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K Balachandran Jun 2013
An aspiring conqueror,
practices the language of victory
in  daydreams;
in nightmares, sees speaking the shameful tongue of defeat!
Between daydreams and nightmares he/she needs to imagine
a world as well as  tongue that speaks gently  to the fellow beings.
K Balachandran Jan 2015
She is a perfectly ripe orange, juicy inside,
he peels the skin her mind, thickly wraps around,
with the alchemy of his words, see! how well
she reveals, her true essence for him to consume,
one segment after another, he wants to experience
her leisurely; it's her turn now,for her he is a peach
she impatiently waited thus far, to put her hands on,
he is patient, at her disposal, till they fully merge
How would an orange and a peach if ripe do it between themselves..
K Balachandran Jul 2018
puddle dotted fields,
kids in mud football frenzy;
time stops for each game!
K Balachandran Jul 2015
An old fort, on top of the slopping hill
          sentinel to centuries rolling down still,
from where the sea for the lovers
           was a vague  dream, perhaps from another life,

this haunt mysteriously lures them again and again,
            to be together lost in passion for long hours,
In a time long before on the same spot,
           blood, had gushed like river after each fierce duel,

after the mad hiss of swords,
            thirsting for the blood of the other, the rival,
the howl of the wind, the salty taste on the lips,
            ***** love present as wild aggression-
in the explosive proximity of two
            full blooded animals, results in the hiss of kissing.

The ethereal bliss is  marred suddenly,
            by the howl of ghosts, time travelling in to their spirits,
in the throes of death,the vanquished, the other victor,
            in shock they both realize the hidden truth.
all seeming dualities  and contradictions spring from one, dissolve when truth could be  perceived as absolute...with great effort...
K Balachandran Dec 2011
his mind she quickly reads,
calculates exactly when
he will fall for her charm,
he sees all on her face.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
In our cultural
jungle,
pygmies
are having
a wild run.
K Balachandran Sep 2016
On an opulent curved dome
Of a proud white mushroom
An enigmatic, clear, single drop
Well formed, eager, quietly sit.

Wonder what and what it is up to now-
A tear drop shed in pain by a lonely fairy,
Or a stray drop of untimely rain, futile,
A memory lapse,a cloud somehow had?

What if it's a disillusioned universe,
Willfully collapsed,due to it's own weight,
Reduced to a miniature and still in flux,
Wanting to see a new dream altogether!

Sitting like a king on his throne, it reflects,
The limitless sky on it's upturned single  eye!

Waiting perhaps for the rising purple morning sun
to give an offer, to evaporate and be back in the cycle.
775 · Jun 2018
What the rain did?
K Balachandran Jun 2018
trees luxuriate,
dog’s life gets soggy and vain;
isn’t the rain same?
775 · Sep 2016
Falling
K Balachandran Sep 2016
You know how-don't ever tell me you don't
How I love the sun rays play with the cloud
As I curiously look up, I clearly see me falling
Through the swaying foliages of a cloud tree
Frolicking with the philanderer wind tickling her.
Sowing goosebumps you think, as falling raindrops
While she wishes she wouldn't respond to such
                                           frivolous machinations.
Is it love?
She gets no answer.The day marches on
an illusory ground, not worried about  THE END

Falling through the space, I see a sky full of holes.
Absence in presence and presence clouding absence
This, nobody ever takes notice.
                                                    An invisible particle
Of matter yet to be discovered,
I was stardust for a while,
I was falling,
Then I was quantas of energy
Without a given name, that wanted
To be on the move, singing,
While there is still  a song within.
Yes I was falling.
I confess: every night , I was curious about the moon's routine
Even on those nights she kept me waiting in the darkness guessing
"Woman, by spurning my love , you destroy light legitimately  ours".
The love I only kept,  for your silver lashes that pleases me!
I was falling:
On the face
Of the moon
I saw it's
        Reflection.

