Where the Lovebirds have Gone?

You were enough not less.
I am going to call ancestors for a trial.
before light. Where the god lives?

In the loneliness you
find your goddess in the baby of
unknown mother bringing milk of love.

The silence was my study.
I read myself in darkness and will find
something written on walls by spirits.

Satish Verma

Dylan Thomas Speaks

This was not the poverty of
experience, finding difference between
humans and venomous snakes.

My remit was to catch
the killers. Mosquitoes resigned.
A new race picked up the thread.

You wanted a painless end.
A happy journey in watercolors.
to meet all gods for an answer.

Satish Verma

A Water's Game

You were searching yourself
in my poems, after the river bled of
tears. I was painting the desert.

The pyramid of love was rising
for justice to reach the moon without stairs.
The duality of pain exists from you to me.

Why does a palm tree stand
at the door of my house. To wait for
the fading glory of the moon?

Satish Verma

Bone China Breaks

I am angry with me,
by poem create-in absence of you.
O biopic I will not play your role.

The silent lips of
unspoken truth always scream to solve
your difficult persona in sunlight.

The angst narrates the
unseen rising of the violet moon, when
you held the shadow of my hand.

Satish Verma

Celibate Pain

Unmasked from
face to consciousness. Transition always
hurts. Pans out in blood.

You cannot sing in the
throes of selfism.The sacred water
reignites the love. You put ashes aside.

The words are nomadic.
Kissing or burning the cracked lips. 

I may be hot or cold.

Satish Verma

Breaking Wall

A part of your body
touches my dream song. You call me
in dark to measure the distance of love.

Against the dying moon,
I wake the sleeping pains. How far
was my home of ariels to wash blood.

Do you need the dynamo

to kill the hummingbirds hovering 

over the yellow Jasmines?

Satish Verma

Home Of Truths

Digging out your bones
by gods from your burial. Against the
moon I will concede my reddish body.

There was blue contrast
between the dead hands. Give me
solace in the milky way.

This was an extraordinary

pause in bloody war. Life crawled 

mysteriously to seek immortality.

Satish Verma

Changing Names

I ask you to split
the ocean. I will stay in the sky. Under
the pine seeds are ready to fly away.

A litmus test initiates
the birth of a poem. When moon
speaks to me, I become weightless.

The ghost starts a family.
Stone deaf people go in panic, 

and they were voiceless.

Satish Verma

Counting The Pains

You ought to have stopped
me, in my knocked out desires, promising
the light soon to open the hibiscus.

Small cotton seeds have
started flying. The night of love
weaves black gown to cover the wounds.

I touch, I feel you to
catch your shadow. The cardinal 

always takes a round to knock you.

Satish Verma

I Am Not You

Prickly love, I have
come to bleed. A size of moon
was always shadowing the charisma.

When the crooked fingers
look like question marks, the criminality
of darkness would not speak.

Right on the track of
truth, I was always blinded by
the brightness of the lies of saints.

Satish Verma

Sweet Blood

My half-written poem
right on the long track of truth,was
never finished after losing heaven.

Then why do I want
to come out of the prison of systems
and find the secret of liberation.

You sit back on the
pyre. It was not the end of love,
and the mob cries. The move will not move.

Satish Verma

Annotation

Blazing in my blood,
you were coming down,yellow moon.
No, not you were my enemy.

With you gone, I was
living in marrow-bone to shut my
door of love, to hurt myself.

My encounters with words
were failing. I see your unkissed
lips losing their pink colors.

Satish Verma

Time Kills Me Blue

When you laugh, your
eyes spill magic. What you did
not give me is raining.

Triumph of sorrow. For my
muse, the pain was deep and virgin.
I was not ready to repeat empty words.

The iris is blooming.
I drink your love. God was not
interested to give me moon.

Satish Verma

Not Greek Tragedy

The razor-thin gap between
us has been very nostalgic. I pick daily
the rose thorns to prick my conscience.

Grooving on heart, your goodbyes,
life has not turned back the calendar,
to find the infinity of pain.

What was your age to see
the holocaust in my poems, when my dome
was burning to save the sun.

Satish Verma

The Marriage Without The Flames

In paucity of love
You become the wanderer from one
beehive to another.

Ah, the kindness of the
moon was killing. I was collecting the
truths of non-existence.

Standing in the rain, the
guest does not enter my home. I will
remain what I was before dusk.

Satish Verma

I Do Not Know My Truth

After the monologue,you
stand on the other side of the moon,
when between lines, nothing was left.

The words were echoing.
Nameless, white knuckles, would not
stay in the pantheon feeling me.

Overpowered, manipulation begins
polarization. Nevertheless the integrity
stays in toxic air, to enchant the mirage.

Satish Verma

Defining Love

You are trying to steal
me from me. I will remain quiet like
the sealed lips of rising moon.

Between me and you lies
the beauty of separateness in intimacy.
O jeweller, take away your necklace.

I was plucking the buds of
black roses, to remind you of the taste
of acid you peeled off from the leaves of Eden.

Satish Verma

Forgetting Identity

I take up the spectre
of unsung pains. Half- doubts will
follow the ending day, Make me moon.

A skyless agony will
divide our world. I become my own
mirror to witness the weird happenings.

The circle never makes
a square. We can partition the lips
of animation defining love.

Satish Verma

Crossing The Fire

Nothing to say in
infinite sky. The harvest moon
knows, the axes are coming.

The gale was very strong.
The blood has no home. We will
wash the windows of the temple.

Neck to neck, unkindness.
I hang the screams of the skulls of
buried children of red stars.

Satish Verma

A Wedding Impossible

A truth does not need a
crowd. I walk alone, when you
don't move. Moon will undo.

Death claims the age
of unhealed wounds and then will ask
to drink the hemlock slowly.

Your legs giveaway
before you take the last cup. O
Jewel of broken crown, you still shine.

Satish Verma

Why Other Questions

I was standing in the pawn-
shop to make up my mind. They
were changing the price of human skin.

Do I mortgage my ruins,
romanticizing my paling horizon? Leaves
were changing colors to welcome bride.

Can we mix love and hate?
Moon wants to commit suicide from
the edge of earth. I will wait till end.

Satish Verma

Eros Was Blind

Coming of age. Sometimes
it disturbs. I will play with fire, in separating
flames. Sun was not cooling.

Dear love, I will never
cross the eros. The rage tells, someone
wants to be killed for no lie.

Eden was dying daily.
There were no questions to be discussed.
How does a knife separate the head from heart?

Satish Verma

Waiting For God

You were in cross-wire.
Something moved between us. Petals
of marigold were spread on the path.

Don't think of decapitation.
The white tiger jumps on the moon
to look ethereal'. You want many doors.

Before scavenging. I want
the kisses in advance. No foreign knife
will attack me. I stand for sun.

Satish Verma

Lioness In Cloak

Your slanting eyes
will not drop the legacy of giving
away. It brings tears in stones.

You wanted to become
poetry buff. Disambiguation must
start to know yourself.

Why do you offer your
heart to me? No freebies come in charity.
Integrity is mortgaged.

Satish Verma

Fragment Pains

I was not dumb. Went to
Agni to learn the art of communication.
How did you say you love me?

Crucifixion had made me
strong. Nobody dares to put on
the light. Only moon will cry.

I am not paying for the
hired violence by you. I want to
bury the shadows of walking deaths.

Satish Verma

Felled Over Yourself

Sun was tired today
rising slowly between birth and death.
A stranger snatches away my heart.

A mimic of the moon in
your eyes throws a challenge. Moon himself
descends in the dark to test your love.

Pain was not responding
to music of night songbird,
you started going away from you.

Satish Verma

Threatening

Listen Hamlet, there was
the age gap. I am learning to die
and you will defeat yourself.

Dark moon, there was some
imposed drama. On the tongue of
blaze rain descends. Quintessential?

You dance terror, to jump
into the cave where Homo sapiens lived
to survive in strange environs.

Satish Verma

Don't Remember Me

A dream dies today under
my foot like the butterfly. Were
you in secular age? Soul poem—

Goes in search of live wasp.
Your fawn eyes, like Cleopetra reading
Dante. I was dust around the moon.

No outsider will witness
the fire of Ganges. It's quiet flow of
lava carrying the corpse of love.

Satish Verma

I Don't Find You

Lips frozen by xenophobia.
I was ready for the disjunction between
the republic and the crossed border.

It does not work. Hovering
over the pyre against fire. The wax palace
was ready to go in place of scapegoat.

Do you think this was a
universal failure? For human existence
I will write the anthem with blood.

Satish Verma

A Moon Dance

The unnarrated you.
Untold and green. There were drops
of blood on the yellow jasmines.

Salt of your hands
kisses the tenderness of my prayers.
Roll me once on four- leaf clovers.

Your name was a temple.
You will lit my soul to witness the
golden truth of exiled poetica.

Satish Verma

Surging Fever

Poised to reach out and
catch the flames, licking your own
wounds. You have no rage for dark hopes.

You lie undead.Bangles
click. I like your every step.The blood
prints of hands shine on walls.

