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Poetry Is A Place — Where Words Get Eternalized, In All Their Imperfections

A prose poem of the words, by the words, for the words… — Condemned to inglorious existence, words are sentenced to trite texts. In another life, they hope to line the edicts to make a proud living. In some reincarnations, they are planted in bedtime stories, thus ennobled. Other times, lead a life of discomfiture in bad language. The world spins on the…

Prose Poem

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Poetry Is A Place — Where Words Get Eternalized, In All Their Imperfections
Poetry Is A Place — Where Words Get Eternalized, In All Their Imperfections
Prose Poem

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ILLUMINATION

·Mar 14

Dream, That’s The Thing To Do…

Could we draw creative inspiration from our dreams? — Dream, When You’re Feeling Blue Dream, That’s the Thing to Do… - Robert Creely (Introduction to Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams) The subconscious mind is immensely creative when we dream. You would never hear about a boring dream. They are all eventful, and full of color. I believe that recording…

Dreams

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Dream, That’s The Thing To Do…
Dream, That’s The Thing To Do…
Dreams

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The Lark

·Mar 1

Way Out of Line

A collage of lines borrowed from a few of my favorite poems — Fine lines shine in poems. Incandescent, intensely hot from the fusion of words that form them. Charming like a flowering Champaca that waylays you along a nocturnal trail with a sudden whiff of scent; as a magpie robin’s elaborate, earnest tunes make you look up from the morning paper. I…

Poetry

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Way Out of Line
Way Out of Line
Poetry

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Jan 4

Hit Me With Your Best Jot…

So reads the letter pad on which I found my 10-year-old’s Drabble — I once yarned creative bedtime stories for her. But now, I have a lot to learn from her about the craft of storytelling. I stumbled upon a story she has started writing. I always read these to learn about the workings of the little mind. She makes these up from…

Drabble

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Hit Me With Your Best Jot…
Hit Me With Your Best Jot…
Drabble

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Aug 19, 2022

A Personal Statement And Course Correction

You may ignore this — nothing noteworthy or important — I write because it is my favorite itch to scratch, and is satisfying that way. I am a dabbler, and many things interest me. I want to write about them all. This space will feature long form, short form, poetry, and my other writing experiments. …

Personal

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A Personal Statement And Course Correction
A Personal Statement And Course Correction
Personal

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Jul 18, 2022

Hear Me Out, For Things Unsaid Too

Sometimes, silence and non-words are more eloquent than speech — That words have been juiced out of their lives is well-documented. So, I shun verbosity — empty words tire me. Yet, these expressions need words. Ones that may have some life…I manage to scavenge a few precious ones and struggle to string them together. What might appear as flaws in…

Prose Poem

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Hear Me Out, For Things Unsaid Too
Hear Me Out, For Things Unsaid Too
Prose Poem

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Jul 16, 2022

When Advice Is Not Free

The advice I cannot ignore is the one I never get — Are you good at giving advice? Some of you are. Let’s say the lead character in a movie, a middle-aged man becomes a pauper owing to some bad decisions he made. He has absolutely nothing and nobody to help him, except his vast experience running a successful business. Long after…

Life Lessons

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When Advice Is Not Free
When Advice Is Not Free
Life Lessons

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Jul 9, 2022

Three Resolutions For A Sustainable Future

A utopian list of lofty resolutions from a disgruntled consultant — Regeneration or Sustainability — however you call it — is about a just and equitable society; nothing more, nothing less. It is not only about how we treat natural systems. No amount of ‘going green’ is going to help us. Nature has ways to find equilibrium, and it will prevail…

Sustainability

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Three Resolutions For A Sustainable Future
Three Resolutions For A Sustainable Future
Sustainability

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ILLUMINATION

·Mar 1, 2022

The Venerable Third World

A critical stock-taking of how civilized we are — Ah, the confounded war — the badge of lesser mortals, of which and whom we wouldn’t deign to speak, with the high air of our own flatulence — is here at our doorstep! Please, let us not flatter ourselves. We live in duality, among two worlds, we choose one or the…

Racism

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The Venerable Third World
The Venerable Third World
Racism

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ILLUMINATION

·Feb 22, 2022

The 2,000-Year-Old Vigil Of The Sickle-Nosed

My translation of a 2,000-year-old Tamil poem and a message of hope — The Black Ibis or the Red-naped Ibis is a remarkable bird and is endemic to India. Living in small groups, nesting atop trees like the Palmyra and Peepul, the Red-naped Ibis has a dark brown and black plumage with a bright red patch on its nape. The Tamil (தமிழ் —…

Poetry

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The 2,000-Year-Old Vigil Of The Sickle-Nosed
The 2,000-Year-Old Vigil Of The Sickle-Nosed
Poetry

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Kannan Natesan

Kannan Natesan

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I am a sucker for elegantly constructed sentences and I love words. Honing my writing skills here. Support writers like me: https://knski.medium.com/membership

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