I was falling
All alone,from
Your memory
Like the
                Crinkled
                     Petal
                          Of a dead
                                   Flower.
Every leaf would invariably fall, however green it looks!
K Balachandran Jan 2012
blame it on the  warped yard sticks,
a problems we often overlook,
not in every case , I am convinced,
about the idea of winning and loosing.
at the end came an announcement,
the one supposed to have won,
and the looser were presented,
but, looking at the spirit and
exaulted state
that points to the higher consciousness,
one felt convinced, the declared looser
has really won.
looser, astonishingly was gracious
that he could have the experience,
that counted more than wearing the laural
with a vacent smile.
what if someone has won,
and that has no consequence
on none, except the one
who beams believing
winning is the greatest thing.
773 · Nov 2015
The buck stops here*
K Balachandran Nov 2015
You are an erroneous mirror with a horribly distorted plane,
the figure find reflected on it's surface too are  you,miserable one!
And the perplexed observer?Who else, it's you, do you realize?
Don't complain or  blame it on  others, it's you who should decide,
where to begin and when, to set right whatever has gone wrong.
*President Harry .S.Truman kept a sign on his desk with this sentence.
"Heal thyself to heal the world".Don't ask for whom the bell tolls
772 · Dec 2011
Definitely not a cannibal
K Balachandran Dec 2011
He ate her for breakfast.
(No, not on the table)
772 · Dec 2012
Buddha and the Child
K Balachandran Dec 2012
See,  Buddha in a  a rose,
find a child indeed is smile,
a smiling rose
when one converges with both.
771 · Sep 2012
Love and Death
K Balachandran Sep 2012
Death, the dark, sultry maiden,
has made a pact with life-
her fickle, yet earnest lover,
in the very beginning:
"tempestuous, our passion play, would be
there isn't any other way, we could do it,
but we'll make the last dance together here-
the most subtle and infinitely sensual,
before changing over to the  stage, on the other side,
behind the impregnable curtain"
I love Woody Allen for that last dance with death in the movie  "Love and Death"..tempting indeed!
771 · Jan 2012
libidinous prophacy
K Balachandran Jan 2012
an armchair libertine,
i don't see
debauchery
ever loosing steam.
K Balachandran Jan 2012
how many short happy silences
live in this house;
fathomless, dense, eternally humming cosmos.
K Balachandran May 2014
The star far far away winks at me, flowing tears blur that glow,
love makes us forget even the gaping chasm between us,
night after night, expecting nothing we pledge our love to each other/knowing so well that no dream of  lovers has ever fully come true.
K Balachandran Feb 2012
love has gone to seed;
hate, excavates more possibilities.
768 · Dec 2018
Poisoned waters
K Balachandran Dec 2018
Cloud’s hot teardrops fall,
Polluted lake swells and sighs,
Dark waves lurk beneath!
K Balachandran Aug 2014
Incorrigible was that mistake,
                I took the wrong road and moved on,
couldn't understand where did I reach,
                when  found it was the end of the road,
tried to look up the map,
                found a wrong one, or was it all jumbled?
why  am I made a scapegoat,
                to prove a law Murphy has already proved?


But as I was about to walk away from it all
                                        I saw her radiant smile,
my deepest wish, my desire that pulled the strings,
                                            to take me to the road,
before thought and action was her,
                                          the mind came later, the spirit that
finds it's way on it's own, works beyond laws,
                                          even when choosing
the wrong actions, one is proved right,
                                          may that mystery be ours always.
intriguing forces in action in this world,
                                        are my hope, secret of all the positivity I embrace.
766 · Jan 2012
God's black magic
K Balachandran Jan 2012
god, you are all light,
where do you hide,
all the darkness
when you smile.
K Balachandran Oct 2012
Physics may unravel the secrets,
of the  magnetism and electric pull between us,
but about the rest, it'll be only mute,
our laws of attraction will still be in the dark.

Cognitive science may be eloquent
about your keen intelligence and mine,
but falling in love, is beyond the ken of all this,
Is it the rush of hormones that -
brought us together like two merging whirlwinds?
Then, why not before this with any others?

Or was it a flash at first sight
that ignited  our unknown depths,
and built a' tower of desire',
burning like a raging fire, in our hearts
that mixed, dreams, imagination and intuition
with the magic of extra sensory perception?


