New Year?

 

I refuse to rename yesterday

To squeal with #delight today

But I can do that to tomorrow

Not to scream with fear the day after.

#vss365

in limbo

 

I'm not the setting or rising One,

Not trying to be the loony romantic either,

I'm at the saddle point of Time,

Where the arrow turns hysterically confused,

No #travel, no rest, no circumcatalysts,

I'm free of resolutions and hope, cursèd, in limbo.

#vss365

from 'A very dull, dreary affair...'

 

The gathering was informed that the #sole beneficiary of Mutheychan’s wealth is Revathy.

Someone wailed, "Ayyo, Ammava…what will I do without…?" 

Revathy stared at the disappearing back of her husband with cold determined eyes. 

#vss365

from 

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/08/very-dull-dreary-affairnearly.html

Goddamn

 

When God read the book,

"Men/women from #Mars/Venus???

Goddamn! Who's from Earth?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

#Gold is the new #Silver

 

#vss365

“You shouldn’t have booed. It’s a seminar.”

“It’s crap.”

“Is that based on your wishful estimate of self-worth?”

“Safe-haven today, sub-prime tomorrow.  What a fart of hot #air! That too about gold. Sacrilege!”

“The speaker says the inflated price is because everyone’s buying. What’s the price when big countries sell their reserves? Who will buy? The next big short? Worth a thought, I think.”

from 'The Juvenile Manifesto'

 

#vss365

Every #struggle and every change has its roots in some juvenile but logical thought which gained respectability only much later, sometimes never.

What is the Juvenile Manifesto of the youth of today?

I am too old to be young but I am young enough to be juvenile. 

Even if it is a fool who starts a discussion, the discussion need not be foolish. So, let me voice some of my juvenile thoughts while I wait for the young to rise. 

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-juvenile-manifesto.html

truth is over-rated

 

“I need to ask you something and you have to promise that you will tell me the truth," she said, 30 years back.

“#Shoot.”

“I know what you have been up to.”

“Is that the question?”

“Are you in love with me?” she asked.

“No,” I lied.

Truth is over-rated. 

#vss365 

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/02/virgin-territory.html

jealous fools

 

"2 years back, a couple had a problem here."

"What happened?"

"Charged with obscenity in the open."

"Who caught them here?"

"Jealous fools."

"Ah."

"Do you want to get caught, Mrs.?"

"Ready if you are, Mr."

They stripped, #jump-ed in and swam in the cold, clear water.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/footsteps-in-dark.html

Kantaka Shani

 

Astrologer says:

"You suffer the rare lifelong Kantaka Shani when #Saturn transits the 4th/7th/10th house from your birth Moon sign."

Translation for layperson:

"All your life, you will be like the one-handed man hanging from a cliff wanting to scratch his balls."

#vss365

(Apologies to my dear #vss365 friends for my absence. If I wait for a sick society to give a regular supply of water, I will never write. I thank you for your support, best wishes and kind words. Truly mean it.) 

#Vanchiyoor in #Trivandrum is hell

 

Fourth day without water supply.

Unable to participate in #vss365 due to the mental and physical turmoil. 

Sorry.

1/3

#Kerala might be #GodsOwnCountry.

But, the gods here aren't bothered about #CasteDiscrimination.

The gods here won't give the basic human right- #Water - to all!

2/3

If one doesn't belong to the majority in an area, one ceases to exist.

#Vanchiyoor in #Trivandrum is hell for this backward caste family.

3/3

from 'The Other'

 

Dr.: Do you #regret it's over?

Me: Doc, it was over before I married.

Dr.: It's natural for your wife to feel a bit jittery, no?

Me: For her, not even a memory should exist. 

Dr.: It won’t hurt anyone, will it...if you erase that part?

Me: You sound like her, doc. 

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/other.html

from 'This Year's Trip'

 

After 20 years, she got this letter:

"My dear daughter, I have been to a doctor. It seems I am losing my #memory. I would like to meet you. Could you please come to this address? Your loving Appa."

#vss365

from my 2-part short story 'This Year's Trip':

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/12/this-years-trip-part-1.html

boho/bozo

 

Tried a #boho life.

Love, needs and desires changed that. 

The end: a bozo.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

dead-n-dead-n

 

Today evening, I was with a group of old schoolmates. 

Escaped, after 30 minutes, from the #monotonous talk of company that's better off without me. 

The silence of loneliness is not better but I am fine with  the company of ghosts that say dead-n-dead-n...

