Do you believe the #vision before you
when life seems sublime,
graced by whoever's above,
caressed by sweet love,
or
when life is the usual,
screwed by the corrupt,
without water or power,
or
when there's black nothingness,
with too much past too little future?
#vss365
That turn in the path. The tree house.
He could still see what his young eyes saw then.
The man peeing behind a tree. Grey hair, prim and proper. Half-sweater over shirt, well-ironed pant, polished shoes. Stern eyes staring at the young boy. A #predator eyeing a prey.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-tellers-sabbatical.html
11 minutes past midnight. I'm in the doghouse.
Because I called her a #narwhal.
Why did she google?
"Corpse-whale?"
I too googled then.
"See. It symbolizes uniqueness, mystery, freedom, and intuition."
"Get out."
"Can I finish my pizza?"
#vss365 can be so life-altering.
"Are you calling me a chameleon?"
"Swaps, why can't you be romantic for three seconds?"
"With you, Arj?"
"Ah."
"A seal?!"
"I said:
Love is a #selkie,
Could be mine if I knew how.
Calm temperament."
"Oh! You want me to be that. Bloody patriarchy!"
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"I saw a #wraith-like version of you coming out of our son's room. Wearing your nightwear."
"That's your son's living together partner."
"Why is she here? Why did you give her that? They can't do it here. Even we don't, do we?"
"Come here, old man. Let them be safe."
#vss365
"Can he stay with your mother?"
"Is your mother ok with that? Has she forgiven him?"
"No. Never. On that topic, #clarity is her middle name."
"Agree with her. He's cheated her as long as I've been alive."
"He doesn't have much time. Let him be where he wants to be."
#vss365
Herd #immunity-
Why did we choose wrong target?
Against peace. Not war.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
The scene would have made Van Gogh cut off his right ear or Wordsworth prance on the vale like a senile seven-year-old. Such a setting is fine when you enjoy solitude or #soporific matrimony. Many brave men before me have fallen from grace on such a scene, I knew.
My head was tilting to the right and hers to the right too, ready for a long and tender kiss (as per philematologists' decree).
Without going on my knees, I crooned to that amazing lady, “Will you marry me?”
She replied, “Enschuldigung, ich verstehe nicht (Sorry, I don’t understand).”
I knew enough German to translate but I did not.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/will-you-marry-me.html
In the fight of '83, the neighbour had the support of some. We fought alone.
Another neighbour, the rich one eyeing both our properties, egged us on.
Gentian violet #dissolved in fish washing water was used.
I was at the receiving end.
Married their daughter in '03.
#vss365
She was a school teacher. My first semester in college. On the 5 am bus from Pilani to Delhi.
Even before Loharu, we began confiding. The comfort of strangers? We wanted to trust someone.
Scared. Sharing troubles can be misunderstood.
No names to rupture the #sutured.
#vss365
"Arjun, stop wailing.
She is dead. And without you,
In a better place."
"Is that a #senryu,
Or a cruel #elegy?
Succinct truth cuts deep."
"How about a movie?"
"The Omen, Swaps. She shaved my head once. Tattooed the mark of the beast."
"$9.99?"
"Funny Valentine."
#vss365
For the kids,
A #selcouth postprandial tale:
"We faced the worst demons
To have the bare minimum,
She had four brothers,
Who would have put me in ICU
Because they were there to do that,
I was on her balcony every night,
Not for love,
For friendship..."
#vss365
#truestory
"They are Trouble," a priest said when we were born.
"Irritating twins with #echolalia," teachers complained.
In our 20s, police tried to pin a dozen murders on us. But, "Which one?"
We shouldn't have fallen in love with twins with the sobriquet Copycat Black Widows.
#vss365
He has no reason to live nor die
He has no #karma nor bhakti to guide
He gathers pain from every corner
Searching for some way, some answer...
When one fears not death
Can one be mortal
And love, and dream,
And live, and pray...
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/08/scavenger.html
