While I wrote the love poem,
I heard her fading footsteps –
Black ink on yellowing pages
Lasts longer with empty jokes;
While I fought for my life
I felt a gentle hand in mine –
Guiding me to new #tie-s but
Without a heart, I let it slip.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/08/while.html
Every man has an alpha female.
For my gang of eight, she is the one.
We got a message from her,
“In town on the 30th of July.”
So, here we are on this Saturday morning: most disheveled, some dishabille, all distraught and distant; or in plain words, bloody #tense.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/06/arrival-of-alpha-female.html
Linger a little longer
while I tell you a true tale
when time moved slower
with pen and paper
bearing the weight
of hopes and thoughts
the message
crossed darkly
but not deleted
forever...
#FromOneLine
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/4-deal.html
At 15, Arjun and Shreya got the other's name tattooed on the wrist.
Capt. Arjun was declared MIA in the war of '23.
He turned up at Shreya's flat in '32.
"Hi, I'm Capt. Arjun."
"Hello, I'm Prof. Arjun."
She stood behind the latter, her #tear-caressed tattoo intact.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/03/tattoo.html
I #saw my love write this:
You
are an attractor strange
In
the chaos that's my life;
Forever
through joy and strife,
That
path true trust will arrange.
#vss365
(about her dog.)
I thought I was Lennon reborn
Till the day I got a hit
With her tennis #racket.
I could have been Lennon reborn
She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do, oh yeah.
#vss365
"Talk about a traumatic incident in your life."
"A girl wanted to meet me. She was getting married. I told a friend to #pick me up after five minutes."
"Uh-huh."
"She came with a beautiful girl. It was love at first sight."
"Then what..?"
"My friend was punctual."
"Ah!"
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2015/07/mental-evaluation.html
Most days of #mine--
angry or insomniac or
sedate or with
Time goose stepping to nothing--
are like friends,
a loud laugh or
a yawn between drinks or
quid pro quo,
Or with other
meaningless means,
waiting for an end
without a beginning.
It's those days--
when we curl crush
lips locked
fondling
lace ripped
the waves
against barricades--
that's like a stranger
met between racks
in a supermarket
away from family and
all one calls #mine
that seconds-long look
revealing sharing
a tale for no one else.
#vss365
‘I thought you didn’t like the birdie types.’
‘Love #conquers all.’
‘Love...you...really?’
‘She was searching for Karl Marx, found Groucho. I was looking for Edwige Fenech, got Greta Garbo.’
‘Who were we searching for...back then?’
‘Me? You.’
‘Me too. Not you.’
#ConverStory
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/05/reunion.html
The honeymoon cottage looked interesting.
When I (almost) put my #foot on that hallowed ground, the security guy shouted, "Hey, you can't go there!"
From within, "Why does HE tell us THAT whenever we try?"
Déjà vu! For Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach. And, many couples!
#vss365
What a lovely sight, sublime for all!
Yesterday, you were in my arms, sweet love.
Today, you are on the rocks below, dearest.
What a lovely sight, with none to block!
"Ma! Pa! The man next door is being bad to his wife!"
"What...Oh! Oye, there are kids here! Not on the balcony! Shooo!"
"Ssshhh! Oye, we are making kids here! What...Oh!"
"Go inside, you two!"
"But, Ma!"
"You too, #frozen Pa of our son not made on the balcony!"
#ConverStory
"#Food comes first, then morals."
It wasn't the first time I misused Brecht's words in 'The Threepenny Opera'.
It wasn't the first time I missed a meeting of Cannibals Anonymous.
#vss365
"Look at my selfie."
"And, where are you in the photo?"
"This room is cursed."
"Cursed?"
"Go on, take a selfie. The photo will have everything but you."
"I love this room."
#ConverStory
The birds need not know.
We will look at the beauty,
Kill all free #fine fair.
#haiku
#sernyu
#vss365
The aroma of freshly ground coffee entered the bedroom replacing the musky odour of #animal spirits.
She followed it to find him in pyjamas with every comic figure. In his arms, a stuffed teddy.
Her immediate reaction was guilt, ‘Did I have sex with him last night?’
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-inequality-between-equals.html
Spam is Trouble.
May:
the sender's #address
that of old teacher,
Msg: "Lost wallet in Bangkok
Msg parlour. Need money. Help!"
June:
from ex-wife
Msg: "Mugged in Vancouver.
Send money. Help!"
(Mugged in Vancouver??)
Today:
from girlfriend
I killed.
Blank msg.
Help!
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/10/spam.html
“With any other couple, I would tell the husband in my position to quit the scene.”
“But, I am his...”
“You are not a label.”
“What should I...we do?”
“We will do what adults do. Let time play its part.”
We have two kids now. We don't call it #polyandry, just love.
#vss365
from
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2021/04/king-solomons-wife.html
“That's my land. Not theirs,” Sundar said.
“Land is land. Not yours.”
“You give yours then.”
“We gave away all we had to the needy.”
“My land, to me, is like my mother. But then, you will #screw your own mother. Common property!”
That night, Sundar was hacked to death.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-land.html
Friday night,
I was the lover
To drool over,
All heart's show.
Saturday,
Face #powder gone,
Thoughts aright
Above tonsils (below navel).
Sunday noon,
Soul by the window,
Staring blankly,
Skirting issues.
Then,
8 & 100 hrs
Of Lizol, mop, bills, P/Ls,
A quickie maybe.
#vss365
It is always the same #acid
That dissolves relationships.
Indifference as understanding
Ignores the stink of others;
When lies burn and spread,
Inert like a boiling frog;
Hope, sick and bare, feigning life,
Why is it a lesson never learned?
#vss365
I once called her #munch-kin,
She called me pumpkin.
When I scowled,
She frowned.
You used to call me Big Ethel she said,
And look how you have turned out I said.
I am not sure why we never kissed,
Life is full of purposely missed chances.
#vss365
"Oooh, I love your #farm. That calf was so chweet, the mother didn't have to be so protective."
"Stand still, let me hose you down. You didn't have to fall into the dung pit. Oye, don't remove that towel."
"But, there's no one..."
"Trees have eyes..."
#ConverStory
It's that type of morn,
A cool refreshing one
Such as that when we acted
A couple after a sweaty night,
At Koshy's for hot appam
And a #pot of stew
With the Sunday church lot,
We winked and whispered
How we acted silly
That morn,
The jealous one
Made it our last.
#vss365
"What's a #tart? This interview guide's weird! Read Q1."
"What comes after 69?"
"Not 70. Mouthwash, it says. Q2.."
"What does one hear before the pubic hair hits the ground?"
"Ththu??"
"This interview is for?"
"Sainthood. Btw, isn't a #deodarant just that?"
#vss365
#ConverStory
"What's today's #vss365 prompt?"
"#Patriotic."
"Brrrr...I'll have to tell my friends I won't be liking most of the posts with that."
"Why don't you try #ConverStory?"
"Ah! That reminded me of the politician who told Wolverine 'May the #force be with you.'"
"What did Hugh do?"
#Egalitarian?
03:00 Airport driver (that's Me),
Them picked up. Ha! Ha!
#haiku ?
#vss365
Do you remember our night there?
We took time getting used
To the birds, bees, other pests,
And that #foreigner we called Sparrow-kuttan
Must have seen all that we did.
There, I got to know what love is.
If I talk about it, it might fly away,
Not our Sparrow-kuttan.
#vss365
