Long Analogue Poems

Digital Prints

When lightening had blighted their perilous shadows at break neck speed

Vision and mystery succumbed sprightly beyond recognition scared and scarred

Obliterated in illiterate darkness they were easy prey for shadow’s projections

‘Tinkerbell’ had lost her way...

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A mast of goodness seen by the entire neighborhood,
even if the whole body stays beneath the waters;
producing rare sweet wine loved by all
as attitude calmly speaks giving more command to words.
Then possesses a temperament
which unleashes...

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The Slide Ruler

As regulations rule this world from outside in and my time slowly
                 seeps away on this planet’s...

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When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away

It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random

	It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hammer


Hundreds of screws in...

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Analogue Dialogue

When one experiences the Past looking forward
          And views the Future through a long-gone lens
          ...

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Technological age.
Advancement of advancement,
Digital acceleration unlimited.

Gifted and pocketed,
This watch,
Dull dark silver,
True and tested mechanic,
Short and sturdy chain,
Analogue accuracy.

It fits comfortably in my jeans pocket,
Ages alongside my creasing lines with wear marks,
Time isn't well kept with...

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“Shall I compare thee to summer’s day?”
Asked Shakespeare,
But did not stay for an answer!
Thiruvalluvar compared timely help
To human hands hastening 
To right a slipping dress.
Bharati compared fear to death.

Linguists compare languages
Critics compare literatures and theories.
Philosophers...

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Evolution


It’s a beautiful world…

It’s a beautiful world for us to behold.
Open your eyes; you are not yet cold.
You have only just begun.
You are yet to fall in love, 
With the trees and the mountains and...

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With you I want to have a word,
Thou immor(t)al bird!
No angry generation
Can tread thee down:
Thou wast not born for death.
Thou art indeed a riddle on earth.

People seem to like other creatures
But not you, your function...

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WHERE MUSIC TAKES ME

When I close my eyes and relax
Put on that old analogue LP disc
The vinyl version, all nine tracks
And of any interruption, no risk

Soon I am due to be transported
To a cold and...

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How does the music flow?

Subtle single soprano notes and chorals sing out
in whispered melodies, blustery bravado mix doubts
when one tenor voice begins its solos on the rise 
blending with the symphony surprise.

At first comes the...

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Incessant.
Perhaps better put as
Perpetual.
The master movement mechanic,
As consistent as my healthy heart beat,
The ever clever uninvented
Perpetual motion machine.
It has its circular sway,
Monotonic metronome in
Measured meter mastered.
How uncanny the way it is
Laid in such a strange...

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Why you call me tonight by that sweet name?
That name is very personal to me.
You've broken relation; you made me free.
Can't forget pain you gave, don't want to blame.
That phase of suffering was mine, great...

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Comfort in living, from the exercise of thinking
Interlinked webs matching each other despite their differences
Vices not welcomed and a society projecting growth
Inside, already existent development spreading through all angles
Lifestyle in digital form, well advanced in...

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Drowning her children
back in her womb,
a big tear rolls down the cheek of earth.
She was sitting on broken bones
to watch the terror,
ear for ear to listen,
eye for eye to see.
Hope was becoming ephemeral.

Nostalgia for breathing...

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Award
A war
Furious god
Not a bodyguard
Take a sword
Award
Screens
Scream
While scrolling
The sky is falling
On children
The nation is hidden
It’s a tearing world
Award
For you
For me
For everyone
Just take the gun
Or analogue of any sort
Donation is an action word
Award
It isn’t snow
Even it’s...

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Icarus climbs to spite the sun;
marveling now at his own reaches
daring leer for daunting heights he
spat in the face of God

On a cave wall and in the cathedrals
pigment proof that myth is miracle--
masters of their...

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Desire
Is fond attire;
Flames in grand fire


Courage
Is bold passage;
Touch sets deep page.


Prologue
Is analogue;
Voice streams dialogue.


Street-smart
Is just wise art;
Living with heart.


Fashion
Is attention;
Style in action.


Motive
Is perspective;
Now proactive.


Charming
Is crisp knowing;
Now becoming.


Good write
Is but true cite;
In a good bite.


Journey
Is true...

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