My thirst increases. I
want to drink hemlock under the moon.
No cave of sulphur will have any deity.

Satish Verma

We Will Meet Again

When jasmines sway,
a fling of scented air strikes your
face.The hymn to bouquet failed.

Syncretically-unspoken
words of love scream. A poem
was born to inhale the angst.

Someone calls you to come for
acid bath. The dusty body revolts.
Empirical vendetta reverts.

Satish Verma

Living By Animation

You tell me little.
Water was rising. A kill, a poem.
You forget the alphabet of love.

No qualms. Stubbles
will burn to send the smoke signal.
Can you read the message of navigation?

Will you go for a foe's
jugular? He lives in you crawling.
Clueless you wander to search god.

Satish Verma

Agony And Other Things

I am trying to read
your mind.There were open questions
lying in the temple of thoughts.

The children of clouds
catch the moon to kiss purely
to be blessed to go to school of love.

Lilies and tulips were
going to marry for the sake of thorned roses 

Blood was flowing slowly. All night you cried.

Satish Verma

You Are Seen Everywhere

You will be in a poem.
Beheaded. I am not yet born.The
sinister hand refuses to pull me out.

Something breaks in me.
Sometimes I ask the flowers to sit on
ears and I will talk with narcissists.

Untitled my pain comes
again and again. I am let in the
light of rising moon to recall you.

Satish Verma

Dust To Dust

Eyes go wet.
A tale of two halves in lieu of
two murders, like reading Pablo Neruda.

Sylvia, I always loved you.
You listened to everything and
laughed hilariously slipping Dylan Thomas.

How do I reach your sacred
soul, because I love no one else 

to take me to unknown path.

Satish Verma

Drop Messenger

You want to commit suicide
in my poems. The moon has morphed
into a big yellow rose.

Into your round eyes blood
spreads. I write my name on your hand.
Souls won't leave the homes.

Your face swims over
and over to guide me. Our abode
was on fire at night. Water feeds mushrooms.

Satish Verma

Ghost Magenta

O absent one, I cannot
face the deluge of dots and dashes.
You have become me.

After the last light
I start counting the stars,
where you had disappeared.

Sister to sister grasses
grow. You cannot leave footprints.
Horses split. I peel my fingers.

Satish Verma

Capturing You

From the first encounter
to first kiss of black hole at precise
moment of spaghettification.

You will not accept the
sounds of micromoons. Tearful I want
to unsee the black light.

How much distance you
want to see between the jaws of white
python. Candle was ready to start the fire.

Satish Verma

As Old As Water

The hymn, an unentered
temple, you come in pause.
There was uncanny space between words.

I let it go my sleep.
The angst. I have to pay price my love,
for sharing the blanket of life.

We will look at moon
together to abdicate the throne of
thorns and find out peace between the knives.

Satish Verma

You Pick Burnt-Outs

My mouth burns.
I speak, because I don't want to
speak. It was the red rose, responsible.

I must start conversation
with death. It was enough to visit me
again and again. A kiss will silence the voice.

Untold, the domain enlarges.
You would fight sexism. It was rising
like crimson flames. Do you know the real?

Satish Verna

No Tears

O moon, evergreen diva,
you come back in blue lake when
butterflies come to swim.

Etherialization begins.
I will write with my signature style.
Night walk spares the bleeding songs.

A beautiful stroke
elevates the pain. My life was just
like my poems written in dark.

Satish Verma

Before The Fire Consoles

To become whole after
surgical fall was very difficult. Take
a look. Was invincibility intact?

Living in this rusty world
was awful. Bruises are writ large on
wisdom tree. Black bears were trying to climb.

Dragging our shadows in
moonlight we will never reach anywhere.
We were the killers of our own dreams.

Satish Verma

Voiceless Screams

Life rattles you so hard, that
you were going to become a clown on
the verge of committing chaste crimes.

Everything is changing color.
I wrung my feet in sand to make
them ready to walk on burning coals.

The other side of pain meets a
moon. You want to suffer silently. 

Nobody knows the departure.

Satish Verma

Absolutely Dumb

Do you think love has
failed dismanteling faith? Life
is no more real. It crushes you to say lie.

Land of no justice.There
were better planets to live. What would
you do after fall? Any freedom from the unknown?

Cold-blooded murder.
Humanity needs lullaby. From summer 

to summer there was no winter.

Satish Verma

Unheard Murders

Nature was conservative.
I was writing new poems, killing
the stories. There was pain for pain.

In my shortness, I find
tall soul-trees, who talk like Buddha
at night to bring back blue black thoughts.

After all balloons will fly
to follow queer small gods playing 

 with paralysed voices.

Satish Verma

Point End

Believing in my own myths,
just to remember your face, I am
sketching you with the knife on my palm.

Cremation brings some memories
of pangs. You collect the ashes of the temple.
I cannot see you in light.

When the moon forgets to take
an orbit of earth, it was dead time. 

An orange-blood freak breaks the rules.

Satish Verma

Looking With Glass Eyes

A Dirwish is reborn.
Struggling to write a song
for you, wearing the gold rings.

A perfect analogy. Volatile
earth puts on the moons to save the
poetry in the spirit of love.

Are you sure this was
right? Can you differentiate between 

truths, myths, and angels. I die daily.

Satish Verma

I Will Never Know

Why do I feel I am
losing you amongst the stars.
Half-life went to straighten hierarchy.

Your face becomes a temple.
Lips were the steps to reach sanctum-
sanctorum in dark.

Light splits the heart
after incomplete hugs. What gifts 

I give to you. Roses have dried up.

Satish Verma

My Single Love

A sparrow tries to catch
an arrow in air, that hurts her wings.
Why were you different from others.

There were many pains
to understand each other.
Behind the mirror no one stands.

The soul does not die.
Becomes a cloud to marry a hilltop,
where you will wait for the moonrise.

Satish Verma

Human Noises

Incomplete love
was like half-moon. You cover
yourself with wordless solitude.

Unbelievable, non- violence
is very violent. You sleep on snakes.
Everything the moon says is false.

Pass on a pain of heart-
break, where hope betrays to sacred

truth. Life changes color everyday.

Satish Verma

Very Individualistic

Silence speaks one day
between the words without noise,
omitting the pain.

Repetition demands price.
I have to pay the debt of common
text, when we fell in love.

Fever rises with verse.
Sentences were written on quivering 

lips to commit for jumping in lake.

Satish Verma

No Miracles

The newness learns a
lot about dystopia. I want to marry
you of last birth again.

The rattle snake raises
its head, to understand human
nature, waiting to throw venom.

I will do it again to
write with my blood. No need of 

hundred salutes You know how to cut thumbs.

Satish Verma

Family War

Put the moonlight on leash.
You give me rarest pain. I will suffer.
Moon becomes lonely like a lover.

Two smiles come near
each other to separate. This is how
the destiny plays the trick.

Why one dies for someone.
This is white lie. Will not be erased. 

Don't help the carnivore. I am only bones.

Satish Verma

No Cuts

Why stroking gold
nuggets, I have become poor.Give
me a brief stop to think.

The desire takes a big toll.
I never wished to divert your
attention, to witness an immolation.

The point was heavier
than time. I don't have an explanation. 

At the intersect blood rivers meet.

Satish Verma

Hope in Twilight

I hear your voice from far away.
I was still searching you in jungle of pain.
The legend crumbles downplaying.

My poems ask, what were
you up to digging the ruins of love.
Who admires past to know the truth?

In my saga the end never comes.
Death comes free. I remained a fakir. At the 

tangent of suffering someone cries.

Satish Verma

Under Sun's Shadow

Don't drop my words.
Being apart I will not reach you.
There was some haziness on moon.

Eyes half shut, I will draw
your face on the big Hollyhock.
A black butterfly sits quietly.

Who will dismantle the tower?
I lived here to count the sins of fake 

truths. Now I want to leave.

Satish Verma

Open Wounds

You were asking a pound
of flesh. What kind of love it was-
to burn the sky at dusk?

In corridors, power
releases honeybees. Rains were
asked to stop in jars.

Scapegoats run toward
the fire of jungle. Himalayas are 

 falling in deep sea.

Satish Verma

The Grim Encounters

Light comes, light goes. You
enter my poems to subdue the stings.
Four alphabets keep me alive.

Why it had to happen.
Missed you,watching you, disappearing
in clouds.Cannot see your footprints.

The yellow dust covers
all the dawn's beauty, settling on 

the eyebrows of rising sun.

Satish Verma

I Keep Mum

I will put you on my prayer
One day you will come back to pay debt.
Come and sit beside me.

What I think, you are not
Full of comments to make space
for the nostalgia of falling from moon.

Always, around you, there
was a ring of fire to protect your 

chastity of unknown questions.

Satish Verma

It's New Model

When nature becomes
sensual, goddess of rainbow, Iris
seeks a drop of milk from sky.

Eyes on stars, the centuries
old chandelier crashes on the floor of god.
Somewhere the man embraces crime.

After few steps of bewilderment
nobody knows where we are going.
The nest on the tallest tree was empty.

Satish Verma

Unchained

Talking to wet moons
one day I asked, were you absconding
from Mars. There was a big laugh.

