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K Balachandran Nov 2011
beleaguered poet
defended weakly:
"profundity,
is unfortunately
mistaken as vapidity"
K Balachandran May 2013
I'd seek her preventive arrest,
Get uncontrollably amorous near her.
K Balachandran Nov 2018
Tender fingers caress,
Ethereal wings sprout on;
Psychedelic flight!
K Balachandran Feb 2012
a heart shaped
white cloud,
slowly turns red.
A zooming black bird,
piercing through it,
a love story--
*beginning or end?
Short, Fast and Deadly.com / 9 October 2011
K Balachandran Dec 2011
you know me, i know you
how come we don't know
each other.
K Balachandran Jan 2012
she had undue haste , like a filly in gallop.
i was slow and stedy, an ambling horse.
our road a broad bed; but how did we reach there together?
K Balachandran Dec 2011
In our cultural
jungle,
pygmies
are having
a wild run.
K Balachandran Nov 2017
her kiss sparks fire,
the gunpowder in him flares;
triggers quick fireworks.
K Balachandran Mar 2015
We ventured in to the garden of night's Eden
two intrepid adventures seeking a fruit forbidden.
Night delights in it's prospects of dangers kept hidden
in the darkest part eyes go blind is laid out  it's biggest plan,
in frozen silence of deeper layers, lie in wait the predators
they told us, but we were deaf to the admonitions then.

Her hot  breath on my naked chest, where sweat poured like rain
felt not ticklish, as earlier, this, is a secret tap of the finger of fear ,
we didn't flash the light, not to alarm the beasts, held the breath.
In the percolating drops of wet green light,of fluorescent moon
she points up to a tree branch, close by and I view  in disbelief:
A python, its speckled noose ready, keeps vigil, darkly dreaming,
intently listening to the ascending aria of a nightingale's song.
K Balachandran May 2020
A corona prone red zone.
Nights are no different from days,
Except a peeping moon.
K Balachandran Oct 2012
The gathering  slowly disperses
bringing in view,
*the lone woman
standing regally at the center.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
the queen bee sure wanted
a life with me.
the problem was in
transforming to a drone  from a man
K Balachandran Dec 2015
When my soul thirsts for subtle beauty,
a treasured 'poem of plenty' I drink in solitude,
quintessence of all, to my palate, it tastes;
ineffable majesty of the cosmos in my cup!


സൌന്ദര്യപാനം, ആത്മദാഹശമനം

ഉദാത്ത സൌന്ദര്യാനുഭൂതി
കൊതിച്ചെന്മനം ദാഹിക്കവേ,
ഏകനായ്, പ്രിയതരമാമൊരു
"ബഹുസ്വരകവിത"പാനംചെയ് വേന്‍
എന്‍ രസനയിലതു സകല
സൌന്ദര്യച്ചാറായ് മാധുരിപ്പൂ;
വാക്കിതിലടങ്ങാ പ്രപഞ്ച
ഗാംഭീര്യമെന്‍ മധുപാത്രത്തില്‍ !
(Malayalam language version)
A " poem of plenty" could be prescribed
as the panacea for all the ills of human soul
K Balachandran Aug 2020
My eyes slyly asked yours for a breeze
But your lips quickly gifted a tornado.
Uprooted, with you  I flew across like a bird,
To an island where your sharpend  nails,
Etched murals on love going sweetly violent,
On every inch, making the pain pleasurable,
All over the canvas of my down turned body.
K Balachandran Jan 2016
The torture chamber painted
thick with red, white and black
fully contains artifacts different
unimaginable kind each one is.

