Life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans...that's why I don't plan...you ask me what are you going to do tomorrow...I will tell you I have n.O__i.D.e.A ;)

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Poem #4 for the New Yorker magazine

You are a beast.
Everyone's invisible when you are hungry.
If your eyes meet a feast,
you can even jump the country.
You care the least
even if the other person is angry.

--Mainstream invisibility

Poem #3 for the New Yorker magazine

She kept a deep dark secret.
Now it is time for the truth.
She doesn't want to keep it;
it happened while in her youth
It is a part of her history.
But to everyone else it's a mystery.

But will anyone care?
Or will they just judge and stare?
Overcome with morbid fear,
she decided it was best to disappear.
Never to be seen anywhere.

--Under Her Pillow

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Poem #2 for the New Yorker magazine

We dug together silently
a black hole that would take us.
Unknowingly ending in tragedy
and leaving arguments to discuss.

Every time the shovel hit the ground
there was no pulling back.
We had no idea where we were bound
or what was about to attack.

Inside the darkness swallowed
every tear we ever shed.
The emptiness quickly followed
the dreadful things you said.
Our happiness drowned like a sunken chest.
I am sorry for building this hollow nest.

--Down to Earth

Friday, 6 June 2014

Don't pout...write it out

Thoughts rush through my mind continuously throughout the day. It is a unfortunate truth but I cannot write all of my thoughts down. I don't think there is enough paper to capture all my day thoughts and night dreams. But whenever I get time in the day, I let my thoughts run smoothly on the text editor in front of me. I don't stop to think about what my fingers are typing on my keyboard. And honestly it is the best feeling in the world. Sometimes, I will feel super creative and I will be able to write a poem stanza by stanza with a basic rhyming scheme. And other days -- like today -- I will talk to my laptop screen. I converse through my writing.

In fact, writing has become a part of my life these days mostly because what goes on in my head becomes a lot more clear when it is written in ink. I don't know how many people can relate to this, but I find clarity when I am writing. Whether is a short piece, a poem, or a blog post--it's just plain fun!

Words can be a powerful tool. Combining the right words together can create a really powerful message! And I think everyone should try it out for themselves when they feel like they are having an overcrowded head :P

Monday, 19 May 2014

Yes I am talking to you

He sits in his chair as if he has no job in the world, but in fact he has the most important job to do in that office. He has to make decisions, decisions that make and break everything. Yet, he sits there with his fingertips joining his two hands. He looks like he's contemplating on what to do. But no we are wrong, he has already decided what his next move will be. He is playing out the sequence of events in his head. The consequences, the reactions to his decisions are clear to him. He gets up to walk towards the window. He looks out as if what he sees may somehow have an effect on what he will do next. But again we are wrong, he opens the window. There is a knock at the door, and his secretary walks in and says, "Sir, they are here". He faces shows no emotion. He has anticipated everything, there will be no surprises of that he seems sure. They sit and start an elaborate discussion that quickly gets elevated into an argument. Now there are multiple talking and many controversies on the table. That is when the soft cold wind comes in through the window. Papers start flying everywhere. There is chaos as businessmen in their suits, with their ties flying and blocking their view, are trying to gather their possessions and settle down again. In all the chaos, the man stays absolutely still in the same pose we found him a bit earlier, but this time he seems to have a slight smirk on his face. He knew that these men would come to his office with pages of complaints and demands would never be able to put them together, not even with a paper-clip, into something solid. As things begin to settle, the men realize how disoriented they have become. They are not able to recover and are now silent. When the draft passes, he sees another girl at the other end of table, who seemed unperturbed. Even her hair seemed unyielding to its perfect position. The man sat upright, it seemed to him he finally met a worthy individual. Someone who was not just full of 'loose leaf pieces of paper'. He asks her to state the reasons behind her presence. She says, "Sir, I wanted to meet the man who is supposed to be dead". The man abruptly stands up, and ends the meeting. Once he is alone with the girl, he asks, "How did you find me?".

His secretary walks in, "Sir, they are here." The man realizes there is no good behind the window. He decides against opening it. He doesn't want to be discovered. His true identity is the one secret that nobody else can ever come to know. It would not play out well for him. He knew that. He would have to go along with the treacherous meeting after all. There was no other out for him. "There is no window." he says out loud.

"Sir," says the patient secretary.

"Yes, I am talking to you. There is no window in this room. There is no window on this glass wall. I want a window made."

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Coolest quote from the movie "Jobs" (2013)

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules...and they have no respect for the status quo...You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."