tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57912783424072182082024-03-14T01:47:23.056+05:00Three Blue FingersLyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-23209338623952626822012-03-11T20:23:00.000+05:002012-03-11T20:43:05.792+05:00---Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Your run-down church, my soiled bougainvillea,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Your hypnotized smirk, my bed-ridden insomnia,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Somebody save us, you and me, sprawled across the wall,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">My faith, your wait, anxiously circling---</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">'Can I eat it or will it eat me?'..........</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">This love.</span><br /><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br />A hungry hurricane, breathing to suffocate,<br />I lived your life for a while, till the wintry suicide,<br />I want my reasons to save you from me now and forever,<br />I want my burden, to cripple your love and free-fall---<br />Can I bury it or will it bury me?........</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your love.</span></span></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-74556082816408840772012-02-26T21:54:00.001+05:002012-02-26T21:54:19.206+05:00Waters Singing on my Toes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roll into a numb bliss</div>
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The rhythmic beating of wind on the eyelashes</div>
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Trees and sillhouttes flit past</div>
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Until the nuances of great and good</div>
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Is blurred</div>
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Into a numb bliss</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">
Rolled</div>
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Into a quiet rooftop song</div>
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That no one will hear</div>
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No one will need to</div>
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Endear...</div>
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Bliss, once and since</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">
It is</div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">
....And the last note will linger</div>
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Through each time a bottle shatters</div>
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Or a joint burns out</div>
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And a misplaced tear wets your water-proof toes...</div>
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Bliss, once and since</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">
It has been. </div>
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-89006179719442284042011-12-26T15:48:00.002+05:002011-12-26T21:33:41.849+05:00Remaining dues...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am the skeleton in my own closet,<br />
The hiatus when I go amiss,<br />
Look for me between your fingers,<br />
I am the wind in your hair<br />
And out through the space in between...<br />
Remain, remain...<br />
Post-destruction,<br />
My line of sight befalls and Boom! <br />
My thunderbolt,<br />
Or my benediction;<br />
Remain, remain...<br />
Leveed from me...<br />
Free of my chaos<br />
And our Evangeline.<br />
<br />
You are my half-eaten breakfast bread,<br />
My frozen cannabis confiscated,<br />
I am the wind, always the wind,<br />
In your beautiful hair.<br />
<br />
And out through the space in between....<br />
<br />
Dead or besotted, what line sorts the two,<br />
Awake or just alive, what reason remains<br />
To pay the dues...<br />
<br />
Adieu.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-51680213342125245662011-12-19T18:24:00.004+05:002011-12-19T18:34:38.798+05:00Not without a Hint anymore...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<i>You once said, we would run away. We would live in a cottage of straw
and wood, near the river of fishes and sunsets.You would fish all day,
and come back by nightfall.We would eat simple food and then... you would play your guitar and we would sing
our songs...till tired,we would fall asleep.What happened to that dream...What happens to all those dreams...</i><br />
<br />
It's a crying headache...<br />
A running wreckage<br />
Far from the scene of crime<br />
And illusions,<br />
A fulsome cremation<br />
Of an undead soul...<br />
Clinging to an incomplete dream about Life.<br />
I have come, a long way<br />
Past the postcard yellow-flecked fields,<br />
That moves when the shadow befalls<br />
Like a creature aroused.<br />
There,look,trembling little calf runs,<br />
Anxiously begotten, for its mama.<br />
I have also run,<br />
Through the distorted rails,<br />
The muted wails<br />
Of a winter sun.<br />
Where the mechanical ticking of uncertain dreams<br />
Do end,<br />
And an ancient one begins,<br />
Where life has ceased to end or begin,<br />
Where a crying headache is a disease.<br />
<br />
Where we once spoke of running away to..... <br />
<br />
There they weave a lonely sweater,<br />
For the faithless stranger of the suburbs...<br />