Pain indeed was the tap root
from which art sprouts, says the poet
all the secrets of the heart, hidden deep
for which a heavy price is paid
throughout life, sing and dance
spin a fine yarn, tell an unforgettable tale
Ability to feel the pain and sympathize, distinguishes
the DNA of art of any kind, elevates it to the plane of sublime.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
Fine worry lines
make her face
even more pretty.
that again became
a source of worry;
what if she starts
worrying more
on worry lines
and
even more
on
them
looking pretty.
K Balachandran Sep 2011
A butterfly with fractured wings
sticks to a cactus spine and dream
flower petals again,
thanks to the kindness
with frightening sharp ******.
Quirky magnificence of life!
K Balachandran Jul 2012
Quite possible,
This world doesn't exist:
You now dream to read,
What I didn't write.
K Balachandran Oct 2018
Squirrels begin vocals,
Ravens join issue with them;
Racuous symphony!
K Balachandran Dec 2011
winter freeze,
would soon pass;
fight
slow
freezing
of soul.
K Balachandran May 2012
Sudden silly rain,
like an ebullient foot ball fan,
ran across the valley,
vanishing in to the woods, without a trace.
K Balachandran Apr 2017
rain abruptly stops,
water soaked trees take over,
on cycles it goes
K Balachandran Jun 2018
rain bird serenades,
Squirrels play second fiddle;
ravens party-****!
K Balachandran Aug 2018
Sun, out for a walk,
On rain holiday survey;
Pleased at his prospects!
K Balachandran Aug 2017
showers set the tune,
torrents drum on the high roof;
cloud burst change the tack.
K Balachandran Jun 2018
hurriedly speaks rain,
sounds like a forign toungue,
in distant night land!
K Balachandran Jul 2018
I float in a dream,
Full of rain’s amorous sighs;
In fecund earth’s hugs!
K Balachandran Sep 2017
on windowsill rain
drums,makes memories march on
hooting, jubilant
K Balachandran Jul 2018
Lullaby rain sings,
From morn, seamlessly to night;
A baby again!
K Balachandran Jul 2018
Fervorous rain did
Clothe land with thick water sheets;
Clinging and stifling.
K Balachandran Jul 2018
Twisting wind whooshes,
Thunderstorm’s uncontrolled fits;
Town and country floats!
K Balachandran Sep 2018
Layers of mud and dirt,
Fill homes water commandeered;
Human lives eclipsed!
K Balachandran Jul 2018
Rain’s seige  continues,
Hegemony of waters;
Swirling army’s rush!
K Balachandran Jul 2013
1
Rain's blue-black cloak, tied with rainbow girdle,
visible over the green hills,across rice fields,
she waves and rushes forward.
From distance, the incessant chant
of South-West monsoon,
sounds like a mature witch practicing her craft.
      One would think,she is all evil,dark
       the overcast sky her sinister cloak,
But under my umbrella
a coy maiden, i desired from afar,
who walk with me step by matching step
with all the cunning tricks of love
trying to entice me with her soft body's tunes,
her tender cool fingers rubbing my cheeks,
her unmistakable lover's touch eager, transgressing
desirous of getting me in to her arms.
2.
She makes me mad
i throw away my umbrella
in the rambunctiousness of a teenager and run with her,
at once her naughty hands pinch and tickle me
then an intense embrace that makes me shiver
with the deep pleasure, I drempt in wakeful nights,
joy of life that rain tune and smell of damp earth evoke!
The green loud glee in me it creates!
In dreams, rain come to me
and tells me the secrets of night
that I long for my love and me alone.
3
Rain, the seductress who taught me
the secret passions of living and loving,
and the burning sensation, of love
that runs deep in the  core of one's being.
When I lay awake, in a monsoon night,
outside my window, she plays tango,
wind holding her by the waist, with fierce passion,
that keeps me awake til,
I get absorbed in a dream
that has passionate love as the under current.
                   )O(
K Balachandran Dec 2011
I thought
she mentioned ****;
mispronounced!
wanted help to reap.
K Balachandran Apr 2019
This sly pet rabbit,
out of regular habit,
eats garden cabbage!
sly  pet rascal  habit  cabbage
K Balachandran Feb 2012
he ignored original text, and delved;
deep in the gaps,cryptic signals,
leading to hidden treasures-
was bang on the mark!
K Balachandran Mar 2012
Captivating sun, a fiery headline,
crows winging in many rows;
poetry in motion,
an arrangement  perfect, with silver clouds.
K Balachandran Feb 2016
He blindly pretends it is bliss
living in his favorite dream,
and try to believe there are no
consequences as dream has no limits.
But who knocks on the door in this hour?
reality seems to be in her limits of patience.
K Balachandran Nov 2011
Victories
and conquests
                         pass,
see, what awaits
at the end.
K Balachandran Feb 2012
he was poet extra ordinary,
his eyes never missed beauty;
but, in secret police dossier,
his crime was distorting reality.
K Balachandran Aug 2013
Draw a clear line,
definite demarcation of reality and illusion,
he was given the brief straight and simple,
by the impatient project chief, no ambiguity to it,
just a matter of sorting it out, what is real, what isn't
when far enough in to it, he found it humbling,
everything real begins from  nebulous, returns to it,
real and illusive, are in a dance of interchange, exhilarating,
the cheer spreads as cosmic glow beyond destruction and creation
universe, a kaleidoscopic percept seemed a conjure of cosmic imagination.
Is it better to be a metaphysicist than a physicist, though the former's life is penurious
and the latter is plagued  by the problem of plenty,
in the matter of grants and hence, the  issues of proper accounting..
With more and more grants flowing like water, are we anywhere near the truth ultimate?
K Balachandran Dec 2011
Lone  fire ant
like a sprightly mountaineer,
climbs on to the  summit
of an alopecic head,
as if he has a  a  firm intent.
(is he just a scout?
a larger team's expedition
is about to commence?)
K Balachandran Jun 2015
Swirling waters gush out, creating  chaos,
freeze in to ice, the silence follows, quickly
devours the spirit of that disorderly behavior;
memories of past sins are all forgotten, soon.
One is allegorically water, ice or gas
changing states, too happens, often
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.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
desperate
white cloud,
took refuge,
up on the
mountain range.
K Balachandran Feb 2012
why i wooed you ardently?
elementary physics my dear.
the specific gravity of our love,
applied pressure from very start.
specific gravity= relative density
K Balachandran Jan 2020
A trail of smoke rises,
A died down pyre,broken clay ***,
Crows eat scattered rice.
In Hindu funeral ceremony,which is largely symbolic a  terracota ***,symbol of mortal coil is broken by the son who leads the rituals.Crows eating the rice and eight other grains is considered suspicious.
K Balachandran Dec 2011
a swig of poetry
for symmetry
of mind,
agitated about
million things.
K Balachandran Apr 2018
kind, caressing breeze,
its cadence reminds mother;
one with nature now!
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