tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36489211421841553882024-02-21T16:34:47.832+05:30A Quest.....!to seek those gossamer nuances of words, that come not from me, but thru' me:)Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-79170804749962185382015-02-03T22:52:00.000+05:302015-02-03T22:52:49.079+05:30Velveteen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pixie dust on wings<br />Pretty pieces of magic<br />Patterned, arrayed intricately</div>
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Speckled, burnished<br />Some wearing the sky<br />Or the blue, gold and orange<br />Of a flame!</div>
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Tremulous<br />Tantalizing<br />Making me fret<br />Caged within barred windows<br />Speaking words<br />When I should be wearing their colours</div>
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Velveteen.<br />Dotted with pollen<br />Never still<br />For the beauty<br />Still to savour!</div>
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Winging<br />Weaving<br />Kissing blossoms<br />Sipping fragrance</div>
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Sybaritic?</div>
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Yet.<br />That I could savour<br />Just this sight<br />Drink this enchantment<br />And find a song...</div>
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My caged soul<br />For now</div>
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Wears those butterfly wings. </div>
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29 September, 2014</div>
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This is Day 3, written for Ramblings in February :) What is that? Click on picture :) </div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-79151872837134889692014-11-04T22:36:00.000+05:302014-11-04T22:36:07.544+05:30For Hope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hopeless,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />He said.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />It's hopeless.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The determined lines of <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Reality etched on his face,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The furrows of an<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Unploughed fallow land.</div>
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Listing, ticking off on his fingers,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />He mentioned why.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She listened.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Smiled, when he pursed his lips</div>
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And disagreed.</div>
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The Class sat up.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Ah! Not begins the Circus-<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Interest suddenly puckered brows<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />And stretched lax lips into smirks.</div>
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She's going to get it!<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She's asking for it!<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />They thought in glee.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />(For there is nothing that<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Compared to comeuppance<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Delivered deftly, through a defiant, errant,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Articulate learner<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />To a nerdy teacher! :D )</div>
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Face off time.</div>
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He spoke; argued, intelligible<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Passionate, persistent.</div>
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She held up her hands.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Now, he smiled.</div>
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Not in surrender, she explained.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The smile became a grin<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Echoing hers and <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Forty six other grins!</div>
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Hopeless? She enquired.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />My two cents?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Not hopeless.</div>
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Confusion reigned.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The grins asked - can we vote?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />And a young voice piped up-<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Teacher, a debate?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />A thumbs-up, mentally, to that,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She asked for other voices.</div>
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A perfect brainstormed map<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Bloomed on the green board.</div>
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Gazing at faces, now not bored<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Till suddenly- a thought nudged-<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She had an ace up her sleeve-</div>
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For the pessimist- albeit realist.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She had a perfect salvo.</div>
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This.</div>
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(Please watch! -<a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINK!</a>) </div>
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Hopeless?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />She asked.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />And smiled as she left.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Looking rather smug :D :D</div>
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Sometimes, it's such fun <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />To take the wind out of another's sails :D</div>
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29 October, 2014<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />(6th period :P )</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-74240816716024057662014-10-28T19:19:00.000+05:302014-10-28T19:19:21.348+05:30Doodle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>This has got to be one of the silliest ever in terms of rhyme, so please bear with this rambler!</i></div>
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When words curdle<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />From their easy flow<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />It means your thoughts scramble<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />From feelings that strongly blow.</div>
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So letters detached<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />From words, once attached<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Create mayhem in meaning<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />(And) the rambler in confusion, wondering...</div>
