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K Balachandran May 2013
Darter bird, lithe charmer, hidden neck deep in water,
you took charge of my heart, in a quick connubial move,
your silver streaked wings, waterproof, are ready to dive deeper,
am I to swim, fly or dive to be with you always?
Darters, foot propelled divers,  are tropical water birds
867 · Dec 2012
The moment of awakening
K Balachandran Dec 2012
A  drowning man, starts to swim,
by the frantic prompt of a defining moment;
may reach the shore, or sink without a trace,
that moment brings the  liberation of spirit.

In such moments one finds ,
poetry knocking at the mind's door,
recognizes the oracular power
emotionally charged words attain;
listen to the revelatons
forget or cherish it for ever
what  does it matter,
the oracle has embraced the light,
relieved from the burden,
had elation beyond words.
Revised
K Balachandran Dec 2011
night keeps
her dress,
in crow's nest,
till she returns.
866 · Nov 2011
A tale of two liquids
K Balachandran Nov 2011
gasoline would have
substitute,
water will be
the new gold.
Would  human beings  still be drinking water, in future? If yes, would they be  be in a position to drink
something as precious as gold?
866 · Nov 2014
On asking questions
K Balachandran Nov 2014
"Never heard her speak
aloud  like this"
her father said.
"Don't expect any answers"
ten pairs of eyes
looking daggers at her
in her college
implied.
teachers only award grades
never allow themselves
to be graded.
Ÿou are a breeze--yes, my girl
but keep your mouth shut.
and get appreciated that way
you remain nice, we'll patronize,
it's plain and simple, this works everywhere.
Bit by bit they were  teaching her
the way this world functions
"Don't expect an answer "
he said in a voice, ruder than that
she has never heard--what a change!
she watched with bated breath
him walking away briskly
flowers never came again.
all of them stood around her
with inscrutable expressions
on their faces.Strange
she thought, this can't happen
time doesn't converge like this
in a bleak white cell
is it here all *******
wish for a happy communion
with a frail hapless girl
without even taking in to
consideration, she is sick?
sick, sick, sick, like hell
to the core...
Ẅe are the world"
K Balachandran Aug 2013
The past goes back, past me
in every fleeting moment
of the present.
However fast
I pounce up on it,
and try to stop,
the past effortlessly
slips away and vanish*!
K Balachandran Mar 2014
A giant egg of possibilities,
we see from inside, its embrio
yolk and white, like galaxies
this rainbow colored  cosmos,
lay submerged within
the timelss -spaceless state,
unimagianably limitless,
indescribable, incomparable
unfathomable and  know not
what or what not,
inspite all continueing probes.

A matrix of 'multiverse' exist
ignorant of one another
within the cosmic egg.
Inside the egg's one puny little cell
you and I fill an infinitesimal space
why try to break the tender shell
and **** the millions of organisms?

Love can heal, make the shell endure
and expand the possibilities, more and more
till the dice from a mighty invisible hand
falls over the egg , one fateful day
and the play comes to a grinding halt.
may be with a whimper not with a bang.
K Balachandran Dec 2012
Every time she rocked the boat,
              he was firm like a rock,
                       then, what left to do was
                                        gently rocking  her to sleep.
K Balachandran Feb 2017
War of the words from the very word "GO"
was the warming up exercise for more malice,
makes the galleries erupt in rage, cry for more
But the folks that adore  peace is outraged
every jab finds it's mark, squarely on the jaw
making profuse bleeding another spectacle
we reinvent this business  as a blood sport!

Even a  dog eat dog madness grips the arena quick
each vicious animal bares it's fangs, for long in disuse,
get ready to be paid in return,in what you gave first
Raise the war cry aloud,  boys the game is on,
no going back any more, it's fight to ****

Every bit of the act is blown out of proportion,
by the heartless lot of blue eyed boys with lenses.
It pays to narrate  stroke by stroke,pouring oil
into the roaring fire, let it rage the longest period,

Merely the tip of an ice berg, all this you've now  seen
hidden with in the barbed diatribes is lethal  power,
things they hope would get heated too soon,
and would become a full blown "COLD WAR"

