tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89057160458928445342024-03-19T13:47:09.441+05:30The Purple PebbleMy creative vent.eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-47137761237006994892019-10-30T06:06:00.000+05:302019-10-30T06:06:02.648+05:30Sadafuli<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When does a house cease to be a home?<br />
It is a mere shell, but it was much more<br />
to me, to us, it was....<br />
How do I say it?<br />
How can words capture all the things it was?<br />
But let me try, I will try because<br />
I must<br />
before the feeling is lost, and the dust<br />
has settled on these tumbling thoughts.<br />
That street we played in, those pebbles and potholes<br />
Treasure map, field, playground, it played many roles<br />
And many a day spent in breaking the rules<br />
The laughter, the sleuthing, the vagaries of youth<br />
Sitting by the door we whiled away the hours<br />
protected from view by the leaves and the flowers<br />
Bell flower white, I still see you in my dreams<br />
I remember the climbers with fronds dusky green<br />
I remember the dialogues we had on those steps<br />
the gossip, the discourse, the disclosed secrets<br />
The wandering fakir who stood there and spoke<br />
of his world and ours and castles of smoke<br />
In from the door to the wide white-floored hall<br />
Every chip in the tiles, every crack I recall<br />
I loved them all.<br />
Ghosts in everything here, all the moments that were,<br />
and a bed that will always belong to Her.<br />
Four rooms where I talked and raged and<br />
slept and cried and laughed my way through<br />
eighteen years of my life.<br />
What a time it has been!<br />
It was our space, just ours, to live and breathe<br />
To be without thinking, in joy and in grief<br />
but now it's time to move on and away<br />
Goodbye dear house, you will be missed,<br />
You were home for years, a lovely one,<br />
and you <i>will</i> be a memory for years to come.<br />
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-81017712225352933332019-08-25T12:29:00.004+05:302019-08-27T08:45:46.130+05:30To be Human<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What does it mean to be human?<br />
They asked themselves once<br />
Long ago, and found<br />
No answer, many answers,<br />
and drowned<br />
in more questions, all seeking<br />
a sense of clarity<br />
But this was a dusty place then,<br />
with dusty things all around<br />
Coherence was a rarity,<br />
a luxury to grow into<br />
And grow into it they did<br />
spouting fire, spitting fear,<br />
building love to the far frontier<br />
In growing they forgot<br />
the question<br />
that once drove them onward<br />
to the bounds of their cramped spaces,<br />
out of dust and into space -<br />
What does it mean to be human?<br />
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Look at them now,<br />
gazing from the peaks they<br />
thrashed and blasted and<br />
gasped and clawed their way to.<br />
They should sense it,<br />
waiting<br />
The long arm of Reason ready<br />
to fan away the dust and,<br />
finally,<br />
really see the Universe<br />
waiting,<br />
arms outstretched to guide them through.<br />
They don't see it, they don't look<br />
They fan fires and shoot bullets and<br />
dig their way down,<br />
down the mountain they overtook.<br />
Turn their back to the infinite<br />
and huddle in the bounds of their bubbles<br />
No longer wondering,<br />
perhaps forgetting...<br />
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What should it mean to be human?<br />
<b>Not this.</b></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-58243688343707711912018-01-09T02:37:00.000+05:302018-01-09T02:37:23.656+05:30Peak before plummet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I forget, at times,<br />
how much I have already failed<br />
I forget those obsidian depths<br />
at the end<br />
of plunges I thought would break me<br />
Yet it is today and I am here<br />
I climbed again and fell again<br />
and felt again<br />
momentarily weightless<br />
as the world disappears<br />
and certainty is lost<br />
before the long descent begins<br />
Yes, this has happened before<br />
I have entered before<br />
this manifold of dark whispering<br />
bleak wanderings<br />
of the mind unmoored from the<br />
vicissitudes of chiseled time<br />
There's a dreaminess about it all<br />
and has been before<br />
perhaps will be again?<br />
There is comfort in this dawning,<br />
that I was here and I suffered<br />
and that I once lived to suffer<br />
no more.</div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-14894463480368750812017-08-19T16:54:00.000+05:302017-08-19T16:54:04.126+05:30The Sky came calling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-88559531146702913372017-08-10T07:19:00.005+05:302017-08-10T07:25:44.627+05:30Thoughts with pictures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">I will walk these paths of green<br />with shades of bliss and sorrow<br />Answer summons unforseen<br />to inscrutable Tomorrow</span> </div>
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<span title="Edited">Someday I shall fall<br />Roll away with a touch of air<br />Disappear into the earth<br />or burn in the morning glare<br />But, for now, I stand resplendent<br />Fleeting yet unrepentant</span> </div>
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<span title="Edited">The world went still and silent<br />as if time were beginning anew<br />She raised her eyes to the cavernous void<br />And the sky came rushing through</span> </div>
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<b>Purdue by night</b> </div>
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These imposing halls of wisdom<br />
These kingdoms of gaiety<br />
Monuments to discourse<br />
Ensconced in longevity </div>
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If I must meet my end,<br />
let me drown in a sea of light<br />
Let me go in a blaze of glory<br />
like the sun, into the long night </div>
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<span title="Edited">Said one, "O brother in arms, if you should fall,<br />I would shed tears of sap for thee."<br />Said the other "And I for thee, brother mine,<br />but alas! It's not in my biology."</span> </div>
