Friday, March 21, 2014

Fugitive in its place

Fugitive in its place

Gestures of uninhibited movements, of words, judged for ages
If you have to release to breathe
In the silky air you’d longed for
So be it,
Come unto me if you will
When you do
With your benign heart that rests
Unmoved in its innocuous strength,
The spirits floating flying all around the sand
Onto the hut
Just three or four waves down the lane,
Where poems met the poet
Fugitive in its place;
Here, hands didn’t hold the times cut
By the lips, severed by the looks,
Legs didn’t walk through the hopes
That waited since long,
Eyes didn’t kiss the thoughts on the crossroads,
Actions weren’t bold enough for the heat
Steaming on the beach,
And poems weren’t half-made to escape
Through the windows, a little away from there,
Some sand dunes away, my girl,
Come back if and when you will
Onto the waiting pillow that resides
Fugitive in its place!

Thursday, March 20, 2014

When the base is the same

When the base is the same

Pen which has flown from the left to the right,
Its juice traversed with lacerated lines
Of a particular nature,
Suddenly instructed to squirm in a different direction
How would it know this world, these grooves!
When the base is the same
Forms and figures, in their rights and their wrongs,
How would it know there’s song in the thorns!
When the base is the same
Identification is the malice
Virtues of times that left, shredded as vices bereft,
With fences that flew with snailed experience!
The mural morality that excludes, has known only that,
Through twists and turns with bruises and burns,
Decors into humanity that includes, nothing other than that,
Ready to secrete the essence!
When the base is the same

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

thoughts in triplets


Birthday

Moments born reborn
Every day is a birthday
Eyes burn water breaks

Futile letters

Envelop arrives
Mind wonders is curious
News of false offers


Worthless

Growth is worth nothing
Children die for love peace food
Shameless figures glow

The necessity jail

Job offers capture
Blue and white-collar workers
Prisoners die to live

Cuts

True, shortcuts are smart
Long-cuts are wiser tougher
Stands the test of time

Sugar is about living healthy

Sugar in blood high
Bills pills pile up in no time
Heart pumps day and night

Advertisements make a killing

Buying and selling
Child wants to go out hands stretched
Flying kiss cries smiles

Yudhisthira re-appears to rectify an existential response

Birth the only truth
Death cannot exist on earth
Stunned Yama looks smiles

Monday, March 17, 2014

Frangers


Frangers

Get out hesitates
To say come in lines as walls
Friends look as strangers

Law of emotion


Law of emotion

Fight for fight goes on
Love for fight outside the law
Hatred breeds and bleeds

Progress report


Progress report

Teacher remarks, writes
‘Not fit for further studies’
Student shoulders truth

Party's over


Party’s over

Parties before votes
Leaders entertain with fights
Until curtain falls

Invisible classroom of non-verbal communication


Invisible classroom of non-verbal communication

 
Riding a bike cells
Talk, driver drunk, accidents
Fast learners! Who taught!


I am amused at the way people learn things they are not supposed to do much faster than those prescribed to them! What is so attractive about the taboo! Amazed at the way riders, with their heads and shoulders catching the cell so precariously, talk over phone as though it is the most important thing on earth. It is learnt through non-verbal communication.

Accident here is but a metaphor with just two examples...however, there are numerous examples which tell us that what is not to be done is learnt much faster than what is to be learnt. A teacher telling the students not to talk, cheat goes untaught; a grandma telling her grandchild an emphatic 'No' is futile because the child surely interprets that as a loud 'Yes'. It's interesting to observe how words fail to convey the message.

There is another school of thought which says that if the intent is right, message will be conveyed. Now this brings us into a more interesting area of communication. This could veritably mean that the grandma fails to hide the intent to her grandchild even with the emphatic 'No'! She wants the child to do what she's asking him/her not to do! Likewise, when the message 'don't drink and drive', is written and circulated, there is utter disbelief in the writer's mind...and it is this disbelief that communicates to the mass. Vastly interesting, don't you think!

It is for us to ponder if we have really learnt a 'No' as a 'Yes' since childhood, and invariably do the don'ts while ignoring the do's! It would be easier for us to understand why war till date is a historic and a trans-historic reality!

In my opinion, we could even stop the war if we sat and devoted some time into discussing as to how we could trick the non-verbal communication that is so effectively learnt in the open-air classrooms worldwide!

Needs


Needs

Dark skin needs white skin
White needs dark so amusing
This black and white war

Sunday, March 16, 2014

In judgement


In Judgement

Judgement no judgement
Both need schooling grooming with
Board chalk and duster