#truestory

#vss365

way back in January 2026

 

Way back in Jan 2026, we had the #apogee of existential angst of teenagers.

Banned from social media, they roamed like zombies.

That coincided with the start of the In-flu serial killer pandemic.

Someone or something killed influencers. Even those with 100 followers.

#vss365

How many times have I killed myself?

 

How many times have I killed myself?

Not to be a memory lost,

Not to have a #successor,

Not to fear loss,

Not to feel love,

Not even a question.

It's lonely in one's grave,

With the company 

Of all those me's,

Including the one who knew you

When time meant something.

#vss365

Dreams can't be illicit

 

"In my dreams, I see her with me."

"Who?"

"My first love. My only love."

"Weren't you two kids then?"

"So?"

"Do you see her as a kid in your dreams?"

"Of course."

"In your dreams, are you the kid you were or the dirty old man you are?"

"Dreams can't be #illicit."

#vss365

augury

 

Love letters without that word,

Forbidden affair that was open,

A climax before the play began,

A postprandial fantasy 

We thought we would share

With kids and grandkids,

But that was before the whisper 

Of tender care became the #augury 

Of a night that is endless.

#vss365

KO

 

You look #chic, she said,

What do you want, chick, I growled.

Her left hook said rest.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu (definitely not!)

status anxiety

 

At a reunion/On social media.

They are #suave and accomplished.

Status anxiety.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'The Last Time I Wrote About Love'

 

I do not know what the ending will be. Maybe, she has married once again; maybe, I will propose a long time too late.

It is not the ending that #matters.

I will read this to her.

The #last time I wrote about love, she laughed at me.

#vss365

from my story:

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/last-time-i-wrote-about-love.html

from 'Tasks at the End'

 

"I would have taken my life then. You saved me. I will never forget what you did."

"You are blowing it out of proportion."

Talk about death or love or other personal #matters bores me.

#vss365

from my story:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/01/tasks-at-end.html

politically correct

 

A politically correct creative artist is also known as an untrustworthy nincompoop.

#justsaying

pariah

 

To be loveless, a

Pariah at parties, say

"#Learning how to write."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

What is love

 

That's a non-question.

Like asking who's/what's god.

A good party game.

#haiku #senryu ?

relevance

 

With you and others,

I tried to be #relevant.

At last, to myself.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

god's laugh

 

Thought it's an old joke.

Told god our #specific plans.

Laugh-like lightning struck.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Not that...

 

Every day I try to write a love poem,

Not that I know anything about that,

That should be the easiest,

Not that disaster's tougher,

One's my shadow I'm the other's,

Not that it's in my #action list,

One day I'll write about you,

Not that I won't delete before the end.

#vss365

from 'Touch'

 

I took her hand. I opened my fingers, giving her the #option to remove her hand but she kept her palm on mine. I closed my fingers. Gently squeezed her hand. There was a pause before she returned the same. I noted the hesitation. We sat, like kids, happy holding hands.

#vss365

from my story:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/12/touch.html

from 'The Liars'

 

“Romance wouldn’t have touched you with a 20-foot pole!”

“I was that bad, huh?”

“Bad would be an understatement. Only later, much later, did I wonder if that had been your #goal all along.”

“To keep romance away?”

“Yes.”

#vss365

from my story:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-liars.html

writing & love

 

She hates my tales. But, 

Has no #issue with the act. 

Sweet love makes me write.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from here to hers

 

"I need free #transport

From this world to hers," I said.

"Sans soul then?" god said.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

myth reborn

 

Curse the day I got to know that I am a reborn #myth-ological figure.

The tragedy I can handle. Always have. Even without the comfort of it being an old tale.

It's the censorship that's galling. They want my story to suit their rules. 

#vss365

the election season

 

It's the worst season here. The election season. 

That's when we realize how pathetic we are. 

A true #measure of a democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people IF AND ONLY IF we the people make sure the present incumbent will lose. 

I used to be proud of my state for sticking to that fundamental principle. No more.

There's another reason to be depressed. 

Here, religion and caste still decide the candidates. Left, right or center, that has not changed.

And, as if that's not enough, they have removed my favourite choice in recent times: NOTA (none of the above).

#vss365

pulp fiction

 

My #literature.

"Lovely pulp fiction," she said. 

Heartbreak through ego.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'Speechless'

 

I can forget a #language just as easily as I can pick up one. A part of my brain seems to be reserved for this.  

