Thursday, November 21, 2013

Before After


before
withering

releasing 
amorous 
aroma

perhaps germinating
procreating

after


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Charu wrote:

Bhai,

It has been a fruitful season; 1:7.
I draw the line! No more!

Great picture of a beautiful flower.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Other


not infrequently 
the heart has raced 
with fatal longing 
and stopped 
even as it rushes and gushes 
to be alive 
to belong 
to possess

forever and ever the mind 
has served a warning to itself
and remained subjugated 
to the impositions of civility 
and respect
even as it cannot stop venerating 
the other 
and another

confused between the desire 
to possess or to give
forever dying yet living
or ecstatic in living by dying

forever the desire
the longing
forever the holding back

 most frequently
albeit unreasonably
the heart has its own reasons

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Persona



the mask
peeling gradually into uncertainties
of growing up
from childhood's end
towards the caprice of not knowing
what is ahead
in living
in life

(This picture was taken sometime in 1973. The girls' parents were very good friends of mine. Their father, who hailed from Jammu and Kashmir, where he was working in a hospital as a radiologist, had come to Madras, to the Government General Hospital to do a post-graduate course in radio-neurology, where I was exploring with the Head of the department, the famed neurologist Dr. N. Ramamurthi, research and possible practice of Bio-feedback techniques. I only hope that, wherever they are, they are well, and secure.)

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Oculus


eye 
inside outside
who where
emptiness
before or after
the event
cycle of birth
and death
up and down
which way
heavenwards
or a seductive
abyss
who knows
who cares
who is there

for that matter
the question is
who am 
I

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Flayed


foot arm elbow 
dissected chewed 
opened for study repair
rbc wbc capillaries
muscles skin 
exposed to be covered
or consumed
no matter what
eventually 
no question
no doubt
earth to earth