<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:13:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>a blog</title><description></description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-5646210043166294036</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-07-28T07:56:23.671-07:00</atom:updated><title>Chew on me? It&#39;ll cost you Love</title><description>I&#39;m real late.
My mother does not run
My life anymore

I love you
I k(em)iss you.
My mother knocks
And helps me nock
You up.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2022/07/chew-on-me-itll-cost-you-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-9059710556904305261</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2021-06-02T00:11:10.873-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>What have you in store for me today?&lt;br /&gt;
Predatory instincts sharpened before we pray.&lt;br /&gt;
Dunk the Lord&#39;s Head in the pond&lt;br /&gt;
till he splutters out the benediction you want</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-have-you-in-store-for-me-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-666223093658283069</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-05-27T00:30:06.448-07:00</atom:updated><title>Never lionize Schrödinger&#39;s Cat</title><description>Everyone has their own personal way of reacting to a piece of numinous prose. Mr. V comes up with a lot of those numinous proses. But I feel we should NOT comment on Mr. V&#39;s deep ruminations lest we undermine them with the platitudes of plaudits or criticism. We should just dwell on them and apply them to our individual experience of existence and see what comes of it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The only appropriate way to handle Mr. V&#39;s impassioned assertions is with a pregnant silence as you turn the matter over objectively in your mind. The slightest iota of rhetorical applause or condemnation (especially on public fora) can jeopardise the impact or outcome of a potent maxim. Never lionize Schrödinger&#39;s cat!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1). If the assertion hold true, we&#39;ll have attained a priceless Truth for free;&lt;br /&gt;
2). If it doesn&#39;t, we&#39;ll know that either Mr. V has been experiencing something authentic, unique but non-transmittable or that he is, disingenuously or deludedly, propagating a fabricated paradigm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only the first scenario is worth pursuing.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2014/05/never-lionize-schrodingers-cat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-4466853812923701270</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-09T04:10:40.095-07:00</atom:updated><title>&quot;Hey waiter, I&#39;ll have what debate&quot;</title><description>The entire paradigm of The Debate is based on the notion that the most apt conclusion can be reached only by letting a host of germane viewpoints hammer and crash against each other, at the culmination of which will emerge a conclusion, battered and dented, but all the more mature and polished for it. I say debates (at least the way I see they are conducted and pan out) are more a fanfare-creating device than a forum for honest discussion. If you need a debate to convince you of an ideology, then maybe you haven&#39;t thought it through well enough to be part of the informed debate in the first place. This is not, whatsoever, a plea to be stubborn or parochial about one&#39;s own views. It&#39;s a plea that one must substantiate any idea for oneself, of one&#39;s own steam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Debates are perpetuated by the belief that diversity of opinion is something to be cherished. This can be a grossly misleading idea, if you&#39;re not careful. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now, I know that not every issue is black or white, but how many legitimately different ways can there be of describing -- to employ a proverbial specimen as an example -- an elephant, unless one is holding up a limb or a tusk or a tail and purporting it to be a comprehensive definition of the elephant? &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Debates, as we know them, involve a panel of persons groping and grasping at the isolated perspective they are given to as individuals. My plea is, let us not allow the individual to be reduced to having to play the role of providing one of the many ingredients of a debate. Each individual should be armed with a holistic vision on an issue that must resemble the truth as closely as the individual&#39;s fallibility allows. If there is but one truth, there should never be two different takes. If you differ from another&#39;s viewpoint, that is just what constitutes the variance -- the different viewpoint, the different location; you need to just shift your locus and align with the other perspective to reconcile the discrepancy. But with such a shift, the elephant, or the truth does not, in itself, ever change.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now, I know the vicissitudes of life make it nigh on impossible for there not to be different perspectives. Life offers too many caprices, too many discombobulating contours for a solid stance to view a phenomenon from (unless you are powerfully ensconced in your Meditative Zen State) and is too unreasonably hurried for the truth not to be often formed in a blurred haze.