When I realized that, I had to acknowledge the fact that language, and therefore speech, could be irrelevant.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/speechless.html

What's in a name?

 

To know the true worth of your writing, have an alt account with no link between the two accounts.

What's in a name? Lots.

Love's naught without #history,

That too, the wrong one.  

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

in a dream

 

I saw my first love. In a dream. 

On a street, we said Hi and Bye.

Long letters of the past

Reduced to that not ash.

#Geography of the heart is over.

Next class is about history erased.  

#vss365

Education

 

#Education, that 4-syllable word,

Is it useless?

In college, the country's crème de la crème

Asked me if I belong to the lowest caste.

Lowest of the lowest, I said with pride.

Reservation, they probed. No, top rank, I said.

They had never been to an institution

With my lot, I learned. They will never

Understand how reservation might create

A level-playing field for all. Fair, no?

 

Sadly, #education isn't enough

To make idiots less idiotic.

#vss365

Bells toll

 

Around dawn, the doctors met Preethi and Sreekumar again. 

"Arjun is conscious. One person can enter ICU. Give him strength before the surgery," they advised.

“Get Devika here,” Preethi said.

“My wife? For what?” Sreekumar said.

“Bells toll on the #domestic front.” 

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-rivals.html

from 'On Writing'

 

He is not a faultless #creature. He is always searching for a nonexistent state of Utopia. He narrates the night’s nightmare hoping its horror would fade away. He is always teaching the little he gets to know and he seems to be preaching!

#vss365

from 

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/06/on-writing.html

A many-splendoured...

 

A many-splendoured

#Business. That's what love is.

Fiction that's real.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

When time stopped

 

When time stopped #creeping,

We said bye, stopped ignoring

When we thought we could. 

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

zoophobia

 

"Ahoy Archimedes!"

"I didn’t shout Eureka."

"You are outside wet & nude."

"There’s a kitten in my house."

"Aren’t you expecting Whatshername?"

"She brought the kitten."

"Pussy galore."

"#Creep!"

"What caused this zoophobia?"

"Premature unrequited love affairs."

#vss365

True love

 

Heliacal rise

Isn't seen when it pours. Like

True love in bad times.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'Buried Alive' (a vilanelle?)

 

Remain we will on slopes fragile, to skid

When rains will bring old plans disposed, #terror,

A day splendid to find a new god dead,

Buried alive in grave unmarked, my kid.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2021/10/buried-alive.html

When love and desire play hookey

 

We could have loved each other

But there's no point raking up the past

With thoughts of ifs buts and rather than

Sober on a day overcast.

When love and desire play hookey

& there's bitter cold calculation 

In Loss 101 for a rookie,

It's cursèd #Martian education.

#vss365

From 'Alone at Meeting Place'

 

On that day, I stood on this balcony with romantic daydreams of being a hero with the simple dilemma, and #energy, to live or to die for love.

The lady on the balcony next to ours climbed onto the railing and stretched out her right leg.

#vss365 

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/01/alone-at-meeting-place.html

Storm in a teacup

 

"I want tea."

"No tea for you."

"Don't be a bore."

"I hate it when you pour tea from the cup onto the #saucer and then slurp it."

"Give it to me in a glass then."

"Sacrilege."

"You won't?"

"No.

"No steak for you."

"Don't be mean."

"And no..."

"Don't you dare."

#vss365

top spot

 

So much to worry about,

Illness, apocalypse, etc.

But,

Today,

#HappyDiwali to all,

I think about that day,

You left,

28 years back,

But,

There's more,

Love, etc.

We didn't have much time,

But, 

It lasts, 

Forever,

No worry,

Ok, an #atom bomb, maybe,

Can beat that.

#vss365

I avoid

 

I avoid the scatological.

From the poop stained great statues

To the filth that’s spread in god’s name.

I avoid love and poetry too.

From the aphrodisiac to the bitter end

From the sublime to the crass.

I avoid you.

From me

To you.

#SundayMusings

#HappyDiwali

Breakups Anonymous

 

At Breakups Anonymous:

"Couldn't write. Thought my stories are about them."

"She thought I was trying to kill her. Wouldn't believe I go for those with no reason to kill."

"An #android needs 1 Exabyte of memory per month @ 1 kg of gold. Should try cheap human beings."

#vss365

Tell me what comes to mind

 

"Tell me what comes to mind."

"Ok."

"Love."

"Loss."

