mono no aware

 

I woke up saying,

"Ah! Mono no #aware."

Her side of the bed.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

malice

 

When I talked about love,

Your #pejorative criticism

Could not be mistaken 

For jealousy or possessiveness.

Undisguised malice,

Wielded so brutally,

Leaving no survivors,

When we talked about love.

#vss365

 

misconception

 

Zombies don't shuffle

And #forage for human flesh.

They aren't creeps like us.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

hopeless prayer

 

Why do I use words

That's like a hopeless prayer?

For example, #guide.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

  

what's with them

 

what's with them

liking poetry

no twists in the tale

not even a cliff-hanger

it's not the brevity 

or life love lust

or ways to #slaughter

not even a romp in the sack

why do they lie #together

not ask a question

not in blank verse

not even in iambic whatameter

#vss365

#NALove

exchange

 

I promised to change.

For that, I had to exchange

Old love for new love. 

#vss365 #change

#haiku #senryu ?

already ghosts

 

I remember my first glass of #champagne.

That too with strawberries and such. With her.

"Can I just have 7up and French fries?"

"I was going to suggest the same."

We didn't curl up in front of a fireplace.

We were nude and happy. And already ghosts.

#NALove

lost meaning

 

I heard "#Aloha"

And thought about its meaning.

Missed love #forever.

#vss365

#NALove

#haiku #senryu ?

we are both, aren't we?

 

"How did you like the trip?"

"Overrated places. Where was Romance?"

"The #quintessence of honesty, you are." 

"What's with those statues? Men with small..."

"Went with your spouse?"

"Huh?"

"It was ok for me. With my lover."

"Forgotten we are both, huh?"

"But..."

#vss365

no response no future

 

When you don't respond,

I hear your disapproval. 

#Critique: no future.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

doubt

 

Without an #iota of doubt.

That's all I wished for from love. 

One wish too many.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

bonding

 

I tried a dating site called Bonding.

In the bio-data, it asked

'#Element of:';

'Nothing', I said, of course.

People refused to swipe right on me.

I tried to change my bio. But I could not. I wrote to Customer Support. They replied: 'How can you bond?' Fair enough.

#vss365

an empty room with all

It is an empty white room. He must have seen doubt on my face.

“Did you expect gods and demons? Or, deities and symbols with stories? Or, a #mirror to reflect the inner good or evil? Here, the power of the mind will do. Some call it insanity. Some call it black magic.” 

#vss365

from

https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-behind-calm.html

actions

 

Did he not assume his thought and feeling outweighed all,

On that day he twisted facts, ignored truth and incited a #riot?

Why did I assume it mattered what I thought

And forgot that my action mattered most?

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2021/10/i-think.html

the one in the middle

 

For them, #elf_glory

must have been the light at the 

end of the tunnel. 

Just another traffic jam. 

But, in 30 minutes, 37 dead. 

It's the work of a god pissed off with all, they say.

The latter I am. The former? Hahaha if that's what you call the one in the middle.

#vss365

a memory lost

 

I am the living dead to them. 

My eldest #sibling is a Dean in a famous University. The other is a doctor.

They avoid me now.

My father too. He used to talk about his third kid when I was rich and successful. Now, I'm a memory lost.

No point reminding people of that.

#vss365

I do not caress

 

There is work till half past noon, upon that land so moodily fertile; I do not talk to the trees, that’s for the the loony; I do not caress the land or my woman; I #shovel, dig, deep, spit, sweat, curse with relief; I lie on top, breathing hard, resting in the shade.

#vss365 

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/space-between.html

far from home

 

After school, I went to a college far from home. I guess that last part was the operative part for me – far from home. There, I got to know the power of religion, caste, color, language, class and beliefs. I was not naïve. But the fervent, #radical and senseless grouping of youngsters, the youngest around seventeen and the oldest barely twenty two, was overwhelming. The main clubs were based on simple stuff like region or language. It was awful to see the crème de la crème of society enforce a tacit apartheid. The chanting at the campus temple seemed loud and combative, and the display of saffron or sandalwood paste just ostentatious. In that small campus village, the Christians’ orthodox Sunday school and the Muslims’ mandatory prayer meetings appeared resentful and vindictive. The left-leaning intelligentsia lived in their cuckoo-land, copycats, so obviously false but still fashionable. There was even a large snooty clique that followed Ayn Rand. In one way or the other, each group believed in their superiority and in subjugating others.

#vss365

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/05/being-bad.html

RIP

 

On Sunday, we tried matrimony,

By Wednesday, it became a #kerfuffle,

The #vexatious part was over by Friday,

We now rest in peace, forever, separate.

#vss365

nonsense

 

To utter or not, 

That's not the real problem

When it's #codswallop.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Solitude's wrath

 

O wicked one! Why do you charm me so?

Life seems so light with its wish to join you,

But the gentle air alone caresses and beckons.

Memory slips away to that distant time

When with such a sight we delighted,

But now, your hand not in mine, I face Solitude’s #wrath.

#vss365

from

https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/last-time-i-wrote-about-love.html

2024 is 2023

 

2024 is 2023.

Just another name to give hope.

Woke up after a restless night. 

Cleaned. Read. Wrote.

Posted a true life story. 

Got less than 100 views. With likes less than 100% of that. 

Drove around town before lunch. Everyone seemed sleepy.

Slept till they called it 2025.