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<b>Unproductive grad student: </b></div>
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<b>a haiku</b><br />
Purdue's dressing up <br />
for new students, but that means<br />
Summer is over 😩<br />
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<b>Hiding in plain sight</b><br />
Sometimes the most unassuming flower <br />
on a familiar path <br />
catches my eye <br />
And I wonder, if I miss<br />
such beauty as this, <br />
what other delights<br />
have I gone blindly by<br />
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<b>Roadside Rudbeckia </b><br />
These lonely streets are thronging<br />
with chattering empty faces<br />
The storms of war are gathering<br />
in some faraway places</div>
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And everyday seems closer<br />
Closer to the End<br />
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But, for a moment, that feels distant<br />
Banished by this happy display<br />
A little spot of captured sunshine<br />
that gets me through everyday<br />
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-2186692106162491122017-01-18T13:47:00.000+05:302017-01-18T13:47:41.285+05:30Procrastination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The seconds tick<br />tock tick tock<br />on by<br />and the page is blank<br />with not a word.<br />It's absurd.<br />My roving eye catches<br />and I see myself<br />at the bottom of a cup<br />not a glass, a cup<br />of coffee.<br />I know what you were thinking<br />It's not as bad as that,<br />not yet;<br />though nothing's set<br />in stone.<br />
Like a drumbeat of my being<br />
the minutes tick<br />
tock tick, and <br />
I feel I should be feeling<br />but there's nothing.<br />Not a worry,<br />tensions blurry,<br />though they should be<br />vehement, vivid, vibrant<br />in my eye <br />and in my mind,<br />but there is <br />nothing.<br />It's all slipping away<br />and I should be <br />chasing, choking, clawing<br />it back<br />instead I sit here<br />and I write<br />and I watch<br />the hours <br />tick tick tock.<br /><br /></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-85149873005717933382017-01-12T03:27:00.002+05:302017-01-12T03:28:59.710+05:30A quest for singularity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">than being a human mean?</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">Not lots or little gifted,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting"; font-size: x-large;">just somewhere in between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">She is smart and capable,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">passable, competent, fair</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">Never breached extraordinary,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">and sadly is aware</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">of being merely average,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">yet wanting so much more</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">Trapped in triviality,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">for history to ignore</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">An unresistant speck in a surge,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">lost in tide and time</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">No footprints in the sand for her,</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">just faceless pantomime</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is she but a footnote<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on a swiftly turning page<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A mute supernumerary <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in an unfortunate age<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Born a century too early,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or a hundred years too late<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To be, perhaps, exceptional <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but never truly great.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">In a multitude of equals</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">she draws comfort from none</span><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">In a herd of trudging many, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arabic typesetting";">she but struggles to be One</span></span></div>
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-57976112019490557012016-10-27T13:30:00.001+05:302016-10-27T13:42:03.570+05:30Thoughts from a Walmart checkout line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So I was in Walmart last week, waiting to checkout on a particularly crowded evening. It occurred to me to wonder whether anyone in the crowd was telepathic (who among us hasn't thought about that one, at least once....right?). I then started wondering how I could possibly tell even if someone around me could in fact read my mind. So I did the only thing to be done, under the circumstances. I deliberately thought "I know you can hear me" very loudly (so to speak) and immediately started intently examining the faces of the people around me. This drew some confused and awkwardly shifting gazes (particularly from the two ladies standing right behind me), but I concluded these to be more a reaction to being suddenly owlishly scrutinized by a dumpy little stranger than proof of thought-reception. Though disappointed it dawned on me that, if someone could in fact hear what I was thinking, they wouldn't fall for the whole I-know-your-secret trick because they'd mind-read a bright red Admiral Ackbar warning right alongside it (it's a trap)! Now this was a real quandary and kept me occupied through most of checking out (I must confess I shockingly ignored the very enthusiastic high school senior manning the counter. Sorry, high school senior). As I was paying up, I realized there's no real way around that caveat so I decided to make one last attempt and leave. So I thought (deafeningly, just in case) "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" and scanned my surroundings.</div>