"#Arid."

"Loss."

"Money."

"Loss."

"Sex."

"Huh?"

"Friends."

"Duh."

"Religion."

"Loss."

"God."

"Huh?"

"Food."

"Where?"

"Dystopia."

"In-laws."

"Politics."

"Outlaws."

"Poetry."

"Huh?"

"Joke."

"Me."

#vss365

Poltergeist

 

I was 14. Travelling alone to Singapore. 

In Madras, went for the 'Poltergeist'.

Guy with 2 dolls sat in front. 3 heads faced me.

"I'm levitating," the lady with bhang thandai said.

"I love you," from the other side. To me. Her bf smiled.

Anything #unearthly? Nah.

#vss365

 

autocorrect

 

Autocorrect sucks.

"Need a #deluxe bride?" she asks.

Didn't I type let's ride?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

good ol' love

 

I miss good ol' love.

Separate bath-bed-rooms with

Deviant #undertone.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

prove my love

 

A weird dream (again).

To prove my love to you (both),

Swim with #piranha.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

libertine

 

"I'm getting married."

"You can't be a #libertine."

"Time we changed our ways."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

I'll be back

 

Had a weird dream.

The Devil took over The God's work. Without a #clash of ego.

My love was given a new life.

The wicked got their comeuppance.

The innocent threw away the shroud of cynicism and smiled. 

Not for long.

"I'll be back," The God had promised.

#vss365

sins of the past

 

One can't escape the sins of the past.

About 25 years back, I went for weddings and looked down on the hoi polloi gobbling down the veg sadya. I did that only when they served 4 or more payasams. (Before that era, I avoided weddings like the plague. I was too young for that and deaths.)

About 10 years back or so, the 3-minute weddings here were extended to include out-of-state features like haldi, sangeet, whatever. Only those who looked good on social media were invited for those events. I was not.

Now, they don't invite me even for the wedding. The bride and groom like to have a grand party with close ones. That's the good news. The bad news is that the parents still hold a function or reception, expect me to give a gift cheque and they serve food which makes the hoi polloi wonder, "Are we really that low class?"

#SundayMusings (on a Monday)

bury myself

 

Is Time #elastic?

Ne'er thought it would hit me

Again.

Restless and insomniac

And happy

Urging the sun to rise sooner

Tongue-tied and anxious

Wake up wake up I beg

To hear that laugh

Before you say

What a kid you are

I bury myself in you

How close we are

Forever.

#vss365

antidote to love

 

"Searching for an #oasis

In the middle of a tropical forest.

Story of my life."

"A, will you please plz stop writing?"

"Swaps, that's my antidote to love. Never failed."

"Is there a woman

Who can tolerate you and 

Your writing? Alas!"

"You are nearly there, woman."

#vss365

from 'Virgin Territory'

 

“Is the door closed?” she asked.

“Who cares?” I said.

It was a #blur after that. There were corny lines.

“I am not going to love you.”

“Me too...”

I am back in her life.

And I do not really know why.

I am not sure why she has accepted me.

#vss365 

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/02/virgin-territory.html

I write to...

 

I write

To #sublimate

Something 

Into some other thing

I could call nothing

To feign 

Some emotion

Without experience 

To lose

Track

Of what I write

And

Wait 

For my love,

My reader,

To misunderstand

And give my life meaning.

#vss365

escutcheon

 

"Class, use the word #escutcheon in a short poem. Swapna?"

"Fancy #escutcheon.

But, the lock's easy to pick.

Matters of the heart."

"Debatable. Arjun?"

"Ma'am, I take the Fifth."

"Why?"

"Do you want my poem on the configuration of adult pubic hair."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Biopic: 3 scenes of 'The End'

Biopic: 3 scenes of 'The End' (with bg music) 

1. The Beautiful South: 'Rotterdam'

Lady Luck's #caprice? 

"She's brain dead. Say your goodbye."

Last touch. I love you.

2. R.E.M.: 'Everybody Hurts'

Indifference hurts.

Authors' #caprice spoil a tale.

Marriage and divorce.

3. Johnny Cash: 'God's Gonna Cut You Down'

Love, when I vanish, 

It will be to love truly.

#Capricious promise.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

 

love mistook

 

When we meet,

Let it be on a fine day,

A far-fetched #eventuality I know,

To have a chance to say

All that I should hide,

So that I am true,

Worthy of you,

To let trouble brew

And when I self-destruct, 

Don't turn to look 

Like you did in that dream 

Of love mistook.

