tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44869084984011565222024-03-14T01:02:15.076+05:30Absinthe FeverDissolved in the eyes "la fée verte"Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-47283487371161392672020-01-19T06:01:00.002+05:302020-01-19T06:01:58.852+05:30welcome january<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">welcome January</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been a little out of line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">should I say?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">maybe not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I own a lot of plants now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but I could not wish the dark away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wonder if the snow will last tonight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the window feels cold just like he says I do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But I am picking up signals and obstacles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to clear your way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't you read anymore?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-44151218114398985232017-12-28T09:26:00.000+05:302017-12-28T09:26:57.409+05:30restive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Could never whistle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and make music out of water,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I sit in a box and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">listen to John Mayer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to feel good about break-ups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eyes, they never said much,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">smile almost unfamiliar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">nothing grew in me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">today I cut my hair short</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">saved them locks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I went out to get drunk by myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the arms of a cold December night,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">witnessed some things which never existed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">came back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">slept restlessly</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-62587478428366328892017-07-19T04:10:00.000+05:302017-11-20T04:11:01.904+05:30Ugly but clean<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Impermanence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and only impermanence etched</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">on us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I dug about 5 feet of earth last night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was tired</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but I am scared of napalm skies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thousand words and counting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish I was friends with time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">fluid fissure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And now, I sit here </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">wondering where was I last night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">do I mend the cheap fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">do I revel in impermanence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">do I re-do the sketches?</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-32239423681116751762017-06-07T08:41:00.000+05:302017-10-10T08:42:43.945+05:30Falling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am starting to engage in conversations with imaginary me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">slight deviant in nature,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">being stretched along miles, this plastic brain</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">unconscious of my own presence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tells me, you should run</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and maybe fly and jump outside the earth -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is that even possible?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It calls to me again, rubs my face with its chilly hands</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where do I go now, what do I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The numbness is free,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as frivolous as it gets,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I cannot hold myself down</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Counting the atoms to the precise number</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a shrill voice in vacuum dissolves us</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all down into what sand we are</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is stunningly liberating.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where do I go now, what do I do?</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-82344643526842873182017-05-17T08:36:00.000+05:302020-01-06T10:39:15.365+05:30Fools in love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wish I could bake your heart </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and eat it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why does the world call lovers ridiculous,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">maybe rightly so</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">don't forgive, don't get a tattoo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">don't be passionate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">just get me <i>rosa centifolia </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">everyday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the rest of your life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-14923301887601870932017-04-26T08:17:00.000+05:302017-10-10T08:18:53.245+05:30Dead in trains<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Such a rush </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to scrape my presence off the highway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">highway so calm, refusing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">choosing me over that crew </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">accept your shame</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">while I ride my train in peace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sitting there quite irresistible</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">don't come over here, don't make me look into your eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">your heart is maligned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">so much so it reeks of dead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the dead does not care</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">just like I don't.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-34589431421307410932017-03-31T07:58:00.000+05:302017-10-10T07:59:42.670+05:30Champagne Supernova<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Can't remember the last time I danced</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I'm drinking tonight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">drinking to the sight of a free sky --</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who thought I could look at the sky from my window</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All these girls missing the sight of all these boys</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when will the pain end?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-53180848464339254612017-02-05T20:28:00.001+05:302017-02-05T20:29:13.365+05:30Fish man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's a man who would not look into my eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he would walk past my gaze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a little shy, maybe suspicious</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">turning back, looking at me slyly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the corner of his eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">once, just once</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and twice and that's it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally he listens to me and finally he is talking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sign of a comforting second</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tells me about his love for fishes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">some names who will remember,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">not me of course</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like the water lilies better,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">screw their scientific names though</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">doesn't he agree?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We drank to our compliments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">almost every night a week once,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">opening champagne like monkeys,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">drinking cheap wine like drunkards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's something about his eyes though,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">would travel through the sun every time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but look at me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing sweeter than a shy man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">aren't you kind to me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">too kind?