Crescendo - haiku

super large full moon
crawls through night peaking with pain
incandescent dawn

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Fireworks - haiku

 

blackbird in bird bath
splashing sparkling water drops
silvery fireworks

 

After a lot of missed ops, I finally got to photograph a bird bathing scene :)

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Green paddy - haiku

under rain washed sky
emerald gleams the paddy
bending to the wind

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paddy fields alive
birds amongst the ripened rice
scrumptious  pickings

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Cool of the wind - haiku

burning summer day
it must be a savior wind
that brought the coolness

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was it the cool breeze
that made your skin tingle, girl
or was it my gaze?

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Evening lull - haiku

light is loath to leave
dusk stands with bated breath
as day and night face-off

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Enigma - haiku

so strange it may seem
we joy beings trying so hard
to conceal our light

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Kingfisher - haiku

flash of flying blue

gasping flashes of silver

river mourns its loss

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The cry from within

"Introverts are constantly told that we must change.

The world shouts, 'Speak up! Loosen up! Lighten up! Be someone you’re not, or be left behind.'

And so, that is precisely what we do; we wear the mask of extroversion in hopes that we won’t be cast aside and forgotten.

We turn outward when we should be looking within.

We banish our true selves to a deep dark dungeon and throw away the key.

"That is, until we realize that we have caged our most valuable assets.

Then something begins to stir, itch and cry out from within.

Our soul claws impatiently at the gates of our hollow persona."

~Michaela Chung

(excerpted from the original article at Medium.com) 

Always been here

Always been here

how many species have to vanish

how many life forms do we banish

before we finally begin to see

how violent we are, how greedy

tearing up our home in plunder,

raping the earth, our mother

what are we teaching our children?

to sow greed, reap destruction?

after we’ve lost the polar bear

laid all the lush forests bare

after the last whale is gone

animal habitats have been shorn

maybe we will begin to see

when it’s not too late, hopefully

the earth is not a chattel

to barter, buy and resell

the forest, the mangrove, the lake

is not ours to pillage and take

the earth is a home we share

with those who have always been here

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Lotus - haiku

an angel it must be
rising spotless from the mud
wings blooming fragrant

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Branch meeting - haiku

 

treetop meeting place
blackbirds pondering over
the day’s agenda
 

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tulip - haiku

light lay laughing lithe
in the tulip bulb, transformed
into glowing orb

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Let there be light

through the leaf filigree
a playful sunbeam sparkles

triumphant
on spotting me

and I
just grateful

on being spotted
and splashed upon

by wayward strands
of light

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From the mouth of babes

Best argument in support of vegetarianism I've ever heard....

Baby vegetarian speaks some hard truths here.

...

All in white

White hot raging fury.
Age looks back at youth
memories pale and misty.

Crisp white cotton sheets.
A lone white cloud
in the shape of your lips.

Black boots, white lace.
Clouds of white hair
around a wrinkled face.

In aqua sea, a white sail.
All in white people carry
a body minus soul.

Swans in the sky, sailing.
endangered polar bears
hoping against hope, waiting.

Mogra chains in braids.
The full moon emerging
from the arms of clouds.

Bright fluorescent light.
Tuberoses in clusters
serenading the night.

Two tiny baby teeth.
Thick layer of cream
sweet lassi underneath.

Starlight and angel-dust.
Bride’s white to widow’s white
a single death betwixt.

Crystal sugar jar.
A dove’s tentative flight
in a world of war.

White confetti rain.
Snowy autumn blooms
lie under snow slain.

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(for a fun prompt 'White' from a FB friend :)

The War on Consciousness

The War on Consciousness - another banned (and then unbanned) TED Talk

The Science Delusion

TED (can you believe it?) has been censoring talks. But word got out and there was a furore and they were uncensored. This is one of them - The Science Delusion

Simple truths

Watch a young girl talk about her awe-inspiring work helping others.

This being human

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be cleaning you out
For some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from the beyond. 

~ Rumi
 

Kerala Kaleidoscope

These last two months that I have been in Kerala, I have been taking lots of photos. I finally managed to put them into an album (of sorts)

Kerala kaleidoscope


Even though the photos were high quality, uploading the movie on to YouTube compromised the quality somewhat, Even so, view in full-screen, if possible.