Jewels by Sara Teasdale
If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go — Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow’s […]
Guenevere by Sara Teasdale
I was a queen, and I have lost my crown; A wife, and I have broken all my vows; A lover, and I ruined him I loved: — There is no other havoc left to do. A little month ago I was a queen, And Mothers held their babies up to see When I came […]
To Youth by Sarojini Naidu
Long have we dwelt together, thou and I; Together drunk of many an alien dawn, And plucked the fruit of many an alien sky. Ah, fickle friend, must I, who yesterday Dreamed forwards to long, undimmed ecstasy, Henceforward dream, because thou wilt not stay, Backward to transient pleasure and to thee? I give thee back […]
The Snake Charmer by Sarojini Naidu
In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume, Where the clustering keovas guard the squirrel’s slumber, Where the deep woods glimmer with the jasmine’s bloom? I’ll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey, I’ll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white, To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens Thread with mellow laughter […]
The Queen’s Rival by Sarojini Naidu
Around her countless treasures were spread; Her chamber walls were richly inlaid With agate, porphory, onyx and jade; The tissues that veiled her delicate breast, Glowed with the hues of a lapwing’s crest; But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed “O King, my heart is unsatisfied.” King Feroz bent from his ebony seat: […]
Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan. You haunt my waking like a dream, my slumber like a moon, Pervade me like a musky scent, possess me like a tune. Yet, when I crave of you, my sweet, one tender moment’s grace, You cry, “I sit behind the veil, I cannot […]
Ecstasy by Sarojini Naidu
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and strong O silence my lips with a kiss, My lips that are weary of song! Shelter my soul, O my love! My soul is bent low with the pain And the burden of love, like the grace Of a flower that […]
Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
My liege, my lover, whose imperial head Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat? Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet Have shattered armies and stamped empires dead? Who shall unking thee, husband of a queen? Wear thou thy majesty inviolate. Earth’s glories flee of human eyes unseen, Earth’s kingdoms fade to a remembered dream, […]
Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night. Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free, To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea! No longer delay, let us hasten away […]
An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy glory and grace, Withhold not, O love, from the night of my longing the joy of thy luminous face, Give me a spear of the scented keora guarding thy pinioned curls, Or a silken thread from the fringes that trouble the dream of thy […]
VERY DISTURBING by Satish Verma
Rains will not come to my land. Bisexuality starts a slut walk. Blackbucks were hungry. The stray dogs were barking at moon. Into the night goes the snake without any truth. Nearly over the scooped – protection of virginity against the dazzling hirsutism. Lost fortune of the flaunted Buddha. I have no legs to bow down before the pale god. This is the […]
Vaulting by Satish Verma
Deep inside there was a simian jealousy. The opaque words will raise a burnt-out storm – returning the whole family of white flowers to the moon. The falling inside the bowl before the snake could strike interrupting the dead soldiers of unknown war- weapon-free. A stunning invasion of the spoons in summer months, when sweat was expensive than truth and a sentence was lost between the punctuations. Yet I […]
TRANSPARENCY by Satish Verma
He wants- to sort through the voices he used to hear- in his head, to understand the vexed past. He will make his bent arm a bow and shoot a moon between the doors. Walk with a snake in grass and feed his children. Irreverence becomes an import from the strangers. When you were burning inside, what was the need for the family of periwinkles to condole […]
TOELESS JOURNEY by Satish Verma
The hawk was always hatching a pacer, to spin the surveillance, tampering the tracks of violence. The haul was heavy. Moon and fishes went on to spread the dragnet striking gold from the liquid denials. The sovereignity was violated of a virgin god. The rule of drinking was sidelined. Kiss will survive after the death […]
STUNNED by Satish Verma