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Would you walk into our thick trees when I am away -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">hold yourself down into one of those drenches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">while no one's looking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sleep the night away and don't be afraid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">there's nostalgia and despair and absurdity of everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in the morning wake up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as fresh as you want to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Shurjo</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-44050653594943755222017-01-04T08:44:00.000+05:302017-10-10T08:46:49.805+05:30Rupture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm sitting here as if there's no way outside these walls but I'm not here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can see you around me, throwing yourself on me. Your words which are most of the times flattery, I laugh when I think about them, so once in a while when you hold me when I least expect, you make my life tremendously complete. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-26289124279095578152016-09-14T22:35:00.000+05:302016-11-30T22:16:59.694+05:30Overfriendly dreams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Almost midnight child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">time to choose your dream,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">enter the disco walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">prepare yourself to show off to the self-satisfied</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">gentlemen and ladies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">smile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sweetly walk to the edge of the dream,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">look beyond, it's the golden sand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">toss it into the eyes of the men,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">spare the ladies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but they are watching you closely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">frothing at their mouths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">did they distract you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">move on,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you have a cruel night to pass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">do you like sailors and the ocean?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the ship is waiting to take us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to another world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">climb on to this one now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the ladies are long gone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">start over,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a pensive, melancholic music wrapping us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">into its covers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">head spinning into a blinding light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we give birth to a city,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">another world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we are still running</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as we have always been,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">haunted by the sickness of life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">pulled in and out, the fuzzy palace </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sheer madness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the smog of boredom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">over-educated brain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mean children,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">none of the puzzles fall into line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we move on to another dream.</span></div>
Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-53817094644570153552016-05-31T22:19:00.000+05:302016-11-30T22:20:45.606+05:30One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Remember me in the mist of wonder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when the silent night will cover for you
the agitation of time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and look at me in the naked moonlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">while you stretch your arms to reach my
presence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">softly -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">writing me a letter or singing me a song in
that silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">walk towards the other side of the road,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cross the bridges <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">shed your skin and escape the air,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">almost there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">almost to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am saving a small patch of land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">putting together some crops and a house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to call our own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">yes I am dancing the time away,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the earth beneath my feet moving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">towards you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but my pockets are empty and I left the
world far behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">there are strangers, only a lone comfort<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in your photo <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">do I find you in the New York city <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">how do I reach another place of a
thousand new faces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">talking to me in words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t understand-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">they ask me to wear my love up on my
sleeves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and speak to some intelligent man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">who knows your address<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">who will bring me close to you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in return, I have to lay out my winter
clothes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and walk a distorted path of thoughtless world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in never-ending rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Soaked and dried of sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">it has been some time and some promises <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and so I am cold and I am in doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">what is love and who are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I dream about myself standing in front of
your window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">almost envisioning me inside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and I don’t know if you would let me in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t understand hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Should I stop for I don’t know the way
ahead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">buy some cigarettes and pause my longing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Should I walk back for there is no light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">left in my raincoat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">it is tough, my limbs ache<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the heart complain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the city casts its shadow on my lonely
path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">what is the love we speak of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in the matters of dark and sullen time?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or the bright memories <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">now tucked deep into one corner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">revisited only at the times of
convenience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t even know if you remember me in
the mist of wonder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am in doubt and I am in pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but why do I forget that rain is the
truth-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">ripened and swelled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and that love is binding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the one thing covering the ambivalent
night in quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">warming the earth beneath my feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">swarming heart with a power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to make a kingdom enormous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I look around to wash the haze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and clean the murkiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to find fondness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">almost calling me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">almost raising me above the shadow of the
city<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">strengthening limbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">this-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the only feeling in the thoughtless world