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What went sour?</div>
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The words?</div>
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Or their meaning?</div>
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26 September, through to 1 October :D</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-54942223721552849502014-09-25T19:06:00.000+05:302014-09-25T19:06:11.986+05:30Words, to Read<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Words leap out<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />From pages<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />I have not read;</div>
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Seek me, reach out<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Softly settling on my skin.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Lost, I jump out of it-</div>
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When they touch.</div>
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Those are pages<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />I cannot read.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Anymore.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Why? Because they<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Read themselves out?</div>
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No, no. No, no.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />More, perhaps, because<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />I'm afraid<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Of what it might<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Take to read.</div>
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The undercurrents would<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Drag me, drown me.</div>
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I shall be lost. Lost.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />To Them.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />I am already lost<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />With Them;<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Just knowing they are there. </div>
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What it would do-<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Knowing Them<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Is the risk I cannot take.</div>
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27 August, 2014<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />One of those "Class" writes. :)</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-18493573426832506902014-09-24T17:01:00.000+05:302014-09-24T17:01:15.645+05:30Gridlines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Neat, clear, legible.</div>
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Shall I <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Contain my content<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Within them?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Content. <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Content?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Doubts punctuate<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The easy distribution<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Of the sky of notions<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Of clouds-<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Storm gatherers.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />The bubbling angst<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Of liquid molten emotion.</div>
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Do I lock my universe<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />In a grid?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Or go-</div>
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Right off it.</div>
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Drop by determined drop.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Blur the lines<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />With my own es-scents.</div>
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And let the storm<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Pour down<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Wear down<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Obliterate</div>
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That, which would <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Contain. </div>
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<em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">4 September 2014</em><br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" /><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">(You guessed right - words spiralling out of control, from silence of an exam hall :) )</em></div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-43707418850528221202014-09-23T07:41:00.002+05:302014-09-23T07:41:45.648+05:30A Poem, Buried<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It came to me<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />A poem.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Crept into my <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Sleep,<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Surfaced in the <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Sub-conscious</div>
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Tantalizingly<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Softly caressing<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />With a lover's touch.</div>
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I remember smiling<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Then shushing it.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />It faded.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />(Slept on, with me!)</div>
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Then why did I feel<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />A heaviness<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />A hurt<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Singeing, searing<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Under my eyelids<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />When I woke?</div>
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Why do my eyes<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Seek it?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Why do I feel <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />That crushing<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Sense of loss?</div>
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I buried a poem<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />In the soft loam<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Of lost words.</div>
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Weary words that dropped<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Overworked, but under-used<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Heavy with nuance<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Staggering, weighed with <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Too much meaning.</div>
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Lost thoughts, groping <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />For expression<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Mourn that poem.</div>