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So, I know we live in a complex world that&#39;s rendered even more inscrutable by its tendency to be unstable. But honestly, that does not mean we allow spades to be called geranium flowers. Of course, a spade may well appear as a geranium flower to somebody else. But you&#39;d be a fool to yourself to allow them to con you into calling what appears as a spade to you as a geranium flower. The key is to know your spade and your geranium flower well enough, be able to distinguish between what each represents in your universe and hold fast to the truth of both definitions, that you can stand your ground if and when you are presented a hot, boiling pot of lies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sing and dance, Powerpants!</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2013/05/hey-waiter-ill-have-what-debate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-6701626233630349525</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-28T01:25:45.151-08:00</atom:updated><title>God for me</title><description>Atheism has to be a false notion. If someone says they are an atheist and purports that they do not believe in the existence of God, they are surely misspeaking or misguided, right? Surely they mean to deny and defy formal religion and the insidious mores of men that seek to indoctrinate, not God per se! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If some young, naive wannabe renegade, impressed by the machismo embodied by atheists, should buy into the malarkey that God does not exist, he should let himself in for a world of pain, desolation, dissolution and fecklessness.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For me, God, incontrovertibly, is. That which gives me power is God. Energy is God; and the universe runs on energy. Ergo, there is God. Booyah.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It only remains to find and employ the means to harness God.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/11/god-for-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-2717307619120303611</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-30T11:39:29.352-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>The angel asks me, &quot;What may I do for you at this juncture of your existence?&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I want to milk this divine offer. So, I contemplate a while so as to conjure up the optimum request. Then, I consult the phrase I had carefully calligraphed a recent enough while ago that it should still be fresh and germane. I clear my phrenic passages and think:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;I want to discover undying precepts of my very own. I want, then, to define and articulate these ruminations by dint of my incontrovertible finesse as a usageaster. I want to apply these precepts, which should infuse me with strength and vigour, with sagacity whenever beneficial.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The benign seraph says benevolently, &quot;Will do, Mihir. Stand by for fulfillment of your wish. Nicely composed request too, by the way, if I may.&quot;</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-angel-asks-me-what-may-i-do-for-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-7418361932519152015</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-22T13:01:32.878-07:00</atom:updated><title>Come, kiss</title><description>Transient, but it lingers&lt;br /&gt;
For long enough to be tasted.&lt;br /&gt;
Fleeting no longer,&lt;br /&gt;
It ceases to elude capture,&lt;br /&gt;
And embeds itself softly&lt;br /&gt;
But surely in the pores&lt;br /&gt;
Of my mind.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A vast fullness&lt;br /&gt;
Envelops the atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;
There&#39;s no space&lt;br /&gt;
That&#39;s beyond my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
If some does lurk,&lt;br /&gt;
In some shadowily painted corner&lt;br /&gt;
Its screaming secrecy&lt;br /&gt;
Betrays its presence&lt;br /&gt;
To me.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Wait till I unleash &lt;br /&gt;
My eyes on your form.&lt;br /&gt;
You won&#39;t know &lt;br /&gt;
Which way to look,&lt;br /&gt;
Or which way to swarm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Would it really be &lt;br /&gt;
So bad if you just&lt;br /&gt;
Came over&lt;br /&gt;
To my place&lt;br /&gt;
And stayed there&lt;br /&gt;
Till I drink&lt;br /&gt;
You up&lt;br /&gt;
To&lt;br /&gt;
My&lt;br /&gt;
Fill?</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/07/come-kiss.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-6734906861638360412</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-19T14:39:24.399-07:00</atom:updated><title>Promise premise</title><description>Call me from the high throne.&lt;br /&gt;
Make sure your voice reaches me on the phone.&lt;br /&gt;
I&#39;m not hard of hearing&lt;br /&gt;
but I do like for sound to seep,&lt;br /&gt;
and to penetrate&lt;br /&gt;
real deep.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Drop your string of yarn&lt;br /&gt;
in cascading fluid curls.&lt;br /&gt;
Pour that viscous mix&lt;br /&gt;
up the chute.&lt;br /&gt;
Shoot your bull&#39;s eye&lt;br /&gt;
at point blank range&lt;br /&gt;
and fill up the space&lt;br /&gt;
with neurons &lt;br /&gt;
that sparkle.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Twinkling eyes, they see,&lt;br /&gt;
and gleam in my sockets.&lt;br /&gt;
Gleaning data packets&lt;br /&gt;
osmotically and &lt;br /&gt;
gravitationally.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
PRemise: my name is Mihir. &lt;br /&gt;
Powers latent in me&lt;br /&gt;
suffer silently &lt;br /&gt;
in a self-imposed state &lt;br /&gt;
of dormancy and sterility &lt;br /&gt;
due to a diffidence&lt;br /&gt;
born out of their being stationed &lt;br /&gt;
in an unviable, hostile environment.&lt;br /&gt;
I don&#39;t feel kindred with my co-fauNA. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But rest assured, O Conscience, &lt;br /&gt;
that I will succeed in persuading &lt;br /&gt;
you to seek and find your fulfillment &lt;br /&gt;
in your lot. And if you cannot &lt;br /&gt;
