god's laugh

 

Thought it's an old joke.

Told god our #specific plans.

Laugh-like lightning struck.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Not that...

 

Every day I try to write a love poem,

Not that I know anything about that,

That should be the easiest,

Not that disaster's tougher,

One's my shadow I'm the other's,

Not that it's in my #action list,

One day I'll write about you,

Not that I won't delete before the end.

#vss365

from 'Touch'

 

I took her hand. I opened my fingers, giving her the #option to remove her hand but she kept her palm on mine. I closed my fingers. Gently squeezed her hand. There was a pause before she returned the same. I noted the hesitation. We sat, like kids, happy holding hands.

#vss365

from my story:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/12/touch.html

from 'The Liars'

 

“Romance wouldn’t have touched you with a 20-foot pole!”

“I was that bad, huh?”

“Bad would be an understatement. Only later, much later, did I wonder if that had been your #goal all along.”

“To keep romance away?”

“Yes.”

#vss365

from my story:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-liars.html

writing & love

 

She hates my tales. But, 

Has no #issue with the act. 

Sweet love makes me write.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from here to hers

 

"I need free #transport

From this world to hers," I said.

"Sans soul then?" god said.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

myth reborn

 

Curse the day I got to know that I am a reborn #myth-ological figure.

The tragedy I can handle. Always have. Even without the comfort of it being an old tale.

It's the censorship that's galling. They want my story to suit their rules. 

#vss365

the election season

 

It's the worst season here. The election season. 

That's when we realize how pathetic we are. 

A true #measure of a democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people IF AND ONLY IF we the people make sure the present incumbent will lose. 

I used to be proud of my state for sticking to that fundamental principle. No more.

There's another reason to be depressed. 

Here, religion and caste still decide the candidates. Left, right or center, that has not changed.

And, as if that's not enough, they have removed my favourite choice in recent times: NOTA (none of the above).

#vss365

pulp fiction

 

My #literature.

"Lovely pulp fiction," she said. 

Heartbreak through ego.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'Speechless'

 

I can forget a #language just as easily as I can pick up one. A part of my brain seems to be reserved for this.  

When I realized that, I had to acknowledge the fact that language, and therefore speech, could be irrelevant.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/speechless.html

What's in a name?

 

To know the true worth of your writing, have an alt account with no link between the two accounts.

What's in a name? Lots.

Love's naught without #history,

That too, the wrong one.  

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

in a dream

 

I saw my first love. In a dream. 

On a street, we said Hi and Bye.

Long letters of the past

Reduced to that not ash.

#Geography of the heart is over.

Next class is about history erased.  

#vss365

Education

 

#Education, that 4-syllable word,

Is it useless?

In college, the country's crème de la crème

Asked me if I belong to the lowest caste.

Lowest of the lowest, I said with pride.

Reservation, they probed. No, top rank, I said.

They had never been to an institution

With my lot, I learned. They will never

Understand how reservation might create

A level-playing field for all. Fair, no?

 

Sadly, #education isn't enough

To make idiots less idiotic.

#vss365

Bells toll

 

Around dawn, the doctors met Preethi and Sreekumar again. 

"Arjun is conscious. One person can enter ICU. Give him strength before the surgery," they advised.

“Get Devika here,” Preethi said.

“My wife? For what?” Sreekumar said.

“Bells toll on the #domestic front.” 

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-rivals.html

from 'On Writing'

 

He is not a faultless #creature. He is always searching for a nonexistent state of Utopia. He narrates the night’s nightmare hoping its horror would fade away. He is always teaching the little he gets to know and he seems to be preaching!

#vss365

from 

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/06/on-writing.html

A many-splendoured...

 

A many-splendoured

#Business. That's what love is.

Fiction that's real.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?