"These ladies loved you."
"Not love, Ma'am. Attraction, perhaps. Eventually an embarrassing thought. It was I who loved them. In love with them."
"Then, why did you kill them?"
"Love's #progenitor
And sentinel is sweet death.
Pluck the lovely bloom."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
It was a hectic day. I had chosen too many #parallel lives.
As usual, my body went to office.
During a presentation, I fumbled at two points.
Two other lives exerted their influence – first, making love to Ann; and second, the fight with my nemesis, my twin.
#vss365
from one of my few sci-fi short stories (it's not a genre I enjoy reading):
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/12-31-3010.html
Yama's #susurrus
Soothes souls. For the living dead,
Clarion call for change.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
have you married? she asked.
(have? not are? is it a #primordial urge?)
widower and divorced, i said.
(right order?)
a murderer plagued by guilt, she said.
(thought)
better story other way around, she added.
(yawned)
once shy twice bitten, i said.
(in an empty room)
#vss365
In loneliness company made, in silence a tune to rouse,
In gloom a smile to blossom, in dying life to be astride.
In pain did descend dearly into depths too black – reason too late –
Too late – fiery lines #slash upon lighter blue as a growing strain.
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from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/oddity-iv.html
"Swaps, it's our old gang."
"I could tolerate them when they admitted their class, caste and religion decided all. Now, they say love gave #shape to everything. People who forget their sins are monsters."
"Idiots."
"Us."
"With too little love, it shows."
"Shut up!"
#vss365
They shared that scene in early light; listened to the same birdsong; felt nipples stiffen as the fresh cool touch of chilly morning air caressed naked #skin; and, breathed in air with a tinge of eucalyptus.
They looked at each other before going inside to another life.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-tellers-sabbatical.html
"Bruised, scarred,
which balm will ease you,
which hand refused,
the silence shatters,
which word would bind
that wishes no longer
to be whole."
"Swaps, don't laugh."
"If you have been using such words to be a knight in shining armour, it's no wonder you are #single."
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/sketch-of-you-and-me.html
When love was snatched,
Tried to say "Pfft,
#Splinter can cause
More lasting pain."
That and other
Weak barricades
Crumbled to dust
With first #sunbeam.
#vss365
