tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83287267019341466152024-03-14T08:52:25.797+05:30Musings of a wandererI am not here to make a difference.<br>
Instead, I would sum it up for you <br>
So that it is easy to tread <br>
Knowing what I went through.<br>Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.comBlogger546125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-29299724909560834882022-01-13T22:49:00.001+05:302022-01-13T22:55:10.849+05:30The BoundaryI draw a boundary beyond which<div>I have only indifference to others' suffering<br>
I wake up and think of the universe<br>And this boundary stretches to the slums of infinity.<br>
By mid day, I feel lucky that something horrible</div><div>has bypassed me and my family.</div><div>
It has struck others beyond the boundary.</div><div>Clearly, my boundary has shrunk.<br>
By night, the boundary only extends to the immediate vicinity<br>
To someone whom I can touch and hold<br>
And in the darkest hour, the boundary shrinks</div><div>to a point deep inside me. </div><div>It is indifferent to my own sufferings.</div><div>Lectures me on the why-not side of probability.<!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_220113_224254_336.sdoc--></div>Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-26941364232173923672020-07-20T22:53:00.001+05:302020-07-20T22:56:46.639+05:30Limited VocabularyAn unexpected rain enthralls.<div>A lapwing repeatedly calls.</div><div>Its speech surrounds my nest.</div><div>I think limited vocabulary is the best.</div>Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-41802862615315756012020-05-12T22:30:00.001+05:302020-05-12T22:31:58.417+05:30Thorny side up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes I say things I don't mean </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At times I mean things that I don't say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You may have realised by now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That it is difficult to get away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hide smiles behind tears </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and tears behind smiles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You might have already perceived </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are my prominent styles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without me reminding so late</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You know that life is a bed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of Roses with thorny side up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But there is nothing to dread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is all temporary </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">till it becomes permanent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is all body</span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">till it becomes parchment. </span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-82122817976058259712020-05-12T22:09:00.001+05:302020-05-12T22:10:00.311+05:30To my reader across the seas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I can rain somewhere near you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Make a point that is less distant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">But this is not how gravity works for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It forces me to search, with a cursory lamp </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">in the narrow passes of inspiration </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Leads me across thoughtless plains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">into the forests of silence where </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I hear only the sound of my breathing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Before I suddenly reach a magical place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Called the ending, which could be this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Or wherever you stopped reading. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-90957132993411423602020-04-18T23:26:00.001+05:302020-04-18T23:26:40.508+05:30Mrs. Cinderella PrinceNow she needs kinder shoes<div>That comfort her like never before</div><div>She doesn't let the prince choose</div><div>But leaves a note outside her door. </div><div>She puts her faith in the fairy elves</div><div>Waits patiently in the kingly castle </div><div>For the shoes to walk by themselves</div><div>Without carrying a princely hassle. </div><div>She wants shoes in which she can stay</div><div>Not the ones that'll take her away. </div><div><br></div>Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-82106834812464147212018-01-13T00:38:00.001+05:302018-01-13T00:38:33.909+05:30In the right light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I read something that nudges me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to look outside the window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or imagine somewhere other than now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think about the infinity of things </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and the endless horizon of possibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I imagine the chains that they are all bound by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I feel the chain of events reaching me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and wetting my feet with experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am rewired at that moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am put in the cross-hairs of my own thoughts. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-20298091000918514192017-12-30T11:55:00.003+05:302017-12-30T11:55:40.018+05:30The muse <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The muse car-pools with me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and is silent for most part of the journey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It adjusts its gaze occasionally to see </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">if I am noticing how things can be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But I am just focused on my ends and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">what it all means to me and the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It doesn’t disappear yet, it waits </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">for the moment when the windows darken,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the wipers flail and everything is washed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in the rain, and I observe something</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">that rings bells: bells of charm and not alarm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the inner leaves rustle in a metaphorical breeze. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-83220618517960112672017-12-03T23:56:00.001+05:302017-12-03T23:56:35.547+05:30The expanding universe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The fact that universe is expanding </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">has trickled down to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has had no effect on my goings-on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as a normal citizen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The car works just fine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the apples still fall to the ground </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as they did before and elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But now there is a certain unease</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">when I write that you are moon-faced or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">compare you to some other heavenly body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would like to expand too and compare you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to the universe and all its complexities.