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P Venugopal Jan 2016
Over the glaciers of a dream,
gingerly,
I made my way to something beautiful last night.
I remember
nodding my head to myself—
“Yes, this is it! This is it!”
Waking up,
I hadn’t the faintest notion
what it was.
life too seems like a beautiful dream. when we wake up, will we remember what it was all about?
P Venugopal Jan 2016
There were eight or ten of them little boys, it was difficult to count them, for they kept swinging madly on their roller skates on the court hardly the size of a basketball court, sweeping along in a bunch after the ball with their sticks poised and stretching out tense for the strike, dispersing and twisting in wild patterns and then going after the ball yet again, straining forward for speed, navigating smoothly, dangerously, sticks clacking, shoulders pushing, shooting off the course and with maneuvers of the feet and the knees and the hips and the flailing hands recovering balance, laughing, and now from all corners converging on the far goal post to attack and defend, the goalkeeper strung bristling as a cat confronting an attacking pack, and as the whole court touched a beat to the imploding moment, there was this lady shouting from the sidelines, shoot, Rahul, shoot, shoot!
This is an attempt at writing as close to one is capable of with words communicating the excitement of something seen. It was written hot after witnessing a roller skating hockey match of children aged around eight to ten years near my home.
P Venugopal Jan 2016
I turn the corner
in my car—the ‘stray’ dog! Smiles—
Makes way—I smile back…

[Smack in front! Sorry—
he said—and moved to the side—
it’s all right, I said,

releasing the foot on the brake.]
Does a dog have Buddha nature or not, a monk asked Chao-chau.
He does not, Chao-chau replied
--Zen koan
P Venugopal Jan 2016
How aloof his pose!
Up my friend's clean shirt collar,
a beetle!...Should I?
P Venugopal Jan 2016
Nuns inhale the sun,
sea-cast pearls around their feet—
O giggling penguins!
P Venugopal Jan 2016
The picture smiles—
do you dare, speak up, painter,
make one small blemish?
P Venugopal Jan 2016
Red
The stray bull's eyes glint,
watching, heart all aflutter,
the red-frocked stunner!
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