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Right then, I saw this 8 year old (or thereabouts) little girl turn to look right at me. </div>
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RIGHT. AT. ME. </div>
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And she nodded.</div>
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For the space of about 1 second, I felt an overwhelming mixture of disbelief, excitement, guilt (gosh knows what other thoughts I inflicted on that poor child), and a bunch of micro-feelings that are impossible to name. A real live telepath???</div>
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Nope. Of course not.</div>
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Turns out, the little lady was nodding acquiescence to some request from her mother who was standing some ways behind me. This sad, but also much more believable, truth brought on another barrage of pesky feelings. Mostly embarrassment (accompanied, of course, by an inevitable reddening of cheeks because why shouldn’t my vascular system make things worse when it can?).</div>
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It is forgivable, I think, this entertaining of a totally nonsensical notion with some seriousness (or total conviction) for a brief moment in time. Even scientists and academicians and researchers are allowed their own pet fantasy and science fiction hopes and dreams after all, even if they will almost certainly never be reality.</div>
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Plus, Walmart was clearly the wrong place to try this. Even telepaths should be allowed to navigate that treacherous quagmire in peace.</div>
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-79626548785664939622016-01-24T23:03:00.001+05:302016-01-24T23:03:18.338+05:30New year's dishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another year rolling past, </div>
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another digit, done at last.</div>
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Changes, hopes, are spoken words. </div>
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Will they come? Be lost unheard?</div>
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What has changed? It's a normal day </div>
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What is new, in a real way?</div>
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Much to rejoice, much to rue. </div>
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But at the end of the day, I've dishes to do.</div>
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-64471703809909471052015-02-21T12:14:00.002+05:302015-02-22T11:49:51.178+05:30Miles of blank paper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I feel so pointless<br />
like a pencil with no purpose<br />
like a sub-optimal product<br />
in an ineffective surplus.<br />
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The tide I started out with<br />
has now rushed ahead without me.<br />
I am drowning in the backwash<br />
of this mediocrity.<br />
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The joy of helping others<br />
someone's hope to carry through<br />
I'm sure it is enthralling!<br />
But that is not what I do.<br />
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To know there is one other<br />
to share days with, one by one <br />
To spew out genome copies with!<br />
But that's not what I've done.<br />
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I find myself confounded<br />
in normal conversation<br />
when people ask me casually<br />
"what is your occupation?"<br />
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"I learn for a living"<br />
How silly is that sounding?<br />
In a competitive world<br />
this reply is most astounding.<br />
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Many do conclude, I know,<br />
that I am just confused,<br />
and the reason that I do this is<br />
I know nothing else of use.<br />
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But the worst, the absolute worst -<br />
is that nagging inner view,<br />
that haunting, crazing question<br />
"what if I suck at this too?"<br />
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-297198719923035952014-12-05T09:16:00.001+05:302014-12-08T17:51:00.986+05:30Twixt night and light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Night - roiling dense and dark,</div>
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the aftermath of day,</div>
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smoldered across half this world</div>
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and Shadow lost her way</div>
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She fused into the inky black</div>
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stealing through the wild</div>
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and vanished swooping from the land</div>
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where lurid unlight smiled.</div>
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But as the rayless fog advanced</div>
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its restless step was halted</div>
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and in the midst of sooty gloom</div>
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a flash of light exhalted!</div>
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A gleam, a tiny golden spark,</div>
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a radiant piece of day</div>
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It tore the shroud of night aside</div>
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and Shadow came out to play</div>
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Leaping, swaying, soar and surge</div>
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vast as the light expanse</div>
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and now! as tiny as can be,</div>
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in her merry Shadow dance.</div>
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But the spark burst forth in radiance</div>
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so brilliant to behold</div>
