Mango mangoose hoosegaw,
Chigoe chigur goes gurguru
Market marka marka t
Kit kat kittiwake
Keratosis Kira kenopy
Pyre quadmire iridescent entomologist.
19 Words!
64 Words!
If you know what the heavens is going on, you’re probably full of it!
–Rober t Anton Wilson.
[ I replaced the words hell with heavens and it with shit for the sake of respectability, beatific effect. ]
This verse is inspired by James Harbeck’s blog post on his blog Sesquoi tica :
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isomer murmuring ringulated rigmarole
Rolex Lexi Lexington tonnage menage
menagerie agent gentry tryst teaser
pale palaeo leo paladin dindinabulation
ablution tuition fees ease cease and desist sisters sistern lantern mist
chemist Alchemist brotherhood full metal jacket KitKat
Niranjan January I ran Anschluss
drayfuss omnibus succubus busted
scattered shit hit wicket thicket
a ticket to ride the bus.
red redressal recesses cesspool.
Early Morning Curlicues!
1. Abcderian.
2. South West.
3. North.
The Head!
Yarmouth Plymouth
South blabbermouth
Apply lyrical calculus lustrate irate pirate by rate.
Hummingbird feeders
Crows cedars
Butterfly flyover Overture
Segue. Say gway.
Sage way!
Say Joan or John or Johnson
Leo AWOL wolverine Wilbur
Virgo ergo ergot ergonomic design.
Signature natural law awesome meshuga mesuga gaga mesha ragamuffin Finnish tiffin Swedish petrichor Terpsichore chore hoary story.
Eastern sidekick
Western shopkeeper
Sahara dessert
Insert neutrino ultimo
Penuche nucha nook jeremiad
Psychone oneme meme mega game.
Goat flow cloe aloe Vera fermiga
The young shepherd in the red shirt
Is leading for of them
The herdsmen call him,
The head.
How Much Chennai?
1. It was early morning and we were about to enter into Chennai. My friend opened the window to ask a man in a lungi about the location:
“How far is Chennai, from here, Sir?”
“How much Chennai do you need? In a typical condescending Tamilan attitude, as a villager living on the outskirts of the city, he replied in a tone that had all four of us cracking up with laughter and tears in eyes and I might be exaggerating about the tears for the comic effect but it was natural situational comedy and I played the interpreter for them telling them that the person actually meant :
“As you’re already in Chennai, why the heavens do you ask for further directions?”
Or
“Which place do you want to go to in Chennai.”
His using “how much” instead of “Where” converted it into a joke for us. As all four of us were from North India and expected him to be fluent in English.
That might also be an exaggeration.
Actually: I found most of my colleagues and shopkeepers in Thiruvanmiyur R. t. O. Region had their own typical accent and they rarely cared for Grammar.
As I used to share my mails with them asking for the feedback: they used to say I was using too difficult words and they had to open a dictionary to grasp my posts.
Now I feel they were kidding.
But it’s too late now. That ship has sailed.
I used words like:
1. Quirky
2. Whimsical
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Insouciant
5. Contemplative
6. Obfuscation
7. Metempsychosis
8. Thanatose
9. Blabberwockying
10. Synchronicity
They were pretty regular words and yet to avoid my emails as well as to look down upon me: they used to say that I was using too complex vocabulary. They insisted on me reading Sydney Sheldon while I preferred watching movies like Waking Life by Richard Linklater and Inception by Nolan.
2. I am using Spotify application now. It’s possible to continue writing while listening to music now. I need an earplug now as this one has one of its bud dysfunctional. Lockdown limits my going out in search of an earphone shop and it’s scorching Sun these days. Hence I wait for an opportunity.
3. I had a brief discussion on phonemes and morphemes with a young man in my neighborhood. I introduced him to conspiracy theories.
Bilabial labalab labdanum numbat
Bilateral raillery leery rye
Numdah howdah dahlia iambee
Beeswax esophageal squamous moustache
Must ache achene chenrezig
Zigzag ziggurat ratbaggery philomel.