give up your asphyxiating obduracy, &lt;br /&gt;
I will create for you &lt;br /&gt;
an environment you will be &lt;br /&gt;
enticed to blossom in.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/06/promise-premise.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-7454484496390718504</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-05T10:38:52.413-07:00</atom:updated><title>Armed rosary</title><description>Step away from that pot of gold.&lt;br /&gt;
It&#39;s mine, in case you didn&#39;t know.&lt;br /&gt;
Be along on your thieving stroll.&lt;br /&gt;
My beans for you won&#39;t grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I stalk my predators.&lt;br /&gt;
My viagra runs in their fangs.&lt;br /&gt;
In my veins, a myriad nectars course.&lt;br /&gt;
I scheme from behind my bangs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your arrows fall limp like dead poodles.&lt;br /&gt;
Flat, long and impotent.&lt;br /&gt;
I suck down the bowlful of noodles.&lt;br /&gt;
The china plate has a gulp-shaped dent.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Manning the ring are my minions.&lt;br /&gt;
They number six-and-infinity.&lt;br /&gt;
They wield scimitars and pinions.&lt;br /&gt;
I&#39;m geared for divinity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know you were daring a heist.&lt;br /&gt;
But that was before you knew about us.&lt;br /&gt;
Begone before I set on you my feist.&lt;br /&gt;
The hound will ravage you without fuss.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Breath by breath, I thrive with my knack.&lt;br /&gt;
The more you fume, the more toasty I get.&lt;br /&gt;
Bred for potency, my bricks I stack.&lt;br /&gt;
Let go of my puzzle; that&#39;s my jigsaw set.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Peace be with you.&lt;br /&gt;
Be with me if you will.&lt;br /&gt;
Know that I want my space and my view.&lt;br /&gt;
I shall exercise my skill.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/06/armed-rosary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-6823107996510535752</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-16T01:33:20.774-07:00</atom:updated><title>Where Thee at?</title><description>These bohemians are slandering Your name,&lt;br /&gt;
thinking it fashionable to badmouth&lt;br /&gt;
You, Who seem to have left as soon as You came,&lt;br /&gt;
And Who created a diaspora between the North and the South.&lt;br /&gt;
They want to render You nonexistent&lt;br /&gt;
So they can make their contradictions consistent&lt;br /&gt;
With one another; they seek&lt;br /&gt;
To befuddle, with their unverifiable libel, the meek.&lt;br /&gt;
Ironically, the barbarians are more&lt;br /&gt;
To be pitied than censured, for&lt;br /&gt;
They try to tell apart Krishna and Thor,&lt;br /&gt;
And, failing to split the atom, disparage The Core.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Are they entrapped by Nihilism, surely not!&lt;br /&gt;
I, more than anyone I know, &lt;br /&gt;
Had been infected by the rot,&lt;br /&gt;
But never saw the tumour successfully grow&lt;br /&gt;
Into anything sturdy and tenable.&lt;br /&gt;
I have found I must be amenable&lt;br /&gt;
To Thy true form, whatever It be,&lt;br /&gt;
And allow It to gambol within Me.&lt;br /&gt;
Shall I venture why You, to them, are a nonentity?&lt;br /&gt;
Your absconding renders them blasé;&lt;br /&gt;
When You, the Top Cat, are away, they, the bandicoots, will play&lt;br /&gt;
Fast and loose with Your identity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I&#39;m forced to invent&lt;br /&gt;
Names for You, one for each of Your myriad hues.&lt;br /&gt;
In order to circumvent&lt;br /&gt;
The desolation of Your apparent desertion, I muse&lt;br /&gt;
On my memory of You. &lt;br /&gt;
But at times, when the morass thickens (the plot too),&lt;br /&gt;
My shoulders threaten to buckle under&lt;br /&gt;
The sheer weight of the blunder&lt;br /&gt;
You committed (cough, cough)&lt;br /&gt;
When you upped and left (You deserter!),&lt;br /&gt;
When, without a word or murmur,&lt;br /&gt;
You simply took off!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your absence is oppressive! I demand&lt;br /&gt;
That You show Yourself -- like You did&lt;br /&gt;
To the horizon this morning, and&lt;br /&gt;
To Pandora, when she unclasped that lid.&lt;br /&gt;
In a torrent You will come rushing&lt;br /&gt;
Like the frothy waves that come gushing&lt;br /&gt;
To scoop the straggling turtle hatchling up&lt;br /&gt;
Into its foamy embrace, as it yodels, &quot;Surf&#39;s up!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I must thank all that I have seen, each mountain&lt;br /&gt;
I&#39;m coerced to scale by the force &lt;br /&gt;
Of Your Will, which, with my own, I will forge,&lt;br /&gt;
And then head up to the source of Your fountain!</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-you-no-stay.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-7935151746563239224</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-22T15:12:25.222-07:00</atom:updated><title>Waxing Official</title><description>One cycle had passed since the Neophyte started drawing his income for shifting with the lunar pearl. Came D-day, however, he was feeling a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction over what he couldn&#39;t help but feel was a distressingly mundane culmination. Then, not one to be crushed by anvil-shaped feathers, the Neophyte began to reflect on a mirror, which he held backwards while simultaneously laying the cleansing carpet out. To the acolyte&#39;s right, an inquisitive Quorum, sat chomping on each other&#39;s fat. What chew say? the members of the Quorum were often heard inquiring of one another. The Chubby Minister held the Industrious Honey&#39;s attention with the timeless benjamin, information. The CM burped out well-digested digestibles. 

