ways of love

 

Why did #ardour end

When we were ready to lie 

In the ways of love?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

autonomy

 

"Will you marry me?"

"Surrender #autonomy?"

"Yours or mine or ours?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Where are you?

 

Where am I?

 

"Swapna, where is Arjun?"

"I got a message from him: 'Woke up in a strange city (see photo). Please collect.'"

"Do you know where he is?"

"About 1000 km from here."

"And?"

"Not interested in lost and found, ma'am."

"Show some #altruism."

"He won't...remain lost."

#vss365 

Sue Zed

 

When Vishnu suggested the long hike, it was not out of #amity. He knows I'm allergic to physical exertion.

And, he had caught me peeping at Sarada, his attractive and mysterious neighbor.

Shivers should have gone down my spine when he said, "Let's go to Sue Zed point."

#vss365

adapted from

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

from 'Spouse without benefits'

 

It was love at first sight. For me.

"I love him so much. Plz help me marry him," she said.

Felt like a martyr. Wanting to kick myself. I assumed a Sherlockesque pose oozing #astuteness, drooping eyes, steepled fingers, what-not.

But, it was time for guts, no thought.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/02/spouse-without-benefits.html

'acuperson'

 

"Class, in today's Whose Line Is It Anyway, let's use #acumen. Swapna?"

"Why is it so rare-

True romantic acumen,

Matter of the mind?"

"Oxymoron? Good point. Arjun? Don't be an idiot."

"It is amazing-

Linguistic acuperson

In women I love."

"Oh, plzzz."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu

from 'Swapna'

 

As I held her close, I hoped she would not hear the rumbling of impotent rage within.

She has to go. There is only one way to go without goodbye.

Is it because of the prevailing dark gloomy despondence?

Nothing has really changed. 

#Awareness screwed up everything.

#vss365

from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2020/04/swapna.html

writer's block

 

From the article, 'Dan Jacobson on the story of stories': 

"The duality of a really good short story constitutes its expression of our human awareness that everything in life is full of significance, and at the same time that nothing in it has any significance at all..."

That did not help my writer's block. I have been staring at a blank page wondering if it is full or empty. Do not read too much.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-this-blog-about.html

Ellipsis

 

"You are #aglow with..."

"Go on..."

"It's so difficult with you...even compliments..."

"Well, it should come from your heart, or better, from your mind, not..."

"We have one common..."

"Ellipsis..."

"Will you..."

"Shut up! It's Sunday morning."

#vss365

Privacy. Duh!

 

'...they set the sheets #ablaze...'

"Aha!"

"Don't look at my writing in progress."

"Why not?"

"Privacy. Duh!"

"I've such privileges."

"No, you don't."

"Crime fiction?"

"No."

"Come on."

"Erotica."

"Who is the 'they'?"

"That's why I told you not to look at it."

#vss365

AI X.0

 

"You're ruining my rep, my dear. I'm supposed to be rational. & here I am, in love with a ghost."

"The prerequisite

For love is #avidity.

Not rhyme nor reason."

"Prickly humans!"

"A humanoid having the hots for a ghost requires more than intelligence."

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu

What are they really thinking?

 

Problem with #ardour-

What are they really thinking?

Live for the moment?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Government (or lack of it)

 

"Swapna, where did you go to destress? Some spa? Or guru?"

"There’s no better place than a govt office to realize the pointlessness of life."

"It's their apathy,

That kills one's #alacrity 

With ways so arduous."

"Arjun, not your pomes, plz!"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

#NoWater

After they held hands

 

It was romantic when they held hands. During the break between the main course and the dessert, he described an old flame as "the highlight of her profile was her Adam’s #apple". "And, yours is a pot belly", she retorted. From that moment on, it was a race to the exit. 

#vss365

from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-funny-valentine.html

How to read a diary

 

Diaries flout the laws of gravity.

The heavy hovers at the top, 

The empty falls to the bottom.

The devil might be in the details

Or is she in pages with too little?

Based on an old short story of mine 'Reading Diaries'.

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/09/reading-diaries.html

gender neutrality

 

To participate in sports, we had to fill out a form.

In that boys school, the entry 'Sex:' required considerable thought. 

Shekhar, the realistic fantasist, wrote: 'Once a week.'

Winston, with spelling issues, bragged: 'Summa cum loud.'

I tried honesty: '#Flexible.' 

#vss365

complain

 

"Why didn't u complain sooner?"

said every jackass 

From KG teacher to judge & executioner,

"Ha! Don't get ur knickers in a twist 

About #melons or breed! Ha!"

Yes, my love, 

I'm in it for something, 

Is that the crime,

Or when u ignore all

And write about the sublime?

#vss365