Time taken: 30 minutes aoo
Dogs and Clouds!
1. The waning Moon is the object of the barking dog. Wind is soothing and I wonder if I should call it breeze. As I walk it sussurates into my right ear.
2. The block system of WordPress app indicates that they consider the work to be an architectural design.
3. The Anuradha Moon has its head slightly tilted to the right. Mosquitoes want me to listen to their song in exchange for a few drops of blood, which isn’t too costly as all neighborhood seems to be asleep. In my childhood I used to wonder if mosquitoes existed in the times of Rama or Narada. Scriptures do tell about them.
4. Heavy vehicles keep passing. Singular larkspur landing. Dingdong singsongs of Singapore porous porcelain ain’t so cute more morel more losel selling lingas gastric tricks Asterix Chicago Goa goatee teetotalers Erny.
5. Within a few minutes I observe clouds near Big Dipper:
6. Now the Southern dog is resting and Eastern is speaking to North Eastern. The haze is topos. A crane speaks briefly flying about sixty nine degrees before going mum. Mummers and miss summers have gone into the mercurial victory palace and lace ruffle ace the case as I hear crickets chirping.
7. They keep asking me: what am I about? What do I write about?
8. The cloud farming gives no returns.
9. Neither does the cloud computing. Tingling lingas mingling jingling blingbotsslingshotspotsupshots. I need to use smartphone cache to keep some aches at bay time to time.
10. Reading newspaper to Grandma was necessary to keep their demons at bay. By the end she started dozing off.
11. I recall lyrics of a Hindi song which sayeth: my friend Mumbaikar is visiting me: salutations to him. Let’s eat and drink in the night and rest during the day. In GK booklets I used to read that there were no mosquitoes in France. I hear sirens. I also read that there newspaper was printed on paper.
12. Now dogs in the South East are in a melee. A truck passes by on highway. I can hear sounds in 2 kilometres range now. Crickets chirping. Ft t s.
Tim e take one: 38 minutes 38 seconds .
Chessed
Pharisaic icu
Integral yoga
Integrated circuit
Copper mountain
Tainted determinant
Antelope antennas wasps
Spasmodic modiste Stella spa
Passerine rhyme Meredith dipthong
Hong Kong kingkongs Longfellow
Solo lowlights lowlife dide fide.
Dravidam TVamev!
1. Dravidam means dravya or money. Mother was singing this song:
” You’re my mother, father and brother, sister and friend. You are my art, wealth(Dravidiam.) You, oh, divine one art my everything.”
Translated from Sanskrit.
2. Dravid country thus meant wealthy state of Tamil nadu in Bhagvat Puran.
3. IT revolution began in southern states and I lived in Chennai for 3.5 months before February 2010. I visited Mahabalipuram and Pondicherry with colleagues. I found Kannadigas to be sweeter than Tamilan people. I’d have learnt the languages Tamil and Telugu as well as Kannada if I was looking to settle over there. They found me lifeless and I found them full of pride. I never appreciated northern people spitting in public or population explosion creating burden on rich states of Southern India. On the same hand I found southern people especially Chennai citizens to be extremely unwelcoming of a northern guy who was bound by life path to follow a difficult course. I never complained about not getting wheat grains and enjoyed varieties of Dosa and rasam. How could I have found home there as I ever remained an alien in this place where everyone spoke Hindi. The blue water of beach in Mahabalipuram remains one of my sweetest memories and the drive up and down the hill on Thirupathi thanks to a rich friend who could drive. They are distant memories now. Up the Thirupathi I couldn’t understand what the fuss was about. Yet I saw a fresh biosphere better than the rest and later a colleague named Giri used to remind me of the place being a resident of the township surrounding Thirupathi. Without any doubt: except Osho and Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, the spirituality of India after Bengali Renaissance was maintained by stalwarts Ramana Maharshi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, UG, Satya Sai, Muktan anda and Amma chi. They were no match to Ramalinga, Nayanars or Alvars. Chaitanya’s southern journey didn’t seem to have affected the southern mettle and ISXKON in Bangalore merely seems to be an advent of majority of Northern Indians living in the Bangalore. Thiruvalluvar”s attitude towards beggars would never approve of Buddha or Mahaveera. In that regard Kabir and Nanak agree with him. And yet Bodhidharma from Kerala became a messenger to China. He couldn’t stay put with Shaivism which had won over Jainism after a long battle. Neither could Ramalinga who declared that he had gone beyond both Siddhant and Vedant.
