Levellers

Traffic jam: one crore's
Mercedes or two-rupee
bus ticket - we wait.

- me

Disasters man-made
or naturalare such blind
levellers, indeed!

- Max

Sanity

When it is not spring
why do people put on shrouds,
and call themselves sane?

- me

If you don't do as
the Romans do, hungry lions
are waiting for you!

- Max

Spring in winter

When it is not spring
why do people put on shrouds,
and call themselves sane?

- me

Spring exists so that
we can all hope.

- Alaka

Hope exists so we can
spring back to life.

- Max

Spring exists because
even the high priests of sense
must know what life is.

- me

Spring exists so that
faith shall live.

- Alaka

Spring exists so that
sober propriety is not
allowed to kill joy.

- me

Reality is a
persistent illusion than can be
cured by alcohol!

- Max

Spring exists because
the world needs something that can
counter sanity.

- me

Spring
is madness,
is idiosyncrasy,
is eccentricity,
is abnormality,
is insanity,
is explosivity,
is terror,
is damnation,
is ruin,
is claustrophobia,
is pacific serenity
frothing inside,
placid on unruffled surface.

- Max

Spring exists because
every year everyone must,
atleast once, go mad.

- me

Persephone pours
the wine of summer folly
in Pluto's dark cup.

- Monica

bring it on, dear persephone!
i abide not want
but dress in spring's robes!

- Laura T

Train

Saw you as a mere
glimpse, and life moved on as
a train to nowhere.

- Max

Saw you as a glimpse,
life's train seized, stuttered, stopped dead,
waiting for one more.

- me

Trains that do not move
are as a rule towed away, and
safely sidelined.

- Max

Memories

Some places I
avoid, your memories leap
at me in a gush.

- Max

My memories have
erased you but these eyes still
see no one but you.

-me

My mind's eye comes home
to you as soon as day's
trivia peters out.

- Max

Bottoming out

How do you cope with
the bottom bottoming out?
Enjoy the freefall?

- Max

When your head's always
in the clouds, you learn to live
with bottomlessness.

- me

Which makes you an alien.

- Max

I refuse to swim
with the current - does that
make me an alien?

- me

Yes, the deadliest kind.

- Max

Thoughts

Thoughts curl,
drift then vanish,
like smoke.

- Alaka


Thoughts nag the mind, some
become stillborn poems, others
immortal groans.

- me

Mortal man's mortal
remains, dust unto dust that
groans immortalize.

- Max