Life is not for tomorrow

 

#Reservoir of love?

Life is not for tomorrow.

Give-n-take, that's best.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

from 'The Third Night'

 

All that remained of the hill was the portion in the middle. Right over us. Like a multi-headed serpent, guarding or waiting to strike.

When the floods are over, if it is still standing, they will bring it down. No serpent, no god can survive the #onslaught of man.

#vss365

from my short story 'The Third Night':

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-third-night.html

from 'Stories of the First Night'

 

It moved lightly on her shoulder, to her neck. It skirted past the thin strap of her nightdress. 

Was it his fingers? 

Or the spider? What if she turned and found it on his face? How will she #displace the arachnid?

She reached down and picked up her bedroom slipper. 

#vss365

from an old short story of mine 'Stories of the First Night':

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2015/04/stories-of-first-night.html

lust in love's slipstream

 

Love in lust's #slipstream,

Or vice versa. Right eM-Oh

For good crime fiction.

from 'Wisdom of Mata Hari & Casanova'

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

bloodline

 

"Arjun, I am so bored. Confess."

"I was very young when I read my first adult book. Sidney Sheldon's '#Bloodline'. That accelerated the onset of puberty. Your turn, Swaps."

"Biggest

Lie

Of

One's

Disillusioned

Life (:)

Insufferable

Notions (about)

Extraction."

#vss365

#acronym

Valentine's Day

 

For some reason, not known to me, I used to post stories on #ValentinesDay. Otherwise, it was just another day. Kept that 'tradition' for a decade or so.

 

Not too sure why I stopped writing.

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/02/valentines-day-stories.html

to chase or not to chase

 

From ‘The Thirteenth Book of Meaningful Life’, volume 13, chapter 13, page 13:

“One’s life is meaningless if one does not #chase the following*:

Food

Health

Knowledge

Wealth 

Lust 

Love 

Kids

Ghosts 

Friends

*If one does not chase in that order, one is doomed.”

#vss365

Liberation

 

"#Liberation? Bah! The old ways were better. I went to her house. She was walking in the courtyard. With a few cousins. I didn't know which one she was. She thought my uncle looked good. Didn't notice me."

"How is that liberating?"

"When you are free of all illusions."

#vss365

outsiders

 

My land is big enough to keep my neighbours distant. That advantage also brought troubles. They took it for granted their cattle and goats could graze on my land. Even cleared a #thoroughfare across my land to get to the market. 

I had to guard my boundary. At any cost!

#vss365

This is from an old short story of mine about 'outsiders' and what creeps (aka 'bumiputra' or 'son-of-the-soil') do to them:

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-land.html

When I croak

 

"Class, tell me about the #oak tree. Arjun?"

"When I croak..."

"Don't you dare!"

"But, ma'am, I have never seen an oak tree."

"Ok. Swapna?"

"Beneath the fine oak

Lies buried my weak darling.

Afterlife? Ha ha."

"Et tu."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Parricide

 

"Filling your pocket is no rocket science."

"I have no time for your #rockets pockets."

"Bro, what's the leading cause of deaths among the elderly? Parricide. Who checks all those peaceful deaths at home? Everything will come to you, no?"

"Two goats and the old car."

#vss365 

Natural redistribution of wealth

 

"What is your research topic?"

"Natural redistribution of wealth. It's about how the blue-collar workers stand to gain when the white-collar lot loses faith in matrimony and procreation."

"And the black-collar?"

"They will accelerate the process. Without gain, sadly."

#vss365

The Needle

 

I saw 'Eye of the Needle' (1981) at that tender age when the past becomes irrelevant, and the future and the present are coyly entangled in deep uncertainty.

I knew then my love (in the future) would not let me live. That too, without me using the #needle on her hubby.

#vss365

When others don't

 

I like to see her 

Without the #flush, morn or night.

When others don't look.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

stick to 4-letter-words

 

I was a Poet Laureate

Till I used 

décolletage (for decalage)

&

amanuensis (for anamnesis),

They still remember

Me the gladiator,

"My name is Gluteus Maximus Coitus Interruptus,

Loyal servant to my love..."

She interrupted,

"Don't #fawn

&

Stick to 4-letter-words."