Time taken: 48 minutes.
Siddhi Yoga!
A Nightingale is singing. In my memory. A few dogs bark intermittent ly. Lyrical melodies are in the air. Politicians and civilians were debating about alcoholism. My sibling had a sudden spell of vomiting yesterday and he couldn’t even reach out for the bathroom. I offered to clean his room later but he said it would be done by the grandmother who was listening to my newspaper gossip when it happened.
A gentleman had kept a parrot captive. I was watching the mountains of immense light like it was the very first time. I am dwelling in the Constitution of India and Ramalinga verses for a while. They offer the harmony. Osho talks after seventeen years look better than present day comedians. At my own speed I can’t fill colors in my memories. I walk slower.
1. Aries arises ascends with Sun, Uranus and Mercury. It’s a Wednesday. Wednesday is 100.
2. I taught my mother about Ida, Pingala and the Sushumna again as she keeps forgetting. The Madhya Naadi runs at present. Bile. The ohlegm is last as water is dissolver. Adi is wind creative energy. Wind– Fire– Water.
3. Sushumna or madhya naadi is the path of bile or Sun — the hot path of righteousness. Vibrancy. Balance.
4. Many cows and bulls were playing in the ground in night. They were doing various contests and chased dogs as well as pigs away.
5. Birds are flying in groups to their offices. Moon is in moveable airy sign of Libra on the Cooper Mountain.
6. The number six rules the day. Venus and Niranjan. The sixth dimension. Golden yellow Sun !
7. Mother had a dream this morning. There was a small snake in our porch. It transformed into Jaadu of Hrithik Roshan movie. It was sprinkling some water and talking to our maid. As she approached it to hear it talk she was woken up by father who needed her to massage his hand which was ailing. She told me this as she came upstairs for a walk. I don’t interpret dreams.
8. I miss the collective noun for pigeons. A bunch of them goes
South.
9. Mars the ruler of Siddhi Yoga as Moon is located in the seventh from the Sun, confers accomplishment.
May you have a day full of
blessings.
Time Taken -1 Hour.
Rutland Psalter!
Rutland Psalterium umpteen omasum
Sumptuous bemausam Sammy Jenkins
Memento Mori nemesis Dory
Nematode ode to ursine sinecure
Curiouser and curiouser seraglio leo
Alidade Aubade forbade Revayi
Sukhavayi a lid aubergine
Ubermensch Djinnie
Wordsmith myth thole tholi thible
A nibble or two,
Burgundy burgoo!
Reference– the title is inspired by the latest article on longreads.xom
Time taken to write-4 minutes 27 seconds.
Cosmic Equations!
With left hand on bishop,
He hopes,
To make his world a better place,
A returning player,
He smiles,
With curlicues,
He puts all the illuminated ones,
In danger,
They cry ‘merxy!’
As he says-” Check mate!”
Carrot Grass!
Carrot grass,
Sound of leaves under toes,
And dancing trees,
Distant vehicles,
Crows and birds,
White clouds,
Dancing Sun.
And carrefour,
On floor,
A door on a door,
The country side is breeze,
It’s deep freeze,
The fresh air iS Fun.
Here you have no messy bun,
No earnest Hemingway,
No wayward nested looks ,
No awry gone books.
No hooks no bulls,
No Buffalo’s hulls,
An obedient German Shepherd,
A herd heard before,
Forefathers feathers
Amphitheatre trefoil oily lyrics,
And an uncle came on a bike,
With a spike on his head…
Time taken- 20 minutes.
Dancing light of grace 