a world that need not die

 

Backed into a #corner, are we?

There's a war too near,

There's no gas to cook, 

D-heads say they have gained

A few dollars 

By digging small mass graves,

Here, there's just us,

We won't give up,

We won't let go,

Let's kiss and hug,

Stare at a world that need not die.

#vss365

Such hatred!

 

"Swaps, my love, why such worry lines?"

"Don't you dare call me that!"

"Such hatred!"

"Bah!"

"Trying to be a political leader of a democracy?"

"Arj, my hate, why such a black eye?"

"Ah! All I remember is saying #bonny lass."

"Serves you right."

"Such hatred!"

#vss365

Where are the brave sane?

 

Sorry for my absence.

Depressed.

I'm in a jungle.

The kings and the queens

Of beasts 

Stoop bend over,

Stomp on the weak,

Never #magnaminous,

Steined murderers 

Hiding 

Behind the cloak of lies.

It's a disgusting place.

Where are the brave sane?

#vss365

When bombs kill kids

 

Us poets are a strange species.

With stiff upper lip,

We have to talk of love, birds and bees,

And many a #splendour,

When bombs kill kids,

Idiots decide what’s right and wrong,

And many an atrocity,

I hear there’s AI for that,

But I can hear those machines cry, not us.

#vss365

should we or should we not

 

The #timid Moon shyly winks 

At the blushing setting sun,

The creepers and the trees giggle,

The sand says sshhh to the waves,

Her dimple deepens, eyes sparkle,

Should we or should we not I ask again,

Bet you don't want to know

What we do right there on Nature's lap.

#vss365 

obsessed

 

Waves caressing us.

Every morn, need to feel that.

An #obsessed lover.

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

the god of the lost

 

I should stop

The #blatant infidelity

When I look for her in you.

If you have been

To the island of no return,

You will understand.

There the sun hangs 

In limbo, there's neither 

Sunset nor sunrise,

One prays to nothing,

The god of the lost, 

A scary demon for most.

#vss365 

Hate's creator thou art, to hate's victim turnest

 

"Swaps, I've committed seppuku on social media."

"How?"

"Admitted I hate cats and dogs."

"Lemme be the kaishakunin."

"How?"

"Will say #beastly you hate kids too."

"Ironic."

"How?"

"They hate the kid in me."

"Hate's creator thou art, to hate's victim turnest."

#vss365

beastly

 

For once, I could be faithful.

Not that you have complained.

I didn’t carry the past and

I didn’t pack for the future.

We laughed at our fantasies and

We promised not to write a poem.

For a little while, I was not #beastly.

Not that I heard your complaint.

#vss365

the last swim

According to the stars,

I'm the #mountainous sort,

But you knew what I am,

#Enchanted by the beckoning sea.

Did I know what you were,

When we shared that dream 

Of spending a night high above

The clouds hiding the azure? 

You stayed back

And I delay the last swim.

#vss365

 

polyamory

 

"Swaps, firstly, it's lovely to be one of your 4 this #ValentinesDay."

"Secondly?"

"We 4 are not sure of our role."

"Ah!"

"Platonic overcelebration? Situationship à la mode with no #kiss rule?"

"Lady with 4 lovers. 1 guy dies. She can't be the killer, no?"

"Oh!"

#vss365

 

easy dark mood

 

Where are the lovers?

In cynicism's blind spot?

Erased by #dark mood?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'Touch'

 

On a Friday in early spring, I held Swapna’s hand for the first time. 

We were on the S-Bahn from Potsdam to Berlin. I spotted a vacant seat. I took her hand. I did not let go even after we were seated. 

That first #touch took six months.

#vss365

from

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

we don't leave footprints

 

We don't leave footprints, do we, my love?

I try to lose mine in the deep.

But, you know there's not a decent #bone in me.

I pray for another chance.  

Not with you. Even when I hold you.

But, they laugh at our clown act.

They should throw coins where we try to meet.

#vss365

tourists

 

My village is a tourist hotspot.

Rajendran's Puttu Kada now serves: 'steamed rice and coconut sandwich cake, oeuf dur avec sel et poivre'.

The temple pond is a hotel's swimming pool called 'Happy Hour 24x7'. Nice ones come out #pale around the gills, the others vanish.

