The Great Ganesha » poetry http://greatganesha.com idol ramblings, holy irreverent. Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:27:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings http://greatganesha.com/2006/09/21/lilac-shrieks-and-scarlet-bellowings/ http://greatganesha.com/2006/09/21/lilac-shrieks-and-scarlet-bellowings/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:51:01 +0000 The Great Ganesha http://greatganesha.com/?p=236 scarlet1.jpg

Perhaps I’m getting soft in my old age, but as I was walking to the library today, I was hit in the face with this dash of red. Appropriately, the sign said ‘Stop’. And so I did.

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my mind is… (XXV)
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex
-ecute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming
something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings.

E.E. Cummings

]]> http://greatganesha.com/2006/09/21/lilac-shrieks-and-scarlet-bellowings/feed/ 4 Thirty Days: A Poem of (what else?) Love http://greatganesha.com/2006/06/03/thirty-days-a-poem-of-what-else-love/ http://greatganesha.com/2006/06/03/thirty-days-a-poem-of-what-else-love/#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:37:00 +0000 The Great Ganesha http://greatganesha.com/?p=115 “Thirty days and counting,” he says to himself, aloud.
“Thirty days for better (or worse).
“It’s the uncertainty that’s intolerable.
“Can I put the whole thing in reverse?”

He’s panicking again, his nerves are really terse.
He’s not being rational,
Since she’s angelic and sharp,
And unwaveringly loyal.

“Can I really do this?” he says with sadness ample,
“I feel I’m sinking in quicksand!
“Of course, I could never tell her,
“She would never understand.”

Oh my friend, please don’t crash-land!
You still have thirty days.
Enough time for it to sink in.
And get out of your haze.

“I’ll have to change my wayward ways,
“If I want this thing to work,
“If I want her to happy,
“And not think I’m a jerk!”

Hey, you may even have to do some housework,
And occasionally clean up.
But at least you’ll have a partner.
In time, she may bring you a little pup.

“Thanks for lending your ear to me, brother,
“My outlook has improved.
“Without your helping hand
“I would have been unmoved!”

You’re welcome, I’m glad we grooved,
You worried me back there.
Didn’t think you’d make it,
Thought you’d pull out all your hair.

Let this be a lesson to all out there,
What I’ve posted to my blog,
Think twice before you get married,
Because he is just buying a dog.

Inspired by recent blog posts I read on Sepia Mutiny about love, marriage and spitting. On the other hand, I think this person took the post way too seriously.

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A parsi with a flair for apotheosis,
Was convinced he had asthma and spondylosis,
While he fretted over pimples,
His disease was quite simple,
It was acute hypochondriasis.

Well, ok this time it was for real. So I hope the recovery is soon. We want your histrionics back in action, buddy!

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