#vss365

To escape the blues

 

Pausing the flight 

To escape the blues,

There's hyped solitude

#Laced with grey uncertainty

And memories a mirage

Of mere nothingness,

Such thoughts trouble

Before scavenging,

Or call it hunt

In the epitaph.

#vss365

in between the ebb and flow

 

Why do I feel your touch?

They say the amputated is like that.

I could lose money

Or write about crime,

Why can't a condemned #fool 

Change for the better?

In between the ebb and flow of moods,

Life lingers in a smile at the sublime.

#vss365

warning

 

Followed love and lust-

Dizzy in a #labyrinth-

Ignored warning: Don't!

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

the kill

 

Whispered I love you.

Then, #silence before the kill.

Brain dead. Pull the plug.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

It's too late now

 

When I had most of my life,

I lost nearly all of it.

Nearly all, I did not lose

The memory of a love too brief.

That killed me, leaving 

Nothing but the rest of my life.

Why did I put all on #ice? 

It's too late now. To answer.

#vss365

the quitting game

 

I go round

the temple pond

to keep count

there's 

the sublime 

and  

minors destroyed

innocent dead

a world drowning

or on fire

I am a serpent

coiling

before

swallowing 

its tail

on which 

a serene god

rests

waiting for me 

to #quit 

the quitting game

to accept

the end

#vss365

i don't have to lie or love

 

tgif

i don't have to lie or love

for 48 hrs

not that you noticed

not the #esoteric crap

not the needy cry

i can lock myself

in a cage too small but right

for a fantasy

in which i wake up

after an or-gy with ah

i can't tell you that

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Why do spouses...

 

"So, that's how I finished off hubby 4."

"This is not a normal first night chit chat."

"I didn't chit chat with the others. Don't worry. I won't kill you."

"Did you say that to the others?"

"Take a #guess. Why do spouses always think their case will end differently?"

#vss365

you would still be you

 

"The follies of youth

or adult stupidity-

which should I #measure?" 

"Try to blame it on

the system, company or 

Peter Pan syndrome."

"Be serious, Swapna.

How many loves did I miss

With word or act wrong?"

"Do you want the truth?

Even if you had done it right,

You would still be you."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

love for wrong reasons

 

Do you know why I loved her

I wanted all to understand

With her

Realized it didn't matter

A #question would be enough

Do you know why I loved her

She told me about all her lovers

Me too

Knew it didn't matter

My loves were imaginary

Do you also love for wrong reasons

#vss365

rebel?

 

I love people who:

believe in an ideology;

vote for a single party;

think there's only one love;

read-write feel-good crap;

hate unpleasant truths;

smile for a time-filler;

etc. etc. etc.

They say

I'm too old to love.

Ha am I #turning into

an idiotic teenage rebel?

#vss365

war to lose

 

Declared war to lose.

My New Year #resolution.

Enough of BS.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

#EndCasteDiscrimination

#Vanchiyoor #Trivandrum

#NoWater

#HappyNewYear 

all the abuse

 

I said Hi to 2025

After #AmarSinghChamkila on Netflix

Did I forget 2024

And all the abuse I took

Am I going to take

More of that from them

Am I going to beg

When the m*F* won't give even water

I will be ready without a #prompt

Let me be honest about the real creep me

#vss365

Call me Loneliness

 

Around 18:30, I received my wife's call. She talked about her trip. Then,

"How was your day?" she asked.

"I took leave," I said.

"What did you do?"

"I went to Seetha's house for lunch."

#Solitude shifted from my right to the left and whispered, "Call me Loneliness."

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/24-hours-in-urban-reality-show.html

New Sins for the New Year

 

Every Dec. 29, I think about my past 'sins'.

1. Showing the middle finger in every photo.

2. After the hostel warden's lecture on #decorum, playing Zappa's 'Wet T-Shirt Nite' on my boombox.

3. Forgetting wedding anniversary.

...

Moral: Have new sins for new year. 

#vss365

2025...Cubed!

 

Social media taught:

1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3 = 2025

The moral of the story:

In 2025, 

Think out of the cube.

#haiku #senryu #Aarghh  🙃😇😎

onslaught of reality

 

Our Mills & Boon Reading Club will not see 2025. 

