Short Watchmaker Poems

spot scope focused down
surgeon's hands nimbly adjust
waiting for my time...

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Here lies a watchmaker
He’s met an untimely end. 
The hands of time took their toll,
Though his achievements were quite minute, 
He was first to spring at any challenge,
and in his final hour; he prayed for god to watch over him....

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Did you know
what was the time ?
O, watchmaker,
trapped in your own shadow,
you were yourself a fugitive.

Leaky ethics.
Standing on the edge of 
sunken earth, you were facing 
an inevitable fall. 
Do not take a flight, O time.

Walk with me. I did’t want 
to lead you. Why were you 
holding on to chaste buds. Birds 
were gone. The gravitational 
pull will find the targets.

Ah, the molested 
intelligence, now wants, no compensation.


Satish Verma...

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Watchmaker, watchmaker make me a watch,
Which tells me I'm time, which shan't be forgot.

I want it to yell in yodels and songs sung by a lady,
Whenever I'm adrift in my mind full of lies in fantasy. 

Use cogs and quarts to bind the time to my soul,
Tie wires and wheels to my veins and my vessels. 

Tick me with tocks of the clock on my wrist,
So never again shall another minute be missed.

So watchmaker, watchmaker make me a watch,
As we're struck on another roman numeral notch....

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