Autumn expires In its own fires
simmering the fallen with flaring tints.
Leaves crepitate and crackle
skived to crisp skins.
Hedgerows turn to vacant
crypts, twigs to wooden teeth.
Arboreal embers swirl
between barelegged winds.
The groundhogs have forsaken
dawns scant larders
they seek deeper shelters
where moss-beds lay unseared
by smoldering remnants.
Halloween will be late this year,
the dead are still dying.
Categories:
unseared, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whose lips descend
to mock the pursed recluse
Lives trembling mute hand
They who laugh refuse
the strong arm
of yesteryear.
His the pastoral symphony
the "peace that passeth"
Through the acid heart
Unseared, and rest
the troubled soul
free of fear.
Categories:
unseared, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
For human face of death
umbilical cord need not
extend. The darkness takes care of
unblemished ghost of sun.
Intergalactic scan remains unseared,
trench warfare continues unabashedly.
Between brothers, the greed calls
for incendiary attacks, for total annihilation.
To achieve the illusion, the blurred statement
feeds the imagination. Deaddiction starts
a race. Deafness of the tunnel. The black
knees crawling on coals.
No night was safe from the condemned suicide.
The creator had the absurd designs.
Why not now the confessional stick,
to beat the darkness? Memory of light
becoming stronger. Give me your hand
to reach the ceremonial peak.
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
unseared, adventure, brother, confusion, devotion,
Form: ABC