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Other poems come<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Squeeze like tears <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Through ink<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Asking to fill the void. </div>
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I give them space<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />And try to flatter myself.<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Attempt to smile<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />And live. </div>
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In vain. <br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />For, it now comes to me.</div>
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I am that poem<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />I lost. </div>
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22 September, 2014<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" /><i>Would you believe this crept through eyelids a few nights ago, and left; revisited during invigilation time, yesterday morning. Too nonsensical, surreal maybe. But a goosebumpy personal favourite for me, now.</i></div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-21149267543545565722014-09-20T13:46:00.000+05:302014-09-20T13:46:09.018+05:30Burn-ished<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The promise of life.</div>
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Burnishes, glows<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Grows<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />In you.</div>
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Ripe<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Autumn coloured<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Fullness flavoured<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Still<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Poised<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />All knowing.</div>
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Ready to dive<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Maybe float?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Or Simply glide<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Perhaps Soar?<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Leaping like a flame<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Rapture, into it!</div>
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Eventually settle<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Claw<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Into the Earth.</div>
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Merge<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Nourish<br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" />Nurture</div>
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The promise of Life. </div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">19 September, 2014</strong><br style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" /><em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">(Watching that leaf, poised, on the Badam Tree opposite my class, while invigilating for an exam. The photographs were taken afterwards, in the evening when the campus was empty :) )</em></div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-59690505155342911322014-06-29T21:29:00.000+05:302014-06-29T21:29:05.907+05:30The Ballad of the One Who Stayed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I watched "The Lunchbox" recently and was reminded of this write here, called<a data-mce-href="http://ushus.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/nit-pickers-ballad/" href="http://questforheaven.blogspot.in/2013/03/nit-pickers-ballad.html" target="_blank"> "The Nit Picker's Ballad"</a>, which I then shared on my Facebook Wall. That in turn brought me a couple of requests for a different ending... or the extrapolation of the narrative with a different ending. Here goes :)</div>
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On the shores, bereft, he stood<br />(Though it should be she<br />He having left at her honesty<br />At her gift of love)<br /><br />Gazing long at the loyal waves<br />That came back again and again<br />Asking him, beseeching sometimes<br />To find his peace.</div>
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He was young, they seemed to say<br />Love will come around,<br />Their quiet murmur consoled<br />The soft splash had nothing to do<br />Really, with the twin trails of tears<br />That found their way down his eyes.</div>
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Oh no! Not love. Not forever.<br />He knew they did not exist.<br />It was a lesson he was taught.</div>
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But.<br />A niggling doubt, a tiny seed sown<br />By her yearning eyes. Her silent plea.<br />By her unshed tears, and brave smile<br />As she watched him back away.<br />As she watched, and did not cling.<br />Did not pursue. </div>
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Was he wrong?<br />Must he unlearn?<br />He would try, he had to try<br />He knew.<br />Else there would be no way<br />To ease the agony of his heavy heart.<br /></div>
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Back he went, his footprints<br />Erased by each happy wave<br />That egged him on, to seek, to love<br />Then hold on, and never give up<br />Or give in, to the<br />Traitorous thoughts that reneged<br />On faint promises made to himself!</div>
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He followed, swift, the trail of wet prints<br />In the soft moist sand, landwards<br />Till he came upon her, seated<br />Knees drawn up, chin on knee<br />A faraway sadness enveloping...<br />In the shadows of her thoughts,<br />And the small fishing boat!</div>
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<em>May I sit?</em> hesitant, he asked.<br />Mute, she nodded.</div>
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<br /><em>May I simply hold your hand?</em><br />His voice trembled as he asked.</div>
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<i>I couldn't stand for you to then leave, </i>she said<br /><em>I won't, </em>a soft whisper from him, <em>if you'll let me stay.</em></div>
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<em>Let you stay? When did I ask you to leave?</em><em>You walked, away, away...</em><em>And will you, again? </em>she did not look at him<br />As her pain reached out and pierced his heart.</div>
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<em>I couldn't leave, I couldn't leave...<br />I went away, but couldn't leave, </em>Hoarsely he repeated over and over...</div>
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<br />There were loveless shores of such emptiness<br />He'd wandered, that he knew, unlearned,<br />And learned yet again...</div>
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Trust or not, Love or not,<br />Forever or not...<br />His survivor's heart needed her saviour's heart...</div>
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In his sails wafted promises of another day<br />Another moment, another soul<br />To love, to be loved.</div>
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How glad he was<br />He chose to stay!</div>
