Showing posts with label yay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yay. Show all posts

19 August 2011

stiletto

angels walked,
flew around my back-yard
their warmth, still warm on my bean-bag
the shape of their bottoms.

when gone i see
my floor littered, mud stains
the shape of foot-steps
in lost order.

i wake up
and one look around tells me -
that sure was one night i lived.

21 October 2010

faces in blue and brown and a tiger half done

lines, flashes of light -
ning in colours chosen,
smoothened curves in blue
and the fills in between
radially inside out, light
green to red to blue to yell
ow - with red fenced strokes
thickness ten, yellow inside
a set of seven suns. a face in blue
with ochre lips, blue curls, hair
a border in dark blue. a face in
lines brown and strokes of blue
wash behind. then there is the
tiger on a mat with triangular
patterns. the tiger, brightness change.
whiskers in gray. teeth extruded
solid coloured faces, 5 measures
deep, wide and long. random py
ramids. lit from below and the be
ginning of boredom brings to it
the end. beginning of a new game
with old tricks learnt somewhere
far away to while away some time.

23 September 2010

D (II)

a zen like detachment
is only a third person view
of things - he, she, it and them

let's just pretend -
it's their business anyway

11 September 2010

Yell, M & N. Oh!

"I'm happy you aren't home" said I for which
she said "you've no clue how jealous am I that
you're home" - we exchanged smiles, the other
having the same exact thing the other longed for
a silent moment just passed, thinking, a sigh each.
"Annie's song, makes me wow every time" said she,
"every time" she exclaimed. "Ah yes!" said I, "where
the song peaks at the storm in the desert and then slowly
falls melodically at the sleepy blue ocean, my knees go
weak every single time" I said. "Oh not to forget - let me
always be with you and the flute that follows - always,
leaves me with weak knees, always! and it's always for that perfect love,
not the real thing - Some utopian concept -
it fits that way only" she said. "We only complicate things -
may be we only have the unreal picture, without knowing much -
a picture of something, always being better than what is
- so anything at all would never satisfy us - then we get the idea of
something utopian. it is hard to define labels such - love, perfect,
utopian and the like" said I. and I paused.
"may be" she said "actually when you really are in the peak of being in
love you do feel like that. i think it's just the obsessive state!"
she paused for breath. "I honestly do not understand the state one
is or should be in when one claims to be in 'love'" said I.
"Like I said, it is the obsessive state, when you can only think of
that person. the rest of the time you continue being together
is mostly inertia, you promised to be together and so you keep that promise"
she tried to explain.
"so the individuals in love tell each other that 'see, I do think of you all the time
when we are not together' or some such? how do they know that 'love' is
happening between them?" asked I, honestly confused. "when you are in love
nothing, I mean nothing more than thinking about each other does happen"
said she and stopped.
"I do not understand, but well, let it be" said I and smiled.
"don't think so much" said she "if you believe you are in love, you are.
it is like happiness - you are if you think so" she said, when I felt like it
kind of made some sense.
"you honestly do have your way with words - cliche as they may sound
you use them perfectly at the perfect time, like they way they should make
sense - like the way you used that very cliche sounding bit about happiness!"
said I in an appreciative tone. "I like that compliment, you inspire me!" said she
and we put the discussion to rest
and continued to talk about fried sweets and movies and then
said one goodbye each and
promised to talk about things soon.

05 September 2010

blue

blue days that start with blue are not always
blue
they only get bluer in all bluest brilliance
~
super hero pencil boxes, pens, black ink
shoe art, paints, miniatures, camera
breathless
~
"I'm more beautiful than you are" that invites
sudden laughter and foolish grins -
one of those moments
~
too costly for what they are worth
rugs and shirts (that do not button down)
but still shirts, let them go
~
"not the right shade, nor the right size"
ear rings are not so easy to choose
easy bargains for lack of sheen
~
the streets promise the usual
scrambled eggs and steaming coffee
and laughter
~
a movie, two women and a place
and emotional complications, it ends
with things hanging somewhere there
~
beautiful sad music, folk songs
all in an unknown tongue - secret
wish: I was born that, that I understood
~
no tea, luck not so bad, there is coffee
and conversations and blueberry
and realizations
~
then a goodbye.

