Text-Poetry Marathon

Parrot

The fire rages and roars link no other

Unwilling to stay unborn, latent, unperturbed

Pandabear

Haha, laughs loud the fiend,

For he is heading to his end.

Parrot

The fiend and the fiendfire

The perpetrator and the sufferer

Pandabear

What art thou think that best maketh,

For in the game of love, many hearts breaketh.

Parrot

Thou art not a figment of imagination

My finest hour began but endeth with thee

Pandabear

In the happiest times that were wrought,

From the fairest Venice were the colours caught.

Parrot

Rejoicing on the outside my insides did burn,

Tut Tut! He chided me along the turn

Pandabear

Thoughts flooded in mind loft-like,

As the feet tickled in bed soft-like.

Parrot

These are but threads seamless,

Come, let us creep into this realm endless.

Pandabear

Exclaimed he to take her hands in huge halls,

While she smiled and made love against lovely walls.

Parrot

More than passion gleaned and sighed upon,

Is the beam of the hope lovelorn

Pandabear

Suffering destroys, and self is destroyed,

Born again from the ashes with hope rebuoyed.

Parrot

From dust it shall rise and bound

It may lose its faith in the ground

Pandabear

Lose faith and disbelieve if you must,

But the flight rests its wings in good trust.

Parrot

My treasure and my heart at the same place,

I would rest until the day's last trace.

Pandabear

Abandon all the haughty,

Begin to love the naughty.

Parrot

Naughty is naught but a little smug

He beseeches me for my own drug

Pandabear

Like a spirit on my mind with ease he pranced,

Seductive was the whole talk as if I was tranced.

Parrot

He called me enchantress but nay

Searching for his scent in darkness I lay

Pandabear

The zephyr was gently cold,

We curled around and rolled.

Parrot

Smokeless was his gaze, liquid and limpid

Sucked into a daze, I saw colours myraid.

Pandabear

Amused and happy was the Muse even,

For the songs were deep when given.

Parrot

Every song had the trickster's touch

But he turned sombre, forever too much

Pandabear

Eyes had to be deceived with tricks,

For you would never have known the pain of pricks.

Parrot

I line my eyes with more black

They shall never know what they lack

Pandabear

Smokey eyes did never reveal the crime,

They were not masked but mastered all the time.

Parrot

I could drink a little hemlock

Get lost in my trickster's scent

Pandabear
Why must I live on
In this love forlorn?

Parrot

Thy love enriched the parched

Bestow thy beauty, O bounteous!

Pandabear
Aphrodite smiles over us,
As we look for reflections.

Parrot

Ensnared by his coiled charms

I held on to the last, insane thread

Pandabear
Lean fingers strikes the harp,
Playing the music of the heart.

Parrot

Flows and pulsates, this rhythm

Miles across where I come from

Pandabear
Miles away yet thy sweet fragrance stayed,
Our togetherness for eternity was what I prayed.

Parrot

The wait was long, the sun was setting,

Melting the colours the dusk did the painting

Pandabear
Painting spoke a million thoughts,
For too long were those kept in naughts.

Parrot

Churl the hues for me when I come,

Claim the darkness distraught with the lonesome

Pandabear

Let's make love in the realm of darkness,

And hope to see the rays of sweetness.

Parrot

The sweetness smiles with your guile

I touch it, the fleeting promise of the nile

Pandabear
By the shore, we stole kisses,
And jumped over pebbles and hisses.

Parrot

May this flowing water never end

Break the barriers, let the world condescend!

Pandabear
 What business have we with this world?
Our universe is far far away pearled.

Parrot

It could all but come crashing down,

In a universe parallel we'd erase the brown

Pandabear
Mortal lives can be crushed to dust,
Immortal consummation shall forever be must.

Text-Poesy ~~~ Parrot & Pandabear

Parrot

Alone, he drinks the embers of the sun

The day crashes around

Pandabear

As the illumined mind dawns,

It still waits in line for fawns.

Parrot

The mind twirled his mustache

Laughed and did a little dance

Pandabear

Praise the soldier's brave,

As he reaches glory's grave.

Parrot

Won't you show the Ungrateful

That you skip around not baleful

Pandabear

The deceiving beauty as it blooms,

Has haunted many to their tombs.

Parrot

But I will lurk in thy labryinth

Hanging on, never too forlorn

 Pandabear

His warm breath gushed close to my ears,

And in that moment I felt I'd lived for many years.

Parrot

My bosom heaves in anticipation

My perfume likes no peer

Pandabear

In a long kiss, a little saliva swallowed,

This consummation was highly hallowed.