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and Shadow faded once again</div>
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consumed by luminance bold<br />
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-51661746218767446212014-06-02T00:56:00.000+05:302014-06-02T00:56:12.220+05:30Small talk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Clack clack clack the tongues run on</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">will it ever cease?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Endless broadcasts of everything</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">everyone</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ever thought</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">to think.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eardrums resonate with the thrum,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">the droning hum.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I only wish</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">they could blink</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Words on words on wordy words,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">missiles seeking minds,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">aimed at attention,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">crushed by perception.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do their masters ever wonder,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wonder,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">is there anything they say,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">utter, mutter,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">that has not been said</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">a thousand times before?</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-86226337228059373312014-05-04T23:07:00.001+05:302014-05-04T23:08:44.744+05:30Mended cracks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Patience wanes steady</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">all my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hostile thoughts ready</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">battle so heady</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">waiting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in the wings, ready,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to just</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wipe away, steady,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">all we are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Will you dare to delay,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">try to halt and allay,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">raw emotion give away,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">buried feelings to betray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in an effort to allay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">all this anger, and delay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">this war bizarre?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You need only speak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a single word</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to make me weak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such havoc</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">you can wreak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in my heart,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">powerless weak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just please <span style="font-size: large;"><b>speak</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and be done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And this rage will be stilled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with not a drop of heartblood spilled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and no ruins to rebuild.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But, can the dreams be fulfilled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">now, with this ugly secret spilled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">by the rage you have now stilled,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">my dear one?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-62076697211815299542014-04-14T01:10:00.000+05:302014-04-14T01:10:38.054+05:30Of lovers in love (not)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm alone and in a rut</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">need to think of something but</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">there's a feeling in my gut</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I won't make sense</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">to naught anyone but me</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and that's the way that it will be</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">because I cannot really see</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">past this pretence.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">We can tug and we can try</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">strain our hearts and even cry</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">but this life will just go by</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">without a chance</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">at a state of real connection,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">for the trappings of affection</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">are merely imperfection,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">best viewed askance.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Life has things of more import,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">my dear friend, I do exhort</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">you to speedily abort</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">this futile plan</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">lest the feeling should take hold</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then get so very bold</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then completely enfold</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">as well it can.