I write to...

 

I write

To #sublimate

Something 

Into some other thing

I could call nothing

To feign 

Some emotion

Without experience 

To lose

Track

Of what I write

And

Wait 

For my love,

My reader,

To misunderstand

And give my life meaning.

#vss365

escutcheon

 

"Class, use the word #escutcheon in a short poem. Swapna?"

"Fancy #escutcheon.

But, the lock's easy to pick.

Matters of the heart."

"Debatable. Arjun?"

"Ma'am, I take the Fifth."

"Why?"

"Do you want my poem on the configuration of adult pubic hair."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Biopic: 3 scenes of 'The End'

Biopic: 3 scenes of 'The End' (with bg music) 

1. The Beautiful South: 'Rotterdam'

Lady Luck's #caprice? 

"She's brain dead. Say your goodbye."

Last touch. I love you.

2. R.E.M.: 'Everybody Hurts'

Indifference hurts.

Authors' #caprice spoil a tale.

Marriage and divorce.

3. Johnny Cash: 'God's Gonna Cut You Down'

Love, when I vanish, 

It will be to love truly.

#Capricious promise.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

 

love mistook

 

When we meet,

Let it be on a fine day,

A far-fetched #eventuality I know,

To have a chance to say

All that I should hide,

So that I am true,

Worthy of you,

To let trouble brew

And when I self-destruct, 

Don't turn to look 

Like you did in that dream 

Of love mistook.

#vss365 

your Hindi whatever

 

#memory

#auldlangsyne

"Is your Hindi whatever over?"

"It's a movie."

"Whatever. Can I change the channel?"

"Why didn’t you say you want to watch something else? Instead of sitting there scowling."

"Enjoying your company."

"Yeah, right."

"Are you interested in going for a movie tomorrow? Morning show. With me."

"Which English movie?"

"The Hindi one with Govinda?"

"Serious?"

"Yes."

"Not whatever?"

"There’s a time and place for Hindi. Definitely not when Morse is showing."

"Why don’t you sit with your Morse tomorrow too?"

"I will. At night. So, date on?"

"Govinda whatever?"

"Yes."

"Ok."

altered

 

Like moths to a flame, we went to the closed school in Simanggang every holiday. 

We knew what would happen whichever game we played there. To nearly all.

No one is complaining. The old #stock of kids is not living up to expectations.

Why wasn't I chosen and altered? 

#vss365

game with no safe word

 

#vss365 

Last night, I went to a strip club

and 

it was hot like bloody Hell

the One on the pole

all black in the eyes

or

was it that One on my lap

a tale of entangled tails

hissed

aren't you the one who killed love

for existential #synthesis,

we give them the best time, 

in a dungeon with no doors

placed on an ice block

it was a game with no safe word

even death could not save me

from the cold nothingness.

pranks

 

#vss365 #flinch

What is this flimsy life without a prank or two?

Do not #flinch when you are the victim. 

Those words are from the One above (or below).

I am just the Messenger (in limbo) for jokers.

1/3

#vss365 #rein

I was 19. Filled my wallet with strips of paper. Went to a fair. Waited to be the target of a pickpocket. He wasn’t very good. Followed him to an alley. Heard him curse. 

Tried to #rein in the vain exultation. 

Stepped out of the shadows. Grinned at him.

2/3

#vss365 #conspire

Now, I follow serial-killers. 

The last one reached his target's house to find the victim murdered. With his MO. 

Divine forces must have #conspired for such a prank, he must have thought.

I made sure the police caught him in the act. No pun intended.

3/3

with nothing to steal

 

"My folks are looking out for a guy for me."

"Shall we tell them we are in love?"

"Cheap #style, partner. Love marriage is for those with nothing to steal."

"I'll register on online matrimony site."

"Any good negotiator?"

"Uncle."

"Mom will demand quid pro quo."

#vss365 

towhomsoeveritmayconcern

 

when I wrote this love poem I knew

you will not read it

ignore it's towhomsoeveritmayconcern

admit the old tropes bore you silly

let's burn this poem you will say

oh let's use it for ohwhat

how can our love reach full #potential 

if we don't read minds or crystal gaze

#vss365

from 'Two Sides of the Coin'

 

'2 Sides of The Coin' offers the better alternative. 

40% of our revenue comes from politics. Every politician wants to have an own group. Language, religion, race, ethnicity are so easily #exhausted. 

What we do is to make today’s kid-of-the-soil tomorrow’s foreigner.

#vss365

For more details about the business:

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/two-sides-of-coin.html

revengeful sublime

 

When the leaves are gone,

The #power of the sublime

Will turn revengeful.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

(Dusk-ThiruOnam 📷 mine)

superstition

 

Don’t be at #doorway

with broom in hand, they insist.

You looked so happy.

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

safe haven

 

"If Newton had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, humanity would have blessed."

"We missed the #chance to get an #article titled '#Gold is not a safe haven' from the Chancellor of the Exchequer."

"Why have they called the bouncers?"

"Well, we are in a jewelry shop."

#vss365

from 'Flower girl'

 

Vishnu was still #conscious. He was curled up like a foetus. 

The brute gave Vishnu’s chest another kick. He picked up a heavy rock, squatted on one knee, ready to crush Vishnu's skull.

"Enough!" 

That order came from behind the crowd.

#vss365

from 

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

this & that

 

Writing's tough (for me).

1, make the list. Birds, trees, love, war, death, loss, whatnot.

2, cross out everything. Don't copy, stupid.

3, stare at the blank page. The genius act.

4, post that.

5, stare at the four walls (while they tighten the straightjacket).

6,

smell the ink still in the air,

remember that, 

that which was there with this then,

that #eludes me now, and this,

that lovely stink of sweaty us.

#vss365

brain fade?

 

When you asked,

Doubt the Jack-in-the-box and Suspicion 

Tied my shoelaces together,

Browsed the #past, begged AI to crystal gaze,

And

When you were at the door,

I must have asked what you asked,

Do you love me

or 

Was it rhetorical

or 

A statement, 

say,

Get lost?

#vss365