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On Full Moon day,
I can look out,
To #purify,
(As if past can be undone)
To cure,
(As if madness isn't the norm)
Time has no meaning,
Hopes need no morrow,
When I have you,
(Not for a visit)
When we can love,
(Not scared of needs)
This jail's
For you, me and sorrow.
The world did not end with a Big Bang,
There were no nukes no villains,
Our remnants are still here,
Holding Scripture shouting Rules,
We love without desire,
What we #nurtured as soul gone,
Like the Moon, we ask,
Quite predictably,
"Why are you staring blankly?"
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The girl stared at me defiantly.
I did not know what to say to her.
"I know he did it," I said.
My son kept diaries. He did not write after the rock show. There was no time, I #reckon. I thought of cremating that too.
She kept on staring at me. What did I expect?
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from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/12/rite.html
"Are you in one of my moods, Arj?"
"Hmmm..."
"Has everyone pissed you off?"
"Hmmm..."
"Monosyllables
Need much effort in such moods,
Even hurts #hunger."
"Hmmm..."
"That's why I finished off all that I cooked. Prawn fried rice, coq au vin, roast lamb..."
"Grrrr!"
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We thought we would #embark
On our love and freedom trip
Under the charm of the Full Moon,
But it's the season of the El Niño,
It's not the plants
That's wilting under harsh uncertainty,
Humans have turned into zombies
Devouring those
With integrity and principles.
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Was it on that #stormy day with an extended power outage? They had walked together in the dark, along that secluded path lit up by flashes of lightning. He touched her for the first time then. Was it then he realized he loved her?
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from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/03/answer.html
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'Most often, the other woman is just fiction. A product of an over-heated brain or an under-cooled groin, as the Bard would say.
Otherwise, it is a result of a misguided philosophy about relationships. You claim that you want an equal partnership; to #explore new avenues; to experience real love.
All you really want is a free lunch and something to kill time or make you feel important. If there are fools to believe you, so be it, amen. You are not the villain. She is the villain. You are just an anti-hero. That is what you think.
It is usually more injurious and definitely more expensive than smoking. Just ask your lawyer if you can afford it.'
from a treatise on the other woman (and others):
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/03/tenth-woman.html
I won't be around to #sustain this.
Just a few trees I touch and hug,
Birds I talk to when I'm not alone,
Memories of us promising each other;
No, we didn't do that,
I wasn't here when they needed me,
Didn't I love to be a nomad!
This jekyll-n-hyde life is tiring.
#vss365
"Got up on the wrong side of the bed. But, the day turned out great."
"You sure?"
"Don't spoil my mood, Swaps."
"Hope you will get up on the wrong side of the bed tmrw too."
"You are the black lining of every silver cloud."
"I need the schadenfreude u provide."
#justsaying
The Chief Minister of Keralam wants to shift the Trivandrum zoo.
He wants something like Madison Square in that one and only green space in the city.
The last time they were in power, more than 10 years back, they had plans to create a mall or some concrete jungle in the place of the University Stadium.
Time won't change people.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cms-plan-to-relocate-city-zoo-triggers-debate/article71473664.ece
#Keralam
I wait for life to #commence
And take each sunset
To be my guide.
It's not the promise of morn
And the rest before
I take within.
Did we not stand hand in hand
And kiss to live
In such fading light?
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Read a book last night.
There was ‘God’ on every page.
#Sanguine I was not.
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#haiku #senryu ?
"That speaker's so full of BS."
"I've to agree with you."
"Orotund, highfalutin, fustian."
"Now, you sound like him."
"Swaps, when something's called #esoteric, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole."
"That too about love."
"Why do people complicate monosyllables?"
#vss365
The murderous expressions in our AI-generated group '80s photo were a surprise.
That would have been dismissed as just a case of Digital #Eloquence Artificially Depicted (DEAD).
If not for those two.
Looking young.
How they were when we buried them alive in '84.
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(Aside: An expt. with a #mélange of tropes.)
"Come in."
"Thank you."
"The bedroom is to your left. The kitchen to your right."
I go to the bedroom. Undress. She hands over an apron. I wear just that. I go to the kitchen and cook.
We have dinner. At two tables. Candle-light.
I remove the apron after washing the dishes.
She's waiting in the bedroom. I pick up an envelope on the dresser.
"Count."
I do that.
"Enough?"
"Yes."
"Come here."
Great actors make perfect partners. She said that on our 1st anniversary 40 yrs back.
Our e-mail communication increased. Talked lots on the phone too. Confided nearly all.
It's tough to pinpoint the source of fracture of that edifice.
Divergent views on inconsequential matters, mismatched expectations, old fears in new guise, #intuition or bad omens?
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from an old short story:
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-funny-valentine.html
My Muse vanished,
Taking with Her all the words
I need
To sound less foolish;
With Her by my side,
I could
Have used susurrus and
Petrichor and #moonglade and
Frangipani, that's a lovely one I can't use now.
Ah! If only I hadn't chased Her
Away
With monosyllables.
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"Swaps, do you know a love story that's not creepy?
Unnaturally sticking together through thick and thin;
Obsession with every moment together;
the near-stalking, the clinging on;
They turn life that's a #palimpsest into a gravestone;
And, worst of all,
The poetry it triggers.
Brrr…
Makes my skin crawl."
"You need a cold bath."
"Be serious."
"Don't think like moi, Arj."
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I get off the train at a place that should be Nowhere.
At the steps, a lady not just lovely and I stare at each other the 30 secs to walk past.
#Adroit senses kill the frivolous. Says the memory will last if it's minimal.
Graffiti tells my tale. Titled 'Nothing Much'.
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"Why the stupid smile?"
"Swaps, kids these days miss so much. Back then, even a phone call required #reconnoitre and subterfuge. For your folks, I was Anila. And, braving a bash up if your 4 big bros found out."
"Ah! Kids these days don't have to think below the belt."
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#poem ?
I was reading a love poem
And I didn't feel a thing;
It was the same with erotica,
And the same old sad stuff;
There are memories of us in all that,
Sweet and sad and bloody hot and all that;
But there's another image,
Haunting, more than her brain dead;
I can't remember the joke
But I can't forget her
Doubled over, in stitches,
Punching me, god, that was sexy;
Come on, someone, do what I can't do,
Make me laugh and give these tears a bad name.
"Want to be that bird.
Above all and a recluse.
"Hiding?" they #console."
"Still trying to be a poet? No stories?"
"If a reader quits after one line of poetry, it's just the norm. If the reader does that to a story, it's just useless."
"The easy life of the mediocre."
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#haiku #senryu ?
