you stand so aloof
yet the stillness of your body
throbs against my own
************
I rub my chin
reflectively
each pore of yours
is doorway to heaven
heaven I find
deep in your eyes
iris reflecting
I caress your spine
haunted by your scent
I house myself
in periphery
of my disintegration-
amalgamating into you
Showing posts with label senryu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senryu. Show all posts
Friday, October 07, 2011
Sunday, September 19, 2010
something fishy
marinated fish
goes into that flat frying pan
oh, splattered bliss
bliss leaks from sides
releasing smells into my brain
making mouth water
but fish seek coke
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I am following it from about fish, chips, nothing much else. Go check that out too!
Why not write a poem or a story in exactly 160 characters each Sunday? Spaces included! Head forMonkey Man for Sunday 160!
PS: No, I wasn't cooking the fish. It is all imagination.
goes into that flat frying pan
oh, splattered bliss
bliss leaks from sides
releasing smells into my brain
making mouth water
but fish seek coke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am following it from
Why not write a poem or a story in exactly 160 characters each Sunday? Spaces included! Head for
PS: No, I wasn't cooking the fish. It is all imagination.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
birthday swan song
song is but a joy
illogically I sing offkey
on my birthday today
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Today it is my birthday. I had looked forward of it being the best one of my life but that didn't happen. So what? I can still celebrate it, can't I? I will gift myself with some jewellery, I am hankering after. Another pair of Platinum studs and of course, books. What else should I buy? I wouldn't mind suggestions.
illogically I sing offkey
on my birthday today
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today it is my birthday. I had looked forward of it being the best one of my life but that didn't happen. So what? I can still celebrate it, can't I? I will gift myself with some jewellery, I am hankering after. Another pair of Platinum studs and of course, books. What else should I buy? I wouldn't mind suggestions.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
in the red tent
womanhood is celebrated-
which genesis ignored
~The Red Tent by Anita Diamant/1997
We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust.
Title: The Red Tent
Author: Anita Diamant
ISBN: 0312195516
Publisher: Picador/1997
Pages: 321
The Red Tent is a story told in the voice of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah. Jacob had twelve sons but only one daughter. Dinah was loved by all her four mothers: Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah. She had different equations with all of them. All the four told her about themselves and their experiences, right from her childhood. She was not left out of anything.
The Red Tent represents the tent belonging exculsively to women, who go there once a month for about three days to menstruate, where they deliver their children, where they tell stories and sing. The differences between the women is left outside and inside the tent they experience spirituality, which is not separate from the physical world. For them, everything is holy, dreams show the future. The bodily rhythms of the women is attuned to the rhythm of the Earth and they feel so much near to spiritual insights. Prophecy, interpretation of dreams, clairvoyance are not something to laugh about but to experience. Inside that red tent, women are very powerful.
Men are not aware of what happens in there, going about in their crude ways. They don't understand the spiritual aspect of it.
Told from Dinah's point of view, she fell in love with a Shechemite. And her brothers did not like it. They said she was raped and had to be avenged. Hungering for power, her brothers Simeon and Levi attacked the Shechemites while they were recovering from circumcision which the Jacobites had ordered for all the Shechemites as part of the bride price. This treachery forced Dinah to curse her brothers and she escaped to Egypt with her mother-in-law. After giving birth to a son in this new place, she becomes a midwife, that skill she had learnt from one of her mothers, Rachel.
The Red Tent speaks of the power of Woman, even those who don't have a voice. With good prose, Diamant makes it feasible. It might be a work of fiction but if Dinah had been given a voice in the Bible, she would told it this way. The Red Tent celebrates woman. They way they ought to be, should be.
womanhood is celebrated-
which genesis ignored
~The Red Tent by Anita Diamant/1997
We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust.Title: The Red Tent
Author: Anita Diamant
ISBN: 0312195516
Publisher: Picador/1997
Pages: 321
The Red Tent is a story told in the voice of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah. Jacob had twelve sons but only one daughter. Dinah was loved by all her four mothers: Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah. She had different equations with all of them. All the four told her about themselves and their experiences, right from her childhood. She was not left out of anything.
The Red Tent represents the tent belonging exculsively to women, who go there once a month for about three days to menstruate, where they deliver their children, where they tell stories and sing. The differences between the women is left outside and inside the tent they experience spirituality, which is not separate from the physical world. For them, everything is holy, dreams show the future. The bodily rhythms of the women is attuned to the rhythm of the Earth and they feel so much near to spiritual insights. Prophecy, interpretation of dreams, clairvoyance are not something to laugh about but to experience. Inside that red tent, women are very powerful.
Men are not aware of what happens in there, going about in their crude ways. They don't understand the spiritual aspect of it.
Told from Dinah's point of view, she fell in love with a Shechemite. And her brothers did not like it. They said she was raped and had to be avenged. Hungering for power, her brothers Simeon and Levi attacked the Shechemites while they were recovering from circumcision which the Jacobites had ordered for all the Shechemites as part of the bride price. This treachery forced Dinah to curse her brothers and she escaped to Egypt with her mother-in-law. After giving birth to a son in this new place, she becomes a midwife, that skill she had learnt from one of her mothers, Rachel.
The Red Tent speaks of the power of Woman, even those who don't have a voice. With good prose, Diamant makes it feasible. It might be a work of fiction but if Dinah had been given a voice in the Bible, she would told it this way. The Red Tent celebrates woman. They way they ought to be, should be.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Senryu: Ruing it?
I tried a senryu after very long. Hope it works!
ideal resolves
very impressive show
bitter to swallow
Saturday, July 12, 2008
for my closest friend-----a senryu
twenty five years ago
you steamrolled into my life
stuck through thick and thin
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As both of us are not into mushy stuff or display our feelings for each other, she is gonna hate me, if she sees this! And a sloppy one at that!
you steamrolled into my life
stuck through thick and thin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As both of us are not into mushy stuff or display our feelings for each other, she is gonna hate me, if she sees this! And a sloppy one at that!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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