otherwise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-14089788546368598102015-09-24T01:39:00.001+05:302016-01-28T20:48:03.947+05:30Inclusive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Ineffable it is, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">much of the mush of the lives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">so closely overwhelming each other's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">presence and bodies and notebooks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and what not</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and so we build our</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dreamy home overflowing in cherry juice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you a mirror to all my uncanny moods</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">adorn the walls with pictures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">doing all sort of random trickstery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paper rings float and we look out of window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to find spring and winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all through one blink of an eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am a charmed up little girl, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">watering the lilies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and suddenly everything is so bright.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-27466327468903090672015-06-29T01:12:00.002+05:302016-01-28T20:49:17.976+05:30Paints<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great expectations we have</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I don't know how to put words in our story,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the conversations while I look at you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or maybe I just want to look at you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">without words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am searching for the brushes again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the charcoal and paints and canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I don't know how to paint you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">would you be my benefactor?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">clinching our destinies in the fist </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">abiding by the rules of your coming from future -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">hold my fingers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">help me trace your veins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tilt the body and let me lambaste it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with my lips -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">help me paint again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">paint you, paint the moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">paint each strand of hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a different color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all the people in the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't know what to do with myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dismissing seconds and minutes and hours </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in its whole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the crater deep inside my mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">while I see your real pretty body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and your unadulterated movements</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all around myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but for now, help me paint again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">maybe dip my hands into the paints</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or hurl them all over me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or kiss the cherries upon me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and take me to the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where I just paint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">at all the times of the life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">our life, I preserve it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The seagulls just behind our place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">help not give away the love sounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I color myself all colors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to pluck your love in all motions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One day people come and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">look at those paintings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">maybe in my own show,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">doubting and criticizing and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">admiring and ignoring the meaning they seize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for themselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You look at me and see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what I left in each of those paintings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you and me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are not slave to words.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-39707725551924474752015-05-17T00:00:00.004+05:302018-11-29T07:47:46.521+05:30Feminism - All women for all women?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feminism, you say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">this feminism we learn in ambiguity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who we? we women, who we women?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we white women,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we upper caste women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we middle class women, we educated women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we media women, we women who meet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in big conference halls, we women who say </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are the new future, we women who claim </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the right of choices, we women who organize </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">campaigns to empower women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">empower who women? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">don't question just yet!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we women who live</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our version of reality, we women who only know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a misconstrued utopia, we women who live </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our small world;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who speak for women, we women </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who liberate women, we women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who make movies and documentaries about women, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we women, the one percent who represent </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">half of our sex - whatever that is, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we women who understand women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">understand who women?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the women who live on other side of the world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women we have never met or seen or whose lives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we never lived through,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women we want to discipline,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women we want to show what is being women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women we know who are foolish to not rise against violence - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">how difficult can that be?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women we hear who suppress their dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">unlike us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who contrive and reach our skies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">skies - women whose skies are black,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">women whose world is black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want to train at being 'women'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want to school about menstruation and its taboos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want to instruct about their sex lives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want to authorize about rearing their toddlers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want to indoctrinate feminism in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">oh that word again!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">shhh.. pause.