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K Balachandran Jan 2015
Love was the lone window lit in that long wintry night
the vivid book that kept talking even  in sleep, evoked dreams
when he slipped in to the deep pit of dark blind abyss
love was the rope ladder to the rainbow bridge of hope
she frequented, but won't recognize his presence for a while.

love compelled him to compose songs that would stop
the flow of tears, his eyes were never dry even when slept,
it was the stone wall that shielded him from the fire of misery
the rain that came down in torrents when his broken heart
was parched dry in a cruel spell of drought that seemed endless.

Alone on the shore, washed by waves he heard those whispers
love speaking to his psyche, in a comforting tone, reminding mom,
gently love took him by his hand,led him through the rocky path
sharp thorns and rocks wounded him, gathering nightmares
chased and haunted him; love came along in many disguises
and comforted him,chanted potent mantras of endurance, gave hope
love was both the charioteer and messenger, true redeemer
855 · 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 Mar 2012
She smelled
camphor and wonder,
my wet hands caressed
the fruits i wished to plunder,
mind transcended
to clouds and whispers,
falling incessently like a pleasant rain
drenching us , till we can ask for no more.

Her lips were
soft waves sent by
the sea of tranquil night
that nibbled  the shores,
little by little.
Her lips on my lips created
a myth, of a land of happiness
which before my eyes became real,
i found my inner pains have
completely vanished,
we were consumed by a pleasure,
that was full of nocturnal vigour.

What would you do
when,  ***** are on fire?
we were in hunger,
she said, we would build a slow fire,
and make our pulsating veins dance
around it, till every hunger is  fully satiated.
I found this dance  so tantalizing,
she was in fits of pleasure, surging
from the  deep centre
that kept on erupting.

It seemed our bed had  swift moving wings,
she swung up above me
a bird ******* honey from a flower
hovering  over it, on her wings,
her alacratic moves
made her look like an acrobat
perched on top,
the  journey was across time and
we lost all awareness of place,
she moaned her mantras,
pleasure seeker's chants,
to attain the higher reaches of the peak,
faintly visible.
We came swimming though
the turgid waters,with  an urgency
rarely known.

The hands of raising sun
was feeling our bed,
i looked up to see what happens
the night has stealthily left,
early morning light mischevious
peep through the window
to see us lying
in each other's hands

Then again,
we saw the sun a perfect red ball
falling down, to drench us in purple rain
we ran after it , amorous spirit
still glowing inside,
and at that moment we heard
melodies within our bodies.
854 · Mar 2016
Thought is the abode of God
K Balachandran Mar 2016
The diamond studded dome resplendent
we know as thought, is the abode of God,
the throne he sits is the most powerful
of seats, here he is alert all day and night,
if one invites Him with an awareness what it means,
His presence lights every  nook and corner of
each  thought's origin, path and culmination.
See a mouse and it's nemesis a wild cat
play together in peace like long time mates.

Just the result of a thought changing
it's course, moving like the God of peace.
"Hail  the God seated in the diamond  studded abode of thought"
Kumaran Asan 20th century Malayalam language poet of Kerala, India.
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 Jan 2012
the last queen  on this throne
suffered a thorny silence;
she had a nagging doubt,
whether she deserved it.
850 · 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 Dec 2011
Perfect kissable lips,
I hope-
the rest is all right.
850 · 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
850 · 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.
850 · 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.
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.
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?
849 · Dec 2011
My breakfast is sumptuous
K Balachandran Dec 2011
my woman
serves
love for breakfast,
I drink her smile.
849 · 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.
K Balachandran Jan 2012
a writer's angst constantly seeks answer :
"were the words and images
i conjure up from my consciousness
expressed before?"
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.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
my genomic study report
reads like a recipe,
says my genes are from all continents;
i am a man composite.
846 · 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.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
My
son
often
teaches
me
what's
a father's fault.
844 · Mar 2019
Peculiar stuff
K Balachandran Mar 2019
Out of the blue, she blurted out,
"Peculiar stuff, I want to assert"
I had no guess what was her find.
(More like many a times one sees onself
in turns of life, unexpected, I presumed)
"Oh! is it? tell me all about it " I enthused,
And woke up at the very same moment
in to a dream, of different kind, half progressed,
There was no trace of a 'her' in this dream I wormed in!
What is 'real' what is 'imagined'?
Where ends the 'real' we imagine.
And what we think dream starts?
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.
844 · 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.
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 Dec 2011
dragon flies
bombard,
pollen on frogs,
sitting on lily leaves.
841 · 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.
841 · 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 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
840 · Nov 2011
three nonsense poems
K Balachandran Nov 2011
1.  shout a fish

