Ready to welcome the New Year
With a broad smile and close hug,
Can't be in a better place.
Loneliness will get worse,
Old woes that defined life
Will make place for new;
Terrorists will strike thousands,
That #blood won't get the tears,
A god will flee from its idol.
#vss365
To all my friends who mute me,
Happy New Year from me mop
From a place with no water.
"My family has been communist for three generations."
"Mine the Grand Old Party."
"Seriously, guys? Are you aping them in the West with their Democrats, Republicans, Labour, Conservative? Man, there's one #depravity to avoid. Don’t be your ancestors! Learn to think."
#vss365
"This is war. Reaction has to be greater than action."
"What a #strident supporter! Sicko!"
"Kids, enough! No current affairs."
"She calls Jane Austen a feminist. Bah!"
"He says she is a realist!"
"Lizzie chose the richest guy in town, right?"
"Put down your shoe!"
#vss365
When they wanted spies, they came for us. The lovers.
We are committed. Till the end. We gain trust. Their shadows become ours.
When tortured, we #writhe, squeal the fantasy we believe. They think they use us.
We have to feel a high. That's the only problem with us.
#vss365
I see her everywhere.
On empty beaches.
In my sleep.
I have lost every love because of her.
Not every love.
There's one left.
It's the ghosts that aren't ghosts that haunts...#beckons one...to...
#vss365
When others party,
I find ways to get depressed.
So #futile. With you.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
Brahma did not consider himself fortunate with the entrusted task of convincing Siva that his time is up.
Brahma cried,
“For God’s sake, you just #cannot continue like this – every man has to marry, all the other gods have done so and they #cannot let you go free!”
#vss365
I have tried not to venture into the genre of religion and mythology because of three reasons.
This is from the (only?) one I have written: 'Sati and Siva - Love and Frailty'.
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/06/sati-and-siva-love-and-frailty.html
Got up groggy
Wondered
If I should fight
For no cause any cause
But today
I shall rest
After these foolish lines.
It's that season when I contact long lost people.
I tried three. Said, "Hello."
Responses were:
1: "Who you?"
2: "Ah! The dog in the #manger, huh?"
3: "I still love you."
Checked the profile photos. The last must be a wrong number. The lady does not look stupid.
#vss365
Don't be a poet,
Avoid #convoluted stuff.
Make love and eat well.
#vss365
#HappyHolidays
#haiku #senryu ?
Democracy is the best,
says the bird high,
it swoops down,
picks the flaw,
#hitherto buried,
for all by all of all,
what a joke,
in every constituency,
all for the majority there,
nada for the minority there,
fascists, commies, liberals,
shoo away our nosy bird.
#vss365
There's been no water supply the last 3 days. (19 days or so without water in Nov-Dec, 2023.)
The majority here, by way of religion/caste, get it 24x7. The discriminated have to beg for a drop.
In the best of times, we get water around 4am for an hour. When the majority sleep.
It wasn't a dream.
I could fly
Between clouds
Forgetting all
Below me,
War & death,
Love & such #kitsch,
Politics & such sick,
Money oh yes money.
It wasn't a dream.
I forget what it was.
#vss365
Cursed be this son – victim, vandal or voyeur?
Each fleck of ash from the #pyre be sin’s attire!
Blame the brother – of bondage – that be the mortal excuse!
But seeking no reply – each cry, tear and look forever accuse!
#vss365
from 'Setting' (old one)
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/setting-1992.html
There's not much to #celebrate
When you hear people party
Without a thought for the forgotten
Staring at the sunset till midnight
Remembering the other that lingers
That old party with that one love
Without a thought for the forgotten...
Goodbye, old lingering love.
#vss365
A rainy Sunday,
Yawns good morning, with #loose screw
Tries philosophy;
Why do you like me,
A rhetorical question
Under A-not-Q;
Shifts to prayer mode,
To the many-avatar
There's the usual said;
One more creak and stretch,
It's time to #celebrate life,
To feign great purpose.
#vss365
#haikufeels
#haiku #senryu ?
For the young couple, the trip was ‘fine food, dysfunctional a/c, bad sex’. They studied seasoned couples. "We will be that", they said, renewing their not-#yet-old marriage vows, "to walk hand in hand, when old", imagining themselves in picture perfect postcard scenes.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/footsteps-in-dark.html
Uncle Hosappan was a communist in 1962. He has two #tomes from those days: 'Relativity and dialectical materialism' and a censored 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'.
He converted to capitalism in 1973 before his 2nd marriage. He remained a capitalist even after the third.
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/11/freedom-in-china-nilekanis-iud.html
"I thought this defect in 2D was a #singularity. It wasn't. It escaped into 3D.
I chased it to curved spaces. There are rules there. Take the hair on your head. Singularities are a must."
My love escaped long before that. Next date, no defects. Hydrodynamics, perhaps.
#vss365
It's dark and raining. I'm by the window in our office. Lashed by wind, branches and rain.
You are startled when you enter. Unsure.
I raise my arm. You slip in. Between me and nothing.
We dream of a future together. Not as the #volant souls we are, before the fall.
#vss365
I could have been better
Not embarrassed you
But you too thought so
When we weren't together
We weren't made for each other
There must be better others
But in the amateur's snap
We are the sublime marred
By that which needn't be there
By that which makes it more so.
#poem ?
'Love's a many splendoured thing';
Try your luck with any other niggle-
ABuse, Caste/Class, Discrimination,
EFfinG politicians of any party,
issue HtoZ in any #vernacular,
outside one's echo chamber;
& your weary mate will say,
"Wtf, talk about bloody love & chill."
#vss365
"Kids, in this first class of sex ed, let's talk about love."
(Silence.)
"Arjun?"
"Love gained
Gives less than love lost-
Poets we become,
Our words welcomed."
"Swapna?"
"The Devil utters not utter #poppycock.
Love is a problem,
With those who will always lose."
#vss365
I used to write for her.
With each word, I bared
Not my soul.
That's easy.
Thoughts, confusion,
Swing from #apoplectic
To numbness,
All so common.
I missed the thought bubble,
"Take it easy,
She can't take
That
You can't take."
She did.
Till she went.
Too soon.
#vss365
Be an #optimist,
#Welcome all the crazy thoughts.
Says the shrink on couch.
#vss365
#haikufeels
#haiku #senryu ?
History books say that a kid caused this. By hitting a button named '#transform'.
It started in 2024.
Memory is out of fashion. No one has it. Some have patches of images. They can't be sure it's theirs.
There are a few mutants with total memory. They are crazy.
#vss365