A #schism, an existential crisis, has demolished the barricade against the onslaught of reality, bloodying our pages with crime, gore and platonic friendship. To fantasize or not to, that is not even the question now.

#vss365

from 'Can Can't'

 

You can see me everywhere but you can't,

A #reflection in the subway, another homeless.

We can pretend to care, say the right stuff,

But we can't be true once, to anything.

We can demolish and build, Nature's way,

We can't preserve life and dignity, that's unnatural.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2022/01/can-cant.html

Dreams that are not nightmares

 

Dreams that are not nightmares

But leaves that aftertaste,

It's a quiet poltergeist

Waiting for me to sleep,

The last time we made love

With death knock-knock-knocking,

Leaving a lone zombie

Scared and angry with all.

#poem ?

writing & love

 

Chicken-n-egg story,

My writing and my love,

A recent niggling doubt

Is behind much heartburn,

If she is in my arms

Trusting me to do right,

Will I pick up my pen

And write about the wrong,

Create a #mnemonic 

Perhaps, to remember...her?

#vss365

This is fiction. I can dream!

 

"Her dark hair straying across that beauteous fair face,

Those tear stained cheeks glisten as moonlit waters...

Heeeheehee"

"Why are you laughing, Swapna?"

"O knight in rusty armour, if there's a cheek that glistens, it will be yours."

"This is fiction. I can dream!"

#vss365

Those two lines are from an old 'pome' of mine:

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/his-story-searching-and-finding-1991.html

writer's or lover's block

 

I knew love is not for me

When I got the writer's block

With no more bad lines like this 

To be labelled #poetry.

I remember those long days 

When I could not sleep thinking 

Of long stanzas good for her

To scoot without a goodbye.

I miss the godawful notes

When the blank pages stare back,

How I wish I could promise

I won't trouble her like that.

If it's...

 

It’s time for the rites of the high seas,

By lots let's decide whom to cease.

You, me, the others? Whose blood will soak?

Whose flesh will fill? Let senses go broke.

If it’s me, feed on me without a qualm,

If it’s you, I'll try to be calm.

Ah! This lunatic #tranquility.

#vss365

There used to be a sailors’ custom when they are stranded on the high seas - of taking lots to decide who to eat.

I remember this 'pome' (written 30 years back) because a friend asked me to write it on her Valentine's Day card to her love. Did it last? The love...🙃

#truestory

from

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/sailors-custom-1993.html

  

ain't superstitious

 

Ain't superstitious

But ever since 

The #vss365 prompts 

Came out only at 07:00 GMT

I have had 

One excuse or another

And each one 

Better than the other

Not to write

Ain't complaining

But

It's tough to say

I

Ain't superstitious...

🙃

crude

 

I'm a liberal guy

But love should be banned.

How can I not compare

Your friendship with that?

She's no more and you're there

But that's not enough.

The grey cells should burn red

And the balls turn blue.

Forgive my crude lingo

But that's the plain truth.

#poem ?

cheap drama

 

It's that time of the year

To forget all that one should forget,

To stare at the sun (for cheap #drama)

To burn images that hurts,

Is it the black or the white smoke

That remains of the preserved,

Resolutions will not last I know,

I'll reconstruct another set of you.

#vss365

saddle-point

 

Our relationship reached a low plateau. Is it a saddle-point? Will one wrong step make us #descend to the agreed polite exit? Are there paths to unknown highs from the doldrums? 

Seasons change, hair and teeth fall, bones become brittle, eyesight blurs, hearing fades...

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/05/seconds.html

arrivals and departures

 

He opens the door. She enters. 

He places her luggage by the wall. Next to a #creeper. Hidden baggage. Hiding arrivals and departures. 

Their eyes search each other’s. With tears and smile. He takes her right hand. Kisses it. She tenses. Tries to take her hand away.

#vss365

from

https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/just-for-weekend-from-scrap-shop-v.html

devotion

 

When Amit wrote his 50th love letter (49 w/o reply), I warned him that such #devotion goes unreciprocated.

Yesterday:

"What do I do? After 49..."

"50."

"50th was to another girl."

"Ah! Have both replied?"

"Ah! Yes."