It's the post truth world of puzzles and games,
every such story ends in  a tragic twist at the end.
for us it'snot,we need a twist to make us smile.
865 · Nov 2012
In Praise Of Your Fingers
K Balachandran Nov 2012
Your long, loving  fingers, live lives varied, than I can imagine
even after you left, their presence lingers,
*as a mother in moments of sadness, soothing ever,
impassioned lover at exhilarating peaks.
865 · Jun 2013
The hedge hoppers
K Balachandran Jun 2013
A stir in the air,
parakeet helicopters,
silence reigns again.
Over the fields of  ripened rice they fly low, maraud
and vanish quickly beyond the dense green  hills.
K Balachandran Nov 2012
Pitch dark night, rock still above woods,
is chiseled by a million fireflies,
in unison with their
mute, synchronised lights.
863 · Aug 2015
Towards the sunset peak
K Balachandran Aug 2015
Long wintry nights I endured, in my eyes lie frozen,
like an orphaned dog I roamed, how many many, lives?
Sniffing at every thing, looking for love immortal,
at times tied down by the unrelenting chain of pain.


A spring in my heart remains still, that spoke unfazed,
of the flowers of the valley, blue mountains and chirpy birds,
that fly crossing limits to sunny lands away and far,
where dreams in many colors flower in mirthful hearts,


Love was an oasis at the far end of the desert,I reached at last after
meandering through desert tracks  lined on both sides with cactus
but the oasis I found was long deserted,the spring fully dried,
it turned out to be a mirage, created to trap me forever.


My soul was still a land of light where a wise bird kept on singing,
cheering  me to move on,  to reach the last and highest peak,
the wise speak about in meditative silence  day and night.
it was in sight, beyond the mind, mount Kailash of my dreams,


In the icy lake waters I dipped thrice, and took three circles around,
the morning mist cleared, like burnished gold the mount  gleamed,
my climb I started, those golden steps to fulfillment.
863 · May 2013
A relay race to eternity
K Balachandran May 2013
A reminder of my father,
am I, they remind often.
No need to repeat,
what my every cell is aware.
K Balachandran Dec 2015
The wound
though old
and hence
looked closed,

the pain
it caused
was quite
obtrusive,
even after
all those
years, were
somehow
left behind,
oblivious of
the misery
it created.

Couldn't leave
it like that,
insistent pain
made to decide at last,
when it was
opened again
memories
sprayed out
copiously, like
dark, coagulated blood,
never before seen.
Then, fresh blood
started to ooze
as if reluctant
to close the wound,
unable to forget
emotions that are
made to sleep
anesthetized.
862 · Nov 2013
Fused
K Balachandran Nov 2013
Touched by your fiery lips
my lips gently turned red,
streaming blood
sang to your heart,
your speaking fingers
on my chest, neck
and shoulder blades
are garrulous.
it's a fire dance
of two molten stars
blurring time limits
making our skin ablaze
like the sun's morning flames.
Your eyes transmit love,
transcendence pure happens:
an urge to fuse and become one.
our hearts that sing has turned gold,
two golden birds at flight
as one, shoot up in to the sky
to explore limits.
I am a haze, you too,
body mind and spirit
aren't different, we are
not two or limited,
this moment ablaze sits
on the lap of eternity.
861 · Apr 2012
Preparing for Cupid's test
K Balachandran Apr 2012
Her eyes kindled the fire,
touch raised the temperature,
kiss whetted the appetite,
got us equipped for Cupid's test.
K Balachandran Oct 2013
Her wink had
four thousand
different meanings.
But the 'interpreter
of winks' picked one
altogether different;
that  changed everything,
the course of history even.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
my genomic study report
reads like a recipe,
says my genes are from all continents;
i am a man composite.
K Balachandran Apr 2014
None would imagine,
a benign imp,
blithe, light footed
triggers a surge
of aesthetic spasms
******* of the brain,
moves incognito
on this high podium
beside your chair
when you
read your poem
just like when you're
in a creative reverie

Every time it's a mystery
how she sets music
within every word
how then a rhythm
in progression
is unleashed
flowing in to your
poetic musings
to create an image concrete,
correlating to the wave
beating in your brain

Heart, soul and spirit
merge in to one
poetic words to mark
what your being gathered
from spring flower fields
and scorched earth alike

all the poet  gathered
at the receiving end
of the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune,
is set in tune,
all of you gathered here
for the poetry session
walking through the labyrinths
inebriated by poetic wine,
munch yourself bit by bit
in the cadence of poetic beats,
as past, present and dreams
in many small instalments
pour in from the beginning.

