Around 18:30, I received my wife's call. She talked about her trip. Then,
"How was your day?" she asked.
"I took leave," I said.
"What did you do?"
"I went to Seetha's house for lunch."
#Solitude shifted from my right to the left and whispered, "Call me Loneliness."
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/24-hours-in-urban-reality-show.html
Every Dec. 29, I think about my past 'sins'.
1. Showing the middle finger in every photo.
2. After the hostel warden's lecture on #decorum, playing Zappa's 'Wet T-Shirt Nite' on my boombox.
3. Forgetting wedding anniversary.
...
Moral: Have new sins for new year.
#vss365
Social media taught:
1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3 = 2025
The moral of the story:
In 2025,
Think out of the cube.
#haiku #senryu #Aarghh 🙃😇😎
Our Mills & Boon Reading Club will not see 2025.
A #schism, an existential crisis, has demolished the barricade against the onslaught of reality, bloodying our pages with crime, gore and platonic friendship. To fantasize or not to, that is not even the question now.
#vss365
You can see me everywhere but you can't,
A #reflection in the subway, another homeless.
We can pretend to care, say the right stuff,
But we can't be true once, to anything.
We can demolish and build, Nature's way,
We can't preserve life and dignity, that's unnatural.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2022/01/can-cant.html
Dreams that are not nightmares
But leaves that aftertaste,
It's a quiet poltergeist
Waiting for me to sleep,
The last time we made love
With death knock-knock-knocking,
Leaving a lone zombie
Scared and angry with all.
#poem ?
Chicken-n-egg story,
My writing and my love,
A recent niggling doubt
Is behind much heartburn,
If she is in my arms
Trusting me to do right,
Will I pick up my pen
And write about the wrong,
Create a #mnemonic
Perhaps, to remember...her?
#vss365
"Her dark hair straying across that beauteous fair face,
Those tear stained cheeks glisten as moonlit waters...
Heeeheehee"
"Why are you laughing, Swapna?"
"O knight in rusty armour, if there's a cheek that glistens, it will be yours."
"This is fiction. I can dream!"
#vss365
Those two lines are from an old 'pome' of mine:
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/his-story-searching-and-finding-1991.html
I knew love is not for me
When I got the writer's block
With no more bad lines like this
To be labelled #poetry.
I remember those long days
When I could not sleep thinking
Of long stanzas good for her
To scoot without a goodbye.
I miss the godawful notes
When the blank pages stare back,
How I wish I could promise
I won't trouble her like that.
It’s time for the rites of the high seas,
By lots let's decide whom to cease.
You, me, the others? Whose blood will soak?
Whose flesh will fill? Let senses go broke.
If it’s me, feed on me without a qualm,
If it’s you, I'll try to be calm.
Ah! This lunatic #tranquility.
#vss365
There used to be a sailors’ custom when they are stranded on the high seas - of taking lots to decide who to eat.
I remember this 'pome' (written 30 years back) because a friend asked me to write it on her Valentine's Day card to her love. Did it last? The love...🙃
#truestory
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/sailors-custom-1993.html
Ain't superstitious
But ever since
The #vss365 prompts
Came out only at 07:00 GMT
I have had
One excuse or another
And each one
Better than the other
Not to write
Ain't complaining
But
It's tough to say
I
Ain't superstitious...
🙃
I'm a liberal guy
But love should be banned.
How can I not compare
Your friendship with that?
She's no more and you're there
But that's not enough.
The grey cells should burn red
And the balls turn blue.
Forgive my crude lingo
But that's the plain truth.
#poem ?
It's that time of the year
To forget all that one should forget,
To stare at the sun (for cheap #drama)
To burn images that hurts,
Is it the black or the white smoke
That remains of the preserved,
Resolutions will not last I know,
I'll reconstruct another set of you.
#vss365
Our relationship reached a low plateau. Is it a saddle-point? Will one wrong step make us #descend to the agreed polite exit? Are there paths to unknown highs from the doldrums?
Seasons change, hair and teeth fall, bones become brittle, eyesight blurs, hearing fades...
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/05/seconds.html
He opens the door. She enters.
He places her luggage by the wall. Next to a #creeper. Hidden baggage. Hiding arrivals and departures.
Their eyes search each other’s. With tears and smile. He takes her right hand. Kisses it. She tenses. Tries to take her hand away.
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/just-for-weekend-from-scrap-shop-v.html
When Amit wrote his 50th love letter (49 w/o reply), I warned him that such #devotion goes unreciprocated.
Yesterday:
"What do I do? After 49..."
"50."
"50th was to another girl."
"Ah! Have both replied?"
"Ah! Yes."
It's possible only such devotion gets reciprocated.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/07/devotion.html
"If there are more than 2 #parameters in a physics theory, one can make an elephant go through a needle hole."
"And, how's that relevant on this date?"
"Love has too many unknowns."
"And, there are no elephants to go through any..."
"Shhh"
"Let's go home."
"Let's."
#vss365
To be a proud #citizen:
1. Get the blessings of a religious leader in the village of one's nomadic ancestors.
2. Take 3 tests there:
a. Roll on hot coal.
b. Lifted to a great height, lowered suddenly and, on each descent, thrashed with metal pipes.
c. Need-to-know.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/01/idea.html
"Is this for your wedding photoshoot?"
"Yupp."
"You dressed up like a #tardigrade, your partner in birthday suit?"
"Yupp."
"Well, you are paying.
Coupling is crazy.
Who knows the right recipe?
Likes or opposites?"
"Plz take the photos."
"Yes, boss."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu
"Can I be your Swapna?"
That made me think.
"Who should be Swapna? Will I feel irritated with the wrong one? Am I desperate?"
I smiled at the young man. He seemed relieved not to get a reply.
"#Yes" would have put an end to all that she is not. And, all that she is.
#vss365