The Neophyte, meanwhile, sat muttering his mantras within himself. These mantras were inaudible, imperceptible, at the time, to the Neophyte himself. For you see, the mantras had, after months of diligent and assiduous repetition on his part, accreted into a deeply embedded, automated internal skill that lay beneath too many fathoms to be fathomable at a superficial glance. As the Neophyte keyed in the self-sufficing prophetic words, he sensed he should acknowledge the venerable presence of the Knowledgeable Saintly Man, for he had just learnt that everyone was keenly aware of everyone&#39;s doings, and it would be amiss if he should omit this sage from the Quorum. The KSM was, therefore, duly noted and imbibed. 

Within his caffienated chamber, the impish livewire went about his administrative obligations before he may wink 40 times. The Neophyte had organised his inner space so as to attract and assimilate any and all lessons; so he absorbed the teachings and was eager for more. For there was much information yet to glean, many mountains of treasures waiting scheduled to be discovered.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/04/one-cycle-had-passed-since-acolyte.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-2229726018919578940</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-06T02:12:50.879-08:00</atom:updated><title>Gems bond with the wind</title><description>The diamond in the dirt decided it was time to come clean. It had spent much borrowed time burrowed deep in obscurity. Of course, this newfound urge to stick its head above ground would not mean it must emerge to peek dangerously out from a hole in a snake pit. Venom corrodes the purest of jewels; the diamond will not let itself be tainted. No, it is much too pristine and rare a thing for such mistreatment. The precious stone would do laps within its inner marathon grounds, lest it lapse into atrophy. It was a trophy that it would award itself. On a daily basis. Life would be a breeze. With every zephyr that condescended to caress its softly gleaming exterior, and with every purr elicited, would catalyse its dogged commitment to petting itself with feeling care. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the breadth of its breath would serve to be its daily bread.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/03/gems-bond-with-wind.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-766599632612047720</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-28T11:50:24.300-08:00</atom:updated><title>High, flying fish</title><description>My fingers start to bleed&lt;br /&gt;as I thump prayer into these keys.&lt;br /&gt;I ignore the pain and tell it&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m sorry, I don&#39;t mean to offend it&lt;br /&gt;but I&#39;ll turn right round the bend and mend it&lt;br /&gt;as soon as I encircle my own sweet muscle. &lt;br /&gt;I need to get on with my tussle&lt;br /&gt;with my mind; so now, I need to suckle&lt;br /&gt;so I can hope, one day, to stop sucking knuckle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the rouge trickles down&lt;br /&gt;calloused digital mandibles, it drowns&lt;br /&gt;all the vanity and insanity,&lt;br /&gt;bringing truth to reality,&lt;br /&gt;reinstating precious gravity.&lt;br /&gt;When two and two start making four&lt;br /&gt;not cos the elder fraternity told you so,&lt;br /&gt;but because you&#39;ve come to know&lt;br /&gt;that you can control the way the river flows.&lt;br /&gt;You can set it in motion,&lt;br /&gt;And you can merge it with the ocean &lt;br /&gt;and then drink the mixture up like magic potion;&lt;br /&gt;let it soothe your veins like lotion&lt;br /&gt;Just hold on to this notion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great birds know they need all the seed they can stock&lt;br /&gt;So they throw caution to the wind and just feed round the clock.&lt;br /&gt;When the aviators fly, they cry;&lt;br /&gt;so their fledglings open wide&lt;br /&gt;and they swallow all their pride.&lt;br /&gt;Birdbrains are deceptive.&lt;br /&gt;They trick you with their perspective,&lt;br /&gt;forcing you to be receptive&lt;br /&gt;to their ideas, sans contraceptive.