What the poet offers
takes, each one listener
to a world different,
one begets many
images proliferate.
They will relish all this
and be born again
within themselves
later on, leisurely with light
peeping out of their eyes,
an alchemy none can explain
A poem,  creates an effect different in every reader
each image creates a correlative different in each person
which is the imp that creates the kaleidoscopic effect
within each reader?How each one gets impacted differently?
K Balachandran Jan 2012
there is a sword in our blood
in love's arsenal, that we know a little
prompted by passion we take it out;
you bit me hard, on my plump lower lip,
leaving a tooth mark deep, a burning reminder
of your sword work of love, aggressive.
there is the taste of fresh blood in my mouth
" that's the mark of my insane love"
delirious with pleasure, you breathlessly tell,
when you kissed me at the landing by the elevator.
" a woman sheds a lot of blood month after month
this is a small price to extract, just a token"

ecstatic in searing pleasure, I admit.
K Balachandran Mar 2015
An unknown artist's heart speaks on this subway wall
my mind drifts to the scene of creation, possibly this:
in amazement I look at that cat,at my face she looks up
and understands, this feline inaugurates the incidental show
of spontaneous art, at this street, just waking up shedding sleep
a ball collaborates with her,bouncing around with such verve,
spreading cheer,wholeheartedly, so strange for an object like it
which is not something even intended by anyone
                                                          ­                 Art has a right to happen,
like this, the morning sun, by nature, provides support,
from a long, long distance, the effect electrifies the scene
the cat, looking up by the magic of the moment,sees rays of sun
filtering through the foliage,can she imagine the distance
sun rays travel, to play with her, with such grace?

A lonely man, captures the scene,as a graffiti, within engraved,
one can imagine from the way he looks pleased,
don't you miss the mixed up pigments on his fingers,
unmistakable glee divine of an underground artist
decidedly flashes across his face, not for him,
but to express the pain  unmitigated, all through his life
he'll pack his things,stuff in a small bag and leave this place.
A moment of exhilaration for many, when they see
his essence, spread across the subway train, in colors of protest,
rooted in his mourning art,experience of the hour created,

yes there are consequences for the art,the cat, the illuminating sun,
the onlookers around, including me,are not to be concerned,
only he and his brothers in art, taking part in this attack
for him, this moment of enlightenment,is reward enough
for all the adventures, he had undertaken till now.
K Balachandran Oct 2017
a mystery is-
bound between one's birth and death;
yen to transcend it!
856 · Oct 2014
Oh!Divine Mother
K Balachandran Oct 2014
Within the blue expanses of your left eye
I see colossal expanding galaxies
white dwarfs, black holes and exploding super novae
vie with one another in the other eye,
expansion and contraction are created by your winks
to complete the picture of a universe without an end
oh! mother of everything, this wayward son is
only a spec, he dreams your vision, conjuring up immortality,
he traverses through labyrinths non existent
in the outer space, in his fragile space craft to reach
the galaxy in the shape of your heart,
this is all I can hope in my interstellar voyage
now undertaken, with my heart drumming
as the back ground score.
K Balachandran Oct 2012
I took an inward look, through the eyes of Gandhi,
wondering what he would have thought, if he ever knew me,
*am I simple enough to be, what I wanted to be?
---a worthy successor of his glorious legacy?
Gandhi's Talisman:Before taking every important decision, remember the face of the poorest of the poor and think how the decision will affect them.Thus speak Gandhi:"There is enough for every one's need in this world, but not enough for everyone's greed".Did I listen those words of wisdom, and became a better citizen of the world?
855 · Nov 2013
Look good, smile
K Balachandran Nov 2013
A quiet and cozy nook it is, he sits at ease,
but can't relax, peace of mind, a flitting bird;
sixth sense incessantly whispers: be on your guard
cameras hidden somewhere record every move.
In the post modern scenario, you are watched by cameras from every side
resulting in our safety of course..say cheese
K Balachandran Dec 2011
Perfect kissable lips,
I hope-
the rest is all right.
855 · Sep 2015
Tit for tat
K Balachandran Sep 2015
God has eaten my luscious mango
showing up in the disguise of a squirrel,
no  expression of remorse either,
just vanished without a trace,
did not return ever after.
                                       God, please do not bother,
                                        usually you are a do-gooder
                                        I too am, let's have a pact,
                                       for a while I'd have the moon, instead.
K Balachandran Apr 2014
Was lovingly stolen, branded as a belonging,
pried open for the jewel, love hidden inside,
made to dance to a haunting tune whistled
that melted the inner being, All done by you
I just connived with my captor though.But now,
woken from the dream, I find there aren't two,

Love made us complete, with all its hues
Lover of my soul, whatever you do to me melts me and makes me yours
854 · Sep 2016
Jealousy
K Balachandran Sep 2016
On her warm lap the cat sits
smugly without any fuss,
yet she could sense it's little secret
well concealed,  just to please her;
the expression of happiness
on it's face is a mere make -believe.
It's fluorescent eyes involuntarily dart
to the cozy corner that beacons it.
To the moonlit end of the courtyard
where her husband sits lost to the world.