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If I could photograph</div>
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Each drop of rain, from when it fell</div>
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Parting painfully from the cloud</div>
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Of like minded thoughts in drops</div>
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Falling down, down, down</div>
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Barely seeing. </div>
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Just zinging down.</div>
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Kamikaze</div>
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Of a different sort. </div>
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If I could capture</div>
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The colours that drop caught,</div>
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In tandem with a million others...</div>
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Slip into the rainbow then,</div>
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And live those emotions.</div>
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If only, if only,</div>
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I could then save that drop.</div>
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From being spattered.</div>
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With my eyes, and through my lens</div>
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Keep it frozen, right there, </div>
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When it deflects, reflects,</div>
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Not genuflect to the scheming</div>
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Insanity of those who don't </div>
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Quite know, </div>
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The magic. </div>
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The absolute beauty.</div>
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Of how that drop came to be.</div>
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<em>Online, prowling the www, on FB, and seeing this picture on Jeevan Mohandas' profile :) :)</em></div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-38509711509199672122014-06-09T22:34:00.000+05:302014-06-09T22:34:04.490+05:30Of Words and Wishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My wishes are dragons<br />Breathing fire,<br />All consuming<br />Sometimes violent<br />Always intense!</div>
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My words, they lag<br />They linger<br />They've gorged on too much emotion-<br />They're dead-weights sinking in the<br />Mire<br />Of too much meaning.</div>
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Then they meet.<br />Those wishes, seeking words.</div>
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For all fire, for all the fire<br />And all their intensity<br />Nothing quite comes to be.<br />Dragons are too much of a myth<br />Too scorned. </div>
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My wishes.<br />How different would they be!</div>
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And so, seeking that sense<br />Of being real; of being tangible<br />The dragons meet the words.</div>
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And the predictable happens -<br />Violence in words, and<br />Emotionally handicapped dragons.<br />Words spewing fire. </div>
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I could have stopped it.<br />Them.<br />The meeting.</div>
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But perversity. Ah, the very thing.<br />How it haunts and pokes<br />And pushes. Me.</div>
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Right over the edge.</div>
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Till the trails of wispy smoke<br />Tell you, if at all you care-</div>
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The wishes met the words.<br />And consummated<br />The love that never was to be.</div>
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When you know you<br />Not matter that others don't<br />Or perhaps can't<br />And sometimes won't!</div>
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But<br />Do you know you?<br /></div>
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Do I know me?</div>
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<br />Existential questions aside<br />I find I always surprise-<br />Sometimes the daylights :P -<br />Right out of me :D</div>
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And then I find<br />I need to mould again<br />Moult too, at times<br />As monstrous as it seems</div>
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Exfoliate, perhaps, not just my skin<br />But my soul, and seek afresh<br />A cleaner, leaner self. </div>
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The quest, for me, I know<br />Shall go on...</div>
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The Holy Grail shall I find,<br />That too, is known :)<br />So, what of it?</div>
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That's quite the least of it. </div>
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What matters, is just this.</div>
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To know, and love,<br />Each new me. </div>
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<em>29 May, 2014</em><br /><em>As always, absurd, and online with it :P</em></div>
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I wear music<br />In notes you'll never<br />See.</div>
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Or notes<br />Perhaps, that you could have<br />Tasted.</div>
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And so <em>I</em> shall touch<br />That soaring pitch<br />And watch you fall</div>
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Fall once more<br />In love, listening<br />To the colours you<br />Think you've painted me in...</div>
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And all the while<br />I wear the music<br />That my fingers strum<br />On chords taut with pain. </div>
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<i>23 April, 2014<br />Online, when music moves and words blur;<br />All because of a song. Thanks to <a data-mce-href="http://thelostandtheblessed.blogspot.in/" href="http://thelostandtheblessed.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Dan Drake</a>, who who shared this song<br /></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psiILfa-G1c&feature=kp"><i>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psiILfa-G1c&feature=kp</i></a></div>
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<i>I know. It IS absurd. I've even tagged it so. </i></div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-25376846614647545462014-02-22T22:35:00.002+05:302014-02-22T22:35:30.050+05:30Tumultuous <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Those words-<br />They roam - restless spirits<br />While burgeoning,<br />Suffocating feelings<br />Try to pin them down.</div>
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The tumult, within,<br />Of these wandering, wayward<br />Wanton, vagabonds-</div>