It's possible only such devotion gets reciprocated.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/07/devotion.html

parameters

 

"If there are more than 2 #parameters in a physics theory, one can make an elephant go through a needle hole."

"And, how's that relevant on this date?"

"Love has too many unknowns."

"And, there are no elephants to go through any..."

"Shhh"

"Let's go home."

"Let's."

#vss365

proud citizen

 

To be a proud #citizen:

1. Get the blessings of a religious leader in the village of one's nomadic ancestors.

2. Take 3 tests there:

a. Roll on hot coal.

b. Lifted to a great height, lowered suddenly and, on each descent, thrashed with metal pipes.

c. Need-to-know.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/01/idea.html

Coupling

 

"Is this for your wedding photoshoot?"

"Yupp."

"You dressed up like a #tardigrade, your partner in birthday suit?"

"Yupp."

"Well, you are paying.

Coupling is crazy.

Who knows the right recipe?

Likes or opposites?"

"Plz take the photos."

"Yes, boss."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu

Can I be your Swapna?

 

"Can I be your Swapna?"

That made me think. 

"Who should be Swapna? Will I feel irritated with the wrong one? Am I desperate?"

I smiled at the young man. He seemed relieved not to get a reply.

"#Yes" would have put an end to all that she is not. And, all that she is.

#vss365

How I met your Mom/Pop on a...

 

Everyone has their 'How I met your Mom/Pop on a #train or plane' tale.

I don't.

I met her lover.

Jolly guy showed me his lover's chat. Her DP. DMs with "Baby Boo", red hearts et al. 

She sends me the same.

I had to kill him.

And her.

It was bloody. 

One dead.

Me.

#vss365

from 'Only One That Remains'

 

I have no questions I need no answers, here.

You cannot accuse, in jail, you can't #complain.

I look through bars for a Muse on visitors’ day,

You or Love, Life or Freedom, Nature or Solitude,

Those fancy names mean little, here.

Memory alone tucks me in with a lullaby.

#vss365

from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/09/only-one-that-remains.html

The Wife's Thoughts

 

You are late, I tell him,

But with a sheepish grin,

He holds me, my whim.

There’s no gain

If I #complain,

If all I want is sin...

#vss365

from 

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/10/gigolo.html

the murdered & the murderers

 

"Are these posters of the murdered or the murderers?"

"Both are the same. Earlier, retaliation used to be quick. Justice can't be #delayed, right? Hack off limbs, burn that too. Then, no use for surgery, right? That's only when one tries to teach a lesson, not to kill."

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/footsteps-in-dark.html

The Skerry of Dashed Hope

 

When love died, Heaven

turned out to be the #Skerry 

of Dashed Hope. Hell too.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

without a tomorrow

 

In the lift, there's a man in tuxedo, gelled hair, gleaming from top to toes. Did he call me a half-naked fakir?

I go to the seaside, to be with people like me, without a tomorrow, glad to have a sunset that won't last, staring at the #horizon, then azure now concrete.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2017/04/incomplete-unedited-notes-colombo.html

No hubby

 

"Swapna, there will be five men by you when you deliver your baby."

"..."

"An ex, a non-ex, the father, another and moi."

"Did you #hop on the bandwagon? Got one thing right. No hubby."

"When is the baby due?"

"18 years +- 4."

"That long?"

"We are only 14."

"Ah!"

#vss365

from 'Because of the Rain' aka anti-censors

 

The Librarian remembered that VeeCee sat in a trance gazing at... 

The #rain-soaked fertile fields; trees swaying; grey clouds, pregnant; a strange mist settling like a diaphanous veil over the face of those hills. 

"Truly sublime," she said. "But then, it got weird."

#vss365

from my short story 'Because of the Rain':

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/because-of-rain.html

'stare'

 

My pal and I were young

And the lady 

in the black chiffon saree 

saw us

'staring' 

(what do you call 

the 'stare' you give

a Rodin

or a Caravaggio,

is it #sightseeing?)

And smiled

(god!).

Now, we are old

And we might notice her husband

When we fall in love with her.

#vss365

living in a suitcase

 

Matrimonial ad:

'I'm living in a #suitcase.

Like-minded apply.'