She feels cheated yet again.
854 · Dec 2016
Let the currents decide..
K Balachandran Dec 2016
It was too late
to realize this:
all along her boat
was circling
the island of
expectations.
She cuts the knot
at one stroke
and feels free
from the albatross
around her neck
at long last;
her boat like a
unbound horse
gallops into unknown
currents, in love with
deeper sea secrets...
K Balachandran Jan 2012
the last queen  on this throne
suffered a thorny silence;
she had a nagging doubt,
whether she deserved it.
K Balachandran Dec 2014
This

innocuous, looking,ancient brown
papyrus scroll contains, on every inch of it
wisdom invaluable, rare to find
(we guess)


But
we are relieved of a misery as none has
been ever successful in reading the script
not a bit , even once, hence staling won't help anyone.


So

there is no security risk in keeping it open
in full view of  all, in case someone ingeniously cracks it
we too can rejoice for this miracle, otherwise let us
sit like this, hoping for this winter gloom to somehow end.


All*
we look for is for some  cheer, even someone
with ulterior intentions is fine  , let any one show up
for once, breaking it open letting know what is in there
so precious, is it all we need to rejoice, theory of everything


*
any one?
853 · Jan 2012
Mona Lisa, be on gaurd,
K Balachandran Jan 2012
whimsy hides in her eyes,
mysterious smile prowls on her  lips,
her expression, ethereal!
Mona Lisa has mighty competition, here.
853 · May 2014
The victim
K Balachandran May 2014
Slithering dark road,
the floodgates of
venomous traffic
opens in to it;
honking of horns,
siege, uncontrollable road rage,
poison affects mind and body alike,
brings him to his knees
at the day's end,

                       He gulps
glasses and glasses
of his favorite poison
and jumps
                   in
                         to
                             the
                                   deep
                                          dark
                                              hole
             ­                                     of
                         ­                            numb
                                                               s   l     e    e    p.
852 · Dec 2014
From Your Eyes, It Begins
K Balachandran Dec 2014
A loquacious beam from your eyes,
Vibrant sparks from my thoughts let out,
Two hearts  in sweet entanglement,
Create the most ethereal moments.

My itinerant eyes are buzzing bees
Circling your protruding buds so shy
Let the ensuing tunes now lead
Our swelling lips to a kiss interminable.
852 · Jun 2018
Monsoon phantasy
K Balachandran Jun 2018
On the sky, cloud’s write,
The west wind reads it aloud:
‘Monsoon phantasy’!
K Balachandran Dec 2011
dragon flies
bombard,
pollen on frogs,
sitting on lily leaves.
K Balachandran Jun 2013
So many left, the shaded paths in this  kind wood,
words of beauty recited here  forgotten forever,
blossoms of   friendships withered and thrown out.
Found nothing to tell as muse hid behind a haze,
or got dejected as gilt-edged words didn't meet expectations?
Too many waves of destruction one can't fight, one after another,
hence verse became meaningless?
Poetry makes nothing happen, someone said, once
is it after all true? But a vision of beauty humanizes, we feel it,
everything depends up on perspectives,
poetry happens when an immortal moment touches deep,
what changes inner life echoes in eternity, one gains wings.
The flow  never ceases, it goes on beyond time.
Know thyself. Be in the stream. Flow with the
stream of consciousness that weaves all in to one.
Does it make any sense? if so poetry too  is.
Why did they leave even without a word?
Are they in greener woods, in some other pursuit?
bless them, let them find peace in their quest.
851 · Mar 2012
true color
K Balachandran Mar 2012
"Drugs and ***"
the heavy metal band inflamed the mood , crowd roared,
when costumes changed,
*just five docile girls backstage.
K Balachandran Jan 2012
a writer's angst constantly seeks answer :
"were the words and images
i conjure up from my consciousness
expressed before?"
851 · Nov 2014
The poetry that I tasted
K Balachandran Nov 2014
The last drop of poetry i imbibed
was written in light, at your eyes
as my moving lips, avidly partook
the nectar on the petals of your lips