Parrot

Oh don't say we're in Neverland

Haven't we lived a thousand lives yet?

Pandabear

Thousand lives yet to live you say,

I could spend an entire life with you in a day.

Parrot

Graze my walls, wield thy bow

Archer! I can perch with hope.

Pandabear

Burning cigarette ashes as I drew,

Decades later a young bud grew.

Parrot

Green is the colour of my melancholy

The shadow plays and so does your memory

Pandabear

When these maddening hearts connect, they do for all seasons,

But many love stories have remained unhappy, for no reasons.

Parrot

It was the Creeper's choice to stay

He had all but to ask my branch's way!

Pandabear

Covered in leaves, mud and clay,

Under the moonlight, naked we lay.

Parrot

Sated you were in the caves of bliss

Whispers from my core touched your slumber

Pandabear

No cozy beds or silken pillows and sheets,

Just you and me in each other's beats.

Well, this was our text-poetry!

Sathya Pramode (a.k.a. Parrot)

Suhasini Srihari (a.k.a. Pandabear)

Text-Poesy ~~~ Yogibear & Pandabear

The following is a series of two-line text-poetry, these were impromptu and were exchanged as mere SMS's.

Yogibear

The sinews of steel strain

In search of the elusive grain

Pandabear

My dry pair of socks,

Has walked many wet roads.

Yogibear

In search of the waltzing portion

Enmeshed in a diurnal motion

Pandabear

She walked away with pride and guts,

Leaving unstubbed cigarette butts.

Yogibear

More like an arrogant walk

And certainly beyond all talk

Pandabear

Coffee stains splattered the table,

Blood stains shattered the able.

Yogibear

The cascading warm spears

All buried in the melee of tears

Pandabear

Wrinkled hands rub against the stamp fringes,

Old love reignited with past hinges.

Yogibear

The celestial beast tweeted

Since he felt he was cheated

Pandabear

Let poesy encompass the whole,

The rustic and the mechanical soul.

Yogibear

Let poetry harp

On a colourful carp

Pandabear

Of art and music of great mind,

Who could say the past lived in such kind!

Yogibear

And as the final call

Say ripeness is all

Pandabear

Behold, the various scribbling crew,

For unwise minds write long review.

Yogibear

The muse then said to the hind

It's all there in your feverish mind

Pandabear

Your themes call for praise and applause now,

And the Muses walk before you taking a bow.

Yogibear

With the works cited list done

The article waits for none

Pandabear

Men and women, thus are screaming,

And here are the hearts entangling.

Yogibear

The scream, the cream and the ream

Wait at the door to catch a moonbeam

Pandabear

For once the vessel was filled, Jesus,

And pot with a hole truly squeezed us.

Yogibear

Jesus, tell me you took the exam

And got more than eggs and jam

Pandabear

Whispering tongues poisoned the truth,

Parted were those friends in youth.

Yogibear

The hour that's come at last

Asks all dice to seek repast

Pandabear

Hearts are torn away,

As love seeks to decay.

Yogibear

Said Pope, 'When I lisp in numbers

Even the crawling ants become tumblers'

Pandabear

Just yet, and now away from deceiving,

But a sudden wrench is enough to stop believing.

Yogibear

The fire that burns in the distant deeps

Sparkles and sears even as it sleeps

Pandabear

When his lips to mine are pressed,

Cupid looks over that this love is blessed.

Yogibear

What is needed of the cupid

Isn't tears but bombs stupid

Pandabear

Fare thee well, my dear king,

Martyrs are remembered when children sing.

Yogibear

We know that Children sing

Without knowing a thing

Pandabear

Mute harps hug the sad tree,

Hands are locked but tears free.

Yogibear

You can take what poem you want

The poets won't die if you can't

Pandabear

Life is thorny and spent at times in vain,

Like miserable heart and maddening brain.

Yogibear

If gems are handed on a splatter

They forget to sparkle and glitter

Pandabear

Love's death brings in deeper sorrow,

But I live to see the sun every morrow.

Yogibear

The tiger's tail tells the tail

That tricks the thimbles to thunder

Pandabear

Mounting within is the cold despair,

As gloomy thoughts collide in the air.

Yogibear

When curtains fall

It's time for all

Pandabear

Thus to my memory of recall,

I've remained dearest to all.

Well, this was our text-poetry!

Yoganand Kore (a.k.a. Yogibear)

Suhasini Srihari (a.k.a. Pandabear)