There they smile,<br />
A token of recognition,<br />
For the hint they would not let slip by...<br />
<br />
<i>Let's run away,</i><br />
<i>The world screams,</i><br />
<i>Let us all run away...</i><br />
<br />
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<br /></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-26505085035511372011-12-15T00:12:00.000+05:002011-12-15T00:12:03.096+05:00Not without a Hint<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nothing new,<br />
Just a pigment of dust<br />
In the patina of an old alloy rust...<br />
It isn't dust,really;<br />
More like a smudge...<br />
Writ with fingerprints,<br />
A thumb rule of reminiscence.<br />
<br />
As the eyes bore into their meaning,<br />
Their origin and its sin,<br />
Pockmarked,enervated,never mind...<br />
A dextrous hand and brush will paint out<br />
The lies and truth that was.<br />
A hidden vestige of faith reclaimed<br />
In a leftover dust, a facsimile, the evidence,<br />
For him to start believing again...<br />
That the one sought is gone, but not without a hint. <br />
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<br /></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-75862352856320878802011-11-16T21:35:00.001+05:002011-11-17T22:32:42.302+05:00The Muse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My Muse is still alive,<br />
Breathing, gasping,and persevering;<br />
A hungry callus of throbbing dead cells<br />
Nostrum to the paraplegia of our united dreams...<br />
It's lying on the grass, gazing up to the sky<br />
Etching a new dream, with the palette in it's eyes<br />
Living a life, fresh out of the pages<br />
Of a new diary, or a receding sigh.<br />
<br />
<br />
Who are you?<br />
The shapeless shapes in your comatose visions.<br />
Where are you?<br />
Somewhere in the recesses of your epicure mind.<br />
How are you?<br />
Alive and breathing...<br />
Dreaming of a clear blue sky.<br />
A blessing, in the form of a quasi memory...<br />
Running away from the islands of qualms,<br />
Rushing headlong to forget.<br />
But the Muse is still alive,<br />
Aiding to not abet,<br />
<br />
<br />
Egging me on to forget...<br />
The scenes from the life<br />
My Muse begets.<br /><br />A splattered raindrop and gravity's corsette,<br />
Squeezing it down, drying away in its own footsteps...<br />
The Muse shall build, the Muse shall erase.<br />
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<br /></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-77281961215142193232011-11-07T18:20:00.000+05:002011-11-07T18:25:49.955+05:00Reloading---ramblings,don't read :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An old love's verve sometimes rings like the churchbells...divine yet sinister all at the same time.But such that you can't keep yourself from listening to it till it fades out,even the last of the reverberating whispers...<br />
And then you will invariably look up one last time as if with some subconscious hope that the source of all the ruckus would simulate some of the effect its gonging had just caused.But when it doesn't, you just walk away...<br />
Someone,a very good and old friend, joked about a stupid habit of hitting 'Refresh' to the inbox of his email account and just staring at it while it loads and then repeating the cycle.Moronic,bordering on some kind of Tourret's tick,right? But he also said that while he does this...he has plenty of time to reflect on plaintive things and slowly,by around the 67th reloading of the same page (and no new mails yet) delve deeper into that one cell of thought and explore all its possibilities.Hence all his Philcrap.<br />
Now I was laughing at him the whole time and not one of those giggles I am so proud of.No, but one of my guffaws...which also I am very proud of,by the way. So anyway, there I was guffawing not realising for one second that 14 hours later I would be doing the same thing and 14 hours and15 minutes later writing this.<br />
So he (not the old friend;the he-who-must-not-be-named 'he') snubbed me again.Big deal.He does it every day almost.Nose,heart,butterfly chamber (wherever that is)...all that.And so what if 2 minutes before that I was being my pathetic self and reclaiming my concerned anxiety for his little puke spells.But incidentally this whole transpired over gtalk and right after the snubbing, I reflexively fell to the refresh,let it load,refresh cycle and 5 minutes later...I signed out.<br />
Yes.It's time to hit Refresh.<br />
<br /></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-77593137855691254062011-11-04T23:35:00.002+05:002011-11-04T23:35:58.913+05:00Friend and I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-63359089664577559342011-10-27T00:40:00.000+05:002011-10-27T00:41:14.437+05:00Diwali,2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thank you for being who you are.Thank you for not letting him and them keep my smile in the shadows of the past this Diwali.Thank you for taking the initiative,buying the crackers and the lights and those cute little <i>diyas</i> we used as candle-stands!...Thank you for pushing me to the terrace and making me burn the last of the truckload of fireworks (when did you get the time to buy them!). In short, thank you for unleashing my laughter in the sea of the laughing echoes and sending out that rocket with my name on it into the universe along with the rest of the ones of 'them petty humans'.Thank you.... for reminding me of my rightful place in your universe.Your princess.Thank you...Dad.</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-13204722182629713332011-10-26T00:55:00.000+05:002011-10-26T00:55:51.223+05:00The Teething Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like a hundred hummingbirds beating away<br />
