Thursday, June 23, 2011

Up in smoke

i stood between my lives
lit a smoke with one
and put it out with the other,
We burn until we burn...

4 comments:

  1. I stand between
    my beginning, my end
    spectator
    in a game of chicken

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    I've lit and scorched
    my own hand, my own flame
    contradicting
    in all but the scars

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    You make me want to write poetry Manik. I kinda stink at it. So "regular". "Vanilla". I'm not much of an out of the box kinda girl, but you make me want to be. You make me wish I was better. You give me new glasses, and all the words swim in the lenses. I feel rearranged. Thank you!

    ~Annie

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  2. Annie,
    You flatter me..But i'll take it as long as it exchanges good things between us...I gave up writing few years ago.....and then i met aditya..and i felt rearranged...as you say you do...it is not easy in our country to even think of anything not so mainstream as a desk job or a stable career.....but i wish and i hope we both might just defy that.....or it would be a waste of two lives...

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  3. What a lovely story and a worthy longing. Are you a couple, married? You and Aditya? I don't mean to flatter for the sake of flattery. I really enjoy your poetry. I follow Aditya also. Fresh breath. I always look forward to it, as well as the conversation. May your talent grow into something lucrative for both of you!

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  4. Well...it would be real amusing if he reads this..We are straight(he's a male if you might just have not noted that)...We are into women wholeheartedly....I'm a lone child of my parents ...But if ever a brother was more than blood to me..he would be it...

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