Satish Verma, 23 may 2013
Intended to violate
the omnipresent,
stillness unzips the inviolate
truth.
You walk through a legend:
To test the chastity
you need to dip your hand
in a very hot oil.
A sleepless summer night
descends on the hill
violins in dark
lie mutilated.
Hidden tracks will not tell
from where came the pattern
of enemies entering
the bloodied moon.
Satish Verma
Steven Croat, 22 may 2013
Everything what we have ever created
gains meaning by us.
A minute,
a touch
no much,
a word
can be the world...
//
Gert Strydom, 22 may 2013
Chirping it landed in the rain, pecked,
left little prints
in the mud as it trampled here and there,
at bushy mints
it searched, meandered up and down
leaving small hints
that a tiny bird was coming quite near,
its joyful twittering song I did hear.
Gert Strydom, 22 may 2013
(after Robert Frost)
In passing the nearby snow filled great woods
and icy lake,
the sheer loveliness caught the rider’s eye;
a halting break
that lingers too long could bring freezing death,
a spell in each flake
brought tiredness, but the horse moved on,
breaking that old spell, its magic was gone.
[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.]
Insatiable Sohail, 22 may 2013
I want someone to understand what I really feel inside
I want to fall in love with an innocent mind
Who’ll unravel the mystery of my own universe.
And make my life more meaningful, simple and peaceful.
She'll be a brook in my heart that babbles incessantly.
We'll be the inseparable inhabitants of the same sphere.
I’ll bask myself in her shining smile.
That will always play in her innocent smiling face.
Her searching glance will find out my agonized looks
And she’ll be a light in my thoughts.
Her every malleable touch will take off
My formal beliefs full of superstition
And make my mind receptive
That cordially accepts every little positive change.
Satish Verma, 22 may 2013
Only the love-birds will know
it was time of inquisition.
There was a lot of prodding in
the neighbourhood.
A voice without sound
was resenting with guilt-virginity
and the bell tolls
for a zero hour.
The entrusted trust was
still moving off the transparency.
Was it not a weird night?
The newly hatched babies,
jutting out their necks
from their clay homes were
to know the roots of verbs.
Satish Verma
Gert Strydom, 21 may 2013
By their choice once perfect happy beings
as Lucifer,
Adam and Eve lost immortality,
they did offer
jealousy, self-centredness, evilness
and did transfer
their loyalty away from selfless love;
their trust, security they did remove.
God’s laws, his loving character was clear;
disobedient,
in rebellion and eating from the tree
most deficient
as if not knowing Him they did become;
God omniscient,
had in place a faultless salvation plan
to come to the rescue of mortal man.
Lucifer and his angel followers
did not want it,
they wanted to be gods in their own right,
some bit by bit
more evil, unkind and cruel they become,
they were not fit
to live in love, harmony or in peace;
hatred, evil was a spreading disease.
[Reference: “If Poisonous Minerals” by John Donne.]
Gert Strydom, 21 may 2013
Unfortunately visions are sometimes false
and still Michael stands against Lucifer
and like everyone knows
everything is measured up
in the battle between light and darkness
and still Gabriel is the envoy of God,
while Lucifer remains the dragon, the snake,
the angel that had fallen to the other side,
the one who wants to drag the whole world along with him.
Let people believe falsely
that Lucifer is the light bearer
and the redeemer of the world
and that he brings knowledge
and that people will become gods.
Let the son of the dawn believe
that he can resist any fire,
that he can win against an omnipotent God
and let people unknowingly
pray to the sun and moon
while my God sits in judgement
and will be bringing a fire
that even devours demons.
Still His love is unlimited
and stretches out wider than His whole universe
while forever His words remain true,
as my God is the only true light
that brings brightness
in a world that is apostate and dark.
Gert Strydom, 21 may 2013
After rebelling, against the Creator,
falling in sin,
Lucifer and his evil companions
did enter in
our world to devastate and destroy;
from the begin
their deception brought only death and pain,
and to this day like this it does remain.
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