Their feathers of flight, just bidding away<br />
A time to recall how many times a day</div>
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They will hum their daily chances</div>
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Of remaining airborne<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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No rules to beckon</div>
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To and never again</div>
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Will we hear them stay…</div>
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As they will always be on their way.</div>
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These nails are born</div>
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To hold me in a strait</div>
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From potholes</div>
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To a tousled bed</div>
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With a tipped night-lantern…</div>
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These nails will be biting away</div>
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At my teeth and a pacified,slower canter.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You are a thought, a throng of dots</div>
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Pilfering your own time, </div>
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A menace of nots,</div>
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A pulsating vein </div>
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On this sunny forehead,</div>
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A doodle of pinpricks</div>
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And a crass paperweight…</div>
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Lest I fly away,</div>
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These nails will beg</div>
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For once a habit</div>
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Is always a mistake...</div>
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You will hear me not,</div>
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You will only hear me hum,</div>
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Oh but the nailbiter</div>
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Is again at her humming rum!</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
These nails will be biting away</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
At my teeth and a false alarm.</div>
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<br /></div>
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A rogue of shallow cadaver,</div>
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A petty human beleaguered</div>
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Into the craft of playing naked</div>
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In the muck, with human laughter …</div>
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I remain yours to always be,</div>
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Enslaved by your rivalry,</div>
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These nails will grow and become a need</div>
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To be alive and not to feel.</div>
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-68208014076564204722011-09-05T23:15:00.004+05:002011-09-11T00:56:32.575+05:00Daalia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sing me a song,<br />
Over the raspy telephone,<br />
Deny me a title<br />
For the lyrics I gifted you;<br />
Hum my mother's lullaby---<br />
I know you heard me hum it<br />
Between your eyes,<br />
Along the immaculate noseline,<br />
Under some sunny streaks<br />
Of littered rice, a story-telling device,<br />
And dahlia dice...<br />
So you were my Daalia,<br />
As the <i>Thakur</i> would remember,<br />
Your royal tunes will play you....<br />
And I will be in denial<br />
Waiting for a dream<br />
That was shimmering <br />
Like a Tista mirage<br />
On a foggy morning<br />
Hither, before me...<br />
Fishnets and medieval;<br />
We played a village game.<br />
<br />
You cried a ruse<br />
To run bemused<br />
On the banks of a winding lane<br />
The asphalt tar of bitter words...<br />
Verbose,<br />
<br />
The running city dots<br />
Sea-gulls in a river's coven...<br />
Anachronous<br />
Of faltering vanes...<br />
Where to go,<br />
Who to blame?<br />
<br />
Gone...<br />
Bucolic,<br />
And undone,<br />
Run,<br />
Daalia,run!<br />
<br />
Daalia,<br />
Sing me a wordless song,<br />
Daalia,<br />
Sing me a wordless song....<br />
As I hum...<br />
Over this broken telephone...<br />
<br />
I can hear you run.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-18981089961419692772011-08-19T00:34:00.001+05:002011-09-05T22:32:54.857+05:00The Hole<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hole in the heart,<br />