Touch-me-nots on window
start thinking. How long the planets
will rotate without sun.

A black cow comes out from
a painting and starts searching her offspring. 

Time was short. Predators were ready.

Satish Verma

Will You Marry Sun?

After lighting a paper lamp
on water, I ask the moon, are we
in love with each other?

Beyond the stars lie
million dreams. You wanted to see
me each night waiting for you.

It falls like blessing, your
voice coming from a temple of 

tears. The echo remains live all the year.

Satish Verma

Greed And Hunger

Anxiety and fear erode
the bank. I go mad. Lake was thirsty.
Millions are missing. Kindness at edge.

You will do it again.
There was risk of being duped.You
will give away all your love.

Beware of a miracle.
The moon melts. It is very cool for
candles. I feed the flames my blood.

Satish Verma

Ghost Thoughts

There was one soul.
Half and half in two bodies. When you
mingle with my love, you become my poem.

You ascribe to 'me pain'.
In the end I go for ultimate. My
alter ego will define purity.

Dark rings are coming on
your face. I let you sing with aching 

heart and quivering lips.

Satish Verma

Wall of Death

So you come incognito
into my dream in proxy, I cannot believe.You
will play with me but not surrender.

A pain within a pain
will not sort out futurism. No gods are
born on our planet these days.

I want you for my survival.
Truth and longing don't go together

Dynamics of reversal comes again.

Satish Verma

The Other Pains

Was it the duplicity?
You pave the temple path with rosy thorns.
Bur deity waits for the devotees.

When you break the silence,
truth whispers in the ears of the moon.
you know ice of the planet was melting away?

As I imagined, the black river
failed me. Between us the vipers swim. 

Death was worthless to count living.

Satish Verma

Punishment

O Irish, you were beyond
the pain. Why were you blind?
Put a smile. I will kiss you again.

Let's annihilate the hate
of black sun and spread the chador
of moon on all the lilies.

Why the saline drops
are held on lips when you cry in
dark? There were many fireflies.

Satish Verma

Thirsty Clouds

A sinking feeling
straddles moon and sun to
remove the kitchen's smoke.

So many recipes to change
the human blood, and to learn from
Buddha who didn't cook anything.

Can you make a bread
without salt and water? The tears 

were always saline.

Satish Verma

Beautiful Exit

You are my book.
I am opening you,
page by page.

I am done for the
sake of shooting stars.
Moon was very sad.

Cadavers were piling
up. Someone will climb 

to pain the god.

Satish Verma

In Testing Time

I was sewing some
words to make a poem. Your finger
bleeds. My dilemma grows with pain.

The sparrows were sitting
quietly. They don't want to go back
to homes on the willows.

A swimmer wants to stay
in water. A nude from a painting

walks out to swim in boiling sea.

Satish Verma

Adieu (To God)

The sheen of hidden
power explodes. When you touch the
moon, it burns your hands.

A mascot tramples the
ship.Journey was half done.I am
gathering the smoked remains.

Was there any end of
night for a sage sitting under the 

banyan tree for penance?

Satish Verma

Agony of Wings

Looking at any reptile
you die number of times without a bite.
I am tired of locking your griefs.

In dark and grey diagnosis,
you become very costlier to be
snatched from jaws of time.

And I was left alone
with miseries of this planet to bear 

the punishment of rebirth.

Satish Verma

Dividing Peace of Mind

The crescent moon gives
a smile. Nothing else was left to share.
A coma, a full stop?

Really you loved me?
Up there in sky who goes into flames?
Were we transient pilgrims?

Can you recall the echo
from the deep valley of pain? 

From where we have started our journey?

Satish Verma

Poem's Forecast

Collecting the cinders
to make a fist of conscience.My
questions burn, remain unanswered.

Why the beauty had made
a moon to paste on your forehead?
I would not live without you.

Why do you stitch a panorama
on face? Age defies all blind attacks. 

I can count blue rings under eyes.

Satish Verma

Ambulance Vs.Death

How you make the money in a
house of mirrors? Negativity becomes truth.
I am scraping my name from board.

Your self-portrait is
spilling the colors. Subject was
changing the title to kill story.

My mate your bed of thorns
was ready for crucifixion. The soul will
 not come out of body to take revenge.

Satish Verma

Iron Lungs

This road hurts now.
Going to the god of your temple.
You will not repeat the prayer.

Puppets start appearing.
The player gets ready. Looks straight.
Never bending neck.

A viper a viper twirls
to teach you a lesson, that the 

venom will not forgive.

Satish Verma

Learning from Me

It was half-sleep in your arms,
lying on my bed. I will tell lilies
you have to listen to a dream.

Like a runaway fairy you went
in circle of infinity to understand
the nothingness But life stabs life.

What I did not know was
the play of time machine to travel before, 

to see the start of degeneration.

Satish Verma

Via Negativa

Do I love you in absentia?
The changer sits quietly. What
you are not, I am.

Goldylocks comes again
on my paper. I am shedding one
by one all my bearings.

When the life meets
death, I stand on no man's land 

to find if any spark was left.

Satish Verma

Silence Of Darkness

My caged wish was to
give you freedom. Step by step I am
coming down with open heart.

The goldilocks scrambles
to meet her rival to feel the
human pain.My trembling hurts.

A swan stretches her neck
to condole the falli of moon in lake. 

Out of hope come the nuggets of tears.

Satish Verma

Failed Dimensions

Moon wanted to bathe
your singed feet with moonlight since
you were walking on simmering coals.

A honey soaked watershed
divides a holy stream.Thick very thick
tears will roll down on time's cheeks.

You will start make-up
with pink eyes.Time to celebrate the 

 rising sun to pick handful of stars.

Satish Verma

You Wion’’t Remember

I always said, only you
can do this.The charisma of your
love stitches the cryptic halves.

At sunset, I will forget
my name.There was no second
coming. Where will we go?

Conversing with dead begins.
A birch wood starts punishing the 

white roses on black day.

Satish Verma

Between Strangers

When I speak to me
your golden skin listens, stretching
the pigments on your face.

The words disappear after
making tears. I start reading a
name on a shrine.

Everyday the worry comes.
How to remain a human being in 

the jungle of sandlewood?

Satish Verma

Hot Poetry

What matters if I am
entering water. It does not bite.Your
attitude will preserve my pain.

What should be eliminated
to keep us in peace. Words don't die.
They float in air. Moon hides---

The blood leaking from
black sun.. I watch the grief of purple 

beauty sitting on flames in burning sky.

Satish Verma

Poems Knock

Life distributes the ashes. A gale
throws the flowers to weigh your love.
Sometimes I stop thinking.

What is happening behind
the curtain? Death brings the live pain
of fossilized to-morrows.

Come my love, come.
Lets see the tiny pale drops oozing

from the skin of dying moon.

Satish Verma

Inevitable

When moon was becoming
bipolar, you were recuperating
painful love by black magic.

To bring down sun's
corpse, I kiss your song, so that
rainbow kills the clouds.

Let's go to the land
between two rivers and collect 

Babylon jewels for ever.

Satish Verma

Indelible Writing

The caged golden bird
discovers a very thin line between
holy sin and a painless homicide.

There was a beautiful
butterfly nailed on a blackboard
to read the savage fascism.

The nebula does not intervene
when the silver bullet leaves the home 

to hit the eye or water.

Satish Verma

Sitting on a Cherry Tree

The fig and cherry
will always marry in shrouds.
Can god come in a disguise?

A wishbone walks to
meet a very wise mahatma.
Blues were always faithful.


You want to bless
a tiger after the crowd fell
apart while worshiping sins.

Satish Verma

Erased Writing

A scream comes from
the shooting comet. Your poem has
become a prayer.

The tonsured moon
rubs with sooty heart of a satan.
Life will never be the same.

Mirrors become dirty.
I don't want to see the reflected

faces of stars landing on earth.

Satish Verma

Triangle

What I am now,
that I was not.The fireworks
have begun.

You were silent
like an infidel standing under
a tree to be hanged.

The wind was hysteric
from the time of birth in water 

after emotional break.

Satish Verma

A Parabe Repeats

A glimpse of you,
looking at me. I was giving away
my blood to my poems.

It was coming and going of your
body song. Standing before the
mirror doing hair. I am numb.

Colonization. I am
breaking. An interstice tells me full 

story. An arch in sky becomes arrow.

Satish Verma

A Bizarre Event

I had no words to
explain, How a headless cock was
walking with me on road.

It was a fierce battle
between water and flames. Wind,
blood and sky will avow.

The secret pain lies in
my heart. I am sighing slowly From. 

sea was emerging wounded sun.

Satish Verma

I Want Answers

Long back you were lost
in the herd. Do you believe my love will
come back? Dust covers all footprints.

Here you go. The humble
blood seeks truth from falling walls.
Can you write the spelling of fidelity ?

The red lake was quiet.
You give a warm hug before you bring 

down blue hills in water.

Satish Verma

Shuddering Shadows

O my love nobody
but you will sleep in my dreams,
till I come back from the river.

The candle will burn
to lighten the stairs all night.
I was coming empty hands.

