Comportment
Profusion exposes
its underbelly.
That is the
nature
of excess:
it undresses in
company.
To be silenced
is divinity’s
amercement,
more scathing the
punition
severer the
censorship.
Pasquinade by
lover
is testimony
to troubled
cross-pollination.
This is another
kind of castigation.
Etchings don’t
ache.
They nick and
nudge
the amour-propre:
like flickering
lamps that keep alive
slipups in
selection.
Topical
Confelicity takes place when we aren’t interested in that
happiness.
The arrogance of
not wishing to engage with an exchange of slants
reveals distance
in a close connection. Frame it or freeze it in mind.
Temporal winds
are winsome: remember they are like the rainbow,
transient. Unlike
war, where the leadership’s imaginary hankering
leads to the
citizenry’s impending hunger.
Transcendence
The scenery is a
set piece,
crescent moon
in cardboard:
a window
with a campestral
setting.
The spotlight
ushers me
into monologue
mode.
I stutter:
scream.
I speak to no
one.
Not even myself.
On my own
with the page
I do as I will.
This handiwork of
happiness
turns it for me.
Nimieties
The mango melts
as easily as the
ice
evaporates
in the warmth of
my mouth.
Valentine’s Day
recites its
ritornelle,
annually in the
foyer
of my oneness.
There is comfort
in calories.
Clapback
Pruinose or mealy
the bouquet
like the bed linen
scribble their script:
me and you, ours.
Orchestral vibrations
noiselessly free
themselves from our influence
leaving us:
to the formalities of the
infinite.
Sanjeev Sethi has authored five books
of poetry. He is published in over thirty countries. His poems have found a home in more than
390 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. Recent credits: Stand Magazine, Litter
Magazine, The
Recusant, North
Dakota Quarterly, K’in Literary Journal, and Outlook Magazine. He is the
joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by The Hedgehog
Poetry Press UK. He is in the top ten of the erbacce prize 2021 UK. It has
over twelve thousand and five hundred entries. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Find him: Twitter @sanjeevpoems3 Instagram sanjeevsethipoems
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