#vss365 

your Hindi whatever

 

#memory

#auldlangsyne

"Is your Hindi whatever over?"

"It's a movie."

"Whatever. Can I change the channel?"

"Why didn’t you say you want to watch something else? Instead of sitting there scowling."

"Enjoying your company."

"Yeah, right."

"Are you interested in going for a movie tomorrow? Morning show. With me."

"Which English movie?"

"The Hindi one with Govinda?"

"Serious?"

"Yes."

"Not whatever?"

"There’s a time and place for Hindi. Definitely not when Morse is showing."

"Why don’t you sit with your Morse tomorrow too?"

"I will. At night. So, date on?"

"Govinda whatever?"

"Yes."

"Ok."

altered

 

Like moths to a flame, we went to the closed school in Simanggang every holiday. 

We knew what would happen whichever game we played there. To nearly all.

No one is complaining. The old #stock of kids is not living up to expectations.

Why wasn't I chosen and altered? 

#vss365

game with no safe word

 

#vss365 

Last night, I went to a strip club

and 

it was hot like bloody Hell

the One on the pole

all black in the eyes

or

was it that One on my lap

a tale of entangled tails

hissed

aren't you the one who killed love

for existential #synthesis,

we give them the best time, 

in a dungeon with no doors

placed on an ice block

it was a game with no safe word

even death could not save me

from the cold nothingness.

pranks

 

#vss365 #flinch

What is this flimsy life without a prank or two?

Do not #flinch when you are the victim. 

Those words are from the One above (or below).

I am just the Messenger (in limbo) for jokers.

1/3

#vss365 #rein

I was 19. Filled my wallet with strips of paper. Went to a fair. Waited to be the target of a pickpocket. He wasn’t very good. Followed him to an alley. Heard him curse. 

Tried to #rein in the vain exultation. 

Stepped out of the shadows. Grinned at him.

2/3

#vss365 #conspire

Now, I follow serial-killers. 

The last one reached his target's house to find the victim murdered. With his MO. 

Divine forces must have #conspired for such a prank, he must have thought.

I made sure the police caught him in the act. No pun intended.

3/3

with nothing to steal

 

"My folks are looking out for a guy for me."

"Shall we tell them we are in love?"

"Cheap #style, partner. Love marriage is for those with nothing to steal."

"I'll register on online matrimony site."

"Any good negotiator?"

"Uncle."

"Mom will demand quid pro quo."

#vss365 

towhomsoeveritmayconcern

 

when I wrote this love poem I knew

you will not read it

ignore it's towhomsoeveritmayconcern

admit the old tropes bore you silly

let's burn this poem you will say

oh let's use it for ohwhat

how can our love reach full #potential 

if we don't read minds or crystal gaze

#vss365

from 'Two Sides of the Coin'

 

'2 Sides of The Coin' offers the better alternative. 

40% of our revenue comes from politics. Every politician wants to have an own group. Language, religion, race, ethnicity are so easily #exhausted. 

What we do is to make today’s kid-of-the-soil tomorrow’s foreigner.

#vss365

For more details about the business:

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/two-sides-of-coin.html

revengeful sublime

 

When the leaves are gone,

The #power of the sublime

Will turn revengeful.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

(Dusk-ThiruOnam 📷 mine)

superstition

 

Don’t be at #doorway

with broom in hand, they insist.

You looked so happy.

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

safe haven

 

"If Newton had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, humanity would have blessed."

"We missed the #chance to get an #article titled '#Gold is not a safe haven' from the Chancellor of the Exchequer."

"Why have they called the bouncers?"

"Well, we are in a jewelry shop."

#vss365

from 'Flower girl'

 

Vishnu was still #conscious. He was curled up like a foetus. 

The brute gave Vishnu’s chest another kick. He picked up a heavy rock, squatted on one knee, ready to crush Vishnu's skull.

"Enough!" 

That order came from behind the crowd.

#vss365

from 

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/11/flower-girl.html

this & that

 

Writing's tough (for me).

1, make the list. Birds, trees, love, war, death, loss, whatnot.

2, cross out everything. Don't copy, stupid.

3, stare at the blank page. The genius act.

4, post that.

5, stare at the four walls (while they tighten the straightjacket).

6,

smell the ink still in the air,

remember that, 

that which was there with this then,

that #eludes me now, and this,

that lovely stink of sweaty us.