**We should better solve the puzzle with a burning kiss
765 · Sep 2012
The 'Yoga'of love
K Balachandran Sep 2012
Sitting upright on my crotch,
on her lotus, perfectly positioned,
she realizes, her eyes wide shut,
*there is more meaning to 'yoga' than just postures
'Yoga' is all about the union
K Balachandran Nov 2011
Ogden Nash-
is hard cash,
in demand
day and night.
Alternate version:Ogden Nash/is hard cash/in currency/everywhere
764 · Sep 2015
Illegal act, rectify it
K Balachandran Sep 2015
To ogle you
every time
I have to find
an excuse
     new.
Lucky you!
you have
a legitimate excuse
each time.
Even the most
clandestine moves
my eyes deftly make,
wouldn't miss,
your notice.
In a swift move
you bind them
with yours
while they
illegally steal you
inch by inch,
head to toe.
Then,I witness
the magic,
only love could
perform;
with the
language of light
in which
your eyes are adept,
you demand me to acquire
legality, in a date, not too late.
763 · Dec 2012
Love at work
K Balachandran Dec 2012
Like a cloud,
         colored by sun,
            the way he wishes,
                as the day progresses
changing in to
myriad forms
in the hands of wind;
              love transforms,
           one to other
many splendors,
still a constant,
isn't it a wonder?

Your eyes
             like diving fishes
                   search my depths
through my eyes.
They playfully
splash and swish
       in mind's waters,
         causing a wistful feeling.
Your lips quiver,
          fluttering like a bird,
                       that wants to fly
and sit at the top branch-
my expectant heart.
                
K Balachandran Dec 2011
She proved
Freud true.
extreme pleasure
reactions,
resemble excruciating pain!
763 · 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.
762 · Dec 2014
An ethereal flash
K Balachandran Dec 2014
A look deep in to her eyes and it subtly pushes in to a trance,
her lips in a smile curl,from where a primordial memory dances,
much deeper than visceral, in effect it's clearly transcendental
she becomes a pointer, to the quest entrenched within soul

I want to ask her this, how does she transfer her subtle essence
to me with such effortless ease, as if we were bound together,
with few words, looks and touches,like the dance of a painter's brush,
a way to connect so quick, or is it an existing channel that has opened?

An experience without parallel in life, so exhilarating to me
to discern, internalize and imbibe, a zen beyond human logic,
wasn't she a presence, in the deepest layers of my psyche?
an apparition that came to light, when the time was just ripe!
761 · Jul 2012
longing, a peeping bird
K Balachandran Jul 2012
Longing, that swift little bird
Sitting on the swinging branch of her heart,
Got impatient, waiting,
*Flew up and peeped through her eyes.
K Balachandran Aug 2014
Constant wanderer am I
      a cloud, it's heart  questing for truth,
hovering above the extending landscape,
       scanning it for beauty,
raining in joy, to make beauty
               turn her eyes towards me with love.
this is just one fleeting life in a cycle,
      that turns on for ever and ever and ever.
wait for me here, there or anywhere, my love,
           even if it's beyond the limits of universe.
K Balachandran May 2016
There isn't any half time mark
in a true blue love game, my darling
Neither prior fixed schedules or dates
nor strict rules, regulations, contracts
in a game of love, lovers avidly play it
themselves, in the way they truly wish
whether callow or highly seasoned,
mindful, heartless or calloused inside out!

The players decide where it has to be
played out, how long and  when the
curtain should fall and what would
be the after math of this; what results!

In course of the moves of this game
the thing important is particularly this:
They decide what to do with the dear life of each,
some times out of sheer impulse, even  eyes shut.
The ones that keep sanity and good sense
and hold the head above the water, swim together
would live to tell the tale sipping a glass of wine
but the rest, mostly become tales different
rarely told with a smile,most of those are written
in the black ink of grief and sung at taverns after
the hours dark falls  and ghosts vengefully roam.

Some, fall by the wayside in sacrifice, and perish
many disappear in dark pits invisible that lay
in wait to eat them head and all, without a trace.

