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This I meant to upload sometime back! On Christmas, when the fete was on inside my apartment complex, we saw a curious site of a mule ‘dressed’ as reindeer! Both my dad and I are extremely fond of donkeys and mules. Some of the most deserving animals. Of mostly gentle nature. Children were playing with [...]

Kisna, and an interesting break from Blogging

Just saw Kisna.
My head hurts slightly.
A Pahari who speaks slightly American English when provoked. A dancer fiance who breaks into a rope sequence when provoked. A Raja (of ambiguous origin and orientation) who has the libido of a teenage elephant. The only character that seemed a tad realistic was that of Katherine. But [...]

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My crazy collection of earrings. Dragged them out on a piece of paper. All happily sitting dazed together. Something about them makes me really happy. :-)

Cloud burst

Secret cloud messengers
hover between two different
lands. The shapes of celestial
bodies weeping through
the telescope.
Bloated verse, on your
salt, and water. Your skin
turns an Indian blue with
ink being drunk by heady
fat poems.
How often do you write
about my skin, my toes,
your walls, and how often
about this insipid gift of
laughter.
All that remains from
an afternoon, and six
hundred and seventy five
hours of [...]

Poems in the cold

All your baby poems
the ones with five lines
and no punctuation marks
are standing in the cold. Do
you think they are lonely.

A rant on knowing, unknowing

Sometimes in the middle
of a sentence,
I seem to change a stand.
Not so, not so. Only because
I feel free to
think in front of you, I do and
My words follow the same
stream of sudden
flashes of inspiration and words
That finally help me define.
I don’t know all the answers
and am aware of
only the sense of discomfort
Cause by certain [...]

Someone sleeping

Of all gentle creatures
the ones that sleep
and curl themselves
to touch their own toes
Are the gentlest.