04 September 2010

the forbidden song

to sing that forbidden song
of forking lightnings
where every note of the song,
every point on the lightning

was only the start of something
new and unbelievably similar
to everything that followed,
everything that had gone ahead

sweet forbidden song, the song
that should never be, but yet sung
to the tune of the summer breeze
is the song that stays forever on -

is the song that sure and must go

27 August 2010

make no mistake

make no mistake
when you fall down
make no mistake
when you wear a frown

step up and step down

make no mistake
when you are wide awake
make no mistake
knowing not what you make

step up and step down

make no mistake
as moments pass you by
make no mistake
when you say good bye

step up and step down

make no mistake
when you wash your lies
make no mistake
being forever and ever nice

step up and step down

make no mistake
when you know a mistake
make no mistake
knowing not what it takes

step up and step down
step up and step down
all over again
step up and step down

26 August 2010

phoenix shooting stars

phoenix, shooting stars
twinkle and disappear
once every seven births
thank god shooting stars
that twinkle and disappear
and not stars, stars that stay
on for ever and ever on
shooting stars, burn, born again
similar flavor, yet another star
all over again, all over again
shooting stars only repeat
on and on till the end
thank god shooting stars
that twinkle and disappear
and not stars, stars that stay
on for ever and ever on
for my skies change, looking
back in time all the time
awaiting the next star
the next twinkling shooting star
that'd twinkle and disappear
and the clouds and smiles
only follow.

23 August 2010

for the glass panes

empty evenings of meaninglessly prolonged chatter and unnecessary dark miles traveled on mechanical stallions with glass panes, by the glass panes, when droplets of rain pitter-pattered - are only for the glass panes that offer hazy vision through days and days and the film of gathered dust that could be time or the lack of time or the abundance of it or just plain satisfaction and the struggle for existence.

calm

and finally when the voices
were forcefully silenced -
there was an eerie,
yet enjoyable calm

inside the head

like the insides of a dark room
with all windows closed
when nobody watched -
c-a-l-m!

17 August 2010

like yesterday

rain still -
off green leaves
beneath the tree

under the crescent moon

Joie de vivre

Joie de vivre

(Incorrect spelling
Wouldn't take anything
Away from it nor -

Would spelling it right
Make it better than
What already is)

Joie de vivre

10 August 2010

for D.A.

dream a stained dream
of forest fires with a view
from the top of dizzyingly
tall hill tops with purple
pink and red petals
strewn all around
beneath your invisible
foot steps
silently against your will
or wish
it's only a rainbow curl
fluttering in the wind
on sleepless sunny days
glowing trees and a hundred
thousand splendid candy suns
stars and free flowing
flower streams...

27 July 2010

7. 210.

7 should be enough, say 210
seven should be enough, say two ten
to close them windows
and just be - throwing blank stares
at the rainbows spread across the sky

yes, 7 colours, seven
the clouds, the clouds and time
are all just one and the same
but my windows are closed
and i only thank myself for that

the breeze can stay out
and i can be this way, the way i do
the way i've always done

when the ship comes in

just

just to stand still
and watch a rainbow
a colour here, a colour there
a colour somewhere
and a colour everywhere
as time slowly passes on by

26 July 2010

5C


12+25+259+127+77=500.

Joy!

17 July 2010

tao

*
The creak
A door opening -
Follows the slam
*

15 July 2010

the summer butterflies

One summer morning I woke up,
Stood by my window when the sun shone
Outside I saw a butterfly – with
Wings free, light and colourful
I pushed my hand through the window –
To touch the butterfly, to make it come
Sit on my out stretched finger

Only the shadow of the butterfly wings
Touched my fingers, as the butterfly flew
I closed my eyes
And smiled

Only the breeze and the rays of the sun
Flowed through my window as I
Stood there by my window, frozen
With a smile

03 July 2010

rainbow saturdays (& saturday rainbows)

then there were gray clouds too.
the rainbow stayed up there only for a few minutes before it dissolved and disappeared.
it had seven colours, as usual, one colour not distinguishable from the other, the seven seamlessly blended into one another, one arched bow across the sky.
much like a lazy saturday when one shade blends into another and you realize the next momentary shade only when you are into it, deep and good, the transformation never felt or realized.
thank the saturday sun, thank the saturday rain, thank the saturday rainbow, thank the rainbow saturday.
thank the sun and the rains for saturdays and rainbows.
sundays are different rainbows altogether, yet to be seen, but rainbows for sure.