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so I must tell you this,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">before you fall in the abyss</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">of this temporary bliss,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">so listen well.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resist! Though you be drawn,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">for the shine will soon be gone</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the cold hard light of dawn</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">all dreams dispel.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may well ask me why</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">despite all this we still defy</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">all good sense and yet retry</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">to love invoke.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon most grave reflection</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">of this fateful predilection,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I must say natural selection</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">played a joke.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-28120793376250558772014-04-03T02:55:00.001+05:302014-04-03T02:57:59.012+05:30The World's Largest Democracy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pretty paper banners<br />
fluttering in the street,<br />
Smiling faces, nailed-in grins,<br />
at every corner meet.<br />
Oh! It is that time again<br />
to make a chump of reason. <br />
Brace yourself and prepare<br />
for 'tis election season.<br />
Oranges dressed as saffron,<br />
greens and whites shining<br />
Kites, palms and lotuses<br />
up the streets are lining.<br />
Don't forget brand new brooms,<br />
old elephants and things<br />
and all the random symbols<br />
this lovely season brings.<br />
Candidates come to larger-than-life,<br />
each pose in mint condition,<br />
desirable by patronage,<br />
illustrious by omission.<br />
Come all ye faithful<br />
begin the ritual cleaning<br />
of ideas and ideals and<br />
reflections of great meaning.<br />
Let us pretend for now<br />
that we know what's going on<br />
who does what, with whom, and why,<br />
(for how much) and so on.<br />
Hurry up now, Indians all,<br />
time to take a stand!<br />
Despite ideologies, you know,<br />
the value's in the brand.<br />
Let the voting force march out,<br />
kingmakers that we are,<br />
Get that ink-spot and revel<br />
in the utterly bizarre<br />
conviction that, this time, justice<br />
in some sense has been done<br />
And then insist, 2-years-post,<br />
that the biggest conman won.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-41629656869496833152014-03-15T01:11:00.000+05:302014-03-15T01:16:58.181+05:30Theatre Extraordinaire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blogs.saschina.org/carrie01pd2015/files/2009/11/theatre_masks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blogs.saschina.org/carrie01pd2015/files/2009/11/theatre_masks.jpg" height="268" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tis a dying world breathing its last,</span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">gasping for precious moments</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of continuance.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Welcome to the last and final show - </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A grand pretence of life,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a manic exuberance, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a tragic remembrance</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of better times.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vie to be the stars of the final rendition,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on this glorious stage.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The biggest sham of them all</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">was believing it was bigger</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">than it seemed.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's the Grand Finale! Come one and all</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a show you wouldn't <i>want</i> to miss,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">couldn't miss it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you did.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Places, lights, all in place</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for one last act.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spectators spectral throng the seats</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">at the end of time.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-73030371839132848112014-03-13T01:26:00.000+05:302014-03-13T01:26:41.249+05:30Pause<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been year since I last wrote,<br />
a long time indeed<br />
Before there comes even one new word,<br />
there is a lot that I must read.<br />
Have I changed since last I penned a word?<br />
thus the question stands<br />
This fluid mind can't help be recast,<br />
carved by the passing sands<br />
of Time, for that never stopped<br />
even if I did halt.<br />
So much happens in a day, a month...<br />
a year is a seething vault<br />
of dissent, revolt, agonized introspection<br />
and every dark design.<br />
Of endearment, agreement, zest and smiles<br />
and concerns more benign.<br />
Changes big and changes small in<br />
every little thing<br />
And still to come, sooner than I'd like,<br />
transition is yet lurking<br />
What shadow, menacing silhouette<br />
lies out there in wait?<br />
What misty future striding up<br />
did this past year create?<br />
Deer in the headlights, tumbling thoughts<br />
and raging heart am I<br />
I need a pause, a while to think!<br />
