to be

 

I tried to be wise.

But with bang in the middle,

I chose to be me.

#vss365 #bang

the pact

 

I made a pact with the Devil. "No love or lust in my life," I promised. Got indifference in return. Life's normal without those two. No great expectations, no insincere excuses. It's tough only with a woman with the same pact. Dead eyes, dead senses, both dead. 

#vss365 #lust

advert

 

Refrigerator

Advertisement: Perfect space

For well-chopped bodies. 

not #haiku nor #senryu

overstayed

 

#Sturdy Solitude,

I've overstayed my welcome.

Et tu, my dear love.

#vss365

black hole

 

"Once upon a time, a nebula fell in love with a black hole."

"Pa!"

"Yes?"

"Is this about you and Ma?!"

"Why?"

"Ma called you a Black Hole!"

"When?"

"On the phone! I heard it!"

"Ah."

"Go on, Pa!"

"Huh?"

"The story!"

"Ah, yes. They thought nothing would come out."

#vss365 #nebula

writing pain

 

It's lovely when readers

Give new life 

To one's words.

It's lazy to let them

Wander lost

With no guide.

It's really a pain

To be clear

And thoughtful.

hooked

 

Hooked bad on Wordle,

Defensive love tries a trick:

Solitaire! Alas!

#haikufeels defensive

massage

 

The massage parlour claims to be 'eco-friendly' and boasts an 'eclectic' choice of massage : the mammalian, the #obsidian, the alien, etc. He chose the lady offering the second. He stripped, bathed, lay on a cool surface. His last thought was about her name: Ana C 'Onda.

#vss365

unique

 

Precarious life.

It's not at all terrible.

A unique abode.

#haikufeels #terrible

thoughts, perhaps

 

What was I thinking 

When I said I love you?

A lifetime's load, perhaps,

Frailty too, 

Did I hope your needs would

Give way to my comforts?

What was I thinking

When I swore allegiance?

A safer better place, maybe,

Peer pressure too,

Did I hope you would not

Draft my kids for your wars?

What was I thinking 

When I wanted to achieve all?

Some flicker of luck, probably,

Dreams of grandeur too,

Did I hope my life would

Allow that which others get?

#poetry

#WritingCommunity

bitter talk

 

Wilfred would have said,

"Dulce et decorum est..."

To preach of love and honour,

To feed the milk of human

kindness and what-not,

Would he not have said so?

My daughter, my all,

Sip some Old Monk with me.

Be not fooled by such talk.

The world out there is not bad

If you know the games well,

Be wary, avoid my mistakes.

Do you protest why he,

My son, is free of bitter talk?

He knows what he has to do

To keep what fathers and sons have.

And, mothers and daughters have

To grab what fathers and sons have.

#poetry

#WritingCommunity

what's this world

 

I hadn't used this staircase before. If not for the flood and the power cut, I would have been on the lift to my penthouse. What's this world here? People sharing space? Holding each other? Don't they know 'Flirtation is prohibited' outside? 

#FromOneLine 247

#vss365 #flirtation

reason

 

"In a word or two, give reason for your divorce. I'll start. Sicko!"

"Me? Oh. Incompatible."

"Abuse."

"Abuse."

"Incompatible."

"Infidelity."

"Sick of waiting."

"Sick of waiting?"

"For that?"

"People, stick to it."

"But...? Ok...abuse."

"Stuck #gramophone. I mean, abuse."

#vss365

lovely dirty mote

 

nothing but a lovely dirty #mote 

at the beginning and at the end;

how we try to fill the time

in between with much meaning;

existentialism, consciousness, love,

all those big words to sound good;

but, we do owe ourselves all that,

a mote in shakespearean costumes.

#vss365

dreams end

 

Dreams ended on their first night. He locked the door. "Let's get started. Strip!" She stood near the bed. He came close, the smirk turned into a snarl. He reached for her bosom. He did not expect the chop to the #philtrum and the knee to the balls. "Let's get started."

#vss365

wordle

 

Everywhere, #everything, it's a five-letter world.

Ladies with five-letter names screaming five-letter cuss words keep me awake all night.

#Wordle Anonymous isn't taking new members!

#vss365

eulogy

 

Eulogy:

"...his George Michael days lasted

till the girls realized he's straight;

the 90's were tame,

threatened by bigots, 

abused by higher powers;

with none to call #mine 

in the new millenium,

he went singing, 

"(Now that you're gone) 

was what I did so wrong"..."

#vss365

break-up room

 

There's a break-up room in office for personal calls filled to the #brim with tears, threats, ultimatums, what-not. Walls are thin. Boss is next door. HR can't be far. The pink slip usually follows. Profit's better with steady workers. People should get their death-wish.

#vss365

eerie

 

"It's #eerie."

"Oh yes."

"Give me a dark desolate graveyard. Or a haunted house."

"A beautiful resort like that..."

"With lovely people..."

"Cannibals..."

"75 victims."

"Remains buried beneath bougainvillea."

"Did you have the stew there?"

"Oh yes."

"Yummy."

#vssmurder

 

love enslaved

 

A tormented thief

With molten goods in mesh cage -

Love captured enslaved.

#vss365 #molten

#vssdaily #thief

#haikufeels #tormented

friends

 

She and I had only one problem.

She chose her friends well. And I wanted wartime friends, good fun for a short life.

It's her friends that killed us.

Mine stayed away. Hell, they knew she wasn't their type.

As for hers, it was like having her with multiple personality.

train to nowhere

 

On the train to nowhere, a beggar sang about going somewhere. There were old familiars. The young lad with a smile for goodbyes; the teen with dreams; the twenty something left bereft; the older ones defeated clowns. "All with the same name, nice," the ticket examiner noted.

Unfurl

(posted on Twitter)

Started with her neck, shoulders, arms. Removed her blouse, bra. Rubbed, kissed her back. Then, trousers, panties. Took time with her legs, bottoms. 

20 years back, I asked her to turn over. What happened? Why are we trying to #unfurl a life packed away hastily?

#Eroticismfan

from 

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2019/12/never-together-ever-again.html

 

Taste

 (posted on Twitter)

Which coffee would you like, the Barista asked.

The one I shared with her that winter morn,

With the lingering kiss laced with filter kaapi.

I walked away with memories of that #taste.

#Erotify

Breath Play

 (posted on Twitter)

In the cottage at cliff-edge,

on the hanging balcony, 

At the center, 

hanging above clouds,

Naked, 

You knew what it took 

For me with vertigo

To be there with you,

I knew what it took 

For you to try #breath play 

To tease the little death,

Edging it to eternity.

#Erotify

from 

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