My songs have gone
to jungle to collect black berries. 

for my skeeping goddess.

Satish Verma

Silver Age

I carry no name.
You dream my poem to search
me in your heart.

The violence of muted
dialogues tear the atmosphere of
unknown pains.

Small words pull you
to dissect the lust of untouched 

moons. I want to live again.

Satish Verma

Something Was Left

I was your religion.
Nothing was to be done, standing beyond
the touch down in knee deep water.

Talking to sun,about mantras.
Why was god breathing heavily ?
What was to become obsolete?

You are carrying the burden
of broken heart. The sheep were running 

in rain. Do you think the moment has come?

Satish Verma

Not My Choice

It was not opulence.
Black widow eats the mate after
the love. Cannibalism has gone very high!

Will you cheat on me ?
I ask the moon after the consecration
of a fallen comet on pyre.

A devout was smearing
the dust, after the white elephant 

had trampled the clay temple.

Satish Verma

Of My League

 I will go Buddha. 

Ethically I stop growing. Looking 
at youI I go blank. No thoughts. 

Playing with zeroes 
I am numberless. No length. 
No height. I am in suspension. 

Cannot touch you. 
Face. Eyes. Lips. You don't hear. 

soundless words wearing a mask.

Satish Verma

How to Say Love

Strang, nobody speaks
lie. A poem to Venus, in the land
of flames. Like you wanted to think.

It was fever. Can
you twist the moon? I was waiting
for something unheard. I die daily.

Akhmatova,don't cry.
I still read you daily. Did we
know each other from other life?

Satish Verma

When Time Flies

A windless kite was
wavering, like a prayer in sky without
words. Would you come to see me?

How do we shake
hands without fingers.? Can you
write your name on wet sands?

O diva, the road stops
here and thereafter is deep gorge.
At the bottom you stand waving.

Satish Verma

There was Nobody

In life's drama, art
of dying is played daily. Not
a single word I would write.

Whenever my mind reads
a bleed, you start washing my wounds,
presumptive to do something.

You are not another one,
a prawn on the heap of catch.The 

prayer descends from sky to sleep god.

Satish Verma

Pure as Moon

Contextual. I don't
get that much-I ask. How difficult
it was to remain like gulmohar*

A collision course will meet you
tomorrow.You were a step forward.
I was held back to know the truth.

You were always orange
and red. I want to remain a human being.
I tell explicitly. You were Agni.

*Delonix regia

Satish Verma

Fog Lets You Go

History repeats. You are
drifting away from point of return.
Life cries hurt, in eyes of Venus.

The golden gate of love
swings back to flames of forest.The
lovebirds want to be caged.

The sensuality of moon preens
before the broken mirrors. Time takes 

 revenge. After pause sun comes up slowly.

Satish Verma

Fire in Chains

An earthly love, wears the sun
to collect Delpheniums, the larkspurs
made of blue color of your eyes.

I had given your name
to the crazy black rose for all time.
Moon starts fading after the night.

Wherever we go, hydrangeas
mopheads of purple, pink blue colors

come as strangers to meet us.

Satish Verma

Why? Why?

Can you take on the sparks
and swallow the flames of hurt eyes?
Every tear has shape of its own.

A late poem picks up the
smoke of infinity.The house of love
burns slowly. Moon reflects on black wall.

Fingernails were turning
pale.There is no blood to draw. Nobody 

wants to go, but end waits.

Satish Verma

Sleeping Moon

Erosion has set in.
I am not going anywhere.
Nocturne battles for survival.

Words are growing
like mushrooms, making a
fairy ring around make-believes

A mauve surrender.
You die daily without cause.
No contempt of love.

I don"want to think.
Only ask you, don't move
away from the moon

This is land of fear.
Will not leave you alone. 

Searching your home, kissing doors.

Satish Verma

My Things Your Things

Sailing on flames to the river
inside you.,I disappear in your thoughts
to swim in the eyes of moons.

A dead hibiscus wakes up
in your hand.You fondle the denials
of pain of internal bleeds.

You will know I hear footfalls,
of walking ferns in my abandoned 

pages of burnt out ars poetica

Satish Verma

Who Will Survive

I seek you from you today.
Life itself has the power like an
absolute.Back and forth lights the vision.

When trees sing, I collect
the jasmines buds.An enigma hugs
me to solve the surrender.

Black words move around
the blind faith, The pain will not
cease.Returns again and again.

Satish Verma

All Mercury, All bare

Stepping on small spots
of shallow river,I was trying to reach
your bank.I take my place in pain.

A bonafide crime of looking
at the moon to forget the hunger
of earth in a disastrous fall.

Who was criminal in
court of divinity,when the most 

evolved creature reverts to worm.

Satish Verma

To Bring Peace

After half-journey I
will sit down under Bo- tree.It
knows me to and fro.

O sorrow of clouds
my bones sing. I want to be left
alone. I was unfinished..

In magnum love versus
hate pain intervenes.You burn tall
boards to collect the ashes of strong pillars.

Satish Verma

Scared Sun

The brown earth comes
out with empty hands when you
go to the field for bread.

Green valley had an
affair with a cuffed prisoner,who
was caught sowing the seeds of love.

You dip the ashes and
last remains of truth in the lake of
moon's tears,Will you be able to sleep?

Satish Verma

On Salt Lake

You were choked being
non-partisan..I was telling to trees
after the travesty of truth.

A contentious bitterness
breaks after the separation from river
of blood.Who has killed whom?

The dark secrets of the
whorling earth will never be known
to aliens.We were not bonafides.

Satish Verma

Will You Ever Sleep ?

When you stop speaking,
death recreates the birth of
an avatar of blue pains.

Don't hush up.No one tells
the truth.Everyone becomes one's
own judge.Moon was assassinated.

I quote Rudyard Kipling.
"If you can make a heap of all your winnings" 

and lose for your love,you are god.

Satish Verma

The Unsung Pain

You talk of black light.
I am not sure of which sun
you refuse to touch.

In moonlight your
behavior changes. The space
enlarges for wings.

The flight stalks the love.
Shy of becoming fossil the blood
footprints will speak.

Satish Verma

Hope Was Done

With minimum solar
effect on black spots of war and
peace. I was trying little water for sanity.

I always weave dreams
to invite my moon, so that I can
see your beautiful eyes.

Don't go my angel back
to your abode in deep sea.
Earth was burning. I am on fire.

Satish Verma

Take Me In Arms

I won't give up.
Don't throw the water on me.
I am playing with fire.

Killing quietly, you
slither like a snake to change
the sex in honor of seizing power.

Why death was being
sold very cheap, after the wrath.
Paper-thin love carries Himalaya.

Satish Verma

Long Journey

I will not talk, keep
your right hand in my left.
Something comes through your eyes.

Love is made of fabric.
You can wash it daily with tears after
bloody dialogues. Ants come later.

You don't belong to
renegade. I stand my ground
to carry on the mission to swipe suffering.

Satish Verma

Touching You Daily

Unmasking to remain
human. Listen, listen to my bane.
I am neither living, nor dead.

I am left with what I am not,
after you walked away with Agni.
My footfalls resound in water.

I am taking care of
lovebirds. They miss you when calls
don't come and food runs short.

Satish Verma

Time Was Changing

When you describe yourself,
I look at your greyish hands and
break all the mirrors.

Sheer betrayal. I
cannot count the bodies. How will
we starve to get liberation?

I will not live more
unless you walk with me to find
my burned down temple to ashes.

Satish Verma

O Blood, O Tears

I will search you again
in the mudslide of truth. The
endless thirst makes the earth run.

When you recite my
poems, a black hole opens the―
mouth to suck them in. I let the stars weep.

A deep darkness descends
to test the power of buried light
in the grave of white lies.

Satish Verma

Why Eyes Were Red

One in a million, I
found you. My inner core was wet.
A black cat follows me.

Who were coming
together on the burning coals, to
discover the meaning of life.

I wanted to know,
how moon kills me, when I
was inhabiting the blood lake.

Satish Verma

Words Crawl On Body

Sometimes I want to
throw down the gauntlet to―
fight with gold nuggets.

We remain divided in
silent pains, in a spat with
gods, after losing the lives.

Can you calibrate my
agony with jasmine's tender white
flowers? They wilt like me.

Satish Verma

Rare Encounters

Cheek to cheek
I plant a kiss in full moon,
when you stand in flames.

Before you left, why
did you bless me with ageless pain?
What went wrong in your epiphany?

Why you wear a stone
mask? Your eyes remain dancing
to play with immortal laughs.

Satish Verma

You Nearly Killed

A face-off between
spinning wheel and earth, appears
in moonlight. Sun bleeds.

When we cross path.
Bo tree sways intermittently to
make you realize the stalked moon.

Why you want to stay
in a cage of rituals. Go and
meet yourself in dark.

Satish Verma

Troubling Me

Something remains unsaid.
Again my pain rises. My virgin
thoughts move. A moon exits me.

Predators were coming soon.
Between stars distance was increasing.
I stop looking in mirror.

I ask you to bend
the curves I want to walk straight
to watch rebirth of love.

