i was 15 when i first got introduced to Dali and even now after seeing many other painters i respect Dali's work immensely. the first work i saw was the persistence of memory... which is by far his most famous masterpiece... and i saw a couple of others but this one was not around then. 

this is Allegorie De Soie... which translates into Silk Allegory. somewhere it simply touched me. the way the butterflies are detailed with vibrant colours against the starkness of the grey-blue stones all moving towards one point in the universe and yet moving away in shadows. cuz for me while the butterflies seem to be moving towards the yellow gold in the middle, their shadows seem to be moving away.. and the presence of the butterfly woman [thats what i like to call her].. is pure poetry pulled backwards through a hedge.. it's a little jarring to see her standing there and i really want to know what he thought when he put her there but she somewhere just fits right.. like if she wasnt there the picture would have no meaning and would be incomplete.. she seems like the glue or rather the reason for the pull to centre of gravity. the need for convergence. it is silk poetry and even today when i see this painting i feel the goosebumps which was how i felt the first time i saw it. :)

hehehehee... ok this is a song by Hawksley Workman... rather nice i'd say... ok.. am not being a wanna be or anything and technically this song shouldn't mean much to me [and it doesn't]... since i dont smoke except for the occasional smoke thats rolled up... and that too once in an eternity.. but anyways it's just got me kicked.. cuz it's the story of our lives... every second person lives like this.. pathetic be it.. but true... anyways the point being... it's a fun song... and i'm not really in the mood to do a thesis on this song.. but hope u enjoy it..!!

~moments suspended in time~

this is a sketch of two lovers on the streets of Erlangen, Germany done by Allen Shaw (driftingalongthesea.blogspot.com)... and the poem below was written by me many months before i received this special sketch.  

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We met

In a parallel universe

You found me

Amidst the maddened race

Of red streaks and white bystanders

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A surreal world where few existed

we had little time

And stolen moments

That's what made it what it is

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In those moments

We sat together

Held each other

Made love without having to meet ever

In those moments your eyes told stories

And mine looked away ever so often

Not wanting to disclose what i was feeling

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I have seen you cry

And give in

I have held back

Not yielding

Fearing the distance you would leave behind

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But yesterday was different

As time seemed frozen and yet so transient

I cried

I met you again and knew

We would never change

Constant...

In this sacred distance that, we have created.

clutter

the past few days have been a little tough. my life seems to be ball gaming into something bigger than i can manage. the head is a mess..

one fearful and sleepless night followed by one thought - i need to get a hold on my life. 

i get out of bed and start cleaning.. the clothes get sorted and piles for laundry stack up while the cupboard gets emptied and re-assembled. the floor is inspected for all valuables -  from the one rupee coins to the toys scattered around to the many creams and shoes... everything goes up on a pedestal. then comes the papers.. the used, the unused and the simply dirty and needs to be thrown type. the broom enters and starts a mass extermination of everything that has managed to cling to the floor. 

sweep sweep sweep and now i feel clean. every dust particle clings to my very parrot green kurta but i'm clean. 

clean like never before. it's time for it all to fall back in place and i the best bit is that i know it will.

~maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed..

             maybe they need to run free 

until they find someone just as wild to run with~

hanging around

it's nice that you think of me sometimes

i think of u often... much too often for my liking

i wonder what we were

and i wonder where to we have come today

each path i leave behind leaves a trail i cannot erase

a new one crops up to take its place..

some have left scars 

while some have blossomed into eternity and will continue to do so

i take you with me every step i wake

i know we cannot be together 

yet we have been with each other

and i cannot ask for more

i hope

for that day to arrive

the one where i turn

and still see u hanging around

not in wait of me mind u...

but after understanding me and maybe forgiving me

forgiving me if u think i was wrong

but loving me nonetheless

for i will always love u 

and if at any point u turn 

you will find me hanging around :)

~halt for a bit~

we waste a majority of our lives trying to figure out what we want from it and the other bit forming relationships. then there is our belief system and our moral standing along with our need for constant judgement of ourselves and of those around us. in short we're always after something. but the human mind i feel is a funny thing.. when we take two steps forward we simultaneously take three steps backward. And whats even more amusing is that we feel the need to make others conform to what we feel is right and "making" them understand how our POV is the right way of thinking. 

whats right and whats wrong and who are we to guarantee the rightness of right and the wrongness of wrong?.. the society has bred us to think in a particular way and the majority opinion is the right opinion. can the majority not be wrong?..maybe we should stop trying so hard to change others and instead look within. can we not simply respect each other as humans and mind our own businesses without the greed to over power or over shadow the other person's thinking or way of living??... is it too much to ask for?.. i guess it is.. or else how would one explain terrorism, organised religion, vicarious living and power?..

the fault is within each one of us and not only those who are radical in their way of behaviour. i feel the need for an emotional purge.. [along with a political and a global purge]... every person needs to sit down and think for a bit. the life in the fast lane needs to halt for a bit and we need to sit down for a bit and take rest. do we want our future generations to live in a civilization thats beyond redemption??

it's time we change.. the youth moreover... because it's us who are the future and we need to get out of our materialistic fascade and see whats best for us and our civilization. we need to stop name calling, scape goating, blaming and cribbing. if u dont like something do something to change it.. but a little peacefully please. 

PS... you have a right to differ and i will respect that..