Confused and wary like a spermwhale, you are nosediving; – through the shadows of terrible pain ejecting ambergris. Who was getting the bribery to fix the belly button? This was not revolution. It was evolution- of a stinking city. The gods were sleeping on the lips of a pride. Nurses were preparing the bed. How far the sane voice will reach, to deliver the relics of a […]
SNAKE CHARMING by Satish Verma
The occult was scrounging in stringent way to resurrect the past. No answer. There will never be an answer. Where questions stand an answer was not there. Acquittal in setting sun. Endless love making had passed with the moon. We will not- recreate the bronzed body. Night, curse and a tale of purple, pink horse, accepting a libation for the penile god. A savior […]
REVOLT OF A SUTRA by Satish Verma
Spooked by a two headed snake, a double of a living person squirms. A moral crisis comes out of a cage. The private space is violated and bloodbath of robins start- to understand the unrest. Antimatter will keep the mystery alive. A distorted truth falls in your lap like a figurine asking your pardon. The dogma lies in mess. Chronology moves forward for future […]
PROGNOSIS by Satish Verma
Did you foresee it? It was coming. The freaked guilt of failed attempt to get yourself kissed by a flame in the androgynous temptation of dark. One legitimate delay in dying of moon’s tears? The weather had fizzled out during wild winds and the summer was slowly starting a whispering campaign against the clouds. My enemy for sweet revenge will not halt […]
PRESCIENCE by Satish Verma
There was no colour in the nude and skin deep fire was raging not leaving much of a trail. A Janus cat, that is our man of polity with two faces. Walking alone at midnight, that is larger than life, on death of a galaxy, where – the crack of dawn meets dandelion to decide the course of bloody day. They were – […]
PERCEPTION by Satish Verma
Lips of clay tend to bleed my kisses. And the distant moon treads softly on the spent passion. A private crimson blunts the whiteness of moon. The birds- step out from the fog. Last moments – of the bell to announce the schizophrenic flesh sailing like snowflakes. A primordial fear – was destroying the profile of man. Here it goes- the spiritual enigma. A blast of stunned silence: I […]
OPTIONS by Satish Verma
Enemy was within; invisible, biting into iris. Sea was asking, would you like to sign on my waves? I was carrying the relics. Body wants to take revenge. Lifting a kiss from your lips. O my death, I am living again; changing the clothes. A swarm of honey bees was decending, near a volcano. Satish Verma Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Night Light by Satish Verma
That cameo was my secret grief. He will make you sing, the hooded moon. Not a sacred thing Kissing the toes of a traveller for fecundity. In doorway it was between us and them for bargaining for Dahlias. Lips unkissed will call for honey from bees. Eyes will srarch for a candle. In alien land of flames and tumultuous desires, the golden breasts will take […]
Moony Affair by Satish Verma
I take you in my arms. O moon. Crazed. You have become a muse of a dervish. I hear the noises. Inside. Beyond perception. I could have swapped with you. My rage. My skin. My solitary inside. Becoming a dagger into your heart jumping. Never falling you said. The evergreens. I have again failed.The crops. Standing, on the river. Not crossing the bridge. […]
Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
Belly crawl after a dance. Carnivores were ready to jump on flesh. That underground beauty still believes in battle of flowers – skirting the hills. I am at loss of words, to describe the burial – of a strongman. Misreading a child god, he still posits a human clause. Darkness challenges the rival. Death for a believer of a spiteful cult. Into the hole, a […]
Live Baits by Satish Verma
An autopsy was being conducted with brutality to silence the rising dialogue, pulling out the lethal crunch of scripted history. You want the kiss of a parting grain. A secondhand face crops up in a newspaper. Are you ashamed of curtains? They have covered all the skeletons. The tangerines, why do I remember them like […]
OPTIONS by Satish Verma
Enemy was within; invisible, biting into iris. Sea was asking, would you like to sign on my waves? I was carrying the relics. Body wants to take revenge. Lifting a kiss from your lips. O my death, I am living again; changing the clothes. A swarm of honey bees was decending, near a volcano. Satish Verma Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Night Light by Satish Verma
That cameo was my secret grief. He will make you sing, the hooded moon. Not a sacred thing Kissing the toes of a traveller for fecundity. In doorway it was between us and them for bargaining for Dahlias. Lips unkissed will call for honey from bees. Eyes will srarch for a candle. In alien land of flames and tumultuous desires, the golden breasts will take […]