Satish Verma

Broken Mirrors

Live children
between you and me,
breathing last.

Viola blooms
near spikes of flames.
Your hands tremble.

How will you live
without moon in dark
night of terror.

Hope flattens.
You love only yourself.
Earth, breaks water.

Satish Verma

Aborted Faith

It scares me. We
need to talk. It was very difficult
to remain honest. We are changing.

I ask Buddha, can you
come back? Moon has disappeared.
I forget the human touch.

Filed bones draw a
volcano on the chest of nature.
You inhale sulphur gas and die.

Satish Verma

Analyzing Myself

What was the infinity
of pain in everyday life? At night
I scramble to catch moon!

You were always invisible
I collect dust under your feet.
Wanted to become like you O Buddha.

Sometimes you cry
silently in sun under sky. The
shade of Bo tree burns.

Satish Verma

This Cruel Life

You give me your
love in fragments. All night
I drink the May moon.

It is hot, it is cool.
I cannot catch the fireflies
in your dark tresses.

Will it go like the entire
life to find the completeness
splattered in half words?

Satish Verma

Where Dreams Are Killed

All was nor well.
If I don't hit the road, who
will bring the light!

Rising faster, masculinity
to destroy migrant birds, without
making them stay.

Can you redefine truth
in dark, when moon was unable
to stop the butterflies.

Satish Verma

Meeting Ghosts

After I gave my life
to you, will you join a school to―
know, how deep was water in sea?

Beyond the stars lies
the dark sky giving birth to new earth.
Do we find, the aliens would accept us?

You will not find dead
souls in jars. The swollen heads
cannot think, cannot laugh.

Satish Verma

In Bell Time

Moon was not dead.
Now who will kiss the moonlight
on your face? Dark matter quivers.

Night sky was lit up.
There was a flower show to celebrate
the beauty of supermoon.

Soaked eyes sometimes
look beyond you. The contrast
hurts. Didn't want to privatize.

Satish Verma

Survival Of Fittest

I cannot catch your smell.
Time stands in my hands. There
was a question to kiss jasmine.

Did you send me a farewell
address? A quiet warrant? No
I cannot sleep on your tongue.

Why life leaves a bitter
taste daily. When I salute the
setting sun, it rains.

Satish Verma

Trading Sea-Salt

Something you were
missing to catch a flower moon.
I will not go for witch-hunt.

Pushing the peak, I
will not bow out. What you
have said was a golden truth.

Black panther comes
nearer in twilight. Blood
has been written on my hands.

Satish Verma

All Night

Noiselessly you come
in my poems to light the lamp
I ask myself, who were you?

I remember you intensely,
when you move away from gale
I floor my heart to taste the blood.

Do you think tears can
heal the wounds? Does a fall has
a moral to rise again?

Satish Verma

Exited

Tell me exactly, the
real meaning of love!
Don't say it is a flower lei.

It is also not hornet's
breed. Will you take my shelter
one day. Truth was not worthy of it.

Who fathered the Satan?
I ask. I don't recall you
O my god! What happened?

Satish Verma

I Need You

You are made anew
everyday. Something is peeled off
from your skin. Sometimes blood is drawn.

It is very hurting to
your pride. You cannot walk nude
in your house to invite god of rains.

The sun burns your
wall of truth. Strange, there was
no one to teach history.

Satish Verma

What Else You Should Know

Who am I?
I search my name on your face.
You won't recognize a lost coin.

The cadavers move
and talk. For what we lived
to understand our land.

The rose garden has
young Areca Palms to play
with roses in sun.

Satish Verma

Begin With Ending

Your half-surrender was
unique. Going home to find the truth
of end of a beautiful story.

A mid-life pain takes
the memories in lake of fire. The
saga of urgency of moon ends.

Once there was a name
to solve the cognizant problems
of truth. Now prevails the virtual.

Satish Verma

Freezing Time

Not understood you well.
Me living in myself. Your eyes will behold
what my naked hands carry.


My truth was also your truth,
in same boat. I cannot recognize
my path in sea. Moons dancing with each other.

Let us wait for night fall.
The lines in your rough hands. What do they tell?
I am collecting palm leaves. Who was coming?

Satish Verma

Who Woke Me

What you did not get,
was found at the bottom of sea.
Was it due to dance of swans?

You held me tight,
when the rains stopped.
A moon kissedspot still burns.

An intimate wound of
hard life, was not given by you? Then
who had kissed me in quiet departure?

Satish Verma

Little Feet Measuring Earth

You still don't know
how to address the lion standing
in the burning bush.

In my deep cave your
footprints unsettle me. You try to
save the half-written tragedy.

I don't see any violence
to fill my empty hands with new moons
to repeat the undoing of the faith.

Satish Verma

The Search Ends

It was extraordinaire.
You were always living with delicate
flowers surrounded by stings.

There were stigmas
without styles and hummingbirds
standing in air made me cry.

A colourful sparrow sits
on the sill of window to deliver
a message, garden was no more.

Satish Verma

Still Wandering

There was something
wrong. Yet I had not come
to my home. Trust was eroding.

Moon comes under fire.
Maskless he was stealing beauty
of earth, in freezing dark.

I had no ambition left.
Even touching the truth of
three layered lies of love.

Satish Verma

Emotional Chains

Two kisses for a golden
lie. Don't manipulate the shelter.
Moon will take rest in my poems.

Song of sparrow has
died. I am bewildered. From where
I start writing glory of sunrise.

My each nerve trembles
when I gather the dried jasmines,
you dropped telling goodbye.

Satish Verma

A Letter Unwritten To You

Are you ok? When
the moon rises on sea, I become
worried about the blue butterflies.

The Morning Glory always
inspires me, in her swaying to
welcome the beautiful dawn.

And when your sleep
goes, you start reciting shlokas
with smoke and sparks.

Satish Verma

Where Was The Justice

Your mercy was very
little O god, for equal-halves.
Nobody was perfect.

Alive and kicking,
yet harmless. The moons were
alone in togetherness.

You always lied― How
deep was your pain, when sun
was rising without light?

Satish Verma

I Will Never Change

I would take a call
after I seceded from my wounds.
It took me a while to become Buddha.

You outshine, being
a wave breaker. I touch the
stars to squeeze light from dark curves.

Will you remain
vegetable? Your fingers play
like the blind pianist on my face.

Satish Verma

Bloody Words

Between poverty and
theology. I want to take on you
in moonlight, but is not controversial.

It was very beautiful,
the rain dance of symphony invoking
the godless punishment.

How can you carry a
crowd to complete a journey at the
bank of the river of blood?

Satish Verma

Blue Targets

Let my pain go, then
I will think of you during break.
I was teaching pure truths.

You disturb my sleep
to read the holy books again. Why we
were guilty of not taking arms?

Don't shoot at bull's eye.
It doesn't bleed and you always misfire.
Your fingers will play Beethoven.

Satish Verma

Becoming Otherself

My goodness, you too
hit the road, to be without desire.
Resolute black birds follow you.

Sun is visited by red
moon in twilight, before parting
once a day for a kiss.

Life betrays everyday.
Yet I won't accept defeat by
lover wearing a face mask.

Satish Verma

My Pledge

Put on hold your pain,
outside our love. Your tears falling.
My hands to become flowers.

I go to milk tree to
pay back the debt. You rub my arms
gently. I shed my negatives.

Paradigm? Man says
ghosts live. A snake never leaves
her eggs. My poems remain induct.

Satish Verma

Melting In Cold

Writing of words names
on paper gown, you catch the fire like
Casabianca on burning deck.

Must I stay! You
give a last call to unseen book.
It was not an ordinary trial.

Your eyes light up
when flames touch you. You
take a long breath and jump into sea.

Satish Verma

Beware Of Pain

Sitting in a wake
you don't feel peace. The vigil
has a buzzing sound.

No benefit comes.
Your fingers speak for the broken
faith. Where gods sleep?

The candles in wind
were blowing up at the bank
of river, which has dried up.

Satish Verma

Testing Time

Somewhere a pin
drops in pitch dark. The deity
appears incognito, rising from dust.

I was dying for
your truths after separation from
myself in a disturbing moment.

Grave danger was for
eternal lovers, like swans, would
fight sincerely to die.

Satish Verma

Street To Street

Nature, she was
playing with us. Any savior becomes
a man eater in savannah.

On descent the body
explodes, to become a silhouette,
to attract the creator.

You were endangering
the earth O destroyer. Was it
devotion or crucifixion?

Satish Verma

Friendship

When life burns out.
You create a colossus that will
ultimately destroy you.

Pinnacle of success
brings loneliness. You would
search yourself for company.

Who will not sit
for your wake, when somebody
pulls you out from pyre.

Satish Verma

Let's Write Off The Moon

Once you were a
walking tree. Drifting. No one
stops planting the seeds.

The pangs. Moons clap.
A renegade makes a temple to die.
Therewas no other space left.

I will not call you.
Your book has been soiled.
I cannot read my own writing.

Satish Verma

Dragging My Load

Killing myself
creating a new man, breadth
by breadth without birth.