Swiped right, with fervour.

'I'm dying in another's.'

Epitaph will say.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

It's not the journey that matters

 

There, in the doc's waiting room,

It's not the #journey that matters,

It's the destination, silly,

Could be the morgue or not,

There, with 36 who have lived,

Sex, job, wealth, family, all ticked,

They must have said ILU,

Whispered, muttered or cursed,

Doesn't matter.

#vss365

symbols

 

what do you symbolize,

my dear #lobster,

is it temptation

or too much luck,

(what's that now luck)

is it undying love

or mating for life

(o don't complain lust or love)

or should I recall

the mess we made at Juhu Mahesh Lunch Home

(I still loved you then you know)

#vss365

What lies ahead for me?

 

"Weather?"

"Humid."

"Food?"

"Burger."

"Love?"

"#Amber."

"Lust?"

"Green."

"Marriage?"

"Red."

"O Spirits!"

"Guru! What lies ahead for me?"

"Next summer,

At a traffic light, 

Munching bad food, 

Winking at women, 

It will hit you."

"Truck?"

"Your wife's fist."

#vss365

you love me

 

"You love me," I said

"That's corny," she said.

"But, that’s what I feel. What’s the point in saying I love you if I don't feel you feel it?"

"Duh!"

"But not a #dud, right?"

She shrugged. Smiled. "You too love me."

"Yikes, that's definitely schmaltzy," I said.

#vss365

(Again! Sorry for using my old stuff for #vss365. Water woes yet again have short-circuited the few grey cells I have.)

From

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/05/seconds.html

peeking toms

 

"Let's go birdwatching," she said the morning after. The cold finger of dread traced a line from the hypothalamus to the gluteus maximus.

I avoid budding ornithologists. Serious when funny and vice versa, they show rigor mortis when the feathered lot shun #peeking toms.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/05/seconds.html

return of the crazy

 

His hometown changed. The liberal and the conservatives teamed up. The left became an alternative right. People revived religious beliefs their forefathers had debunked. It was difficult to escape its #pervasive influence. That God got back its voice and ruled the stage.

#vss365

from my short story 'Gutter Talk':

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/10/gutter-talk.html

the one in my head

 

I've never been to a #swamp

Other than the one in my head,

Did nature or nurture cause that

Or is it another daydream,

I can ask the ghosts that rise 

But they are not true or helpful,

Did love or failure cause that

Or is it a lush paradise,

To wallow or not to sink?

#vss365

awake and not dumb

 

I'm a type of Rip Van Winkle,

Awake but dumb for decades,

Talking to one I cared about,

This time no blunder of past,

No more of my life, or wisdom,

She has no use for such, at all,

I should listen, let her fall, or

Rise, for max #impact, or not, 

Awake and not dumb.

#vss365

curséd

 

Weddings here are simple less-than-5-min affairs.

In between the start (couple enters) and the end (junta races to the dining hall), no one hears the priest chant (in the vernacular):

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave this curséd #portal."

#vss365

(with all due respect to Eagles and lovers of 'Hotel California')

migrant workers

 

Yesterday, the police questioned two migrant workers in connection with the Mritya murder case.

Today, the two were found dead in a pond. 

According to post-mortem, they drowned in the pond.

Locals say that only the dead can #submerge themselves in the shallow pond. 

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/01/murder-scrapbook.html

primal puzzle

 

According to 'The History of Homo Sapiens', the primal #puzzle is: why did they say 'I love you'?

It's believed a male first tried it to mask a shortcoming, say the quality of meat. 

Or, was it a lady fond of cave painting who used it to postpone meals and baser needs?

#vss365

ways of love

 

Why did #ardour end

When we were ready to lie 

In the ways of love?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

autonomy

 

"Will you marry me?"

"Surrender #autonomy?"

"Yours or mine or ours?"

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Where are you?

 

Where am I?

 

"Swapna, where is Arjun?"

"I got a message from him: 'Woke up in a strange city (see photo). Please collect.'"

"Do you know where he is?"

"About 1000 km from here."

"And?"

"Not interested in lost and found, ma'am."

"Show some #altruism."

"He won't...remain lost."