I breath through you...<br />
Let my sins,<br />
In your sinews,<br />
Turn taut and cold,<br />
I forgive<br />
The moon-crumbs <br />
That shine iridescent,<br />
Irate like the sun,<br />
Through you.<br />
<br />
Hole in this heart,<br />
They seep like a flood---<br />
From under the door,<br />
Into the bedspread<br />
And the pillows,<br />
When the flower-vase falls, <br />
And doesn't shatter,<br />
Saved<br />
By the gurgling water---<br />
<br />
Through you.<br />
<br />
Hole in the heart,<br />
We part,<br />
Like the lips<br />
Of goodbye,<br />
Or is that surprise<br />
Knowing you siphoned<br />
Us into this bloodbath...<br />
And that I let you?<br />
Pulse of my window<br />
I will escape...<br />
Into the red stream,<br />
Of another lover's dream....<br />
Through you.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Hole in the heart,<br />
Filled up with changelings<br />
Of dreams...<br />
Never the real heart....<br />
You were.<br />
<br />
Always a would-be...<br />
Last chance, say you will be...<br />
Mine.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-89810233963885969692011-08-10T22:37:00.004+05:002011-08-10T23:07:12.971+05:00Great<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">How would it be...<br />
To be a Great?<br />
<br />
To touch a tinkering bell<br />
And let it rhyme as well...<br />
<br />
To resonate with the crowd<br />
And shimmer and stand out...<br />
<br />
To touch a copper string<br />
And have it obligingly sing...<br />
<br />
To step into a water-puddle<br />
And unveil two nimbus shackles...<br />
<br />
To amble betwixt two breezing trains<br />
And feel a caress in an immortalized ordain...<br />
<br />
To crouch under the old bed,<br />
And whisper to the flashlight-dead...<br />
<br />
To smirk into the mirror,<br />
And dissolve into its abysmal horror...<br />
<br />
To touch a temple,<br />
And know I am there...<br />
<br />
And realize---I am not Great...<br />
I am only better.<br />
<br />
How would it be...<br />
To know that I could be...<br />
Just Great?<br />
<br />
No dart to a new heart...<br />
No moth in a spiral path...<br />
Nor a retribution sought at last...<br />
<br />
Just Great and green grass...<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-47691750488673789132011-08-05T22:16:00.000+05:002011-08-05T22:16:19.617+05:00Then When<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When the narcotic dew does subside,<br />
Will you be waiting for me behind<br />
The stable, near the elm,<br />
Under the yellow, lucid rain,<br />
Upon the ground, covered in hay...<br />
Our roof, so I fall <br />
Upwards...<br />
And plummet towards a holy dead end?<br />
<br />
Let the light of the day<br />
Burn a hole through me now...<br />
Let me hear your laughter wane.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A dream...a dream let you be,<br />
So I can sleep dreamlessly<br />
And wake up to the everyday humdrum<br />
Of never knowing you<br />
In this onerous life...or after...<br />
<br />
Let the light compel you to me,<br />
Propel you to the end of this anomaly<br />
You were never there, it was just a dream...<br />
<br />
I pray...a prayer...<br />
For you to disappear<br />
So I can revel in the crushed paper-planes<br />
And the melon tambourines,<br />
Toothpaste sandwiches,---no,don't taste!<br />
No,I was here alone...<br />
<br />
In the once-upon-a-dream, <br />
When I was a would-be...<br />
A golden ribbon of narcotic dream<br />
And everyday dew...<br />
Before I knew...<br />
You.<br />
<br />
Then when?<br />
Again.<br />
After you found me...<br />
And then...<br />
<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-83278345916116138262011-07-26T23:19:00.001+05:002011-07-27T00:06:15.107+05:00Laundry Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">My clothes don't match,<br />
Or I am wearing something new,<br />
This old guise is stilted with mildew.<br />
<br />
I have watched the tedium rise to the occasion<br />
And take my breath away!<br />
It slunk into the shadows of a pose<br />
That swayed like this...everyday.<br />
Old and hackneyed, this laundry bin<br />
Will fill to the brim before...<br />
It tossed a pile of these old clothes<br />
And gave the sun away,<br />
To the resonant sacrilege of a duster<br />
And a thousand charlatan runic frays.<br />
How they bite the dust as they go<br />
Round and round, high and lo',<br />
How the saturnine brunt that befall<br />
Their little deeds and writ proverbs,<br />
Every day that goes by will see the sun<br />
And the shadow it carves.<br />
<br />
Suddenly they would come to a halt,<br />
The sun will wonder why...<br />
No soap to froth, no foam to smear,<br />
As the clothes will need to dry.<br />
The day is burnt,<br />
Whims will scorn this nefarious end of time<br />
For this mind...<br />
<br />
The planets still revolved,<br />
<br />
With the button that escaped<br />
The clutches of the day<br />
And remained...with the grime.<br />
<br />
The bum who lives across the street<br />
Will sew it to its heart and smile.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-37465885338192900162011-07-20T00:41:00.002+05:002011-07-21T23:04:14.125+05:00All the words I know...That Rhyme.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>(I have been alleged of complicating matters in my head.</b><br />
