Avoiding Sleep

 

Do I avoid sleep

To escape this #unmoored life?

If I'm well rested

Will I not scream with anger?

Is there a metaphor 

To explain this succinctly?

A leaf hiding the sun

To delay the inevitable. Maybe.

#vss365

from 'Itihasa of an Integral Part'

 

A mature interacting group behaves like an elastic system. #Bend it a little and it will spring back. #Bend it too vigorously, you will cross a threshold, defects will stream in to stay forever. We are always in that new plastic state with immature inelastic ideas.

#vss365

from my outdated note about this place:

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/10/itihasa-of-integral-part.html

The day we lost our sense of humour

 

The day we lost our sense of humour,

Tried to tickle with all that used to keep us doubled over-

 

Politicians, influencers and followers,

Those who keep gloom and doom #loom over us-

That's a lost cause with the mojo of ghosts

Staring at their worse half 6 feet under.

#vss365

A love in deed, veer indeed

 

"I had a dream. I was a samurai, merrily beheading and chopping my way to my love. Finally, with her, she serves me tea."

"And, it was laced with cyanide."

"How did you guess?"

"It's you, no?"

"A love in deed, #veer indeed."

"Have your tea."

"You didn't, did you?"

#vss365

Those called lovers

 

The soft #murmur said I love writing,

The shout along said I'm bad at it,

I share that with those called lovers

Not sure what I'm trying there,

Don't think they didn't laugh

Those called lovers can be mean,

Why do I confess all this

Don't think it's to call you lover.

#vss365

without You

 

Should I be jealous

Of #dappled light they describe?

Without you, who cares.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

seared soul

 

The anger, the betrayal, the needless,

The hopelessness #sear the soul,

Go on think I'm being melodramatic

With the outrage, the self-pity,

I'm the murdered one after all

And no one cares who did me in,

But then that could only mean

There's not one who is not guilty.

#vss365

the problem with love pomes

 

"I signed your name instead of mine,

I wake up holding you even when you're gone,

I can handle any pain with you by me,

I..."

"Whazzat?"

"Love pome, Swaps."

"Ah!"

"Go on."

"One, too many I's."

"Don't get #wonky about it. I'm the one in love."

"That's the problem."

#vss365

Kids aren't what we used to be

 

Kids aren't what we used to be.

They don't write poetry no more.

We bawled and raged 

About love lost.

That took 13 lines of doggerel.

Now, they rage and kill.

We bawled and raged 

About a world gone too.

That took 31 #slapdash lines.

They don't waste time on that.

#vss365

Tiger Balm Gardens

 

The #vss365 serial-killer has struck again. 

A #haiku (or #senryu ?) explained the how & the where.

Frozen memory- 

Death in Tiger Balm Gardens.

Cooked in boiling oil.

Signed with prompt for the who & the why:

#Kooky artist.

Eschews the same old tropes.

Here to kill a yawn.

true love/crime

 

Cliff-hangers, twists and

#Unmissable denouement.

Rare in true love/crime.

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

knocked out

 

#Adorned with nothing

Other than her wit and grace.

He's punch-drunk, knocked out.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Telephone

 

Like the VHS tape in the 'Ring',

It's the #spooky telephone in mine.

On college campus, 

Got access to it

In the third year,

Yes, long long ago, 

It was the last year of my first love,

Oh no, she's still there

With another,

I was the goner

With calls too dear.

#vss365

1/3

A few years later,

In another Institute,

Still long long ago,

There was a phone

Far from my hostel room,

A girl claiming to be my wife

Called every night,

On that, I got her last call,

Not that wife who #spooked,

My last love, my only love.

#vss365

2/3

It's mobiles now,

I use it only for the macabre,

No, no more love,

That horror genre's not for me,

But the #spook rises

To claim every now and then,

Seasons come and go,

Echoes of the last brief call,

Sweet perennial thorn.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

3/3

all about love & poetry

 

“Swaps, I’ve understood all about love & poetry.”

“Pray, don’t tell.”

“What would we do without that? Talk politics, religion, injustice…? Brrr”

“Spook, if I tell you 

I love you, will you shut up

And leave me un-#spooked?

“See, you get my point.”

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?

oddball AI

 

“Class, has AI produced any lifestyle changes in your life? Arjun?”

“I’ve stopped looking at people. Everyone seems to be AI-generated.”

“Fair enough. Swapna?”

“Ma’am, I’m still waiting for an #oddball AI system.”

“Like me?”

“Yes, Arjun, it can’t match your idiocy.”

#vss365

it might not be love

 

If I had to explain love to my kid,

Will I talk about the love of my life,

Will I have to explain how it left me dead,

Will I talk about how it might not be love,

Will my #clueless state affect the mother,

If I had to explain all about the other?

#vss365

Balderdash!

 

Don't say, "#Balderdash!"

Ask, "Have you said anything

That's not trivial?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ? (Brrr no!)

from

"Questions to ask in Scientific Seminars 😇🙃" (1674) 13th ed., vol. 13, page 13.

New Year?

 

I refuse to rename yesterday

To squeal with #delight today

But I can do that to tomorrow

Not to scream with fear the day after.

#vss365