Monday, April 23, 2012

Ink Stains

Thoughts...
Not quite random
Yet not altogether coherent

Perhaps fuzzy shadows of greater truths
Amorphous, entangled, muddled, incomplete

But alive

Flutter about, seeking expression

And in a struggle to articulate -
Attempt to contort into the contours of language

And Create -
Ink stains on a page...



Greetings, all! As some of you might know, I have been thinking about starting a blog for a long time now - in fact it was one of the top things in my to-do list. However, my legendary listlessness makes the whole list a very contradiction in terms. The gods, you see, have been most malevolently generous in endowing me with a limitless capacity for persistent lack of initiative.

My laziness forbids me from spending too much effort making tiresome decisions. And there are so many tiresome decisions to make here. What should it be called? What should be the first entry? What is worthy of being shared? How much work does a piece require to make it good enough.. or even just readable? This was all just too much.

But I finally hit upon a solution to these problems. The solution is, quite characteristically: an excuse :) In place of eloquent (escripent?) writing, there will be pages peppered with metaphorical ink-stains, messy scribbles and scratches... ostensibly containing within them, little ink-lings of more meaningful and beautiful things. The poem above is the prime* example - it recursively reflects on itself, as much as it profiles everything to follow.

I'm hoping, though, that these discursive scribbles will provide for some diversion. And that some of these ink stains will leave... somewhat interesting impressions...

5 comments:

  1. finally..!!
    heard ms. poetry say:-
    if this lovely inkstains could be,
    smudge, scribble, just the way you wish..
    here is where i wanna stay
    and be every blank page's envy..

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    1. Thank you :) It has taken a lot of pushing to get this ink flowing... even if to produce illegible squiggles. Thanks for all the pushing! To me, your poetry here will now be every other page's envy.

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  2. I never thought this day would arrive, but it has :-D expecting the next post from you soon :-)

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    1. Ha ha.. I know your patience has been wearing out (for several... years now?). But your phenomenal persistence has finally overcome even my immense inertia. I am grateful for that.

      Being the (redundantly) lazy sluggard that I am, I will, in the near future, mostly be posting stuff I already wrote in (near and far) past. I was just going through old wipro emails - remember those most interesting, exciting projects you, me and murpra never got started on? Something that came out of that will be the next post.

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