</span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-82700145280819144602017-11-30T23:08:00.003+05:302017-11-30T23:08:53.701+05:30A drunken nod to the Classics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Long after you’ve read them, the scene </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">is still playing slothfully before your eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A clear stage and a clever dialogue subtly hint </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">that something is wrong with the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A character is shown a long, slow mirror, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">long enough to observe the folds in the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">clothing or even count the number of lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in the chandelier, precariously hung above him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The story grows a beard, turns into a cape </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">follows you like a heroic shadow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You ingest everything about it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">so much that you wander in Wuthering Heights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You tend to have Great Expectations about everything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">leading to Pride first and then Prejudice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your adventures into wonderlands </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You go through War and Peace and at every</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">turn of phrase, you expect Sense and Sensibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You call out for help to Emma and Anna but alas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">they’ve all left, without a word, with The woman in White. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You wonder about the balance in this Crime and punishment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">let out a sigh and suffer the Trial. Despite all this, you are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">still Quixotic and dream of a Brave new world. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-3378136431962913982017-11-18T09:51:00.003+05:302017-11-18T09:51:45.994+05:30Silence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Always found between the lines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">it is a slip stream of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It sneaks into a home </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">while everyone else leaves for work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is a witness much different </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">from the usual silent witness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is the only one not to miss </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the beautiful sunrises and sunsets </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and everything in between. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It makes complete sense by itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It’s that distant feeling I get</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">when I write my answers in the present </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to the questions of future. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-26614103439219331402017-09-18T21:47:00.004+05:302017-09-18T21:53:49.560+05:30You have a history<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You have a history.<br />Someone resembling you<br />did something terrible and their <br />stinky sinful clothes stuck on you<br />since then forward, onwards and thereafter. <br /><br />You have a history<br />and someone whom you knew <br />rebelled against the order of things<br />and you are stuck in that place <br />eve since, forever and wherever. <br /><br />You have a history <br />and someone in your name <br />started a war, filled his own pockets<br />and you did nothing. It’s your fault<br />from then on and till eternity. <br /><br />You have a history<br />and your bloodline will be crooked.<br />It’ll destroy the world from being the<br />happy place that it already is. <br /><br />You have a history <br />and you can’t hide from it. <br />It is sewn into your skin<br />Imprinted on the eye balls<br />Written all over <br />that no help will come. </span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-27507327479572310262017-07-11T18:54:00.003+05:302017-07-11T18:54:19.462+05:30Arriving early<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They arrived early </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">for the anniversary dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even ahead </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of some of the cutlery at the table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are here </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">well before the children that will follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">taking one step at a time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">like the will before the way. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-11981893702029822842017-05-24T19:21:00.000+05:302017-05-24T19:48:07.983+05:30Pecking order<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I work in a glass house.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An old granny-type of building</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peering through its thick glasses. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inside, I peck at the keyboard trying to make </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bread and butter via a computer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is this regular visitor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that never misses a day of my work: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A bird pecking at the glass window. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It must’ve confused it for another bird </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">M</span>ust’ve wanted to kiss it up-close. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or does it suspect it to be a still pool of water?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A taut vertical lake that is devoid of any ripple<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While holding tight onto the twig it chose </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems to observe me for a long time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trying to make sense of this </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">part of the world before flying away. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chewing one end of a pencil I<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>try to note </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">everything down and rumple it up at you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Knowing well that your heart is a frozen, faraway lake.</span></span></span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-85948555286701496062017-05-02T21:46:00.001+05:302017-05-02T21:46:57.957+05:30The lines of history<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lines of fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lines of events </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Battle lines, Bloodlines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Front lines, Headlines</span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-64929409613453100272017-04-12T19:36:00.002+05:302017-04-12T19:37:30.461+05:30Report from the hills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all the idioms of passing are sheltered in greetings. