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Let me draw the outlines</div>
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Curves of the mountains</div>
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Ah! Life is precious</div>
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The crayons of my dreams</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Gopakumar
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Rainbow taught me love </div>
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symbolizing peace…</div>
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Rain displays its love for abundance</div>
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<i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Excuse Me! </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">all moral gaffes </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond our control--Creator’</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">***</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Times need a prophet </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a prophet who <span> </span>distinguishes
tears from rain</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">prophets return</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">when there is a dead moment!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the wait is over…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a prophet was born, yet to preach!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And thus he spoke--</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘am a guest on a cracked Noah’s arc</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a being with an half-glow torch’<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a group of children</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">chase each other in their game</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">they never heard of the prophet</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the scream began—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Let angels descend on blue sands,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">write stories of humanity,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">no questioning of the sacred truths</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘let not time weep anymore</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh! how it bleeds, the faithful heart</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Let time be dead and reborn</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for an ageless Epoch’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us walk </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with our footprints on waters of Time’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>-----vasudev
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all of them</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">she begins as an outburst of
thousand drums</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but collapses on the shore
as self-tuning Sitar</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I listen to the quiet Sea
and its musings</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They match with mine!</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">always wonder why no two
waves are same</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I get no answer except for
their ebbing</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hinting
that no two tribulations are same! <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I endeavor to run behind her
trailing frills</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Attempt to untangle the
mystery</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But return with a blue smile</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Am I all alone by myself?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Suddenly I see a small wave
around my feet</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As if to console me!</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She has been a partner in my
soliloquy</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mixing black and white
emotions wisely</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I bear the music in my heart
of hearts</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She hugs me with all of her snowy
smile</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She is always in me </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My sea….my dear Sea! </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">( Vizag beach has always
been a spring of nostalgia – very many memoirs, haunting reminiscences; the
songs from the waves drench me while the droplets soak me in affection)</span></i></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845812779920803799.post-63772670774412232532011-07-14T05:27:00.000-07:002011-07-14T05:28:39.686-07:00Colours of Love<div class="mtm fbDocument"> <p>I smelt DEATH at nostrils</p> <p>When attempted to swim</p> <p>Life’s challenges…..</p> <p> </p> <p>But Love saved me!</p> <p>The Love of Nature….</p> <p>Borrowed butterfly’s wings</p> <p>Flew on Autumn’s colours.</p> <p> </p> <p>Inflated at heart</p> <p>When experienced Love.</p> <p>Mused in amusing Winter.</p> <p>Donned in Rainbow’s arrays</p> <p>Smoked mountain’s dew</p> <p> </p> <p>Vented anguish over</p> <p>Love’s sacrifice.</p> <p>Sang in the choir of Sea waves</p> <p>Sighed in Spring’s labours</p> <p> </p> <p>Exhilarated, when it dawns</p> <p>in Summer</p> <p>As it symbolizes</p> <p>Love in all its colours……..</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845812779920803799.post-10961105543246948382010-09-25T22:00:00.000-07:002010-09-26T02:17:43.989-07:00Wah! Taj<strong>Wah! Taj<br />(Lines written upon revisiting this monument with my beloved)</strong><br />Here WE stand gawping at the Taj Mahal<br />The most valued gift to a beloved!<br />Awe of LOVE cast its spell on us<br />As WE stand in total admiration!<br />The four minarets verbalize the serenity<br />Enveloping the corpses of perpetuity<br />I gathered handful of Moon’s vivacity<br />And poured over ourselves….<br />Ablution of the soul....!!<br />It beat the joie de vivre of the Taj<br />But my beloved murmured<br />“What about my LOVE?”<br />“Hshshsh!! Taj is listening, Mumtaz envying”<br />But my beloved insisted<br />She wishes to surpass Mumtaz<br />The half-white radiance of the Taj<br />Murmured eternity into my ears<br />I smiled at my soul-mate<br />She realized herself…..<br />“Yes, Mumtaz’s love is ceaseless<br />I’m yet to devour LOVE”<br />We bade farewell to mighty embodiment<br />I heard Taj snickering behind us<br />As the doves and pigeons leaving it.<br />I told myself “Wah! Taj”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845812779920803799.post-73930386785657747512008-10-01T20:34:00.000-07:002010-10-27T17:46:48.109-07:00<strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">STRANGER</span></u><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It sounds a soft knell to my blessed ears</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If we are born STRANGERS on this blighted planet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What is of Relationships, then?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Is it but a myth? As it consoles us</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">STRANGER, what a mystical word!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The word that mocks at our entanglements</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The word that challenges cockles of CONSCIENCE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">STRANGER, what a pregnant word!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It has too many expressions in itself!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">STRANGER, we are all strangers in this world</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To one another, to each other among all of us</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Alas! We know not the texture of our umbilical chord</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Before knotting hands with all the STRANGERS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Am I stranger to mySELF?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mother Nature alone disproves it</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For, she has no strangers in her lap.</span><br /></span></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845812779920803799.post-39325501515716773622008-09-02T18:33:00.000-07:002010-10-27T17:52:51.971-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><u><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><strong>My Haikus</strong></span><br /></span></em></u><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">S<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">queeze a bee-hive; it cries in agony</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------------</span>but oozes honey</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Wring your beloved's heart; it snivels like a dove</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------------------------- </span>but deluges love</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But why are pleasure and pain sheathed together?</span></span></em></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845812779920803799.post-65555211335731129762008-09-02T18:11:00.001-07:002009-08-20T21:39:22.870-07:00<a href="http://laughingmourner.blogspot.com/2008/08/hai-all-this-is-nandu-vasudev-from.html"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Lonely thoughts</span></strong></a><strong><br /></strong>hai all, this is Vasudev(adari srinivas, owner of this blog) from Brunei Darussalam. Im working as Lecturer in English and here in this blog I'd like to share my thoughts with like-minded as well as well wishers those who spare a minute to read and brood on lovely and noble things in nature. You will find some of my scribblings soon either in short(!) poems or serious short stories. I welcome sincere comments from all of you out there who are interested in the world of letters. I'd like to use this blog also to share our views and comments on emerging talent and budding writers in the market.<br /><strong><em>Happy reading</em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1