But time is racing by<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-61060174076369556062013-03-28T23:10:00.001+05:302013-03-29T12:05:49.811+05:30Expecto inopinatum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I can hear you, you know, out there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">loud and clear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You thought you were cat-like</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Clearly not, my dear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Silence is not your forte, now I know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unfortunate that is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In you line of, ahem, work, that is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">quite a wide miss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How do you keep this job, dear man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you thunder so?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Surely surprise be more appropriate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">than to have your 'clients' know!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Closer and closer approaching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I could tell how far,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if I listened real careful, ear to door,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">you unlucky un-star!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unlucky, why? well you may ask</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and soon find out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This 'client' is well prepared for visits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Better than you, no doubt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ah, so you're capable of silence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it's a relief indeed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dealing with total incompetence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hardly a noble deed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is that you picking the lock, good sir,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">or sounding the alarm?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You may as well take your time with it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No sense rushing into harm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meanwhile my cane swings up and ready, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">quite a greeting you'll get,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One tumbles down ; six more to go</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for a night you won't forget! </span><br />
<br /></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-89364013210709596592013-01-10T23:51:00.000+05:302013-01-10T23:51:13.643+05:30The Divide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We of a comfort-cushioned world<br />
what do we know<br />
of suffering?<br />
Sailing through this world<br />
with puffed-up winds<br />
at our backs.<br />
Stopping often along the way<br />
in senseless futile<br />
dithering<br />
In want, though we have<br />
so much the world<br />
around us lacks.<br />
How much importance in our minds<br />
our little worries<br />
of day to day<br />
And even hints of discomfort<br />
squeeze out roars<br />
and tears<br />
But opening those closeted eyes we'll see<br />
a world brimming<br />
with dismay<br />
Ever newer twists of the rack<br />
awaiting those<br />
whose fears<br />
are not quite as muffled as ours<br />
not quite as<br />
out of sight<br />
Real, as real as any plaything we may<br />
be amused by for<br />
a passing thought<br />
Real as the garden that is our existence<br />
and not far way<br />
hidden from light<br />
Not worthy, it seems, of a single glance<br />
though in our face<br />
we heed it not<br />
Barely visible, not in the brilliance<br />
of life that blinds<br />
us to all<br />
that is not shared skin to skin<br />
with us by those<br />
smothering<br />
in the smog of our comforts and greed,<br />
choking breaths,<br />
soon will fall.<br />
Ignore if we must, but think twice<br />
before lamenting<br />
our "suffering" <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-77818314554432770872012-11-25T00:52:00.001+05:302012-11-25T00:52:16.875+05:30is bliss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Events, incidents all around, newer new <br />
hidden world corners fewer few<br />
time flows on and on, so to me<br />
for you I do not know, it may not be<br />
'tis a river running, running river<br />
with chains iron-wrought<br />
sweeping me, where?<br />
wish to know...<br />
I do not, I do not<br />
Shadows in the know drifting past<br />
chatter-chit in emptiness vast<br />
Utter this, meaning that all the while<br />
The spoken word indeed is.. versatile<br />
what do they say? and why?<br />
Perhaps I ought,<br />
but wish to know...<br />
I do not, I do not<br />
So much to see, so much to be<br />
Disdain my raft in a heaving sea<br />
of things, happenings<br />
I wish I forgot<br />
for wish to know...<br />
I do not, I do not </div>
eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-37467709954460314262012-08-16T11:56:00.001+05:302012-08-17T11:07:32.991+05:30Bare bones in paradise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A kingdom of glass, of lightning-flame
forged</div>
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in towering ascension</div>
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Hauntingly flickering, as a rock-solid
specter
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from wayward dimensions</div>
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Translucent spires with spear-cutting
peaks</div>
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and tinged with red</div>
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Flying buttresses mounted astride
earthy dark</div>
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in this home of the dead</div>
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Death whispering soft, cold air rushing
past</div>
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in unseen icy streams</div>
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Luring us deeper into the velvet abyss</div>
