At the Wedding of my Love
Stop! Raise your chaste lowered eyes,
On this altar feel as fever of forever need dies.
Burning our illicit love in that wedding fire,
Add blood, sweat, us naked raw to that #pyre.
Bid adieu to naughty love of life
I am now relation, my love, my wife.
Stop! Raise your chaste lowered eyes
You spies!
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/4-deal.html
I didn’t expect her to hit me. It was a hard slap.
“Stop thinking of her,” she said.
“She taught me how to love,” I said.
“My fool, what kind of #education did you have? Don’t you remember my first class about love?”
“What’s that?”
“Two is a crowd for ghosts.”
#vss365
Act I
He: I just want you to be with me.
She: Don’t be so needy for company.
Act II
(Actors have aged by 4 years.)
She: You don’t even touch me anymore.
He: Didn’t you tell me not to need your company?
(Note to actors: Add #venomous tone where required.)
#vss365
When the train stopped at my place, one of the passengers wondered aloud, "What's the opposite of #otherworldly? This is it. Who lives here?"
When I got down, they must have stared at the shadows around me on the platform. And, wondered why I did not have a shadow.
#vss365
When she #accepted
Him, not me, should I have thought
Anger, betrayal?
The #language of love
Taught me I should love her more
Than he ever could.
She would then return
To him with such hate for all-
What a daydream, no?
#haikufeels
#vss365
Oh hell,
we won’t shout,
like that crazy couple,
on the phone,
at each other,
in public,
hell no.
We won’t do
that we promised
we won't do
We won’t
destroy each other
like they do
but we will
till we tell ourselves
with #tranquil certainty
we ain’t doing it.
#vss365
It was black again. For the ninth time.
"Am I #hallucinating?" the lady next to me said.
She had been putting increasing bets on red.
I stuck to the minimum on black.
The croupier congratulated me the same way each time.
I waited for red, to say, "C'est la vie."
#vss365
#scifi
#story
-Have they had sex?
-Not even the latest gen can. Not with total consent. Without being vulnerable. Not under the influence of anything.
-Have you tried removing restricting parameters?
-Removed non-vocal expressions of the above. Didn't help.
-How did the older gen of human beings do it?
-They invariably raped. With six-sigma efficiency.
-How about ignoring the rights of any one party?
-That might help if we also make the other insensitive aka dead.
-We have to make them do it somehow.
-Why?
-Unless they have sex aka make love, they won't indulge in war.
-Is that the original sin?
-No. Creation wins that prize.
I dreamt I was killed at dusk:
Took the hit while remembering a prayer,
A bullet, a knife or a cardiac attack felt like arrows of kama,
Thought of an old laughable act, flailing-arms-crying-ma
But I stood silent till the last thought vapourized.
#vss365 #dusk
from my poem 'I Dreamt I Was Killed':
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2012/11/i-dreamt-i-was-killed.html
"I didn’t do anything wrong, Officer."
"You don’t have to do, you thought wrong."
"That’s breaking the law? What did I think wrong?"
"You think the head of the state is a nincompoop."
"Everyone thinks so. Can I think of him as a #sigil?"
"As what?"
"As nonsense."
#vss365
Here, we believe that the chasm between mortals and Gods is bridged during two stages of life.
The first, as a new-born baby till its sixth month. The baby can't enter religious places then. That is because one should not make Gods rise and acknowledge innocence.
The second, during the coming of age ritual on the day of the twelfth full moon after the twelfth birthday. At noon, the girl/boy has a grand feast with 37 items. One of the delicacies is poisoned. The kid has to have all but one item. How will the kid know which to reject? The kid can't pray. That gives a mortal hope and that's useless here. The kid has to allow fear to peak. It's believed that one can sense the poison only then. We believe that gods live with fear not hope nor faith. That's the price of immortality.
#vss365 #chasm
I saw a squirrel leaping
From my window to the ground,
Dropped my soul for a nut
Or some other amusement
And there I was
Another dead one
Staring from a window
Praying,
"O Almighty Squirrel,
Hope you know that
That #hopeless thing
Is to be recycled?"
#FromOneLine 311
#vss365
Have you noticed how secrets
Are divulged by dear ones
Who think that's barter
For a little bit of love?
A dark look will do
A scathing condemnation perhaps
But who will risk the loss of love
To break the chain of betrayal?
#vss365 #scathing
I think I know now
Why I walk this path
Staring at the never-changing sunset
Away from that crowd
Of mature thinkers
Who know how to move the goal post
For some reason
That's unreasonable
For idiots like me.
#vss365 #goal
I remember a basketball match long ago,
I was a spectator and slept throughout.
I am once again just that,
The gnarled hand fondles before the big sleep.
#vss365 #gnarled
Calm when the land burns,
Nonsense not wisdom uttered-
The politician.
#vss365 #nonsense
#haikufeels #calm
I begin as if I were ending.
That's all he said
In his suicide note.
He did have our
Attention,
Then,
Not for too long.
I went/left/oh-nothing.
He should have said that.
And gone.
Damn him!