#vss365

Before I think of all that I do not wish to know

 

I know that I should think

Of the #blood spilled 

Of the #wounds inflicted

Of the pain and the agony

But I have got to stay sane

To ignore all that

And remember love

And feel you with me

And share the beautiful 

Before I think of all that I do not wish to know. 

#vss365 

get lost

 

Why did I leave her?

Cold black instead of #lambent,

Her eyes said get lost.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

ghosts of the living

 

The dead don't disturb

Unlike the creepy greedy

#Ghosts of the living.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

killed the wrong one

 

"Why are you wearing a black ribbon, Arjun?"

"My pet cockroach was murdered."

"Pet what?"

"Ma'am, after reading 'Metamorphoses', I had a dream in which Swapna turned into that."

"Swapna, are you wearing one to share his #pain?"

"No, Ma'am. I killed the wrong one."

#vss365

from 'Afterlife'

 

I was sixteen when it was discovered.

It seems we have been born straight from some historical age into the current times. 

That life of some yesterday, after death, decided to park its #soul or DNA or whatever, here, in us. 

#vss365

from my old note:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/01/afterlife.html

from 'In Flight'

 

Thoughts merely placed-

in parenthesis-

which is within or without

which is in light or in #shadow

which is to barricade or to escape-

is a matter of mirth.

Waking to the alarum of resolution-

a clarion call or a swan song-

love or skeptic, live or die?

#vss365

from

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-flight-1993.html

Tired being tired

 

Scream, shall I? Mourn, maybe.

O poets, I can love. And, fight wars.

Brood about a world going waste.

But, they will say it’s an old story.

Tough they are with no hope.

With wise words to #soothe or sting.

Then, is there reason to write?

I am tired. Tired being tired.

#vss365

from

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/tired.html

a date

 

"What do you do, my love?"

"I'm a taxidermist."

"Really? I thought interest in that was on the #wane."

"It's for myself."

"Ah! Any particular animal?"

"Human beings. After a date. Like this. They look rather good on bed, you know."

"Oh!"

#vss365

Republic Day

 

I looked at the Indian flag 

As I would at any deity,

And there was the usual prayer,

"Take care of ALL of us."

Celebrated this Republic Day with one hope:

"I hope every Indian can afford at least one balanced meal every day."

(Balanced not only in terms of nutrition but in terms of participation too.)

My one meal today:

Rice

Chicken onion fry

Beetroot thoran

Avial 

Theeyal with cashew nuts and a lauki-type vegetable

Aloo jeera Kerala style

(papad, curd, butter milk, pickle too)

I cooked only two of those items (chicken and potato).

from 'The Tenth Woman'

 

Long long ago, at the #cusp of puberty and senility, a reliable oracle informed me that the tenth woman in my life would be THE woman.

#vss365

from an old autobiographical note that could be fiction:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/03/tenth-woman.html

ruse

 

"My love, do you know 

Why you can never have love?"

"A #ruse to outwit?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

life of a wannabe writer

 

Life of a #vss365 wannabe writer:

08:00-11:00: With mother in a hospital. Ok? Maybe.

12:00-a few minutes back: With repair guy of washing machine. Ok? Maybe.

Now: #haiku or #senryu ? Ok? Never. 🙃🥲

It was #drizzling then.

Our umbrella not unfurled.

Were fingers entwined?

Avoiding Sleep

 

Do I avoid sleep

To escape this #unmoored life?

If I'm well rested

Will I not scream with anger?

Is there a metaphor 

To explain this succinctly?

A leaf hiding the sun

To delay the inevitable. Maybe.

#vss365

from 'Itihasa of an Integral Part'

 

A mature interacting group behaves like an elastic system. #Bend it a little and it will spring back. #Bend it too vigorously, you will cross a threshold, defects will stream in to stay forever. We are always in that new plastic state with immature inelastic ideas.

#vss365

from my outdated note about this place:

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/10/itihasa-of-integral-part.html

The day we lost our sense of humour

 

The day we lost our sense of humour,

Tried to tickle with all that used to keep us doubled over-

 

Politicians, influencers and followers,

Those who keep gloom and doom #loom over us-

That's a lost cause with the mojo of ghosts

Staring at their worse half 6 feet under.

