Tag: poets

The clayey peasantry
and
the ceramic urbanites
gathered around
a lean fire
to take a break
from the alienation.

Only
the unemployed time
and such died attentions
seem to kindle the lulled lavas
lying in the nucleus of the hearts and minds.

The numberless tabs
opened in the browser
and the overlong wish-list
halted in the Amazon cart
makes life
a cartoon.

We never trust the sugars
but
surrender the five senses
even the 6th, 7th, 8th and the Nth
to the candied companies.

What a pity!
I forget this, again.
What a pity!
I will remember this, again.
What a pity!
such meditations are lost in the figures of speech.

Back to the Psychedelics and NFTs
to complicate the matrix.
I skipped the Ad and life. Did I ?

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Infinity dies
when you stop counting.
Dreams sneeze
when a neuron gets candy.

Chaos is a cover that
simplicity uses to play tricks.
Deja vu is a dropped memory
of the cosmos.

Solitude is a dream
of no-mind and a scream of
all-mind.
I’m just a meme made by god.

I piss off Yin
with a spin
of the sin.

I and the holy ghost
shall find the yang
with a pistol and good TV.

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At a highway motel,
I read a fortune cookie.
It said —
“Imitation is the highest
form of self-deception.”
I defied it,
and stepped into society.
as a result,
I guillotined the self,
in a choreographed civilisation,
and baptised barbarism.
turning vibrant skeleton,
into the lifeless soul.

____________________
On a rainy day,
I met a tropical cyclone.
It said —
“You cannot change,
the scripted foreheads,
and,
palmistry cannot undo,
mystic miscarriages.”
of course, I ignored it,
and walked into the traps of,
hopes, vows, wishes, and wills,
crossing fingers in,
the myth of salvation.

____________________
In a writers meet,
when my,
gums were bleeding with guilt,
knuckles cracking with knavery,
and yawning tides of sleep,
were trying to make me,
A domicile in dreams,
one young fellow,
gave away his flunkey wisdom — 
“Moneyed angles created poverty,
and moneyed demons created the charity.”
I dismissed it,
and still believed in the,
Lord — Adam smith,
the un-read, misunderstood,
god of capitalism.

____________________
On a who-gives-a-damn day,
I met a monk,
He said — 
after perspiring silence from his empty eyes,
“Open your mind, and,
walk alone,
without,
rules, ideals, ideologies,
and dogmas.”
I think,
He also said — 
adjusting his robes,
“walk without sticks,
run without guilt,
and fly without faith.”
well,
my beard murmured,
solitude is a prelude to sanity,
or insanity.
and I went home,
to cater, the conscience.
or whatever it is called these days.

____________________

-Fooling the self.

(Muse- Soren Kierkegaard)

The drama unfolded,
as the un-finished memories woke up.
writer wears the robes of rejuvenation,
resurrecting after the night sins.
he sidelines,
the sweet aroma of wet earth,
the dreams, that ruined the buzz of silence.
the,
cellist of creativity,
rushes into un-looked empty pages,
to fan-out a poem from fear,
while melting under a cold candy.
thoughts,
however,
slipped away like a desert reptile,
pulled down by the “g” force of neurons,
or by the salty emotions,
into the pockets of a foreclosed denim jacket.
writer,
still, stretches the defeat,
and travels the highways of procrastinated paths,
into the netherworld of monologues.
little did he know,
the strength of ionic and the covalent bonds of,
the null and void.
spiraling up again,
he strips the petals of the pen,
yet,
the drowned poem,
could not come out of the bottomless buoyancy,
despite,
the cranking horn of lazy breadth and the,
formatting of un-saved memory files.
probably,
it’s trapped in the tropospheric timidness.
thus,
I ended the show,
as the cyclonic heart was tired of latent passivity,
I retract,
into,
the condolence of pillows.

-Slipping into soberity.

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Water was watered down
flow arrested and molecules
could not romance
with the banks, plains,
and marshes anymore.

