Short Watermark Poems

Watermark...
I'm in the shadows....
In the Dark...
No way out....
Except....
Home...
There are birds above...
And birds below me....
Somewhere....

Salvation....

Words........

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Juxtaposed to her charms
I examine my image
as a note of currency
held to the light for watermark
my smile suspiciously pleased
to have been caught
in the presence of beauty
the look in my eyes
one of apprehension
that the moment
was other than real
and won't be repeated...

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Gliding and melding and quivering aneath these.... 
Pastels joyful watermark moans; softened thighs entwined amid
Time's rapture be ecstasies, mating hearts; melting, deeper as deeper 
Into their velvet lips this light that ever glows ? Flowing freely his rivers yes Placids...............Paradise our love, in toto to never part; the pearls of her purity....

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Juxtaposed to her visage
          frozen
in time like a work of art
I examine my image
as a note of currency
held to the light for a watermark
my smile suspiciously pleased
to have been caught
in the presence of cheer
the look in my eyes of apprehension
the moment was other than real
the moment I knew
          it could never be
                    like that again...

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October (a bad case of timing)


A bad case of timing
coffee and sleep
pills and nightmares
from the deep

And drowning in my head,
the watermark
a tide of dreams undreamed
lost in the wash
of a shadow silent sea

As morning rises
the dreams that sunk
resurface in golden lines
moving towards me

And back, below the watermark I go
just another bad case of timing...

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Night was all black.
I could not find my
hands / half-dead-

velvety ribs. I want
to rub the spikes and-
toe the line of hurricane.

The naked eye, a-roving
will search for the moon
as the superstorm was-

poised for a landfall.
To receive the wrath-
the ants will find the-

watermark and move to
higher grounds. The sea
throws up the secret of unknown.


Satish Verma...

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Sun's dry handiwork
Salty skinned sunbathers, stripped 
Sandy bones, de-hyd

Replaced watermark
With brand that is baked in deep
Pimping with long reach

Ray's Gaze, no flinch ways
Dusk don't need a sentinel
Has Fog roll blanket

Slips away, act 3
Crickets chirp their gossiping 
Undercover, shades

Hides in Night's phase shift
Will employ shadows at day
Witness protection

From relentless ways
Security, privacy
Quiet Holiday
...

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Each word I place
is cupped in my hands,
till the page unfolds
to accept my offering


in the stain of each letter
is the blood of my tears
and my sorrowful fears
magnificent in love
and joyful bliss
arias of evermore
ripple to watermark


as each curve
embossed into form
it came to life,
smarting with the etching
but ever ecstatic
in the release


And,
with the closing
of my book
lines will be straight
the backs bound
in titanium


standing for all time...

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