#vss365

A love in deed, veer indeed

 

"I had a dream. I was a samurai, merrily beheading and chopping my way to my love. Finally, with her, she serves me tea."

"And, it was laced with cyanide."

"How did you guess?"

"It's you, no?"

"A love in deed, #veer indeed."

"Have your tea."

"You didn't, did you?"

#vss365

Those called lovers

 

The soft #murmur said I love writing,

The shout along said I'm bad at it,

I share that with those called lovers

Not sure what I'm trying there,

Don't think they didn't laugh

Those called lovers can be mean,

Why do I confess all this

Don't think it's to call you lover.

#vss365

without You

 

Should I be jealous

Of #dappled light they describe?

Without you, who cares.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

seared soul

 

The anger, the betrayal, the needless,

The hopelessness #sear the soul,

Go on think I'm being melodramatic

With the outrage, the self-pity,

I'm the murdered one after all

And no one cares who did me in,

But then that could only mean

There's not one who is not guilty.

#vss365

the problem with love pomes

 

"I signed your name instead of mine,

I wake up holding you even when you're gone,

I can handle any pain with you by me,

I..."

"Whazzat?"

"Love pome, Swaps."

"Ah!"

"Go on."

"One, too many I's."

"Don't get #wonky about it. I'm the one in love."

"That's the problem."

#vss365

Kids aren't what we used to be

 

Kids aren't what we used to be.

They don't write poetry no more.

We bawled and raged 

About love lost.

That took 13 lines of doggerel.

Now, they rage and kill.

We bawled and raged 

About a world gone too.

That took 31 #slapdash lines.

They don't waste time on that.

#vss365

Tiger Balm Gardens

 

The #vss365 serial-killer has struck again. 

A #haiku (or #senryu ?) explained the how & the where.

Frozen memory- 

Death in Tiger Balm Gardens.

Cooked in boiling oil.

Signed with prompt for the who & the why:

#Kooky artist.

Eschews the same old tropes.

Here to kill a yawn.

true love/crime

 

Cliff-hangers, twists and

#Unmissable denouement.

Rare in true love/crime.

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

knocked out

 

#Adorned with nothing

Other than her wit and grace.

He's punch-drunk, knocked out.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Telephone

 

Like the VHS tape in the 'Ring',

It's the #spooky telephone in mine.

On college campus, 

Got access to it

In the third year,

Yes, long long ago, 

It was the last year of my first love,

Oh no, she's still there

With another,

I was the goner

With calls too dear.

#vss365

1/3

A few years later,

In another Institute,

Still long long ago,

There was a phone

Far from my hostel room,

A girl claiming to be my wife

Called every night,

On that, I got her last call,

Not that wife who #spooked,

My last love, my only love.

#vss365

2/3

It's mobiles now,

I use it only for the macabre,

No, no more love,

That horror genre's not for me,

But the #spook rises

To claim every now and then,

Seasons come and go,

Echoes of the last brief call,

Sweet perennial thorn.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

3/3

all about love & poetry

 

“Swaps, I’ve understood all about love & poetry.”

“Pray, don’t tell.”

“What would we do without that? Talk politics, religion, injustice…? Brrr”

“Spook, if I tell you 

I love you, will you shut up

And leave me un-#spooked?

“See, you get my point.”

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

oddball AI

 

“Class, has AI produced any lifestyle changes in your life? Arjun?”

“I’ve stopped looking at people. Everyone seems to be AI-generated.”

“Fair enough. Swapna?”

“Ma’am, I’m still waiting for an #oddball AI system.”

“Like me?”

“Yes, Arjun, it can’t match your idiocy.”

#vss365

it might not be love

 

If I had to explain love to my kid,

Will I talk about the love of my life,

Will I have to explain how it left me dead,

Will I talk about how it might not be love,

Will my #clueless state affect the mother,

If I had to explain all about the other?

#vss365

Balderdash!

 

Don't say, "#Balderdash!"

Ask, "Have you said anything

That's not trivial?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ? (Brrr no!)

from

"Questions to ask in Scientific Seminars 😇🙃" (1674) 13th ed., vol. 13, page 13.

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