#vss365 

Sue Zed

 

When Vishnu suggested the long hike, it was not out of #amity. He knows I'm allergic to physical exertion.

And, he had caught me peeping at Sarada, his attractive and mysterious neighbor.

Shivers should have gone down my spine when he said, "Let's go to Sue Zed point."

#vss365

adapted from

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

from 'Spouse without benefits'

 

It was love at first sight. For me.

"I love him so much. Plz help me marry him," she said.

Felt like a martyr. Wanting to kick myself. I assumed a Sherlockesque pose oozing #astuteness, drooping eyes, steepled fingers, what-not.

But, it was time for guts, no thought.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/02/spouse-without-benefits.html

'acuperson'

 

"Class, in today's Whose Line Is It Anyway, let's use #acumen. Swapna?"

"Why is it so rare-

True romantic acumen,

Matter of the mind?"

"Oxymoron? Good point. Arjun? Don't be an idiot."

"It is amazing-

Linguistic acuperson

In women I love."

"Oh, plzzz."

#vss365

#haiku #senryu

from 'Swapna'

 

As I held her close, I hoped she would not hear the rumbling of impotent rage within.

She has to go. There is only one way to go without goodbye.

Is it because of the prevailing dark gloomy despondence?

Nothing has really changed. 

#Awareness screwed up everything.

#vss365

from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2020/04/swapna.html

writer's block

 

From the article, 'Dan Jacobson on the story of stories': 

"The duality of a really good short story constitutes its expression of our human awareness that everything in life is full of significance, and at the same time that nothing in it has any significance at all..."

That did not help my writer's block. I have been staring at a blank page wondering if it is full or empty. Do not read too much.

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from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-this-blog-about.html

Ellipsis

 

"You are #aglow with..."

"Go on..."

"It's so difficult with you...even compliments..."

"Well, it should come from your heart, or better, from your mind, not..."

"We have one common..."

"Ellipsis..."

"Will you..."

"Shut up! It's Sunday morning."

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Privacy. Duh!

 

'...they set the sheets #ablaze...'

"Aha!"

"Don't look at my writing in progress."

"Why not?"

"Privacy. Duh!"

"I've such privileges."

"No, you don't."

"Crime fiction?"

"No."

"Come on."

"Erotica."

"Who is the 'they'?"

"That's why I told you not to look at it."

#vss365

AI X.0

 

"You're ruining my rep, my dear. I'm supposed to be rational. & here I am, in love with a ghost."

"The prerequisite

For love is #avidity.

Not rhyme nor reason."

"Prickly humans!"

"A humanoid having the hots for a ghost requires more than intelligence."

#vss365 

#haiku #senryu

What are they really thinking?

 

Problem with #ardour-

What are they really thinking?

Live for the moment?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Government (or lack of it)

 

"Swapna, where did you go to destress? Some spa? Or guru?"

"There’s no better place than a govt office to realize the pointlessness of life."

"It's their apathy,

That kills one's #alacrity 

With ways so arduous."

"Arjun, not your pomes, plz!"

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#haiku #senryu ?

#NoWater

After they held hands

 

It was romantic when they held hands. During the break between the main course and the dessert, he described an old flame as "the highlight of her profile was her Adam’s #apple". "And, yours is a pot belly", she retorted. From that moment on, it was a race to the exit. 

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from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-funny-valentine.html

How to read a diary

 

Diaries flout the laws of gravity.

The heavy hovers at the top, 

The empty falls to the bottom.

The devil might be in the details

Or is she in pages with too little?

Based on an old short story of mine 'Reading Diaries'.

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/09/reading-diaries.html

gender neutrality

 

To participate in sports, we had to fill out a form.

In that boys school, the entry 'Sex:' required considerable thought. 

Shekhar, the realistic fantasist, wrote: 'Once a week.'

Winston, with spelling issues, bragged: 'Summa cum loud.'

I tried honesty: '#Flexible.' 

#vss365

complain

 

"Why didn't u complain sooner?"

said every jackass 

From KG teacher to judge & executioner,

"Ha! Don't get ur knickers in a twist 

About #melons or breed! Ha!"

Yes, my love, 

I'm in it for something, 

Is that the crime,

Or when u ignore all

And write about the sublime?

#vss365