Ash smeared on your
forehead, you move towards setting
sun. Flames write your message.

On the chest of dead.
There will be no past, no future
in the dust of fallen warriors.

Satish Verma

Conflict Between Desires

I lost my soul.
You should not have left like
a thread from needle.

What could not be done
was to take liberty with alphabet
of life. Why pain comes without words?

Something turns my
past, after anointing young
poems of abdication.

Satish Verma

Thinking In Curves

I want to forget
my gains of deliverance in―
reopening the economy of pain.

My logo was simple
to carry your own cross to prove―
that I can rise from dead.

The numbers hurt.
I cannot touch the awards for
throwing my dreams one by one.

Satish Verma

You Live In Sorrow

Is it futile to count
the tears of falling stars? Things
are slipping from my hands.

At night I talk with moon
and ask what was your game.
Trees look at me.

Lifeless, the sun hides.
It is raining again in poverty.
The words have lost meanings.

Satish Verma

Going Incognito

Don't drink in eye
of storm. Go and sit on
the seat of judgment.

Stars are beginning
to walk again. Tulips want to be
born again without moons.

So sad that I cannot
recall your face and I give
up my name for you.

Satish Verma

Searching The Method

The mirror looks dirty
if you don't wipe out the blood
splattered during assassination.

Oh Godfather, the hourglass
was hypersensitive. Plucks the
time to go in reverse.

The flames become
blue. A humming bird hovers around
to find her old nest.

Satish Verma

How To Fly

Either pain or smile!
No, you won't give any. But each
night every moon matters.

I was always speechless,
when you were steaming out.
The stone-deafs seldom listen.

Like barn owl, I dig
a hole in your heart. You
were melting like snow.

Satish Verma

Life-Long Friend

Life has become blue.
O moon, why did I let you in
under my skin.

How come you want
to change the world? First I
ask you to stay in my heart.

Now would you be
adorable? God! you have
been arrested by man.

Satish Verma

Why Love Is Called Flame?

Can you heal my
insomnia? Raise the bar
and eat your words.

You have stopped
singing. Take me moon I
am getting very hot.

Why people are dying
without blood? Someone
was sending the message?

Satish Verma

The Power

Death enters through
a hunter. A black fish jumps
to make water dirty.

The racism divides
the color of human hair and
blood becomes a glacier.

Where the moon will
take bath in summer. Don't
declare that clouds are dried up.

Satish Verma

Don't Dismember The Earth

Take heart I say
to myself, leaning against
the wall to end sorrow.

Solar year, O red
and green pain, don't invite the
wounds. Don't cry moon, don't.

Standing in pulpit
I invoke peace, to stop the hand
of clock. Time was moving fast.

Satish Verma

Pain Lives In Eyes

Can you tell me, where
the tunnel ends. The curve has
flattened. There was no light.

In pillars of wasteland.
Why did we reach there.
Death-kissing starts now.

The power of questions
will not mitigate your arrival.
Where will we drown?

Satish Verma

Talking To God

You look very big, like
supermoon, when you come near
me to smell my breadth.

Moratorium, I have
decided not to decipher a
cipher. Your memory interrupts.

The medieval pain
wakens the dilemma to kill
or not to kill the actors.

Satish Verma

Why You Were Hiding?

A slice of embrace
chops off the little moons. Lips
on lips. I will never be same.

Baby thoughts are ripening
in your chest. Will we accept the
destiny of tired legs?

I sit alone at the
banks of holy river to wash
my dirty hands for a miracle.

Satish Verma

Confusion

You catch the words
in air. Life takes revenge.
Era ends with alter ego.

In the metroplex a dark
animal roams in lanes. I want
to write my history of salvation.

The sea will not
freeze, if you don't move to bank.
Moon takes his own life.

Satish Verma

Forgetting Peace

The crozier makes but
you break me. You should
stand on burning deck.

This was the poverty
of words teaching non-violence
to rich people.

The pain of biting
human was sharp refusing
the mercy of god.

Satish Verma

I Love You

Take a random fall
in the valley of flowers and
see the wounds of moon.

Who was an abettor
when nobody had dared to
touch your body and soul.

The serial cheater
moves on to search new victim.
Rainbow breaks into two.

Satish Verma

Set You Free

It was akin.
I want to stay quiet.
Everyone speaks truth
of everybody. Except me. I tell lie
about myself.

Don't look at others.
You will betray yourself. You
have two minds. One for dying
and other to live in rose garden.

No family beside me.
Wordless pains rise. Sometimes
you want to go mad. Thinking
more thinking.

What was the unsung
story of deathless stranger?
Mates, I kill the dreams again.

Satish Verma

Going Insane

What you heard was
not true. I am writing my will
after you lost charisma.

I am dying daily, after
reading the smoke signals
coming out of your book.

Can you sing the
ghazal of Ghalib. How will you
agree when you don't agree?

Satish Verma

Valley Of Pain

Where do I go now?
Sky is burning and larks are
invoking unheard screams.

In crisis you bow out.
I want to stop breaking of hearts.
O colossus violence is rising.

On the wall sits buddha.
Buddha in prayer. He wants to make
peace. I dream to commit suicide.

Satish Verma

Absconding Dreams

Let me do, what I want
to do. Lights on street are gone
and I have to meet my last hope.

Don't bring any wealth
before my eyes. I become blind. Will
not be able to read god's verdict.

Where has gone my
universal pain? I want to walk
in burning woods to final seeds.

Satish Verma

Lost Home

Who wrote your name
on the tongue of time? I am not
able to stop the clock.

God, I will never
understand you. What happened
when you were present everywhere?

I ask my lips not to
move. Nobody would know
when you can synchronize?

Satish Verma

Unseen Tragedy

Supermoon was coming
nearer to earth. I made you a
killer. Look inside, you got more.

Stung by a wasp.
I want to live like a hermit.
Nothing was left to say.

A large hole sucks
humanity. I walk alone to meet
my destiny in ring of fire.

Satish Verma

Diving In Shallow Water

I am rolling down,
down, in dream, thinking of
you pulling a thorn.

A butterfly flirts.
You find shelter in pain. The
power wants to celebrate the dark.

The hands tell your
anxiety. They tremble while
holding a pen writing a name.

Satish Verma

Don't Sell Your Thoughts

You have taken back
what you had given to me.
I offer my sleep to your eyes.

Shared pain was tangled.
Love takes the defeat. The temple
is demolished under moon.

A chandelier crashes
with piercing noise. Pink glow
vanishes from cheeks of sun.

Satish Verma

Human Tragedy

I was collecting
the stars to welcome you but
there were left unspoken words.

There was no grit
present in the rocks. No reason
to paint love blue.

Trees were talking.
Can we seal the borders of pain?
Who were the vectors of death?

Satish Verma

When There Was No Soul

Thoughtless, feet
of clay carry you to ocean
of fire. How your boat will sail?

Why do you take your
life for sake of migratory
birds that fly away in winter.

Let the humming
birds come back I have to
understand staying in flight.

Satish Verma

When Nation Bleeds

I suffered like
you. Tell me why you were
destroying yourself?

Why does the black
death wears white gown? Who
had said Om Shanti Om Shanti?

O my country, where
the love has gone? I am
stitching the wounds daily.

Satish Verma

What Do You Want

Your trajectory was
rising. People ride the stars
to reach moon at night.

Anxiety of name.
How to draw the figure of
god who was a giver.

It was your decision
to abandon this earth for
a golden chair to sit.

Satish Verma

Changing Vocabulary

You used to say, I
was your accident, but you smiled
in unspoken words of pain.

Did you ever make
friendship with scorpions? They
don't change their habits.

It was not matched
with tears. Now you will sleep
in my poems, and I sleep on your lips.

Satish Verma

Untouchable

I am not your
truth. Time filters.
Wait until I change.

Trapped, we fall
together. Centuries back
at the edge of moon.

When I ask who
are you, you become my
shadow under the sun.

Satish Verma

Echinacea

Every kiss has a
price. I love you green.
O magnolia I have nine lives.

This was the magic
of drooping eyes under the
sparks of swaying moon.

Who says god was
very cruel. The goddess was
making beautiful dolls.

Satish Verma

Melted Glass

Sometimes I do not
know what is happening.
I cannot say goodbye.

As you unfold, I watch
your proud surrender. I am not that.
In panic lovebirds fly away.

Once upon a time, life
had a meaning. I loved you.
Now river is changing course.

Satish Verma

Quarantine

A deep question
haunts me. Who will take
the responsibility to watch the earth.

You make me appear
mad in my poems. How you define
the life when god was burning.

You had become a new idea
for the struggle. What was the
difference between murder & suicide?

Satish Verma

Moon In March

You know what I mean.

You replicate the moon,
when someone dies for a cause
at the edge of light
between life and death.

Why in every voice
you appear. Blood sucking has
started. Vectors were ready to strike.

Earth was not my home.

Satish Verma

Thinking Not

You could not keep pace
with me. I wanted to give you what
I didn't have. I don't like tears.

Do not fall in love.
My heart breaks when it snows
and the viruses laugh.

A periodic pain hurts
when would science fail and
philosophy starts its music!