ഞാൻ നുകർന്ന  കവിത
(Translated  in  to  Malayalam )

ഞാൻ നുകർന്ന  കവിത
തൻ തുള്ളി
നിൻ മിഴികളിൽ വെളിച്ചമായ്‌ തങ്ങി
എൻ പ്രേമവ്യഗ്രമാം ഇരുചുണ്ടുകളാൽ ഞാൻ
നിൻ ഇതളുകളിലെ തേൻ നുകരവേ അതും മോന്തി
K Balachandran Dec 2011
My
son
often
teaches
me
what's
a father's fault.
850 · Mar 2013
Tat twam asi (I am that)
K Balachandran Mar 2013
With known, knowable and knowledge,
I paint my picture,
nebulous ocean of unknowable baffles,
but I know, I am that.
There are four "Mahavakya" (literally meaning great sayings /principal statements) in "Vedanta" (literally means end of material explorations) Philosophy of Indian thought
The epigram in Sanskrit, "Tat twam asi"(  I am that- Individual self is part of cosmic consciousness) cryptically speaks about the unity of cosmos.
849 · Aug 2017
Nightly seduction
K Balachandran Aug 2017
comes bewitching night,
flows liquid carbon delight,
boat to sleep's island!
848 · Jun 2017
The Girl in White
K Balachandran Jun 2017
Wearing a drab dress, all white,
I see a girl child of about eight
seemingly lost, perhaps left alone to fight
her continuing wars with a callous world,
walking hurriedly all by herself along
a desolate street, that to me seems familiar
yes, it's in the part of the city, once I lived
which always was seen teeming with life
except perhaps in such mystery dreams.

Think of this, don't you in spirit live in many
different places, like hearts of lovers one cherishes
though now one hardly remembers, how
it happened and where it was or how many
different persona constitute, the 'You, you think are You'

Like a somnambulist she walks along  the tree lined street,
I was watching her through a  window set high,
as she passed a young palm laden with coconuts,
and then a strange feeling gripped me and said
"It must be she, standing in this cozy room's warmth
and isn't that I, taking faltering steps along the street,
where she has been never before and don't know
what  awaits her or any other beyond that corner"

Is she a refugee from somewhere, an orphan whom
the world has jettisoned, with nothing to look forward?
An improbable adventurer aged just eight, still
ready to stare a dark, overcast day, on it's face fearless?

I just flew out of the window and was astonished at that feat
and  the speed; who would think I could pull it off?
I flew following her as if fearing for my dear life,
as if she and I have a cryptic connection I forgot,somehow
Where is she?my heart in palpitation,I flow with the wind.
848 · Feb 2018
uprooted
K Balachandran Feb 2018
a fast moving cloud,
soon becomes a flock of birds;
migrants in frenzy!
K Balachandran Nov 2017
languorous breeze,close to chest carries
a scent,an invitation on the waves of air,

the valley blooms lustily in response,
sends away fragrance with different notes.

the mix and blend to regale olfactory sense
of every visitor,as it pleases them,so much,

The medley of fragrance sends the breeze,
sweeping to an ecstatic height, never expected,

like a village weaver who loves warps and wefts
of many hues, he spins and weaves  fragrances,

to exhilarate all,near and far,any one who
deeply inhales the mix of fragrance,feels alive.
to the core,it's fuel to the wick, that enlightens the soul.
848 · Jun 2018
What the rain did?
K Balachandran Jun 2018
trees luxuriate,
dog’s life gets soggy and vain;
isn’t the rain same?
K Balachandran Jul 2013
In that camouflage she was not
the daughter of a dark night,
even his doubtful eyes
were blinded, and there by
hangs a tale;
a caterpillar of many hues,
curious looking,
voracious apatite stamped
her presence and movement.

In his manicured garden she started,
leaf after green leaf first,
then flowers all,
petal by petal, scent too vanished,
a beauty eating beauty
had some queer poetic justice
though he failed to see that
there was something amiss
but her moves didn't stop
by creating nakedness
as a garden substitute
brown with green.

She proved insatiable,
when they made love.
first like flowered plants
bees pollinating flower
with the pollen smeared
all over her body,
then they copied
animals in heat,
rolled all over the place
like cats and caterwauled aloud.
He was totally lost
lowered all his guards
that's when tragedy struck.

When they merged like
poison and milk
in a deluge of
deceptive sweetness
he saw her turn in to
a vampire bat
and eat his heart.
Not seeing the worm in the apple proves to be a tragic flaw...for anyone who eats it.
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