cicada cries all night-
maybe she heard
her forests’ story
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Parramatta River, sunset
9 hours ago
Friday, October 29, 2010
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Just Criticism
This poem was written in response to an onslaught on a poetry site. There is nothing JUST about criticism. Justice is a very very relative term. Your judgement will reflect your race and kind, and is groomed by little bits of conversation right from day-one of your life.
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- Can you belong if you are not like-minded?
- Does 'wanting to belong' feed your bias?
- Does a strong belief/bias benefit you as you move upwards in a particular community?
- And does belonging give you a stronger voice?
There is never a ‘just’ person
Because a mind is a product of bias.
Cemented again and again by
His history, culture and environs
His mind molded by his parents
And theirs by theirs
By the conversations at dinner tables,
You know - the small talk
About black and white
About big and small
About power of love and of hate
About theirs and ours.
His bias gives him his identity
His prejudice make him belong.
It defines his relationships
With people and his life.
It is not easy for a man
To rise above his beliefs
To ‘look’ at the other side.
Accept another?
– That’s next to impossible!
For then he loses his identity
Of belonging to a belief.
It may start a war of thoughts
That will uproot the belief
And he then stops belonging
To the belief that was ‘he’.
Like there is no ‘just’ person
There is no ‘just’ critic
His beliefs colour his criticism
And his life and his writings.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Serenity - Haiku Heights
deep within eyes
pickled in a brine of tears-
serenity ripens
For 
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Wonder- Acrostic Poetry
When you stop dreaming, you stop living!
Out of the box, into the space yonder go
Nonchalantly jaunt from star to star,
Draw out the elf that dwells deep within
Entrapped and waiting to laugh aloud and
Reach out, pick a star you wish to don!
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Blemish - Haiku Heights
crooked man’s
beautiful face-
refined blemish
for
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sandgrains - Haiku 162
days chase days
wrinkles connect wrinkles-
life’s sandgrains in slowmotion
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Did We Cause Change?
The Earth is getting warmer and climatic changes are on for all to see. It's raining and snowing where it never has, and, cold freezing places have seen temperatures soaring to 40 degrees Celsius. But the questions I ask are
- is the human race responsible for this change?
- Are we big enough to effect such changes?
- Is it our ego that makes us believe that we can bring about such a change?
Let us look at the ice age and the dinosaurs. Did the growing population of there gigantic animals that ruled the land, sea and sky cause climatic changes that brought on the ice age? The reason for the ice age can be better attributed to
- an impact of a giant asteroid
- high radiations from a supernova
- an epidemic
- a volcano that created a layer of dust that blocked sunlight for years
- a change in the shape of Earth's orbit...making it hotter or colder
- a change in the tilt of Earth's axis...heating or melting the poles
- a wobble of the Earth about its axis...changing the time and duration of a season
Oh! Passing sojourner on Earth’s largess
The Earth warmer now than ever before,
And damned are the gases spilt forth.
Two centuries have passed since a driven wheel
Ploughed the dirt to form scopionic paths,
Lunges forward now on unplumed wings.
Are we the reason for the Warming Earth?
Or are we too small to shape a Universe in flux?
Are two centauries ample to affect a change?
Change is nucleus to the space we float in
Too removed from our sphere of influence,
Do dinosaurs lay a claim to the Ice age?
No control we wield over nature’s umbrage.
We pump our egos thinking ‘WE’ create change
Megalomania, I think we need be accused of.
We are too small to reign in the monster
Let things go on as planned destinies.
Climate has changed and so has life.
Time now worshiped in vain life altars
Brio dreams zip in tired half-shut eyes and
Adrenaline pushes our thick clogged vessels.
Now bonds valued as the stocked bull runs
Love now devoid of devoir bonding as
Lost souls spill into sidewalks and alleys.
Find your universe in the embrace of arms
This sphere you can control and inspire
Choose to illumine or in a dark world live.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Waiting - Haiku 167
waiting for him-
my universe, the clock,
and the watchman’s whistle
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Rejoice - Haiku Heights
for buds that dare open
for flowers that wizen for a seed-
rejoice!
For
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Doormat - Haiku 166
winter night-
the stray dog eyes
‘welcome’ doormat
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