a shout-
the size
of a dog's snout
before our eyes
transformed
to a trout!
it was caught by the
very shouter
who ate it
without any spice!
    *
*
2.  Mysterious eater
         *
this person
equivalent to a
misspelled word
lost meaning for ever
to what he does
take for example this:
when he did eat anything
the thing remained
as it is, as he could eat
only the process of eating.
       *
3.   a life on- line
        *
in a desk top villa, nice
he lived with his wife,
photo shop perfected,
and kids, googled and found.
the search engine took
them everywhere
though all the while
they were there where
they were,but in fact
they where nowhere
that's why in cyberspace he was free from care.
  
K Balachandran May 2013
Meteorite has just one language,
speaking the the desire of the element, fire.
Its voice lasts only for those blazing moments,
consuming heart, with an equal fire.
838 · May 2014
when last seen
K Balachandran May 2014
she was correcting
one  
     by
         one
all the mistakes of her past,
with an eraser and a pencil
in a bleak room painted clinical white.
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.
836 · Nov 2011
fearless glow
K Balachandran Nov 2011
s  t  a  r  s
       a  r  e
   f  a  l  l  e  n
drops of tears,
got enlightened
overcoming fear
836 · Aug 2017
Nightly seduction
K Balachandran Aug 2017
comes bewitching night,
flows liquid carbon delight,
boat to sleep's island!
835 · 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"
835 · Aug 2017
Destained
K Balachandran Aug 2017
gossamer thin net
of her enticement she casts,
at willing captive.
K Balachandran Feb 2012
in love, i am steamy red,
i drink, fiery black,
**stop me when you think,
i am too absurd.
832 · Apr 2019
cosmic grand play
K Balachandran Apr 2019
fathomless cosmos,
is in an ecstatic trance.
we are in its dream!
831 · Jun 2018
Monsoon phantasy
K Balachandran Jun 2018
On the sky, cloud’s write,
The west wind reads it aloud:
‘Monsoon phantasy’!
K Balachandran Jun 2012
Your each mood, has a taste,
sweet, pungent, bitter, even bland,
I see your words, colored,**
Oh! my synaesthetic delight!
Synaesthesia--A sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality.
831 · Dec 2011
unreal love
K Balachandran Dec 2011
A star
ten million light-
years away
winked at her,
she fell in love
at that instance.

the sad star said:
"don't believe my wink
my love,
I am an illusion
dead and gone
long long ago,

you are late
at least
by ten million
light years"
        O
Dailylove.net
Thursday, November24, 2011
K Balachandran Apr 2014
You are the one and only fluorescent thought,
still alive at the night of my lost soul,
the life giving breath I borrowed through
your mouth, when I chocked and went down,
while swimming in the turbulent rapids of life.