Satish Verma

Memories Shimmer

A thought pricks again
and again. I cannot hear your
footfalls. In twilight, moon―

Comes, hugs you and
jumps into burning lake.
My ancient pain stands before me.

I have come faraway
from your home. My hand tremble
when I write your name on water.

Satish Verma

My Dilemma

I would not make
excuses. My nothingness let
me go beyond myself.

Sometime I ask
other self, why I find you in
pain and sorrow in love and peace?

Will you find freedom
from change, from power
and slavery of past?

Satish Verma

Undying Existence

It was self-inflicted
wound. You live outside yourself.
Go inside to find the depth.

This was my faith
on unknown. Do we have to
bargain for our truths.

When you see the beasty
of pain, you fall in love without
sensor of agitated mind.

Satish Verma

Broken Peace

Falling in tender
pain of line drawn between
us. Talking in air.

Bleeding night comes again.
I will not send it back to you.
I was stealing your curves.

Walking in dark
You have a hope. Sun will
rise soon. You will find the truth.

Satish Verma

Not A Dirty Game

Unflinkinglyyou
embrace a fireball and jump
into the lake to cool.

You forgot to give
me something under the moon's
shade and went to sleep.

The spider moves
gingerly, like a robot to
catch the god for supper.

Satish Verma

Art Of Punishment

Can you see yourself
from my eyes in dark.
The moon will not help.

Your face tells the
truth of timeless pain. Why
did you keep the viper in bed?

And then the blood
oozes from all the pores. Was
it the punishment of not believing?

Satish Verma

My Salt Was Not On Sale

My soul's half, leave
me alone. Things drop from
my hands, not you.

You become always a
new word in my poems
I will cover inequality.

Will you deceive me
one day like the god without
a temple on road?

Satish Verma

Burying The Past

A trivial pain
becomes a storm, severes the
words, bleeds the truth.

My legacy travels
with you to discover the ruins
of forgiven mistakes.

Do we belong to
primates, in evolution from
humanoid to god?

Satish Verma

No Vendetta

I go mad when moon
comes near me.
How you dare the flame?

Such a love. You
prepare to walk on the burning
coals, challenging deep ocean.

When the boat sinks,
I will carry you like butterfly
in the hands to meet the creator.

Satish Verma

Black Stones

Your color was changing.

Sometimes I wake up in
midnight to feel your breath.
Why does it happen?

Sustained Artemisia.
Deadly poison. I loved to know it.
My head aches, when I
think of my destiny.

The vision fails. You
collect the shards of crashed chandelier
from your eyes.

Agile thoughts restart
the song to drink moon.
Where were you?

Satish Verma

What Was The Great Idea

Someone unknown
will come back to say goodbye.
My heart will miss beats.

Sometime you want to
move away from yourself to
find light and come back to yourself.

Panorama dims.
Earth is covered by global fog.
I search my home in water.

Satish Verma

It Bleeds

Before the dawn
black sky breaks in my eyes.
We were very sick.

You were avoiding
the cross. I cannot pass on twisted
version of beautiful end.

Tiger was alone in den
waiting for a saddened song
on piano for a last time.

Satish Verma

Close-Up View

I saw you dying for
basics. Your legs were heavy
and then you start walking.

There was no Plato.
Hemlock begins to climb. You
smile and get ready for Odyssey.

Who will decide the fate
of earth. Aristotle becomes sick,
looking at the new tapestry.

Satish Verma

Love To Learn

Light makes you poor.
There was a back deal for
a wake up call.

What was the nature
of your violence? Did you need
any philosophy to kill?

What was the beautiful
idea to skin a dead religion
unmade by a god?

Satish Verma

When Galaxies Multiply

I won't come to you
while trying to read you.
Were you like a black hole?

Blues flicker, you brace
for violence. Wherever you go
you carry big bang.

To create your universe
I think there was no absolute.
What you are O god!

Satish Verma

Want To Change Myself

Waiting for you in
dark before the second moon
comes. Timeless pain casts shadow.

Can you find human
knowledge somewhere for me. The
small pause slips between us.

I want to listen
again Beethoven and see
Van Gogh. Why love disappeared?

Satish Verma

Asking Old Moon

An abstract romance
will take you to micro love
of nothingness in void.

I start collecting the
evidence, how to kill space
and you transcend time.

A rainbow knows the
secret of dark winter, when
snow hides under your skin.

Satish Verma

Bolting Dark

Some sadness, some pain.
I tell myself, don't be proud
of reaching the peak.

Come on mini moon.
Earth was devastated. Loneliness
plays havoc. I want to―

Run away from myself.
Who will stop me. You had shaded
my storms. I will remain happy till death.

Satish Verma

In Hurling Light

I will speak less
when words exhaust to find
the meaning of life.

Break a heart to drop
the pride of climbing pink
rose on the white wall.

What was left in
my brown eyes to see a river
weeping in the desert.

Satish Verma

After Rebirth

Want to celebrate
each day in mud pack. Life rewards
one day daily. My bones glitter.

You trespass the deep
pain and my words bleed.

How come we move nearer
to each other after the fall
to search oneself.

Where the love goes
when a ghost takes
hold of you.

Satish Verma

In Ignorance

Become a friend of
yourself in light as a stranger,
without sexism.

I celebrate the fall
of towers. You cannot make
a big hole in blue sky.

Can we hold hand
like sun and moon entwined
together in twilight of sunset?

Satish Verma

Call Of Faith

What a lovely thing,
moon meets the sun in sky.
Were you sober today?

Your almond eyes
ultimately meet the destiny.
You tie a knot in tresses?

It is true you will
go far where an asylum of
trust waits for a blessed one?

Satish Verma

Metaphysics Of Shrine

It was heart-wrenching
when you wanted to leave this earth,
by royal grave or by burning ghat.

Did you ever come
out from yourself, to find the
meaning of life versus death?

Mathematics of love
was a dark matter. The loneliness of
success had made you a purdue.

Satish Verma

Too Prudent

Wisdom reinvents.
You were burning yourself.
Just my way don't go.

It is the power game
you never played. You may
be sold out in fish market.

Life demands a pound
of flesh. You walk on cinders
to reach the desert to find gold.

Satish Verma

Collective Loss

In grey zone of life
I find you under bodhi tree
searching footprints of Buddha.

In war we take off
our shirts chasing the pain of
poverty. Do you doubt yourself?

In grief I was learning
from you. How to paralyze yourself
in voices of fake slogans.

Satish Verma

In Your Own Temple

Between direct and
indirect lies futurism. How
to take on the inevitable?

Will you leave my
hand? I asked the scented wind.
In sanctuary god takes turn.

You speak via eyes,
how to live in sanctum sanctorum
without dying?

Satish Verma

I Don't Know

It was most beautiful
your broken heart
in the grip of twilight.

Who speaks the truth
after gaining the heaven a
double edged sword cracks.

I cannot decide
who wins and who lost
in the war of words.

Satish Verma

In My Painting

You pry out my eyes,
when I look at your hands,
which were rough and cracked.

Were you digging
your future? Pomegranates
always left red scars.

Don't ask the god
who was helpless, sitting
on sun to cool you.

Satish Verma

To End The Poem

When you walk
on moon in February, I take-down
the clouds to become wet.

Your memory lingers.
I gather the monarchs to
play with my past.

I am not sure, when
the dark moves on to give space
to imprisoned pain.

Satish Verma

To End The Poem

When you walk
on moon in February, I take-down
the clouds to become wet.

Your memory lingers.
I gather the monarchs to
play with my past.

I am not sure, when
the dark moves on to give space
to imprisoned pain.

Satish Verma

Never Found You

I do not know
when to stop my steep ascent
after a random fall.

My dreams prick
me. Time to hang my boots.
Enough was enough.

But the tears won't
dry on the cheeks of love.
I start my last journey.

Satish Verma

Defaulter

After the long wait
I forgot how to kiss the flames.
All the moons failed.

The world would
freeze, when I burned and
the phoenix did not dive.

Listen, I love you
within me. O god to feel your pulse
when I decided to kill me.

Satish Verma

Virginity

In half-moon
you have been crying inside,
where the light has gone?

I learn from you
small things like kissing
the blood of the thumb―

When the arrow was
shot towards the tiny eye
of a dead snake.

Satish Verma

Freedom From Pain

Again my heart
breaks. The light has dimmed
in moon. There was no mandate.

A knock at death's
door. I had slept in your arms.
Slept in your songs.

Don't remain mum.
It hurts the ethos. Mortal
injury comes to poetics.

Satish Verma

Pure As Gold

You had tightened
the grip. I hit a rough patch.
All night you remained in my thoughts.

I will not bid you
good night, because you will
not leave me.

I refuse to go, you
refuse to come. When will we
meet to undo the sins?

Satish Verma

You Were Not Like Me

My maiden guilt
interprets your mysterious signs
I become a moon orbiter.

Your body moves
like an eel in my eyes.
Blue lakes sleep.

Let the candle in wind
go.The gift was not understood.
Pink flames rage again.

Satish Verma

This Violence

Your coins don't
make noises. Absolutely
shocking in damp air.