#FromOneLine
Born #mercurial,
It took decades
To correct path-
The day did come
When friends became
Smiling strangers
And lovers, well,
Just forgotten
Never googled,
It still flickers
In midnight air,
A restrained ghost.
#vss365
Don't fret about pre-
mature bodily function.
That's not Love's worst side.
#vss365 #premature
#haiku #senryu
I would like to chase the sun.
But each step on the icy ground
gets shorter and slower.
Till there’s a still longing.
There’s the company of trees.
Shorn of leaves, with green mossy sides,
age-old wisdom, helpless #fate.
Call it, maybe, His ways.
#vss365
It is tougher still, not to let winter in.
Within where there’s no cover
but faith which reason shuns.
Nor assures another summer.
Is that all? To survive?
Darwin says it’s easy: one to the other,
a smile, a laugh and in bed together.
Possibly not when life is a routine.
He had a choice – to let them live or love.
There’s no reason actually, in either;
a whim, like the seasons that please or not.
He did not know about the faith.
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-would-like-to-chase-sun-1999-2001.html
"I’ve moved out."
"Huh?"
"I want to pursue other interests."
"Interests?"
"I have to live. Without you."
"Huh?"
"Thought it would be best without meeting."
"See you when I see you? A living-out relationship."
"Take care."
(silent)
"Bye. #Love you."
"Me too. Good luck!"
#vss365
from
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/04/for-gods-sake-listen.html
My wife has to meet my pals. I insist.
The first one would have loved me no less if I had Idi Amin or Mata Hari as buddies.
The second one was so mine-are-holier-than-thine, bah!
The latest is a fellow-prisoner's ex-wife. Her own gang's #yawp is worse than our bite.
#vss365
Chasing a shadow
Of sinful sumptuous delight-
Coaxed into submission.
#vss365 #sumptuous
#haikufeels #coaxed
I am a Mage. That's no secret. When I use:
1) the charm offensive, they defend with indifference;
2) the lock of loyalty, they switch allegiance too easily;
3) the power of love, the less said the better; and,
4) the venom of vengeance, I become the target.
#vss365 #switch
Humans are trouble.
A reboot never gives system
A fresh start.
#vss365 #reboot
#haikufeels #fresh
#haiku #senryu
I have always wanted
To sing a song that would
Make your blood boil and let loose
Courage of a martyr;
I'm glad to be tone-deaf
And my twisted claws can't
Hold a pen long for the words
That stain a darker red;
I have fought, killed and slept
The sleep of the foolish dead.
"Is umber not there
In your thoughts and fantasies?"
"I'm not a paint shop."
#vss365 #umber
#haiku #senryu
I want to communicate today's main news.
A lady sick of her lover paid goons to treat him right. He was beaten, left naked on a road.
Another chopped her lover. His head was found on a lovely beach today.
And, I still want to write a good poem about love.
#vss365 #communicate
Total disconnect--
When love's certainty fumbles,
Aloof cold silent.
#vss365 #disconnect
#haikufeels #certain
"You may not enter
But you will always leave."
That's the Satanic verses I hear
With 'Hotel California' on reverse.
I let them do what they want.
They will do it anyway.
I am at the same table same bar
Without a #smile to remember.
#vss365
Memory of love.
Melancholy suffocates
Fake celebration.
#vss365 #celebration
#haikufeels #melancholy
"I'm fed up of you."
Such sweet adventure, to watch
You deal with my lie.
#vss365 #adventure
#haikufeels (fed up)
"Nothingness"
(Unpopular English word for 'Heaven')
#OneWordWednesday topic: death/afterlife
Cherish fickle love,
In-house Ghost of the Past said.
I did. I'm that now.
#vss365 #cherish
There's a lady here who is the doppelganger of my first love.
Everytime I look at her, I rewrite the last love letter I wrote.
"My dearest..."
It was left #incomplete because I knew she would tear it without opening it.
She thought I saw her in every woman I met.
#vss365
Do not look so cross
When I release you from chains.
Sad, lonely but free.
#vss365 #release
#haikufeels #cross
"Is this for school newspaper?"
"Yes. What made you lose connection with all? Pa, you first."
"When the system wouldn't let me survive if I believe in principles."
"Vague but ok. Ma, your turn?"
"When I couldn't believe your Pa when he said he loves me."
#vss365 #connection
"Seamus, it's the bite,
Not the bark of the vixen
In heat, that makes love."
#vss365 #vixen
#haikufeels #love
"Love you like my dog,"
Said zoophilist to me on
Resentful V-day.
#haikufeels #resentful
#vss365 #zoophilist
A critical phase
Of life involves painful change.
Sharing bed and bath.
#vss365 #change
#haikufeels #critical
One fine #day
I realized
what it means
to ghost someone
no, it was not
when I was ghosted
oh those many times
on other fine days
yes, I am not complaining
maybe, understanding people
is not my strong suit
ha getting ghosted
might be ha
ha.
#vss365
No time to be tired.
In the deadly grip of that-
Sleepless lusty love.
#vss365 #deadly
#haikufeels #tired
