The Blockhead (click image to enlarge)

Comma (click image to enlarge)

Buddha - The 2nd coming

And now,
what he shall seek for
is the beauty of the world.

23 1/2

At the mercy of a whimsical tilt
are the phenomena, the seasons,
the patterns & the migrations.

Spiral (click image to enlarge)

(The theme is inspired from the visually disturbing imagery of Darren Aronofsky's movie 'Pi'. The cinematography lends to the viewer the protagonist's bizarre perspective of a reclusive world.)

Grasslands - poetry in pictures (click image to enlarge)

Green (click image to enlarge)

BLue (click image to enlarge)

(The 'changing-room' refers to a hermaphrodite's paradise.)

The flamingo affair (click image to enlarge)

Most often, reality is about what the stated truth is not. (click image to enlarge)

(The background is an excerpt from an editorial review of Clyde Prestowitz's book 'Rogue nation' @ Amazon.com;
Concept inspired from Alter Ego's comment on the post 'Gray' that reads, '...imagine being identified and named about the the only thing you lack...'
Alter Ego might get back & say, 'Well, I don't see a connection.'
Don't worry. Even i am trying really hard to.)

Monsters (click image to enlarge)

(pic credit: Hannibal rising; concept worked on ppt)

Perspective (click image to enlarge)

The final rebellion (click image to enlarge)

Gray (click image to enlarge)

(Theme inspired from the setting of Kieslowski's 'Dekalog' series - the harsh winters of Warsaw)

Hyderabad Blues

In true democracy, educating people about their freedom to choose overrides the existence of freedom as an abstract, theoretical concept.

Oxymoron (click image to enlarge)

Emotion is what made us human;
intellect is what made us human beings.

The destiny of evolution doesn't depend on our material progress but on our collective sensibility.

le dernier mot

Pain, i deserve;
pleasure, i deserve;
and hence, to live, i deserve.

The trials & tribulations of life render more consolation than the uncertainty of afterlife.

What comfort of the Unknown
Have you ever dreamt of,
That you so deeply despise the Known
- to contemplate the noose of eternity?



(Well I remember Micky Doyle
he shuffled off this mortal coil
with no message for "that special girl"
just thank you and goodbye cruel world
then for the sake of Auld Lang Syne
he put his head on the railway line
looked up at the morning sun
and waited for the train to come...
...Everytime a churchbell rings
Another angel gets its wings.

- Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine in their song "Everytime a Churchbell Rings")

A Fine Balance (click image to enlarge)

(The title is inspired by Rohinton Mistry's book of the same name. His work exposes the turmoil of the Indian emergency period between 1975 & 1977.)

In the study of inflationary economics the term 'cheap' relates to the undesirable, & deliberately, not to the (easily) affordable.

In any country there must be people who have to die…(Idi Amin) (click image to enlarge)

Everybody Comes To Rick's (click image to enlarge)

jaune 2 (click image to enlarge)

jaune

The Yellow Umbrella is a pictogram that conveys the message 'under the shade of joy'.

the instrument

Sadhana (Sanskrit term) translates as 'means' to an end

Alternate caption : Let us be kind if fate isn't

I.D. (click image to enlarge)

EXPLODE!!!

How much longer will it wait,
the steam,
unless summoned away by a dying fire?

-feelers-

---they might know how you feel but they'll never know how deeply you feel---

'slippery' as in slapstick! (click image to enlarge)

the Wheels of Change 2 (click image to enlarge)

the Wheels of Change (click image to enlarge)

Renunciation

i
renounce the capitalization
of the first person.

...i have to say with utmost conviction that the world, after having witnessed all the genocides so far, needs no other philosophy or religion than the one that teaches the virtues of equality & tolerance...

CRAVINGS

My feet
are tingling to walk on the sands
that leave no footprints.

(inspired by Albert Camus' afterword to his book - the outsider)

mea culpa

there is a crack in the soul's mirror
-the past,
& all the while i thought it was just a smudge.

Blurred Visions

Embittered and weary,
i'm on the look out for a tower
from which my voice can be heard.

muteness

the evil
casts shadows in the dark.
the moonless sky trembles.

THUNDER!!! (click image to enlarge)

Under hypnosis

The truth,
and the lie,
are a part of reality.

the cliff

I stand on the edge
but something is holding me back
- is it the force of life?

Freedom

Outside the cage
the choices are mine,
the consequences are mine.

Vendetta

To put the horror in your eyes
and to revel
while you squirm.

Schadenfreude

To see the horror in your eyes
and to revel
while you squirm.

Identity

You are
What you were
& nobody cares what you will be.

(the emphasis is a trap; introspection is the way out, & then some adventure.)

Superstition
is ignorance and so is evil,
but on a higher plane

The season

Drawn
to the gravity of the speeding headlights
the wings, for one last time,
perform the ritual
-the dance of death.

Conscience

When you look into a mirror
would you stare into your eyes,
and nothing else?

Lamentation

Through the seasons & a thousand different colors - we travelled,
and all i have got for you my friend
is a handful of dust & some teardrops.

Consequence

Water ripples, in spite of their symbolic transience & (supposed) infantile circumstance, can have a profound effect on the overall countenance of a lake.

Without posterity there are no grand designs. (David Brooks)

It's for the future
that the present ticks
but to be trapped in the lure of the present is to perish in the same tense.

Darker

Life is a silhouette
& against death
contrasts.

Bibliophilic reflections

Its a well-laid misconception which states that people can find answers to their questions in books. Books just give random answers and the rest is introspection.

Ibex (click image to enlarge)

Crowned with a head that harbors a migraine,

I thank the heavens for my 46 chromosomes

- for I am neither of their ilk nor their fury.

Pebbles on a riverbed (or just rhetoric)

Evil is where good isn't, satan reigns where God fails - the vacuum merely denotes a lack of faith and to challenge His omnipresence is to brazenly entertain a paradox by submitting to blasphemous qualms (reference: "If God be for us, who can be against us." - Romans 8:31). On the other hand it is also true that the evolution of humanity (& mankind) has constantly been guided by the fear of God. Various religions through the formative ages have taught that the goal of self-actualization can be achieved by faith that is further branched out into their respective means like the path of chastity, the path of discipline, the path of redemption, the path of spirituality - to name a few.
And the only way out of human suffering is to place total conviction in secularism that subliminally teaches resilience through the path of unconditional love.

Refuge

'twas a great relief
that in his art
he unabashedly resigned his stoicism.

on possibility (click image to enlarge)

Karma (click image to enlarge)

blend in...(click image to enlarge)

The theory of free will (click image to enlarge)

Darwinism - the essence (click image to enlarge)

The wisdom of the capricorn

It's with the head that we reason,
it's with the heart that we desire;
to choose 'what overrides when'
- is to lock horns with destiny.

Final chronicle

I lost you
between yesterday & today,
between now & eternity.

I drag
the soulless frame with a nonchalance
dictated by those little moments
- when I lost perspective
of will & destiny,
of passion & reality.

I become a slave
to hope & memories
to time & its certainties.

The paradox of religion & blasphemy

Autumn dreams

I sip into the deep fountains

of soundlessness

- the headiest wine of all.

I rejoice

in the memories of spring,

memories that drift like an unleashed kite

near the foaming clouds.

I look beyond myself

into a voyage of discovery...

waiting to fly

with the mirth of the falling leaves.

Regret

- For all the things I wanted to say but could never say,

For all the things I wanted to do but could never do,

For all the things that came and passed by, but once;

And for each compromise there was regret

And for each regret there were some frozen moments.