<b>I have been accused of taking petty emotions and turning it into a maelstrom of turbid psycho-emotional conflicts.</b><br />
<b>I have..been asked to simplify, liquefy, clarify what I am saying, what I am feeling...</b><br />
<b>Alright.I will...I will.)</b><br />
<br />
When I stop what I feel,<br />
I won't feel what I have killed,<br />
I won't kill to reveal---<br />
I will stand away from---my nemesis to defeat.<br />
<br />
When I squirm in my revel,<br />
I stop to marvel<br />
What a wonder, I quell<br />
The tremors,I laugh at my lucid drunken gait.<br />
<br />
And you perfectly rhyme,<br />
Even with my masked pantomime,<br />
Like this white crime,<br />
The whiteness that I prevaricate.<br />
<br />
It was a mistake.You shouldn't have.<br />
<br />
A lie.<br />
I would be lying.<br />
If I told I am trying...<br />
To make it any simpler, for any of us.<br />
<br />
A white lie,<br />
I would be tying,<br />
To your wrist of pining<br />
Tourniquets, and repeated cadavers<br />
Of dust.<br />
<br />
If I hurt you,<br />
I'm sorry to have loved you like mine.<br />
If I pushed you away,<br />
You said sorry too many times...<br />
<br />
Or no...I tried...<br />
<br />
Was that a smile?</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-4805439057596924512011-07-01T23:59:00.001+05:002011-07-02T00:01:12.355+05:00The Three<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Three things.<br />
A crass poster of craven whispers of kisses,<br />
A derelict plastic cup with a hole in it<br />
And a half a pencil, eaten away at the butt.<br />
<br />
All closing their deals with another opening...<br />
The cracked ceiling.<br />
On the wall, soggy and dripping with moist<br />
My kisses could never deliver.<br />
On the floor, overflowing from the one end<br />
That never knew water before.<br />
On the desk, washed clean...<br />
Still writing...if only but better.</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-70801398512387163752011-04-27T19:04:00.006+05:002011-05-06T22:31:55.143+05:00Tooth-fairy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Red windmills,<br />
Claustrophobic skies<br />
Reporting from some despot nadir<br />
I hear you...I hear you hard... <br />
Pitter-patter of baby feet<br />
Growing into the clicking heels<br />
And then the suffusing blush...<br />
Oh,the plush tail will wag some day<br />
The rainbows will clear,<br />
I will try to remain estranged...<br />
The war will soon come to a cease,<br />
Everybody waddles back home<br />
After the fight to save the dream, <br />
But the dream will twist and bend,<br />
And push me another way...<br />
<br />
But the lane my room overlooks<br />
Whispers my name...<br />
Follow its trail, <br />
I will be your stranger till the end.<br />
<br />
And I will wait,<br />
<br />
<br />
For you, till the world is safe...<br />
Pray the toothache and heartache to rest,<br />
<br />
Fly back,little thing...<br />
Fly away. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-3947901691512623392011-04-24T20:48:00.004+05:002011-04-26T23:35:50.215+05:00Dear Grace...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Under a microscope of frozen tears,<br />
Through the milliseconds of remaining endeared<br />
Heads of defied opprobrium,<br />
I will rise to know you again.<br />
<br />
There quiver the hollowed succinct leaves<br />
Spitting a raindrop into your eyes,they seek<br />
A wisdom of the machiavellian pianist---<br />
I fall, they cry, you breathe, they die...<br />
<br />
Where the sun will go down on the short years.<br />
I will shout across the backyard,<br />
A clothesline being shred by the shards<br />
Of a broken microscope<br />
And a rosette of farce,<br />
Admit it, you hate me<br />
Because I can see those tears...<br />
<br />
Vanilla cones and pop-corn brunch,<br />
Plastic smile,I still see them veneered...<br />
<br />
Then the upended faces of fallen facades,<br />
Billowing in the caved-in draft of ignominy,<br />
But a silly rupture of giggles in the dark<br />
A jolt of "who's there!"<br />
And you will rise again to know me...<br />
<br />
And hate me or love...<br />
You will follow me...<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-34966909362884995462011-02-06T22:54:00.002+05:002011-02-10T14:24:48.927+05:00Where She Lay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Virile, the Nile</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Does flow serpentine</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Repentant for the ghosts</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Vilified</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">By the knights in the </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Not-so-shining armours</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Nile, bleeding Nile---</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Does she bid her time </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">To crime, to blight</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The skulls piled</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">In her bed, volatile?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She swells and </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Forgives.