Posted in Poetry on Jul 1st, 2008
Trying my hand at haikus, after the last tag. I have stuck to the traditional 5 syllable-7 syllable-5 syllable format, though it looks like I can also compose a haiku with 17 syllables in any other combination.
The car ahead spun
slowly in the snow. Rush hour.
She was glad to flee.
***
Six minutes before
the week’s laundry finishes.
She can [...]
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Posted in Life, Poetry, lekhni, tag on Jun 19th, 2008
I have been meaning to try writing Haiku verse for some time. In a tentative, will-it-bite way, I love Haiku, though I am not sure I can do any good with it. I am too verbose for Haiku, I can never use five syllables if five hundred would do the job instead.
But [...]
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Posted in Poetry on May 16th, 2008
I was going to post on something else today. I probably will, later today. But after reading all the comments on my previous post on how poetry is nothing but broken prose (and there’s a lot of truth in that), I thought it would be fun to see if we can convert any of our [...]
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Posted in Humor, Poetry on May 13th, 2008
It all started when Amitava Kumar posted a poem on his blog. Called Man Writes Poem by Jay Leeming, from Dynamite on a China Plate. The Backwaters Press.
Reading the poem made me start thinking, what exactly is a poem?
I started answering the question in Space Bars comment section. So the first paragraph of this [...]
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Posted in Life, Poetry, women on Feb 8th, 2008
I wish I had met you before,
I would have fallen in love with you.
I wish I had met you when
your skin was glowing rosy red.
Now your color is closer to brown
and the freshness has long gone.
I don’t dislike darker skin
but I dislike it on you.
I wish I had met you before,
I’d have taken you home [...]
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Rads tagged me with a great tag that I just love. Not only do I get to do almost no work, but I am also doing good for the environment. How? I am recycling My old posts, that is.
The rules of the tag are : Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written [...]
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