But the ones I sing about are these pairs, resilient
they hold hands, steadily climb the path,
winding and narrow leading to the view point,
on the top of the green hill, from there
the view is breath taking, an ample reward!
K Balachandran Mar 2012
A bald headed eagle,
A Romeo spelled wrong,
Made eyes at my dove,
*Shooed him quick, away from the branch.
760 · Nov 2012
The dark maiden beacons
K Balachandran Nov 2012
Battered by the waves of life, bone tired,
I enter the chamber of  long night, to sleep naked;
*In a dream she comes, my dark maiden
waiting to take me to the last forgetfulness
759 · Nov 2017
Autumn dreams
K Balachandran Nov 2017
fallen autumn leaves,
color the desolate path.
dreams dancing in breeze
759 · Dec 2011
when you fly: a reminder
K Balachandran Dec 2011
if there weren't
any Wright brothers,
we would still be
looking skywards
to see only
clouds and birds.
759 · Jul 2012
Quite possible/impossible
K Balachandran Jul 2012
Quite possible,
This world doesn't exist:
You now dream to read,
What I didn't write.
759 · Apr 2012
Two women
K Balachandran Apr 2012
Moon's feminine fingers,
caressing her face, stray downwards,
a shiver runs through her spine,
*she is of two minds.
758 · Oct 2014
In your eyes, I see this
K Balachandran Oct 2014
Yet again I see me in your eyes
far deeper than just a reflection
am I sweetly disappointed?

I was looking in to your eyes for that
deep blue oblivion to disappear
and be one with your placidness
Not a mirror, I look for,that flatters
and proclaims love to me in a
loudest possible reflection of mine
that I've seen on all those days
we've been trying to discover
each other like new continents.

Now, I find you keep me deeper,
like a jewel kept in a chiseled case
Though late, let me tell you this,
remember, you are the diamond
I am just a case to  safely keep
my precious for all the days to come.
K Balachandran Oct 2016
To me she clearly sounds more
like a joyful bamboo thicket,
the only pet of this gentle breeze,
swaying in self abandonment.

Holding her  just a heart beat away
I could hear my heart's wonder,
"Haven't her whispered words allude
on something really profound, effulgent,
beyond the realm of both life and death?"

"Sing that lullaby, I identify you with
when our kids were young, instead.
It's indeed perfect as a fine spring board
to fly past the net, time has spread" I said
"Landing gently in that dream space
of permanent twilight, defying death"
Timeless quality of moving lullabies to melt self and touch transcendence.
757 · Jul 2012
Solo artist
K Balachandran Jul 2012
In the stillness of every wintry night,
I sing
most of the times
to an audience of one.
  
my little wonders
a sudden unsettling thunder,
uncontrolled sobs,
suppressed moans,
angste that visit unsolicited,
inconsequential happiness,
all, become my songs.

