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KV Srikanth Aug 2022
Five films filmed
Fans fantasies fulfilled
Fear filled feelings
Fraught foisted firmly
Fist Fury fighting
Firm focused following
Forgetting faking fanfaronade
Feature film flashing
Fretting fuming fallacy
Fundamental facts faced
Flawless faultless fable
Feeble fluctuations freezed
Feeling free forever
Film forwarded facts
Flowing  forward fluidly
KV Srikanth Jun 2022
Tobacco  crafted together
Rolled up in a white piece of paper
One end dangling between the lips
Other end waiting to get lit

Nicotine rich leaves
Dried up and fermented
For smoking or chewing
Packaged for marketing

Burning the tobacco
Ingesting the smoke
Ciggerate as a tool
Fool or Cool upto you

Perceived as a pleasure
Suffering from peer pressure
Looking fleek  a measure
Addictions founder member


Risk and rebel
Not concerned about Survival
Dismissive of approval
Most factors mental

Trying to monitor
Through force or power
Always does backfire
Appears to empower

Quitting a process
Hard to digest
Body craves as time lapses
Target dates set in process

Makes time go faster
Is a friend to a loner
Finds company in the smoker
They compliment each other

Seen as a misfit
Or the ultimate fit
Approved disapproved habit
Every era gives it a certificate of merit

Movie star letting out smoke
Triggers the wanting in you
Imitation best form of flattery
The hero achieves it rather easily

Rolling it in his mouth
Sending smoke  rings out
Talking with the ciggerate dangling
Lighting it is almost heaven

Be there do that
Doesn't make you him
Realising it is too late
Lips holding the stick a preface

The first is the toughest
Next comes the secrecy
Not for too long
Agony  loses out to fantasy

Vapours on the twin tracks
Guilt and pleasure
Parralal to each other
Guilt replaced by fear
Pleasure by torture


Light it and inhale it
Exhale it and smoke it
Forget about it
Till the next time you light it

Easy come never goes
Words like willpower deeply sowed
Growth replaced by fire
Six feet under

Easiest way out
Make a joke
Destiny the locker for moral bankruptcy
Imagination starts flowing freely



Smoking and dying
Are  forgivable in a sense
You know you're the pits
When everyone around you have quit

Dying a better option
An example for future generations
The biggest sucker of the lot Nicotine finds you its easiest mark

When the marketing slogan
Warns you of death
Speaks for the product
Still beats their sales target

Laughable not that irony
Willpower to stay of the grave
Use it for better purposes
Than to negate a  negative effect

Many Bestsellers written
How not to be the Marlboro man
Be the Marlboro man
Marlboro immortal not the man

No one is immortal
Tells us our brain
I'll quit at the right time
Shows everything wrong with time

The dreaded condition
I won't be the victim
Every smokers slogan
Decade long battle like the Trojans

Married to it
Withdrawal the Alimony
Too much to pay rather stay married
Don't worry not too long your stay

Born smoked died
Could never put it away
All that needed was an Ashtray
Go ahead make your day
KV Srikanth Jun 2022
The personality traits
Character determines fate
Considered to be not in one's control
An adverse result delivered is fate ' s protocol

Fate can punch a hole
Make one go backwards
Can even determine life's end
Or when not to end

In a battle of wits
Fate versus the Will
Fate always wins
Knows the result gives it the advantage

Fate finds its match
In a honest man
Fate cannot fight truth
Even if fate"s reasons are also true.

Honesty defines character
Being brutally so what ever the matter
Destiny cannot weave it's magic wand
The honest mans honesty already has

A life of ruthless honesty
Weakness the power of destiny
Destiny a brought forward balance sheet
Now needs an additional colomn to fill

Tomorrow s reality depends
On today s honesty
Lacking in it
Your fate writen in it

Outcome not even in thought
Answer when asked
No interpretation required
Yours is the final word

Fears that breed
On the dishonesty
Stop feeding it
Watch it die immediately


An illusion created
Truth will lead to problems
The illusion is the problem.
Truth can never be an illusion
KV Srikanth Jun 2022
The race to succeed
Mortals classified as horses
Winning chances defined
Odds spelt out with favorites

To best the best
In what one does
Is to be the best
One can be at

To be the best
Better than the rest
Everything is a test
Top of the heap a quest

Education Sports Occupation
Out there in the open
Competitive world no doubt
Seats reserved for the distinguished few

What if the best
Is not enough to get selected
The next best option
Not a bad option to select

In the pursuit of winning
Living life takes a beating
Engaged in the sole activity
Experience gets limited naturally

Life lacks the color
That is associated with every endeavour
Restricted to black and white
Even Grays are missing in the order

Life is to live
Life is to experienced
Life is to express
Life is to learn

Life is not a conquest
Life is not a rat race
Life is not a scoreboard
Life is not a reportcard

A healthy life
Is to lead it well
Do what is to be done
Results happen automatically

Not to win
Not to loose
Not to prove
Not to justify

Content life nothing to pride
Nothing to be ashamed
Not a bother to other
Anything else don't matter

Another humans little finger
Cannot sweat because of ones behaviour
Do what you want
In your time place and savings

Complicating the simple
Lay it threadbare
The lesser things bother you
The more the people around you

Live it
Don't chase it
Don't ruffle it
It will ruffle back

Respect it
Thankful to it
Grateful to it
One day seperated from it
KV Srikanth Jun 2022
Finding a woman attractive
Anything to get her companionship
Going all the way during courtship
Life's only prerogative

Heart longs for her
Start a family with her
Kids included in the planning
Dreaming and dwelling on attaining

Basic lesson forgotten
Mind games performing its function
The real attraction remains
As long as she remains a tough bargain

Attractive to the eyes
Only till she comes beside
Beautiful inside and outside
Only till she is found bedside

This is the truth
Great Poets have written about this
Figure it out with experience
Come to the same conclusion
KV Srikanth Jun 2022
Born not knowing life
Grow up learning
Childhood filled with memories
Teenage was spent confused
Graduated to keep up
With the rat race
Sometimes as wished sometimes followed the wish
Middle age spent with frustration
What never happened seemed most precious
Life teaches many lessons
Attentiveness is the challenge
Observed the rest
Indicates where you stood
50s reached a stage of acceptance
What is is
Nothing can be done about it
Questions about what's left
R coming up
Ignoring them in purpose
Knowing well that the answer is not available even as a choice
Heading towards the 6th decade
Lived life till now
Experienced and more memories in store
Incidents and people
Played a very big role
The path chosen
Or the path chose you
No way to find out
Regret life no point in that exercise
Celebrate life gives validity to living
Lifespan determined not a breath more
Awaiting the last breath
Going to die
Not knowing life
KV Srikanth May 2022
Those who don't know
That they are walking in the darkness
Will never seek the light
Said the immortal Bruce Lee
As a part of his Jeet Kune Do philosophy
Which he created as a hybrid from many
All knowledge leads to self knowledge
All the obstacles that confront us outside
Answers the real seeker seeks inside
Simplicity is the key to brilliance
The shortest distance between two points us a straight line
Freedom from conditioning
Brought about by flexibility
In order to face a hurricane
Be like the Bamboo that gives way
Only to come back to its position
Rather than an old tree that's rigid but gets uprooted
Be ready not tensed
Not thinking yet not dreaming yet
Ready for whatever might come
The middle path chosen
Be in harmony with the world
Nothing apart from us in our control
Use the path of least resistance
Give you a lot of confidence
Life is changing process
Following a fixed pattern when life is not the same
Will not help find answers to the game
Be yourself express yourself
Do not project an image of yourself
Honest expression is a path to self realisation
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