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want them to judge their labour economically</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women we want them to demand their equal rights</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and most of all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women who we know nothing about</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women whose lives we cannot imagine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">even in the darkest of our dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women whose circumstances we can never understand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the circumstances which make an alternate reality impossible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">these women who we claim to represent but </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who are really an empty category in our fight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for feminism,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for feminism is our dominant sphere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where we demand equal rights for women - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who women - white women, upper caste women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">middle class women, educated women,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">media women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we are here to speak for all women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we don't know how women who were married off at ten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and violated the same night live each day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we will shout about exercising our sexual choice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we have no clue about how she was forced </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">into producing five children</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we will outcry about our right of reproductive choices</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we cannot see how this woman was made to quit school</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the sake of her brother's status</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we will glib about our right to universal education</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we have not witnessed her dreams being crippled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the cries of society and honour and shame and what not</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we will make our shallow calls of rising against the tide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we don't know how half of the world functions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">behind our eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but we will cover that up with our occasional conferences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and discussions and coffee table chats and newspaper </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">editorials and media bullshit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and feminism rants</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">wasn't feminism about questioning the social reality -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">social reality of all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">equal rights whatever they are - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">equal rights for all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">wasn't it supposed to be all women for all women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we are not even talking about men here.</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-54103100795712025172015-04-22T01:58:00.002+05:302015-04-22T01:58:41.773+05:30Sketching Boa Constrictors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Two worlds away</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or maybe three,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">you lived in your light</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">flickering through a huge mountain</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">of snow</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I caught a sight of you</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and I want to fly</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">right through big clouds </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and thick trees</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">in the deserts</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">invisible to Sarah </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and everyone who don't see</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">the shower of meteors </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">right in the backyard</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">at all nights</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Do I not belong here?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">right with you</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">among the travellers </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">of the planets,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">while I create playful storms</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">to blow Sarah's hair </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and wait for you </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">to plant flowers </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">all around the house</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and roads and glass and</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">trucks and ships and</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">aeroplanes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and we tame mantis shrimps</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">to play with us when</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">we jump into water</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">and color ourselves rainbow and</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">tickle it, I tickle you,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">we laugh till the dead of night</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">is quickly passed into</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">another break of light</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">You are the reverie I am lost into,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">all this while</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Do I not belong with you?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And I know I do,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">the heart sees it rightly,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">for all that is essential,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">is invisible to eye.</span></span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-12188745014053225282015-04-13T00:59:00.000+05:302015-04-13T00:59:59.745+05:30Phosphorescent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost a jaded body,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am marking my steps </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to fall just next to you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">expecting a perfect moonlight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and counting on the fingers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to see if the opposites meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What we said last night about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the cages we have been living in,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">forging and reforging in our sleep,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">it's a lie of the mind -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a perfect illusion of the conscious,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">anomaly in our theory </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and what will we discern in the moonlight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with slight tremors beneath our feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and crackling of stars above our heads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that we are,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but only rising in these times of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For Akshat.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-7198769265492565812015-04-02T01:18:00.002+05:302015-04-02T01:18:58.677+05:30From up on Poppy Hill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's been happening a lot lately. Something or the other, always beautiful though, keeps on going in the mind. Incessantly I'm talking to myself. There are thoughts everywhere, not unconscious musings but as if I'm conversing with myself in a very articulate manner. I'm dissipating sentences, imagining as if someone is taking note of them. Such a foolish head. I'd wake up tomorrow and everything would be lost. All the tales I'm telling myself, the people I'm thinking about, the anecdotes revisited maybe in a more syncretic manner, jostling the deepest and shallow(est) of conversations over again and rediscovering all that was right across me but now appears in different hues.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was returning home and I was thinking of my nightmares. And I started conversing with myself. Again, as if I'm standing on a podium with utmost ease, delivering a talk to myself. A mirror image, maybe but I imagined it was capable of retaining everything and would quickly pass on the words to me next time I'd need them. Its absurd that I'm letting my mind fool myself but I'm assertive today that I want this preserved - any sort of medium. That's where I lost my nightmares and now they stare in my face in form of dismembered images. I can't reproduce them, it's too late and they are consuming me in distortion, in incompleteness, in overpowering me with their disconnectedness. I wish I would have written about them or painted them or maybe just caricatured them. Why? They are nightmares, you ask? Precisely, that's why. To acknowledge a feeling, be it of elation or torment, too powerful that keeping it inside is a sin. There would be a rupture here but I shall continue in a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Before finally settling to pen down at this very moment, which maybe won't have any meaning elsewhere and to someone else, I was still in a dilemma whether to write, if I could write but I realized I can't help but write. The contentedness of heart that dawns upon is both the cause and effect of this compulsion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes I feel I'm dwelling into nothingness, enclosing myself in wrappings as they are labelled 'scum' around