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of unrested dreams</div>
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Kingdom and castle, buttress and spire,</div>
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ever-growing in size</div>
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Feeding on life-blood of unborn
ambition</div>
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unto its very demise</div>
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Dreams be alive and live to be murdered</div>
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in an agony of neglect</div>
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Glass kingdoms blooming on the dry,
bleached bones</div>
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of a dreamer-elect</div>
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Fragile yet strong, remaining vast
unbroken</div>
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though pierced through</div>
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by beaten bloody fists of one suffering
soul</div>
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ever and anew</div>
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A ruby streaked tower, beautiful,
terrible,</div>
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a reminder to say</div>
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A dreamer may dream by night, but we
claim</div>
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his dream for the day.</div>
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eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-7605920500325361422012-05-09T23:53:00.001+05:302012-05-09T23:53:33.325+05:30Let me tell you..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There's reason and then there's Reason,<br />
may often be confused.<br />
To do so is close to treason<br />
and is vehemently refused.<br />
reasons are excuses clothed<br />
in logical disguise <br />
while Reason is the nervous <br />
brain's ultimate surprise<br />
Reason is the reason that<br />
we do the things we do<br />
At least, that's what we Reason,<br />
though true it is for few.<br />The reason for this Reason<br />
is still mysterious<br />
since Reason Reasoning itself<br />
is a bit precarious!<br />
And so it is that Science<br />
of Reason's praises sings<br />
and learns reasoned Reason,<br />
Reasonable reasons...and things.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-69082332826742309342012-04-04T00:45:00.002+05:302012-04-04T01:26:19.378+05:30Whose fault?Pointing fingers, walkways lined<br />with grim and iron faces<br />Truth and law shall be defined<br />in a hundred painful paces.<br />Judgements made by righteous minds<br />of socially deemed elite<br />While bruised and battered a victim torn<br />onward drags his feet<br />Hateful hate in his blood-drip<br />falling to the dust<br />Beast-touched in eye and tongue<br />walks on, as he must<br />Yet pitiful this last long slog<br />broken, lost, forsaken<br />Will not live to see the day<br />if day should yet awaken<br />Whispers down the watching hush<br />of desperate, unquenched need<br />Driving bruised and battered men to<br />the unforgiven deed<br />A vulture circles in the air<br />wings leaden with Blame<br />swooping, diving, everywhere<br />finds they're all the same<br />Guilt, black guilt, oozing through<br />every step that's taken<br />seeks and probes at every soul<br />and Faith may yet be shaken<br />Doubt colors living breath<br />but voices still be hushed<br />None will dare, they're all aware<br />rebellion's swiftly crushed.<br />And still he bleeds his broken path<br />now that he's begun<br />Perhaps right, perhaps wrong<br />but this one death is certain<br />Dust in blood, blood in dust<br />soon this life will fade<br />Torn and broken, bloodied and beaten<br />to rest he will be laid<br /><br />but.....no rest for doubt and fear<br />and no rest for the tyrant spear<br /><br />Fear in the walkways lined<br />with grim and iron faces<br />as Truth and Law will face the test<br />in his hundred paces.eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-70338159993359127372012-03-09T15:22:00.005+05:302012-03-10T13:24:59.243+05:30FlyingSteel bird steel bird with sky high dreams<br />wending dark ways to the guiding beam<br />Lightless, less light, wind all 'round<br />Cloud-dark, earth-dark, billowing sound<br />Distant pinpricks catching the eye<div>Stiff back, nose down, gravity defy</div><div>Steady 'cline down in a sweeping grand</div><div>to rivers of sparkle in an ocean of land</div><div>Glitter and shine, ripple and gleam</div><div>Living, breathing light in pulsing streams<br />Closer and closer with swooping flight<br />twinkling shards to chaos bright<br />in sight. In mind<br />deep thoughts blinking in the murky deep<br />like little green lights at the bottom of the sea.<br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905716045892844534.post-7178236833825883992012-02-07T17:47:00.003+05:302012-02-07T18:12:40.896+05:30Vic-toe-reeeThe open sky is alive,<br />with winds and gales,<br />to tease the waters into a fight.<br />Tries and tries, but fails.<br />Sheets of grey ruffled<br />into rifts of white and blue<br />Yet still and calm, beneath,<br />as if they never knew<br />what the wind was up to.<br />He huffs and puffs, that wind,<br />trees swaying in dismay,<br />"whiss whiss whiss," they wonder,<br />"what shall come of this day?"<br />Sands of the bank in a flurry,<br />flitter, fwoosh and fall<br />beseeching the water to give way<br />to the wind's mighty squall.<br />A steady wave of refusal<br />arises from the deep,<br />washes over the shivering banks,<br />puts flittering fear to sleep.<br />And yet the wind is raging<br />and restless mountains dream<br />of vanishing to pebble and dust<br />in the racing swooping scream.<br />The world all a-tremble,<br />yet the wind will not concede.<br />Pleas for mercy in the air<br />and water pays no heed<br />Until.......<br />Suddenly things are quiet<br />wind gone, water serene<br />the battle seeming done<br />but whose is vic-toe-reee?eterno_mutatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11497751562882910373noreply@blogger.com4