Moony Affair by Satish Verma
I take you in my arms. O moon. Crazed. You have become a muse of a dervish. I hear the noises. Inside. Beyond perception. I could have swapped with you. My rage. My skin. My solitary inside. Becoming a dagger into your heart jumping. Never falling you said. The evergreens. I have again failed.The crops. Standing, on the river. Not crossing the bridge. […]
Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
Belly crawl after a dance. Carnivores were ready to jump on flesh. That underground beauty still believes in battle of flowers – skirting the hills. I am at loss of words, to describe the burial – of a strongman. Misreading a child god, he still posits a human clause. Darkness challenges the rival. Death for a believer of a spiteful cult. Into the hole, a […]
Live Baits by Satish Verma
An autopsy was being conducted with brutality to silence the rising dialogue, pulling out the lethal crunch of scripted history. You want the kiss of a parting grain. A secondhand face crops up in a newspaper. Are you ashamed of curtains? They have covered all the skeletons. The tangerines, why do I remember them like […]
Half-Man by Satish Verma
In the exodus of emotions I try to flee human fears in earth hour. The sky will not be civil to me. You had become a dark flame like port wine. Who was changing the skin like a snake? I was busy cupping a hemangioma on the face of a moon. Tucked between the breasts a dream fumbles with a cyclone. One more […]
GESTURES by Satish Verma
A killer moon blinks in a mating dance. Smothered by kisses frugal night seethes with anger. In synchronized, house of limbs -; the pink underside. Fireflies lost the way between light and dark. Of sunflowers and a nude lies a tale. Satish Verma Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Dream Landing by Satish Verma
Candle by candle you burn your dreams unflaying the blue veins. That makes you still beautiful hanging in sky. On the dead land your feet will not touch the pond. Stumbling I bring botanica to cover your innocent faults for telling the truth. That makes me feel guilty. I pretend to be not what I am. This is the time when I start hitting the road, […]
Cult of Lynching by Satish Verma
Mountains were coming down to never-home, in surreal rebuff to shaking earth; emerging from the shadows of sky. In groping for the legs this was the myth of lynching. You are drenched in the rains of promises. A kiss for each lethal penetration, for global time- you are becoming a wasteland borne out of swollen fingertips- who would not write any name. The many words […]
Collecting Milkweed by Satish Verma
I will not understand the gift of hurting in unsolicited encounters. Will chase you around the world, without arriving. O fear, my bread; cannot feel you, unbirthing. Life gives me many stitches. A parallel face mocks in the sky, unless the moon cries for the kiss. Wooden wheels move on the laid body. Your venomous tooth I break. Satish Verma Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
The lesson of sudden fall and forgotten kiss. Everytime I was afraid of me unforgiving the gorge of blue mountains. When I usher you in sun you flare up in color violet-green I stay in ebony’s arms – with eye spaces and everything turns water, water of a lake. I will not remember the shooting stars when you are beside me. Drifting curves had left […]
Backtracking by Satish Verma
Leave something for me to imagine. A skeleton in a pond leaps to the moon. In an air bubble lies the history of a suspended name, wasted away on water. A war is declared on the family of words, not spoken to anguish of man. I thought of my sun averting a disaster. The sprouts will not come out of the earth. An […]
Anarchy by Satish Verma
Wind prowled. You had a hornet’s sting buried half in your hand. Anaphylactic shock. Translates into night of terror. You hesitate to smile. Midnight blues. You cannot count the stars. Pesky. Stories spread about moon’s pink thighs. An ode to the death’s kiss. You were sleeping in the sole embrace of pain. The denizen breaks […]
A Killing by Satish Verma
Buried at sea the dead man lives, as if a blood in a reliquary. Remains of a day were very volatile.The backlash will start with a kiss of moon. By the lack of a sin you meet an ambush lying in wait. The severed hand will hold the sunrise. Who will write the epitaph? A […]
Awake by Sara Herlihy
Awake by Sara Herlihy As dawn breaks and my body stirs, my mind struggles to stay wrapped in your embrace. Warm breath tickles my face as soft lips caress it. Love and yearning penetrate my deepest layers. I never want to leave. A thousand years could pass but a minute would not be missed As […]