Love in pieces. My
skin burns, without flames
when you kiss the thorns.

Worst was not enough
I want to drink hemlock
to turn my neck blue.

Satish Verma

Don't Sell You Thoughts

You have taken back
what you had given to me.
I offer my sleep to your eyes.

Shared pain was tangled.
Love takes the defeat.The temple
is demolished under moon.

A chandelier crashes
with piercing noise.Pink glow
vanishes from the cheeks of sun.

Satish Verma

Vision In Dark

Give me some love
plants, like viola and ferns.
Don't bend the fish, let her go.

Is it not like mountain
sickness? I cannot climb the steep
rise to see the burning world?

Let us celebrate the
golden month April.We may not live
next day to smellmoon flowers.

Satish Verma

We Were Too Proud

The animal wakes
in you, when moon cries.
I bend to lift the sun.

Blood has no Dharma.
I sit as an amber fossil.The
ripple in dust will not take it.

I am worrird about you.
The mating between words
gets ready to fight stigma.

Satish Verma

Into Depression

When your suffering
drops by, something dies in me.
A cluster of stings-

Brings the anaphylactic
shock.I look at the faces to find
out, how many times god cries.

Don't write me on
your lips like an ephemeral
smoke rising frome the castle.

Satish Verma

In Honeymoon

Something was wrong.
I cannot catch your sleeve
after timeless fight.

Standing under the
pine, you wait for the cloud
birth in water.

The sun begins to shut
the eyes. Will die red before the
moon rises.

Satish Verma

In Twilight

A dream without
a dreamer wants to reach
birth pain.

Where would you
go in dark to taste the
secret right to burn?

A corona of scented
thorns on your head attracts
the queen bees.

Satish Verma

I Am Not Changing Myself

Holed up
in my book
I find peace.

Riding moon, you don't
reach the other world.

Voiceless in
grief the words don't land
on paper.

The salamander
slips back in black hole
to taste old blood.

The holy place
ignites.

Satish Verma

Washing Relics

Stay with me to
see the blitzkrieg of comets
with long tails to shame moon.

I walk into the
trap laid by clever goons of thorn.
The tulips remain quiet.

The sharp tongues
throw the sinkers in sea.
There was no boat in sight.

Satish Verma

Who Was Yogi?

I cannot pretend
you are far away like stars
when your songs hug me.

Grass green my poems
wait for the dew drops like
tears of the moon.

My warrior sleeps
in snow, till my love like
sun, wakes you up.

Satish Verma

Street Weighs Steps

My moon crashed
on the terrace tonight. I want
to say good night queen!

Collecting the ash
from the forehead of sun I
ask the cobra to strike.

Where will you find
hemlock? It slowly ascends
the limbs. Like my dream.

Satish Verma

A Living Death

I may be saying
goodbye under the stars dust.
At distance moon burned.

I was not familiar
with the shadow of eyes, that
moves faster then vision.

The morning sun
uncovers the pain of sky. How
far was the lotus in lake?

Satish Verma

Repeat History

That used to cover me.
My poetics. Now stars drag
the space and time.

This was a poet's dream.
It will wash away the wounds
of my past one day.

Why didn't you give
me a kiss a day, when I had
burned my pale hands?

Satish Verma

Too Proud To Bend

My bruised words
explode. I don't find any
meaning in life.

Why you meet a cobra
and shut your eyes? Time? Will
not wait for the birth of sun?

Darkness breeds thoughts
I break you first then remake
you in twilight to welcome moon.

Satish Verma

Rereading History

A drop of ocean
in your eyes goes pink.
A beautiful sunset.

If ever I lose you
I will never believe in
blue darkness of lips.

Tell me who was the
killer when I said I love you
to the end of earth.

Satish Verma

Pain Of Pain

Between love and hate
how do I meet you, when you
reject the kiss of flame?

This was invisible
love, before sunrise. Dream gazer
goes green in dark.


Hawthorn waits today
of another god's son. Do you
believe in bloodless murder?

Satish Verma

Thou Shall Not Cry

Moon disrobed today
to show the wounds. Why
were you bending a lot?

There was tremendous
bone loss. You would not jump
the pain. You touch my arm.

Then bare chest sweats.
You have to dig the answers
from the buried questions.

Satish Verma

Deep Fears

Drop your haves and
have-nots. When you lose things
you are at peace.

From time immemorial.
I was hunting the moon
and you slept.

You never woke, my
god limbless you didn't
move, when earth was dying.

Satish Verma

In Coexistence

It never happened before.
You burned me by sending blue
light from your sepia eyes.

In night the goddess walks
out of the painting. The new moon
turns around to kiss me.

Are you real or
humanoid? I unwrap my pain
and set you free from tears.

Satish Verma

Understanding Me

Avoiding haters
I kept quiet to exit from
quicksand of terminology.

Where do we meet
at horizon? I wanted to
say hello to bright moon.

Life betrays. I stumble.
Look at far distance. A supernova
was going to explode.

Satish Verma

O God

You were so afraid
of yourself, that you refuse
to cry without me.

When you were to cross
the path of moon, all the stars
trembled in dark night.

It was on, the ventilator
to revive a dead poem, before
I was born to die in your hands.

Satish Verma

The Penultimate

Finding my path in
twilight to reach your abode,
where light lives.

If you are an answer
Iam the big question. You tell
me everything without talking.

Your body smells of
smoke. You were trying to bake
you love on the flames.

Satish Verma

In God's Shadow

Searching a lost soul
I found you, and stripped
off the old moon from―

the forehead of Himalaya.
You wanted to manipulate the sun.
I will not stop star-gazing.

Do you know there
were no absolutes in life.
Will you brace the uncertainties?

Satish Verma

January Cool

Like corona a name
sits on your lips and the
moon starts dancing with you.

You stand there
before the mirror, eyes shut
flying to catch the rainbow.

Inaudible a prayer
zooms in. A hymn of moonlight
washes your hands to write grace.

Satish Verma

Inner Agony

I ask myself sometime,
who was your dynast of pain?
Why sky weeps and rains stop?

Why the queen sleeps for
a visual dream? How many names
the love has? What life demands?

Who will unseal
my questions? A hand slowly
covers the flames and clouds burst!

Satish Verma

Sending My Hymns

Make my path,
my dust. I want to leave
my bloody footprints.

Half-moonblind I
was collecting the tears of moon.
Dewdrops hang from my eyes.

Now where we go to
get our wounds healed up?
God was always sleeping?

Satish Verma

I Knelt In Flames

Going away from me,
I will not stay at milestones.
Road accepts the defeat.

Who was orbiting the
lake to find out the buried
Noah's Ark?

History repeats itself.
God becomes a stranger
weeps for the stolen heart.

Satish Verma

Hyperaesthesia

Growing moon seeds
on palms? Where was moon?
A single thought shakes us both.

Who was under
surveillance? You generate your
own rains to wash the stains.

Who you love in dark
when stars sleep and night
birds come out for singing.

Satish Verma

After Separations

I had asked you to leave
some stings for me. It helps
to bleed onpapers.

Some artifacts like my ring
is in your box to remember
me after crucifixion.

I didn't take my last
super. I will kiss your hand
before I drink hemlock.

Satish Verma

Incomplete Thoughts

You become a beauty
after abdication. The bell rings
without coronation.

Every shared pain
was tender. Each word
flies me to you.

You were afraid of
yourself in water. Sun wants
to be adored when I scream.

Satish Verma

To Tell The Truth

I borrow some words
from song birds and roses to
brighten my path. The timeless
pain always follows me.

Tell me how to live
in the troubled time.
I think what others don't
think. There was no ending.

The knowledge dips
I cannot read your message.
Cannot hear your echoes
from the valley of tears.

Where god lives when
it is dark? No excuses.
A light comes out from
the eyes. Plato thinks not.

Satish Verma

Bizarre Phenomenon

After race arousal
there was animal descent.
The gold diggers climb fairytale.

The controlled blast
avenges on the street. Belonging
drops the veil. We are topless.

Mode of violence
changes. Thrust was diplomatic.
Everyone shuts the mouth.

Satish Verma

Scoliosis

I summon the questions.
You will not reply. The words
dance on black glaciers.

You stay out, hounding
the quietude. Earth is on
quit call. I step back.

I am not in line
of succession. I forgo
the title of blood poem.

Satish Verma

Noises Of Stampede

The pink moon will
stay up to gray dawn. I will
meet you in prayers.

You just slept in
my arms to decipher
the dreams of unknown.

Violence creeps into
my eyes when crazy sun
starts beating the clouds.

Satish Verma

Laws Of Chemistry

You make history.
Don't move, like the stasis of
sea anemone.

Try to engrave
my signature on your chest, and
move beyond the darkness.

The persona hits
the wall. you cannot climb. Wipe
off the dream, go to moon.

Satish Verma

Love To Violence

I don't feel body
I don't feel pain. You play
with me O god!

From the flesh
I remove the pleasure.
A blood wolf moon laughs.

The fringe surrender was
in beheading yourself in dark.
I rise like the Venus.

Satish Verma