#vss365

brain fade?

 

When you asked,

Doubt the Jack-in-the-box and Suspicion 

Tied my shoelaces together,

Browsed the #past, begged AI to crystal gaze,

And

When you were at the door,

I must have asked what you asked,

Do you love me

or 

Was it rhetorical

or 

A statement, 

say,

Get lost?

#vss365 

bright blue morn

 

A bright blue morning. 

Brings wafts of #pungent incense

By your head, my love.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

for myself

 

Why do I write?

It's like love.

For me.

Not for you. 

Perhaps.

It's for #sentient myself. 

Not for robot me.

Cheap over-the-counter love gives me no high.

I've killed for it. 

Lived with guilt.

Not boasting.

Not recommending it either.

Given another chance,

it would still be the same.

Perhaps.

And why does this look like a poem.

When it is not.

That's for cheap love.

#vss365 

threesome

 

"Should we try a threesome?"

"Alone is best for this. Two is an #audacious challenge. Three would be suicidal."

"Good, aren't we, in this murder business?"

"Thx to love & possessiveness. That itself rules out 3."

"Right. Means to an end will become end of the means."

#vss365

the best time with

 

"Appa, what was the best time with Amma?"

"Every moment."

"Appa! What was the really really best?"

"I had a night out with some pals. Drunken #vigil, we used to call it. That night, I knew I was with the wrong company. Left before dawn. Showered. Went to Hotel Rajesh at 6 when they opened. Got a heavy dose of filter coffee. Knocked at her door. We kissed. She said, nice coffee. Ha! Then..."

"Then?"

"Then, you happened."

#vss365

one and the same

 

Why do we compare Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys,

Or The #Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man,

Is it because we are one and the same,

Or you are better than me to remember,

Or should I chase you away, my intruder,

From the silence and darkness of this long long wait?

#vss365

Domesticity

 

"What are you doing?"

"Writing."

"In the middle of..."

"Just a minute."

"It's our first night."

"Not the last night."

"It could be your last word."

"Exactly. Don't wait.

#Pummel the blank page with thoughts.

Domesticity!"

"Bah!"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

censorship

 

Divine vision or #mystical inspiration or whatever it might be, it went against the guiding principles of the school and probably against the ethos of the society. 

The Principal decided that the student and his sketch should go.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/because-of-rain.html

this beast

I've been a beast,

this saint confesses:

not a caress

only roughness,

silence

& fussy deafness,

crude talk

& the excuse of old pastime,

chasing #rainbows

with rotten principles & outrage,

scoff

& make it all your fault,

crack the mirror

hell's too good for this devil.

#vss365

Love's been gone for too long

 

Love's been gone for too long, 

I wouldn't know how I should be-

Scowl in sun-kissed love-nests

Or #laugh in dark godforsaken alleys?

Will these cold eyes find a smile,

Will I swallow the cynical wit,

Do I know how to touch and kiss?

Quite sure it ain't like swimming or cycling.

But then, that too is strange to me,

If it comes in deep water or on two wheels,

There's going to be a valid excuse

To escape from the kiss of life.

#vss365

the other in my office

 

There’s no poetry in my office.

It's 10 feet by 10 feet, a tight pack

Of 4 places – for me & another

And 2 love-birds that coo elsewhere.

I watch the ants perfect a straight march.

I've named the #spider in the left corner.

There's plenty to do till the other arrives...

#vss365 

from 

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2011/03/office.html

from 'The Story of Swapna'

 

Alone, wandering, searching in the vast expanse-

The air spoke past’s agony- the night before dawn.

I was not alone for I could hear a gentle sobbing-

Another lonely heart; breaking #rules, the like did attract.

#vss365

(from 'The Story of Swapna' circa early 90s)

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/his-story-searching-and-finding-1991.html

Do you mind if I say I love you?

 

They caught their breath.

"Do you smoke after sex?"

"Never checked."

"Can I say I love you?"

"Depends."

"Lifelong bondage?"

"Nope."

"Unconditional care with unlimited #sass?"

"Ok."

"Good."

"Well, say it."

"What?"

"Pass the ciggie."

"I love you."

"Me too."

#vss365

from 'The Last Time I Wrote About Love'

 

Which #angel scattered diamonds upon this field –

O wicked one! Why do you #charm me so?

Life seems so light with its wish to join you,

But the gentle air alone caresses and beckons.

#vss365

from 

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/last-time-i-wrote-about-love.html