A solo performer
never looks for applause,
or disheartened by disappointed looks,
and when the curtain finally falls
in silence,
and the actor goes back on wheels,
there won't be any encore,
*it's a solitary road, even if you aren't  really aware.
756 · Apr 2016
The Find
K Balachandran Apr 2016
After what seemed  eons
he heard her saying this,
        gently patting his chest
        and wistfully looking
        at his withered rose petal lips
                      "You need to slow down,
                        be incisive, gaze, just not
                              with two physical eyes
                                master your senses, all five
                        if you want to see clearly
                      what truly transpires
                beyond mere words and actions"
         those frenzied moments
of love, despair whatever, intense
he somehow felt part of his, cherished,
                 But did they deliver?
             never did he regret a GURU's absence
                 still hoped in a deeper layer of psyche
                           "He would certainly come..won't
                              decide against showing up"
                      Still he was waiting
                           (looking at the directions wrong)
                             when she was with him,
                                     his lover,finder of path too, for a long while.
                              None had ever seized him like this
                                   and emphatically said such a thing
                                                   Now he could see
                                                     more clearly with focus
                                            as if the blazing sun appears
                                            when the clouds are driven by the winds.
             He heard the words of wisdom
             a woman like her can better discern
                because his light and darkness reflect
                on her screen of love, better,
                                essence-mind- bliss
                              "Sat-chit- Ananda"
                              where cosmic waves
                              make their presence
               At that instance he decides
                 to let go pretenses of every kind
                       he felt expansion of consciousness
                          a feeling words would never learn to express,
                         with stars in attendance he slept
                      cleansed himself in the waters of milky way
              frenetic drum beat of heart
              vanished as if he is no more
body bound, free to fly anywhere.
         wasn't she just predicting that
         the slow dance holding the hand
         that masterfully guides,
           it  begins
                            from this moment.
Journey towards the light of enlightenment is not intended without a Guru, a guide who could take the seeker sure footed through the path.
The deep yearning from the giver and the receiver culminates in the mysterious moment of find from both ends.Finding the Guru designated for one is the greatest moment in the journey of the  seeker,chanting
"From ignorance  lead me to essence,
from darkness take me to light
from death lead me to immortality"
Some times the Guru one searches endlessly  through long road would spring surprises like this...why not learn the path of truth from one's lover, friend, neighbor, subordinate and be humble?
756 · Dec 2011
self interest
K Balachandran Dec 2011
Imagine,
you are
introduced
to 'you'.
Wow! see that smile.
K Balachandran Feb 2012
Winter,
a shy maiden,
                      when she advances;
                      none could foresee
                      her cunning plan
                      of occupation!

playful and gentle,
she tickled nature
with her cool fingertips,
trees with thick foliage
stood before her
like  children,
to get their hair tousled.

                                 she plays considerate companion,
                                 often covers the head of trees,
                                 with her transparent veil
                                 till the sun forcefully remove it,
                                 eager to see their faces.

by and by
she turns insistent.
her presence more persistent
snow fall dense,
grin of ice every where you look,
changes her friendly visage, it looks strange.
her true nature comes out in  the open,
everyone starts to resent her cheeky urge to splurge.
then starts her rude and strident advance.

                                   the canopy of leaves
                                   are fully laden with
                                   thick, white, blanket of ice.
                                   leaves weigh down
                                   suffering with the  cold burden.
                                   the green is completely eaten
                                   by bleak whiteness.
                                   everything,  every one
                                   becomes virtually her prisoner,
                                   thirsting for a drop of sun light.
                                                   OOO
756 · Jan 2012
a bee burning in passion
K Balachandran Jan 2012
her
                smile-
                     a flower
                              spreads petal;
               i thirst
               for honey..
K Balachandran Mar 2017
Eschewing that second thought,
let me tell you what I truly sought
come, lock me up in your heart
you, I've no doubt  is a true despot

I don't hold back, life is way too short
can't heckle and haggle like an idiot
on the planes, see  profligacy of robust water
hills are in the reign of wild sun and winds

Here ends the vast fields of ripened  rice,
where prowl crooked foxes eyeing hens,
on the foot hills furious bisons flare nostrils,
as you climb,eager leopard smells blood.

Love is the  fragrance  that outlives the flower,
my trek to the mystic mountain continues where
**** and shroom grow tangled  everywhere
the trek to the love hill, to strike  gold,is in progress,
755 · Feb 2014
Potter's path of freedom
K Balachandran Feb 2014
At the potter's village we met,
the dawn was only breaking, ominous,
young we were, how exciting a time it was,
shadows never made us frightened,
I made her, the way what she thinks she is,
in turn she made me the way I wanted myself,
there were no original or model, we both were
creations of each other, isn't that unique!
when we left each other, with our hearts  still smiling,
no one could, believe our words
they searched for the mark of tears.on our cheeks,
Standing on the river bank, we embraced the last time,
then, on our ways we went,
we didn't regret a bit, in a boat
called love we further sailed.
755 · Aug 2017
closing ceremoney
K Balachandran Aug 2017
avian music,
march past of herons follows,
sunset formalized!
755 · Feb 2012
a poetess performs miracles
K Balachandran Feb 2012
quite amazing it was to witness ,
a lonely poetess, devours long dark nights,
spreads sunshine, cheerfully for all of us.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
A said,
B denied,
A contradicted
B confused
stupidity
reigned.
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