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is a friend</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Of a chiaroscuro of Neverland</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And the end of the world,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Where she raves and rants</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A nymph, a grail, </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A grant, or simply a hated,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Denigrated termagant---</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Who loves a wingless bird,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A harried scavenger,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A reckless philanderer</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">But does she kill</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">To bring</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The one she loves</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Into the light across the train-wreck?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She purses her lips and</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Waits.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Her vivid red, pull-over,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Awry in the rover </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Draft in the air, seducing her hair</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Away from her lachrymose glimpse,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">That rests on an old nemesis</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And draws to a nascent closure</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">In the sudden epiphany that...even her nemesis </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Can open its mouth to a kiss</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And her heart beats with ecstasy,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Only ecstasy to envision</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">That if her own version of Hate can love,<br />
And make her Love what she should hate, </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Then Love can defy…hate</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As she,till then,knew it.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Did she let down her hood</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And pray for good</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">That from her new found faith</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She would never need to sway?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She cried and</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Laughed again.</div></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-42963013221881774022011-01-23T22:40:00.006+05:002011-02-10T14:36:22.340+05:00Ripples<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">To throw a stone at a strident ripple</div><div class="MsoNormal">With eyes closed and a voice crippled</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the renegade joys of a childhood lost</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the turbid, eager eyes of grown-up jaunts,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Is to hold an umbrella to the twilight sun</div><div class="MsoNormal">And revel in some quixotic virtuous norm,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pretending what has been is never wrong</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But to kindle a candle, one needs the wick to burn…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So the twilight will phase into a night</div><div class="MsoNormal">And candles will burn, and fluorescent lights…</div><div class="MsoNormal">One drop of moon in the ripples of water</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a majestic silver mermaid, will shudder</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When the sojourn of the stone will strike...<br />
Back. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ripples will remain, gather and froth</div><div class="MsoNormal">And the ignominy of moon shall stay to spurn…</div><div class="MsoNormal">The night shall change to a new daybreak</div><div class="MsoNormal">And the sojourns of stones shall return….<br />
<br />
And sink to the abyss beyond the drop of moon. <br />
<br />
But ripples,we still ripple on... </div></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-30053671810859314762011-01-16T23:05:00.001+05:002011-01-22T12:44:59.317+05:00Finding My Personal Vengeance(or Evanescence)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A soft,resplendant echo<br />
Of a single threshold touch.<br />
I could fall a thousand steps<br />
To reverberate under its footfall...<br />
The 'evermore' hones an evanescent day,<br />
And I could hear the sea-gulls humming in praise...<br />
Warped and maimed, I could rise again---<br />
My lone paramour, my sovereign disdain...<br />
Nevermore, I would sing again<br />
On a yellow,framed afternoon...<br />
A stalker may know the wisdom<br />
For the reasons I show.<br />
A grave,left unattended<br />
Filled with snow<br />
A story,untainted<br />
And concealed with many more.<br />
But then you were gone<br />
Or going away,I'm not sure...<br />
The story would screech to a halt,<br />
I might have crashed,I wouldn't know...<br />
And the birds would fly away,<br />
Leaving us thus betrothed, I want to believe...<br />
By the rituals conferred---<br />
A fire and a central plot,<br />
