Tag: life
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September
“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.” ― Rowland E. Robinson All those years ago, in late September, in that coffee shop under a bruised sky, as day melted into night, the auburn twilight evoking poignant memories, the Amaltas fighting to […]
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The anguish of a pacifistic troll
Dearly Beloved, We gather here to mourn the passing of this goblin, Nik Wik. As a pacifistic troll who weeps rivers of anguish at the state of the eleventh earth, I’m here to condemn violence in every form. Why can’t we stop these battles which butcher innocents like Nik Wik in the name of Mythrall, a […]
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The Portal
I step into The Portal and a wave of numbers, alphabets, hieroglyphics and images rush toward me, saturating me and making me anxious. It takes a little getting used to. I still remember the first time when I thought the maelstrom would consume me, devour flesh, bone, and marrow. I […]
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Beauty
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon If you go to Mandrem Beach in Goa, you’ll find the river noiselessly meeting the sea. It slithers through waves of silky sand, bathing in the august afterglow, reflecting the deepest pink, and finds solace in the all-encompassing blue. Viewing and […]
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Adam
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain In the garden, before Adam ate the fruit, was he whole? He knew good, seemed naïve, blissfully oblivious to suffering and creative madness or muses alighting on his mind and beckoning […]
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My world
When I was younger, the world beckoned me to explore it, to play football on the streets using the gates of houses as goals, to ride my bicycle into neighbouring districts, finding unfamiliar faces my age and befriending them, but as I grew older, I sought to bring the world to […]
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The wind
“So high I almost touch the sky/ Thank you, thank you/ Thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings” – Bette Midler Have you heard of Kaladin Stormblessed? The slave who became the storm, defied the odds, and overcame everything thrown his way? One with the wind, nearing godhood, enduring death-dealing […]
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Eden
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. – Milan Kundera I’m sitting on the veranda of the old mountain cottage, looking at the verdant valley when, through the deep caves of thought, I hear […]
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Tradition
People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity. – Hugo Demartini Jimmy comes to my corrugated shack every weekend and shows me his poems, asking for constructive criticism. He treks five […]
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Artist
After failing as an artist (a synonym for unemployed), I worked in a mine in rural America. Not much in those badlands, except weeds the colour of my skin, jingoists who loved guns, and Confederate flags. There were some good people like the ones who left me alone as I […]