Monday 24 October 2016

Infatuation, a Rubaiyat

I

School bag, blue shirt, hair parted on the right,
Daal-rice, the clock ticks away in delight;
Cycles stop, wagons with seasonal crop,
Get to her class before the gates shut tight.

II

The obsession froths beyond the eavesdrop,
Secrecy brews a moral of Aesop;
Friends don't yet know, the fear that the eyes show,
Grows the need to shout it from the rooftop.

III

Geography is boring, the maps tow
Useless details such as where's Kosovo;
It's all pretense, the absorption intense,
But her attention sets the world aglow.

IV

The wistful heart struggles to make some sense
And accept pain at misery's expense;
Then her comment, and the motives ferment,
The surging tide sweeps over the heart's fence.

V

Evening is drunk with sunlight, the day's spent,
Menthol erases the cigarette scent;
She fades from sight, the mundanities write,
A long ride back under the clouds' intent.



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Sunday 23 October 2016

Milk, a Triolet





Framed by mankind her voice turned raw.

For toxins had tainted ambrosia

and festered in her child to gnaw

framed by mankind, her voice turned raw

in grief for deaths to come. She saw

in court why she must fight inertia.

Framed by mankind her voice turned raw

for toxins had tainted ambrosia.




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Saturday 22 October 2016

Diamante Duo



Antonymous


Theatre || Cinema



Theatre
ancient, organic
previewing, staging, performing
Sophocles, Chekhov, Ray, Tarantino
filming, screening, releasing
modern, edited
Cinema.






Synonymous


Theatre = Cinema




Theatre
auditory, expressive
producing, setting, critiquing
Miller, Olivier, Azmi, Bergman
directing, acting, entertaining
visual, scripted
Cinema.


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