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They will not let me be. </div>
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I shift.<br />Stretch.<br />Bend. Struggle.</div>
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And my heart fills.<br />Chest constricts.</div>
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Then,<br />The lull. </div>
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The eye of this hurricane<br />It is too still. </div>
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My dearest<br />You'd better stick around<br />To pick up the pieces.</div>
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Soon.</div>
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22 February, 2014</div>
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When papers chain one down, the only thing to do is go bonkers, with writes like these :D</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-27020448318258416592014-02-14T00:47:00.000+05:302014-02-14T00:47:37.390+05:30Once Upon a Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It wasn't to be<br />The storyteller had it all wrong.<br />It wasn't thataway.<br />The words weren't right, for that song.</div>
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Music, in soft violins and harps<br />Played in enchantment.<br />Perhaps, perchance, their tale<br />Would find denouement. </div>
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Till then, when stories lullabied<br />In hope of creeping into dreams,<br />They meandered, in that very hope<br />And played on, in plotted schemes.</div>
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Would they be, what they were meant<br />Where, they were meant, in <em>that</em> tale?<br />Of a happily-ever-after? Did they really want to?<br />And into the sunset, afterward, sail?</div>
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Did they just! </div>
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And that was just another one to add to the list<br />Ever growing each year, in words, in hearts, here<br />While this rambler, scores yet another number<br />Singing, or trying to, of Love, pretending to be a seer!</div>
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Let love shine on.<br />Let love love you.<br />Let there be just that one, too.<br />Look! Turn around! There!</div>
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Love will find you :)</div>
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14 February, 2014</div>
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A gift, this day to all who love :)</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-8914871671994835282013-11-24T22:52:00.000+05:302013-11-24T22:52:27.526+05:30Approbate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You give, and I take.<br />An even deal or not-<br />That's how it's always been.</div>
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Till when I knew<br />That only taking<br />Meant I was losing. </div>
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And giving, well,<br />As strange as it seemed<br />Made you richer...</div>
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The homily wasn't lost on me.</div>
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And happily enough,<br />We still have time<br />To approbate a new deal.</div>
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24 November, 2013</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-52256701249625910882013-10-18T07:37:00.002+05:302013-10-18T07:37:33.115+05:30Release<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dry, flaky, thin and long</div>
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So unassuming -</div>
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Quietly, it lay.</div>
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Knowing, with baffling certainty</div>
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Someday, one day</div>
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It would be chosen.</div>
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Today. It was.</div>
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Allowed to finally free itself</div>
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It long and drab form</div>
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Transferring, transforming</div>
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Fragrant in release.</div>
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Filling, fulfilling, its destiny.</div>
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It burns. Gladly.</div>
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You know that.</div>
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Because you sense it. </div>
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That joy.</div>
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In the fragrance of its soul,</div>
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That quietly permeates, often,</div>
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Into your own. </div>
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Undated (about a year ago, in 2012; discovered while hunting for something else, entirely :D )</div>
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<em>Picture: Google Image search for 'incense'</em> :)</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-4141457844109338132013-09-28T19:37:00.000+05:302013-09-28T19:37:56.992+05:30Waxing (Poetic?)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On your full moon night:</div>
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I marvel at how</div>
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You entrance<br />
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Blemishless, distant,</div>
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I think.</div>
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Yet, I know, fact says different.</div>
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I'd rather be poetic-</div>
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For nothing else can I be</div>
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When you adorn in </div>
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Simple gold.</div>
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Tonight, I shall enslave</div>
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Myself, in you. </div>
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You make me think in clichés </div>
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In much-used, oft forgotten similes</div>
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All revived, when you finally come</div>
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Into your own</div>
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Every twenty-eight days</div>
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That's an interesting number</div>
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Woman-wise.</div>
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Veiled in references of a vulnerability-</div>
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Veiled in- and from.</div>
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Beauty that must be hidden;</div>
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Smothered.</div>
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But can never be held back,</div>
