"Seen this, Swaps?"
"What, A?"
"Today's headline is a #haiku.
Huge tariff on jokes.
Register to #canoodle.
Big Brother is Here."
"redruM."
"Don't get the second line."
"Can't find anyone?"
"Where should I register for a can of noodle?"
"We need you in politics."
#vss365
I wish I knew a wise poet
To lay bare love.
She will hear out my tragic case,
Scoff at the acidic guilt burning,
"That alone keeps old love alive."
And, smirk at new love.
"Cream on stale cake to sate #desire.
Who wants to know
What we think
When we say
I love you."
#vss365
"Arjun, why are you standing outside the Principal's office?"
"I erased the Thought for the Day."
"What did it say?"
"God is the tangential point between zero and #infinity."
"Why?"
"Dunno. Got too close to that point."
"I will stand with you."
"Oh."
#vss365
#truestory
how many times have I
stood like a fool
expecting
a bit of love
to leave with
nothing given
something taken
Mother says
it is worse for Her
not even expecting
a bit of decency
from her #guilty kids
to be left used
barren and dead
#vss365
#vss365
On #sempiternal love:
I forgot about you,
And I still
Call you my one love.
Is that the norm or not,
And that's me
Trying to evade.
I could generalize,
Find comfort
In ways to survive.
Let me state the obvious,
If there was
Another to love,
It would be the same tale,
Or will I
Remember you then?
#truestory
I asked a girl I liked
If I had abused her then,
"You were like all then."
We were bad in many ways
But we were good in trusting none,
"Ain't whitewashing what's done."
On a dark stormy night
Thought of the #cerulean sky,
"Dream on! Don't fight, say right's might."
#vss365
March 16, 19--.
A day before her birthday.
We kissed. The first time.
October --, that year.
Said I love you. First and last.
She could not hear me.
Diary stays blank.
Was it an #interregnum
Between empty states?
But, I see beauty.
Like the tree with the lone bird
Reaching for the blue.
Can I hope and dream?
Should fatalism decide?
Should I fall further?
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"Tell me something that's funny and sad."
"Friends are people one can't love."
"What's sad about that?"
"There's something about them one hates so much."
"And, funny?"
"One rarely realises that."
"Like us."
"Knew you would #chime in with that. We are not pals."
#vss365
The reunion triggered status anxiety (for us nearly 6 feet under).
Bruce Lee Raj used his walking stick as a nunchaku.
After 5 pegs of Old Monk, Wodehouse Cyril recited:
Winter will no more have snow white and #flocculent,
Love has left me a flagellant and flatulent.
#vss365
Am I a dirty old man
If you and gods enter
My life only after dusk,
Can I defeat insomnia
Without that deceitful faith
In a togetherness,
Till then,
Lemme fit a #Pomeranian in a pome (Aargh!!!),
Lose battles before first cut,
Bluff with rhetorical queries,
Am I a dirty old man
If I feel you when gods smirk
At daydreams that were real.
#vss365
"You are a coward, #incognito and all that."
"Not that. Just a nonentity."
"Bah!"
"After you left me, I became that. Not just invisible, so easily forgettable. That's for killing you."
"Bah!"
#vss365
My first love was my own creation and she remained in the umbra.
The true one managed to put my consciousness in the #penumbra, enough light to love, dark enough to lust, b4 death.
Then came the love in the antumbra, never sure of the cause for the eclipse of the mind.
#vss365
99. When a man loves a woman a lot but knows too little, it is advisable for him to be a man of few words.
100. A man should keep his better half away from his worst half unless… (show more)
from ‘100 points in the #Countours of a Lovesick Old Man’s Life’ 5th ed.
#vss365
"Arjun, amuse me."
"Swapna, did you know that Man created Work to be away from Love?"
"Jobless you implies no love?"
"I'm between projects. In the #interim, working on pareidolia."
"What?"
"I see you everywhere. This morn, on a boiled potato."
"Work isn't working."
#vss365
Why can't I write a love poem?
Don't I miss the playful #petulance,
the lingering troubles?
Can I deal with trust without hope,
with desire without tomorrow?
Can I crush her against me,
wonder if I'm good enough?
Minus skill amnesiac with words
I should write about that.
#vss365
#Reservoir of love?
Life is not for tomorrow.
Give-n-take, that's best.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
All that remained of the hill was the portion in the middle. Right over us. Like a multi-headed serpent, guarding or waiting to strike.
When the floods are over, if it is still standing, they will bring it down. No serpent, no god can survive the #onslaught of man.
#vss365
from my short story 'The Third Night':
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-third-night.html
It moved lightly on her shoulder, to her neck. It skirted past the thin strap of her nightdress.
Was it his fingers?
Or the spider? What if she turned and found it on his face? How will she #displace the arachnid?
She reached down and picked up her bedroom slipper.
#vss365
from an old short story of mine 'Stories of the First Night':
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2015/04/stories-of-first-night.html
Love in lust's #slipstream,
Or vice versa. Right eM-Oh
For good crime fiction.
from 'Wisdom of Mata Hari & Casanova'
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"Arjun, I am so bored. Confess."
"I was very young when I read my first adult book. Sidney Sheldon's '#Bloodline'. That accelerated the onset of puberty. Your turn, Swaps."
"Biggest
Lie
Of
One's
Disillusioned
Life (:)
Insufferable
Notions (about)
Extraction."