in the world. I lock myself in a black box because I feel myself there. The other times, I feel there's something really special about me. To be able to see light which blinds them. To be able to absorb things, perennially shifting things in their entirety. As if I understand their structure, their constant movements over time immemorial, their soul. I become disheartened and feel full of myself at the same time. It's this contradiction that beguiles me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But what is it if not ludicrous that I believe that they cannot see the light. That I believe this contradiction has only struck me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As the listener that I am, to speak or not to speak is the question. After all what's the point of anything? Of my words, of my meanings, of my world - of communicating? Why should I even write and more, share it for you to read? What would it do? Would you realize that it's not nihilism talking but the gleam of hope that somewhere some other individual would also understand this contentedness that the heart undergoes when it says what it wants to say. In any form. Colors. Poetry. Stories. Still images. Motion pictures. Animation. Music. Telephone conversations. Beer talks. Room walls. Midnight musings. Maybe even in an uncorrupted silence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What ceases me? The intrinsic fear that the world cannot accommodate two individuals together. Coming from different directions, surpassing fears and boundaries, overcoming self-annihilating and trembling disagreements, yet love is anything but true. Why do I still believe in that one moment of poetry which talks of love? Maybe, for this one moment, it is real. Though this reality is a troubled phenomenon but poetry, any art for that matter transcends all doubts, all space and time, all reasoning for its rationale goes even beyond reason, to touch and discover what I thought was not possible.To move and expand the gates of imagination, to create something extraordinary out of ordinary, to say what cannot be said in normal terms. It demands you to get drowned and then let it work. It leaves its imprints in the same hope that somebody reading it would traverse the same path as I did. It excludes me leading your path or you mine but that eventually we find solace in us, crisscrossing each other, where time is never a burden or an inhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why do you have to judge it? Why this scent of danger, the sign of men running away from confronting themselves? <i>Why build hostility to something that is the only escape?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What do I aspire to? As from my humble beginnings, I don't need my name in neon lights, not even in books and posters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm afraid, if I stop writing now, I would lose it again.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-72470836910406451492015-03-29T00:19:00.002+05:302015-03-29T00:20:37.961+05:30Circle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You were a miniscule particle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I could render you into nothingness by just destroying your share of world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am the God who could burn you for your desecration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If I chose to not choke you, and instead nurture your heaviness around me, adopt your sins to free you from the blasting sense of burdens, give you pleasure for you to be able to look down upon yourself, it was just one side of me. But I'm more than this small part of myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am bottomless. I am inexhaustible. I am the force which runs the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I change destinies. I am home. I am the ultimate happiness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am the night sky expanding. I am the light of billions of suns together. I am evolution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am the cacophony which deafens orders. I am the music which calm the clamour. I am sound.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was, am and will always be the center. Of you, Of them, Of everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I could have wrecked you. Pieced every bit of you. Violated you till your remains pass into obscurity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You should thank I forgive you.</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-25769742032714895732015-03-21T22:19:00.002+05:302015-03-21T22:21:24.395+05:30Travel Storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I travel as silent air-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">inert, mystic, in my own self</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with the image of mountains,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">God-like mountains folding themselves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the sublime snow melting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">into straying flow of a fine river-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the water shines in the pupil of eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">singing through meadows, mumbled though</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like a girl finding a way in her own skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">away from home where she is mum,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">surging and streaming through ferns-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">reminding and resurrecting lost love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of this life in curves </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">where tiny rocks have been waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to be kissed over and over again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">till the girl grows into a woman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with her own face and feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">awashed and tingled by fishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">reaching sea like drowning into a pool of emotions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">so myriad that the clouds inflate above,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">make way to the outpouring sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in the bliss of gypsy rains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like the nomadic woman falling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">back and forth, in and around</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the diaries of rambling dates,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">flattered in the company of sea yet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">complaining of its calm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">rushed sighs, raving towards the valley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">dream-like, passive, unabated </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in lucid hopes of meeting a fellow one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as silent as the air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of its primordial beginnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The image shift to the bluest of oceans,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">life-less and life-celebrating deserts alike,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to the greenest of trees barring the light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">vast savanna and marsh mangroves like,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I travel still till I am a storm of my own.</span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-53261967006049227652015-01-22T23:17:00.000+05:302015-01-22T23:17:02.625+05:30The tree of life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A different person in different season, she never absorbed him. A free maniac, he never saw her. They walk two separate paths intersecting each other at precise intervals of day and night. She plucks snowflakes and blows them to him. He is a timeless machine, never drew the snowflakes on the back of his hand. The tree of life smiles broadly. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She writes poetry. She knows numbers. She is his center. She does not know. She turns the sun cold. She is the answer to his question of solitude. The candles burn bright, incessantly. He is the warmth of her thoughts. He watches the moon sleep into the night. He is a warrior, too strong-willed. He does not know. He is the key to her escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a maze. They are a maze. Too easy to be fathomed and frowned upon. They are each other's arguments. They are a setting of a lovely painting. I'm a dry soul, a vagrant in my own way. I don't like walls meeting. They are a blue river, in each other's flux. They are synergy. I'm my own shadow. I burn myself in my own steam. We pass each other with just another smile. The tree of life blesses amply. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There are a million stories in one story. To each his own. </span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-66392004977976728992014-12-09T15:43:00.002+05:302014-12-09T15:47:03.782+05:30Eight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Greatest, beautiful of the waves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Glad I don't believe in karma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Choices you know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We seek freedom-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">from unwanted eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and unwanted hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's only a wrong city</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">People are always pretty.</span></div>
Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-34346543803355997872014-12-06T12:42:00.001+05:302015-01-22T23:24:34.176+05:30Seven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is lustful to people, everything-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">pain, love, veins, dying veins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As soon as you put your veil on,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">everything's moralizing again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You know how trapped you are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in yourself - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when even the white sheets of my winters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">can't drown you; it is pathetic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">how you held arms open to this lust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is just about noon, we could</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">have been wrapping ourselves in bloody</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cold blankets in a bloody cold land</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and nowhere near it should be buts, ifs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">should have beens, could have beens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel like a mad, really mad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">old lady who after spending some tiresome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">stages of life today sits and writes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to her old lover, rather a lustful betrayer-</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How come we never went to the caves?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How come I can only think about you</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when I feel like committing a cold-blooded</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">murder?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How is my brain still entailed in that witch's </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">hair, flowing till the core of the ground?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I think of you to imagine you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">planting a soft kiss on my back when suddenly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">you start disgusting and judging</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and tearing my body,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">all in a moment - I lie stoned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">collecting the rip offs next</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">wondering just about the scars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">this winter gave me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You know, I still get those nightmares-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I talk like an agitated little flower</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">why have you touched me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish to be put into chemicals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and these nightmares are real,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">shit bloody real for I see them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with open eyes; tell me if </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">any one of you get them too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Photographs are not memories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">they are horcruxes to play with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">pretty much like attaching a cult</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">object, some sin to your breaths-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I hate your lips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as much as I hate mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-51326810973856247912014-12-03T23:26:00.005+05:302014-12-03T23:26:59.232+05:30Lost Stars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The air feels a little lighter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">we are maybe a speck of noise here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">trying to cancel our silences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like lost lambs on the highways,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">un-hunting their skins,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">searching another safe home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel like a girl unearthing her ground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">searching for another lost star,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">drifting past your connotations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of our simple world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We are all white light here,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">divergent rainbows scattered </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">out-and-out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">countering the unlimited fantasies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of our abuses and memories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The bodies are little maligned tonight-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">mind rubbing stars over me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">while I try to remember who we are,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">not scholarly or obliging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but maybe some burnt notes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in each other's books.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Light my stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">while I laugh with my strings open.</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-58082914418721973492014-11-14T18:10:00.001+05:302014-11-14T18:10:57.311+05:30October<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Favourite October passed by my bed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">no coffee spilled this time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I danced as always, a little shabbily though</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">lighting the October lights</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My hair shone in the dark,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">they were sort of stringing the limits of shadows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">towards a geometrical plane,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">making sense of our darker months</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">nothing more than a ploy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and I realize aging is a phenomenon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">better left to maths,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when I can humor myself with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">dark free flowing poetry,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">who needs the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe this is time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And it's going to be October in November.</span><br />
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Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844893934428524824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486908498401156522.post-32794290735976091442014-09-30T21:13:00.003+05:302014-10-01T00:08:08.551+05:30The Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Truth is shadows disappear in blackness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and senses always stick to their fences,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">then who do you go behind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On that blue mountain, stands a little girl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">who kisses her mother before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">she touches the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me fall down for once and all, she says</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me see the chasm of peace, she smiles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The one which constantly calls for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't want to learn from enemies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and those friends in the guise of faith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">wear stabbing robe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I know too much which shakes my nerves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to now not able to count the door to my dorm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Truth is I don't wish to laugh on the poor anymore,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">poor by the means of happiness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">howsoever transitory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am numbed by the breaths which haunt me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">asking me to push every second </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that the dryness of clocks strike me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with a heavy blow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">These nights trick me into their tattered rags</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and I am sick of walking blind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Truth is people are puppets at the hands of life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and truths are never realized</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me chase mine, mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me fall for once and all.</span></div>
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