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So you tell me</div>
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As you climb, in your</div>
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Slow orbit.</div>
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Only, today we are in orbit-</div>
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Awed by your magnificence.</div>
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And so, you out-climb</div>
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Out-shine those grey wisps</div>
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That would confine.</div>
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For how do they know-</div>
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From you, off you, shines</div>
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<i>That</i> brightness - which,</div>
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No matter how they try-</div>
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They never shall steal.</div>
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Not tonight.</div>
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And, as brighter yet</div>
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You pour your light-</div>
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Lighter yet, my heart is...</div>
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Pushing aside </div>
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Clinging cobwebs</div>
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Of an oppressed, submissive me.</div>
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Shine on, dear heart-</div>
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And so shall I.</div>
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This night. </div>
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19 September, 2013</div>
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When the full moon shone, on 19th Sept, 2013, dispelling those grey grey clouds; and I could not help but wax eloquent :)</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-19875457562965401612013-08-30T00:00:00.000+05:302013-08-30T00:00:00.612+05:30The Queen of His Heart...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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... and a princess in mine, no less<br />That is my younger DIL<br />(love the way it reads too, in Hindi,<br />That's Neeti, for you!</div>
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Lovely, lissome, with a sense of humour,<br />Wit that cracks me up whenever, wherever it cracks :D<br />A generosity of the heart;<br />Empathy, deep and sincere!</div>
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These are her gifts<br />Ones she shares unconditionally!</div>
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She is undoubtedly, the only<br />One<br />Who can tame the <a data-mce-href="http://ushus.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/truly-madly-deeply/" href="http://ushus.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/truly-madly-deeply/" style="color: #3c2bb6;" target="_blank">Lion</a><br />With just a word, a hush<br />A look!</div>
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When all the Mother Lioness can do<br />Is flail, roar as loud as he<br />Not to mention, sulk - Lion-size<br />Just as he!</div>
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But she? Oh no!<br />All she needs is say<br />Why, A---, Why!</div>
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The clouds lift<br />The frown fades<br />The smiles return<br />The Queen, she has quite</div>
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Charmed the beast.</div>
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Absolutely no quarrel on that!</div>
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My dearest gurl<br />The day you found him<br />And so us, is when, truly<br />We've managed to get a lid<br />On the tetchy and till-then confounding<br />Situation that arises<br />When two Leos refuse to back down</div>
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Ah, yes, both those aforesaid Leos<br />Love 'Never Back down'<br />And so they don't!</div>
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You know, of course, <em>exactly</em> what happens<br />When that happens!</div>
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<br />No more, Thank God!</div>
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No more!</div>
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From the movies to the songs<br />We've shared and enjoyed<br />Slices of dialogues we gorged on-<br />"I'm a gooo gurl I am..."<br />And the epicness of RDJ...</div>
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Wooohoooo, gurl!<br />Is what you make me say!</div>
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There's an uncanny sense of<br />Sweet sorority, not really maternity<br />I feel, you know?</div>
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You know.</div>
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(Now, your Lion's going to have to figure that one out)</div>
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There are soulmates, in our friends<br />In the everydayness of familiarity<br />In the anticipations we hold<br />With those we love...</div>
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Though, especially,<br />When they aren't family!</div>
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It's never been that way, with you<br />You're an alter ego;<br />Someone who's so me, sometimes<br />That it's a joy<br />A reaffirmation, if you wish<br />Of my belief<br />There does exist, an alter-ego</div>
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And, Lo!</div>
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She can be family too!</div>
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Though, perhaps, too much, there is, then, of us?<br />Let me hoot a bit here<br />(<i>I know you're joining me, as you read)</i></div>
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My dearest Neetikutty<br />Let me this day wish you</div>
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Pretty promises that come true</div>
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Dreams fulfilling, Monsters running!</div>
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Loads of love to envelop you<br />Linked arms and hearts to catch you<br />Each time you think<br />The bottom's going to fall out!</div>
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May you be strong, and healthy<br />May the joys abound<br />May the goodness of faith protect you<br />And</div>
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May you always find love.</div>
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Always, but always... and then some more.</div>
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We love you, dear one!</div>
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Happy Birthday!</div>
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(26 August, 2013, through 27 August, 2013)<br />For <strong>30 August, 2013 :)</strong></div>
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So you tell me.</div>
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Constant thoughts of flight<br />Will always gnaw at roots.</div>