And a mesh of 'I do'-s and 'They do'-s...<br />
To conclude the wrought.<br />
<br />
Do they sing 'evermore' in heaven?<br />
Is this a dream?<br />
Gone and nevergone,<br />
An insensitive,unholy scheme...<br />
<br />
And they did...</div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-88669220713756955552011-01-14T21:57:00.000+05:002011-01-14T21:57:34.252+05:00Blahs and Blues ---14/1/11The tips of my fingers are lost in anomalies of a long-drawn,age-old conflict called 'touch'.<br />
<span style="color: blue;">Do I want to</span>?<span style="color: magenta;">Should I</span>?<span style="color: red;">Is anybody watching</span>?<span style="color: #ffe599;">Would they mind</span>?<br />
All I have to do is lift a finger,and place it...gently or briskly.All I have to do is remain in sync with my tirades of past self-denials and coax myself to walk away...<br />
It isn't exactly walking away from myself.Merely undoing the hopelessness that washes through these fingers each time they are encountered with the four questions.A speck of colour on a grey wall, a face-like puddle of water on a slab of bus-window glass and golden hair of a six year old seated next to me,a dab of magenta in a perfectly green leaf, an eclipsed-sun in a cigarrette butt...<br />
I wish I could touch you,to touch me.<br />
I want to,I should,whoever is watching,minding me or not...LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-28902433480408784542011-01-11T22:28:00.000+05:002011-01-11T22:28:13.458+05:00Blahs and Blues---11/1/11A naked,begrime,barefoot child on your porch,<br />
dripping the slippery skin of earth;rings your bell,once,twice<br />
and many too many times,making you temporarily deaf...<br />
till you open the door,adopt him as your own and<br />
wash the muck off with your own bare hands...<br />
...<br />
and name him 'epiphany'.LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791278342407218208.post-68759213235763917092011-01-07T00:17:00.001+05:002011-01-22T23:18:11.899+05:00One Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">There is one day for everything.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…that will seek dust </div><div class="MsoNormal">On the back of a camel </div><div class="MsoNormal">To ride into the sunset </div><div class="MsoNormal">Of a desert monsoon,</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…when I shall have written </div><div class="MsoNormal">All my last wishes, not only my dreams, </div><div class="MsoNormal">In one single rhapsody, my tuneless song,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Origamied into a lone butterfly.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Can butterflies be lonely?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Some days maybe…</div><div class="MsoNormal">Another one day, </div><div class="MsoNormal">I will have watched the moon stride </div><div class="MsoNormal">Through the primer-scented grills </div><div class="MsoNormal">And play peek-a-boo</div><div class="MsoNormal">On the wings of my butterfly </div><div class="MsoNormal">And fly</div><div class="MsoNormal">Across the black sky, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Out of my line of sovereign sight.</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…I will lie down </div><div class="MsoNormal">On sheets of sand soaked in the </div><div class="MsoNormal">Crashing tears of the sea, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Spread-eagled, with arms frosted </div><div class="MsoNormal">In golden muck, praying and </div><div class="MsoNormal">Pretending that gods of quick-sand</div><div class="MsoNormal">Would make a one-wish exception for me.</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…I will surmount the broken step </div><div class="MsoNormal">Of open-air canvases</div><div class="MsoNormal">And lived long enough to breathe </div><div class="MsoNormal">The hot air there and tell the tale</div><div class="MsoNormal">To the pink-cheeked, one-liner-king, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Blue boy with a palm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -27pt; text-indent: 27pt;">Ready for alms. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -27pt; text-indent: 27pt;">One day, he shall surmount as well…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -27pt; text-indent: 27pt;">One day…I will have crossed</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -27pt; text-indent: 27pt;">The esplanade intersection without</div><div class="MsoNormal">Reliving the needless, manic squeals</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of holding hands and racing the traffic lights</div><div class="MsoNormal">In one blind-sided go…</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…I will have remembered </div><div class="MsoNormal">To bring along extra batteries along</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the torch on my search for the</div><div class="MsoNormal">Lost and forgotten time-capsules…</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day, I will remember the date</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of today and write my dreams in a single song</div><div class="MsoNormal">Replacing one day with Today.</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day…</div></div>LyssAbysshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06271165795559308423noreply@blogger.com2