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-78777989568672726232016-11-04T11:14:00.004+05:302016-11-04T11:14:56.304+05:30Of foxes and jackals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Foxes know many things<br />I am sure that they know this too. <br />Cutting the corners of cunningness <br />they are the custodians of worldly ways. <br />Jackals too belong in this august company. <br />This is a reaction to those two particular <br />jackals spinning off tales in the Panchatantra. <br />They've wandered again into my psyche long after <br />that childish curiosity about talking animals. <br />This time too they were deep in conversation <br />about not just what is good but what is possible. <br />They sneak in everywhere I look or overlook. <br />Two people talking, I can only imagine their bushy tales. <br />Mysterious Once-upon-a-times created even out of boredom. <br />Their conversation ricochets across centuries <br />taking me along with other animals <br />in the forest called human nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No longer it is just curling up from the shivers of the fever.<br />Now, the sponge bath finds its way to the hottest parts. <br />A cold eye keeps its watch for the first drops of sweat<br />while something is always in the making. Bed. Hot dinner. <br />Conversation still not being the healthy form of communication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No record of her exists except in stories shared by the earlies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many versions of her reside in her children who remember her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as tough, kind, gentle, cranky and biased. But she in her line </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at the most nonfunctional of things: writing about her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She doesn’t brandish life advice like an average granny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only one message if any, loud and clear: Do Not Disturb. </span></div>
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-64887829659722907932016-01-20T20:42:00.002+05:302016-01-20T20:42:38.750+05:30A sharper axe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A good many definitions of poetry have gone by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That private grief is all over the public shoulder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What makes this and not that one a poem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I question while it's in the womb and no reply,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">except the pregnant muse getting hormonal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The red wheel barrow is heavy with critiquing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Daffodils have not given up their sprightly dance </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in the face of eternity. The leaves of grass </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">are growing their beards. The Emily dashes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">still take us by surprise. What is etched </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">on immortality has not lost its sheen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But every poet throws his axe into the river</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hoping some god will appear from the lore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With a sharper axe and a working poem.</span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-45891031266540055512016-01-19T20:15:00.001+05:302016-01-19T20:15:10.580+05:30Without you<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The pawns of childhood fall prey first.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The grownup pieces form the next line of defense.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We try castling by exchanging our memories. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But the distance between us stays</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and the checkmate continues its shadow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Coffee stains the evening sky while we part. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the world turns black and white. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With you and without you.</span></span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-79689069576215094692016-01-13T22:25:00.003+05:302016-01-13T22:25:24.272+05:30Crumbs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anonymity is that luring jungle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">around the address plate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The trails are well lit at their mouths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">with a ghoulish smile behind friendly teeth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The crumbs strewn around </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">lead to the house of nobody </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">where none lived since bygone times. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">None will do this: leave crumbs, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and wait till everyone follows. </span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-85698234141511697572016-01-13T22:14:00.001+05:302016-01-13T22:17:30.519+05:30Speck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Achilles heel is always caught in the blind spot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as I ride with confidence from darkness to light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">An ancient pendulum of light and darkness I am </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">caged in the nefarious clock house of survival. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thinking it is only a speck of dust </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I walk heavy but lighten when I reach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the dead end of a conclusion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">that I am on this speck of dust.</span><br />
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Trinath Gaduparthihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06365277684373227102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328726701934146615.post-36890141865498903792015-12-18T00:28:00.002+05:302015-12-18T00:28:39.453+05:30Recrossing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every heart is a broken one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look around and you can hear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">its shards breaking into dust</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">under the cold feet walking away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from the defining moments. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They all seem to vanish </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in their great mid-acts. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She consoling you.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He walking by your side. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, you looking at yourself </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the mirror and</span> resolving </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">that your heart still needs recrossing. </span><br />
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