The native man was
asked to wear the hat
of larger good
and give up land,
little animals,
rock cultures and so on
and stand for the hydro-power
that darkens their valley forever.

Sure, they were shifted or “Rehabilitated”
skeletons progressed to new homes
but the spirits keep on rocking back
to and fro like a pendulum.

Turbines gave a new life
project reports
gave a dose of concrete morals
to fishes
and the economists
called it a “Renaissance”

— Drunken Salmon in a fish ladder.

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The legal — black inked
yellowish inert pages of the constitution
sitting in a lotus posture
inside
national museums
could not catch
sight of —

kaki lathis on the roads
bullets jaywalking
on the sinful skins of people.

Citizens mutilating
flesh on earth
in the name of the holy-spirit
on some — nebula world.

Tongues that chant mantras
but
cancels the dignity
of the genders.

Paper bureaucrats
with loaned power
from people
never paying back the interest.

State
with
a veil of silence
a baton of arrogance
and
a flag of violence.

— Drunken citizen.

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O’ Reader
pick the pain, not the plot.
rub the wounds, not the words.
take the walk, not the paths.
lick the pages, not the passions.
feel the perceptions, not the reflections.
copy the chemistry, not the characters.
cook the lies, not the truths.
feel the tears, not the trash.
lose in love, not in lust.
carry the wisdom, not the weights of wit.
drink the absence, not the amusements.
open the doors, not the damnations.
make the trouble, not the noise.
swim the sands, no the salts.
ring the bells, not the betrayal.
yell at the page, not at the painting.
cross the bridges, not the tunnels.
sing the melody, not the song.

Fly. Float. Fade.

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The train
halted
it’s electric engine
at a 15th century town.
Strangers — graphic men and women
in a state of jubilant festivity
were celebrating something.
Kids
flying on the ground
like seagulls
who expertly dance
on the surface of salty waters.
The senile soil
and the snooty flowers
were playing with
the winds and the stones.
Some nobler minds
were busy unfurling
their neural wings.
One fellow
adjusting his bum
and attention like
an old grammarian
leapt into the lazy pond,
alarming the Koi fish
and the native dogs nearby.
While the distant
turbines
were quietly
caressing the westerlies,
I
took out the wet, medicated
music melodies
to put down
my maddening heart
in a sleepy maze.

-When the engine gave up.

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Oil spill in the sea
a man’s or a machine’s
mistake.

A black carpet of death.
A black spectre’s haunting
and the hunting began.

The writer went back
unable to find a muse
in a black dream.

Tunas poisoned
by the 007 trickery
of killer-sapiens.

Sensing the fossil sickness
with their magnetism
birds skipped
toxic pregnancies and births.

Benzene
Toluene
Sulphur
in the kid’s lunchbox.
(Perhaps a ‘crude’ love)

Oyster
making a
Xylene pearl?
<><><><><><>

and the devilish rainbows
starting the nemesis.

and the Romeo and Juliet
never met in the black fumes.

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Ting, Ting
yells the machine
for every open.
People press
1,2,3,4,5,6…
all kinds of buttons
and some hit them
even when not needed.
Head nods and head shakes
with strangers.
We go up
and come down
as caged birds.
some mess up the
air with farts and fears.
some mess up the
love with their lust.
and some mess up the dress
with coffee spills.

We all want to say
hello to that someone
yet no one does that.
but it’s fine
as no one knows it.

And there are these
strange glass elevators
that I hate.

I thought lifts are the
only places in the universe
with some privacy left.
Glass elevators rob that.

When the power goes off,
not even ghosts
trust the elevator.

There’s a charter of rights
for every elevator — 
4/6 persons only.
that means at any given point in time
only 4/6 asses should be lifted.
but none
respects that.

I like the idea of the elevator
because
ladders are scary for me.
I cannot take a ladder
to climb 12 floors.
forget about coming down.

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