Red glowing ember you are, that warms,
my soul in the winter of  unimaginable freeze
my daily dose of sun's purple beams
at the moments of dawn after a long night,

your moist, warm, soft feminine flesh,
raise and fall in such precision, with every beat,
and when I hold my breath, I hear,
both of our names spoken in the lingo of goose bumps,

You are the joy of discovery after
wandering through an arid desert
an oasis full of, green orchards,
you are the peaches and the apple
I want to steal, just to keep with me,
smelling and petting,
                                    never even would
think of peeling, relishing the taste,
I 'd never ever attempt,
to bite it little by little,  and consuming
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.
830 · Nov 2017
she is hot and cool
K Balachandran Nov 2017
a blazing eyed girl,
fueled by her love's ardor,
cool it by a smile!
830 · Dec 2011
what that poem does to me
K Balachandran Dec 2011
A poem I admire
looks me at my face
like that bold girl I fell in love with
and ask questions others
won't dare ask--
on existence,
life in our times and planet,
sides I've taken on issues that concern all of  us.
A gripping poem,  keeps on reminding
me on puzzles and problems,
that plague us from all four sides.
This poem chides me
for the  matters I keep hidden,
as I am, not ready to face it;
drive out  my fears from their hiding places,
and tell them to behave.
A poem I realize
is power packed in the
center of each word and image,
metaphors that be, rather  than speak aloud,
love reduced to equations
of words and silences nesting in between.
A poem transfuses in to one's blood stream
and turns the heart
a flower of sweet scents,
ready to bloom in any season.
This poem vanishes in to my cells
becoming  a sun , my source of
pleasure, a creative force.
In my dreams poetry is a
comely maiden dancing
rapturously on the shores of time,
elevating mind to the heights of ecstasy.
  
O
830 · Mar 2016
A boy's love life
K Balachandran Mar 2016
Each day dawns as an unrehearsed
new act of a scene in the play of love,
that continues with you,
terribly shaking my heart,
though the plot thickens day by day,
when our silent love takes new turns,
who knows which way it goes---

Never did we speak one to one,
how could one, when it's an anathema
for a boy and a girl to hold hands in the open!
with you sitting there in your balcony,
a full bloom, nah, now a tempting ripe fruit,
as soon as you are back home after
the day's engagement, at school and piano class,
all eyes for me to come to your eyeshot.

I start to play exclusively for your balcony
from my front courtyard or backyard
as mom's movement and situation demands.
I do it in ways ingenious, I invent at the moment,
to capture your heart, I know what it wants
still in jitters, not knowing you approve or not,
signalling in that sign language you developed
to dupe our horde of relatives, already suspicious.

Every sunset see you and me silhouetted,
in eager expectation of seeing or showing
a boy's life here is only longing and yearning
don't know what results from this lesson of pain,
a punishing schedule,driven by hormone rush
Teen age love is lot of work
and at the best conducted
in utmost secrecy, hereabouts
dedicated to guys here  whose love life
is terrorized by well meaning elders
who probably want kids to learn "Kamasutra" well
before starting to act...
K Balachandran Nov 2011
In bed
I pray :
help me God,
play no dice
'God doesn't play dice' ---said Albert Einstin in full confidence.He was speaking metaphorically about the order found in the universe and nature.But quantum mechanics proved him wrong.This might be the reason why it is impossible to combaine general relativity with quantum mechanics.
Unpredictable and complete random behavior is not rare: life, human behavior etc for example.Einstin was an amazing scientist and human being.He was nontheless  falliable at many levels and ways.So I can't take his words as sacrosanct.
829 · Sep 2013
When I write
K Balachandran Sep 2013
On each line
lays buried,
a vanished river;
a brief history
of my pain.
Like criss crossing veins
on the plane of a leaf
they create patterns;
a map of my inner strife.
In solitude
I yearn,
a hunger inexplicable
in words, burns inside;
a new leaf
with eclectic patterns
is magically born,
my moment of
serendipity blooms.
I feel the warm kiss
of sun on my tender leaf
829 · Jan 2012
her infinite variety
K Balachandran Jan 2012
she spoke soft, luminous words,
ate like eating  flowers,
recited poetry like an angel,
and mated like an infuriated ogress.
K Balachandran Oct 2012
The more her canine teeth,
dip deeper, on his shoulder,
on crossing the threshold of pleasure,
the more he gets elated;
then, a doubt raises its head
and whispers,*"just being  plain dutiful,
or was it, like she felt, really beautiful?"
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