails for 
the coffin of a martyr.
They are going to make a dirty bomb.




Satish Verma...

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Blue skies reign o'er freshly manicured lawns
   Birds chirping merrily hours before dawn

Gentle breezes lifting skirts and tousling hair
   Sprinklers sending water's rainbow-jets here and there

Peonies' lush pink blossoms open wide
   Bluebells and sunflowers line sleepy roadsides

Down by the lake, the water's crystal-clear
   Beams back smiles of those who draw near

Some folks say that cruelty's Mother Nature's way
   I say -- Show them this picture-perfect day in May...

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