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I shall always wonder, you know,<br />Why you deem it necessary<br />That I'd need instruction<br />To function. </div>
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I've always, but always<br />Been <em>that</em> fully capable, you see<br />On my own steam</div>
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To stumble<br />To fall<br />To then rise.</div>
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No, I am not phenomenal.</div>
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Sense. </div>
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For myself. </div>
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That <em>is</em> all I need to do. </div>
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(Forgive me if I don't thank you. )</div>
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<em>Written for the prompt,<strong> 'Age'</strong>, (<a data-mce-href="http://haiku-heights.blogspot.in/2013/08/haiku-heights-271-age.html" href="http://haiku-heights.blogspot.in/2013/08/haiku-heights-271-age.html" style="color: #3c2bb6;" target="_blank">link</a>) at the recently discovered blog, <strong>Haiku Heights</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://haiku-heights.blogspot.in/" href="http://haiku-heights.blogspot.in/" style="color: #3c2bb6;" target="_blank">(link)</a></em></div>
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The blog tells you about Haiku writing, and several samples are there for sheer enjoyment, and for practise as well! More on Haiku writing, given on this blog, here. <a data-mce-href="http://ushus.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/a-shower-of-haiku/" href="http://ushus.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/a-shower-of-haiku/" style="color: #3c2bb6;" target="_blank">(link</a>)</div>
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Falling in love with Haiku writing, all over again :)</div>
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Tried my hand at Haiku, a favourite form of verse yet again. This time to test something a fellow blogger and awesome poet/writer Aareet had developed, as a sort of Haiku-syllable-counting software.</div>
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This:<br /><a data-mce-href="http://hajku.herokuapp.com" href="http://hajku.herokuapp.com/" style="color: #3c2bb6;" target="_blank">Http://hajku.herokuapp.com</a></div>
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You'll enjoy trying your hand at creating one!</div>
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The mute appeal of her cry<br />Would never reach his ear<br />Would he perhaps, yet, open that eye?<br />He may, perchance, happen upon<br />His own tragedy, in her cry.</div>
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She stood that distance away<br />Measuring the miles of silence<br />That grew each day;<br />Wishing with all her heart<br />They could traverse its<br />Deceitful, beckoning charm.<br />Silence, that evoked<br />A hundred different tunes<br />Of losing, of hoping,<br />Of being bewitched<br />So true, that she almost gasped. </div>
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Did he hear that?<br />Was he listening?<br />She hoped, she so hoped<br />With all her heart<br />He wasn't. </div>
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That silence was her sentinel.</div>
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Nothing, ever, should lay<br />Open, her vulnerable heart. </div>
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Her eyes drew back their touch.<br />And her voice no longer<br />Coloured the trails, the wisps<br />Of their togetherness. </div>
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She walked, alone, proud. </div>
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She became her silence.<br />She became that sentinel. </div>
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7 August, 2013</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-41898044025911436192013-07-14T11:19:00.003+05:302013-07-14T11:24:33.665+05:30Drop by Drop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drop by unrelenting drop</div>
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You're drenched - woe or Wow!</div>
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14 July, 2013</div>
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Written for <a data-mce-href="http://writetribe.com/haiku/" href="http://writetribe.com/haiku/" target="_blank">Write Tribe, Haiku</a></div>
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Thank you for the opportunity, to go back to re-visiting a wonderful form of lyric poetry :)</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-8178708398284771542013-07-13T20:07:00.000+05:302013-07-13T20:07:19.086+05:30Togetherness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Togetherness was never an option.<br />It was the only choice;<br />One we never had.<br />The skittering glances<br />And on-the-edge anticipation<br />That rued the days</div>
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Together, we are.</div>
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But, not with each other.</div>
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13 July, 2013<br />Pic Courtesy Google Image Search</div>
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Usha Pisharodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08569968324374522544noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3648921142184155388.post-62776009553337469182013-07-10T22:15:00.000+05:302013-07-10T22:26:36.086+05:30Stewed :D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Will you not give me of your time?<br />
A moment, that is all I seek.</div>
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Oh! I am, as you can see, tied up.<br />
And bowed though not quite cowed, said she.</div>
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I do, I see, said he. But a moment, please?<br />
It would, it would certainly set me at ease.</div>
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Seeing that as you are the one, the only<br />
Who can best decide, how it shall be ...</div>
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I really need to know, I do<br />
If it's fine, with you, that I use two</div>
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Eggs in the recipe you showed me yesterday<br />
Or would you really have it the eggless way</div>
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The way you told me, given your propensity<br />
For the heath food crazy stuff, that too with tenaciy</div>
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When I've told you, endlessly, I love you,<br />
Only because, you, you're just beautiful as YOU.</div>
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Well, said she, now that you put it so lovingly<br />
I guess those eggs'll do just fine,</div>
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And anything else you'd like to add as well<br />
So long as you're the one in charge</div>
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Of Kitchen Duties, now, and all the times ever :D</div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">1 July to 10th July :)</span><em>It took a while to stew this one. The flavour hasn't quite got itself write, as you can see :P</em><br />
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