#vss365
#acronym
For some reason, not known to me, I used to post stories on #ValentinesDay. Otherwise, it was just another day. Kept that 'tradition' for a decade or so.
Not too sure why I stopped writing.
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/02/valentines-day-stories.html
From ‘The Thirteenth Book of Meaningful Life’, volume 13, chapter 13, page 13:
“One’s life is meaningless if one does not #chase the following*:
Food
Health
Knowledge
Wealth
Lust
Love
Kids
Ghosts
Friends
*If one does not chase in that order, one is doomed.”
#vss365
"#Liberation? Bah! The old ways were better. I went to her house. She was walking in the courtyard. With a few cousins. I didn't know which one she was. She thought my uncle looked good. Didn't notice me."
"How is that liberating?"
"When you are free of all illusions."
#vss365
My land is big enough to keep my neighbours distant. That advantage also brought troubles. They took it for granted their cattle and goats could graze on my land. Even cleared a #thoroughfare across my land to get to the market.
I had to guard my boundary. At any cost!
#vss365
This is from an old short story of mine about 'outsiders' and what creeps (aka 'bumiputra' or 'son-of-the-soil') do to them:
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-land.html
"Class, tell me about the #oak tree. Arjun?"
"When I croak..."
"Don't you dare!"
"But, ma'am, I have never seen an oak tree."
"Ok. Swapna?"
"Beneath the fine oak
Lies buried my weak darling.
Afterlife? Ha ha."
"Et tu."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"Filling your pocket is no rocket science."
"I have no time for your #rockets pockets."
"Bro, what's the leading cause of deaths among the elderly? Parricide. Who checks all those peaceful deaths at home? Everything will come to you, no?"
"Two goats and the old car."
#vss365
"What is your research topic?"
"Natural redistribution of wealth. It's about how the blue-collar workers stand to gain when the white-collar lot loses faith in matrimony and procreation."
"And the black-collar?"
"They will accelerate the process. Without gain, sadly."
#vss365
I saw 'Eye of the Needle' (1981) at that tender age when the past becomes irrelevant, and the future and the present are coyly entangled in deep uncertainty.
I knew then my love (in the future) would not let me live. That too, without me using the #needle on her hubby.
#vss365
I like to see her
Without the #flush, morn or night.
When others don't look.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
I was a Poet Laureate
Till I used
décolletage (for decalage)
&
amanuensis (for anamnesis),
They still remember
Me the gladiator,
"My name is Gluteus Maximus Coitus Interruptus,
Loyal servant to my love..."
She interrupted,
"Don't #fawn
&
Stick to 4-letter-words."
#vss365
Pausing the flight
To escape the blues,
There's hyped solitude
#Laced with grey uncertainty
And memories a mirage
Of mere nothingness,
Such thoughts trouble
Before scavenging,
Or call it hunt
In the epitaph.
#vss365
Why do I feel your touch?
They say the amputated is like that.
I could lose money
Or write about crime,
Why can't a condemned #fool
Change for the better?
In between the ebb and flow of moods,
Life lingers in a smile at the sublime.
#vss365
Whispered I love you.
Then, #silence before the kill.
Brain dead. Pull the plug.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
When I had most of my life,
I lost nearly all of it.
Nearly all, I did not lose
The memory of a love too brief.
That killed me, leaving
Nothing but the rest of my life.
Why did I put all on #ice?
It's too late now. To answer.
#vss365
I go round
the temple pond
to keep count
there's
the sublime
and
minors destroyed
innocent dead
a world drowning
or on fire
I am a serpent
coiling
before
swallowing
its tail
on which
a serene god
rests
waiting for me
to #quit
the quitting game
to accept
the end
#vss365
tgif
i don't have to lie or love
for 48 hrs
not that you noticed
not the #esoteric crap
not the needy cry
i can lock myself
in a cage too small but right
for a fantasy
in which i wake up
after an or-gy with ah
i can't tell you that
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"So, that's how I finished off hubby 4."
"This is not a normal first night chit chat."
"I didn't chit chat with the others. Don't worry. I won't kill you."
"Did you say that to the others?"
"Take a #guess. Why do spouses always think their case will end differently?"
#vss365
"The follies of youth
or adult stupidity-
which should I #measure?"
"Try to blame it on
the system, company or
Peter Pan syndrome."
"Be serious, Swapna.
How many loves did I miss
With word or act wrong?"
"Do you want the truth?
Even if you had done it right,
You would still be you."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
Do you know why I loved her
I wanted all to understand
With her
Realized it didn't matter
A #question would be enough
Do you know why I loved her
She told me about all her lovers
Me too
Knew it didn't matter
My loves were imaginary
Do you also love for wrong reasons
#vss365
I love people who:
believe in an ideology;
vote for a single party;
think there's only one love;
read-write feel-good crap;
hate unpleasant truths;
smile for a time-filler;
etc. etc. etc.
They say
I'm too old to love.
Ha am I #turning into
an idiotic teenage rebel?
#vss365
Declared war to lose.
My New Year #resolution.
Enough of BS.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
#EndCasteDiscrimination
#Vanchiyoor #Trivandrum
#NoWater
#HappyNewYear
I said Hi to 2025
After #AmarSinghChamkila on Netflix
Did I forget 2024
And all the abuse I took
Am I going to take
More of that from them
Am I going to beg
When the m*F* won't give even water
I will be ready without a #prompt
Let me be honest about the real creep me
#vss365