&lt;br /&gt;We know we&#39;re dwarfed by your gigantic wings,&lt;br /&gt;and our voice sounds gravelly like when a crow sings,&lt;br /&gt;but we&#39;re biding our time and counting our things&lt;br /&gt;and once we&#39;ve organised our nests and smoothed our chinks,&lt;br /&gt;we&#39;ll find ourselves at the place where the rainbow brings.&lt;br /&gt;So don&#39;t you dare stop short.&lt;br /&gt;Please reconsider if you intend to abort.&lt;br /&gt;Flap those arms like you&#39;re fleeing from Voldemort.&lt;br /&gt;If you&#39;re panting, think of it as a sport&lt;br /&gt;You&#39;re on hole no. 17, or at a tennis court.&lt;br /&gt;Pump that blood. Feel your water. You never need ask for more.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-flying-fish.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-3676219068507611892</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-03T01:45:48.094-08:00</atom:updated><title>Freak of a nature</title><description>With an eye on the sun,&lt;br /&gt;the ostrich sneaks out&lt;br /&gt;of its cranial shyness.&lt;br /&gt;You&#39;re no tortoise, my giraffe.&lt;br /&gt;Stick it out. &lt;br /&gt;Reach for the dangling carrot&lt;br /&gt;while it still hangs &lt;br /&gt;in the balance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My royal highness,&lt;br /&gt;would you like a refill?&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m here for the morning rain&lt;br /&gt;like I never was parched.&lt;br /&gt;Let&#39;s wreak some havoc&lt;br /&gt;and then curl up into it.&lt;br /&gt;We&#39;ll sneak back in &lt;br /&gt;when everyone&#39;s watching.&lt;br /&gt;And the applause will be &lt;br /&gt;a sideshow just for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get up at dawn,&lt;br /&gt;but stifle no yawns.&lt;br /&gt;Rush into focus.&lt;br /&gt;Ease into view.&lt;br /&gt;Wash your own socks,&lt;br /&gt;and go out for a jog.&lt;br /&gt;Tense those new runs&lt;br /&gt;and avail your wiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unsinister watcher twitches&lt;br /&gt;in delight, for it can see&lt;br /&gt;better than anyone else.&lt;br /&gt;Turn your sight inside,&lt;br /&gt;look at your inner sighs.&lt;br /&gt;Your inner size&lt;br /&gt;would dwarf a mammoth.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/02/freak-of-nature.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-4746700730871312579</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-05T07:59:11.522-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>Sorry, I don&#39;t mean to apologise, but this sort of fear calls for a bout of well-meant contrition. We&#39;ll do so much better, henceforth, I promise.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/01/sorry-i-dont-mean-to-apologise-but-this.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-5705660064475193876</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-08T20:02:36.725-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>The chocolate oughtn&#39;t to have been served, if Rudder had heard Norbert well. It was uncalled for. Rudder had served below the belt. He wasn&#39;t playing fair. Oh sure, Rudder was the Dark Lord and all, and Voldemort had nothing on him, either trident-wise or serpent-wise. But, it occurred to Norbert a trustful covenant had been signed earlier in the day. Was this supposed to be Rudder&#39;s twisted way of signalling a bashful retreat? Was He being brazenly spineless? Surely not, Me Lud, if Norbert may venture to call anyone that. Usually, Norbert would never even instigate such a thing, but the gold-foiled cocoa slab really was really pushing the envelope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;Insert mild doubt about Mother&#39;s beatitudes back in the morning. How can something so blessed be misunderstood? Don&#39;t blessings come armed against misperception?&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And suddenly, Norbert was wishing for a world in which the law of the land was either sanity or death. It was absolute madness to have a world where one was allowed to be insane. Give Norbert intellectual liberty or give him death, Zogwarg Queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The repetitive clawing motion was insisting that Norbert do his utmost best to ignore it. The more it jabbed, the more it urged Norbert to build his muscular resilience. &quot;Get stronger,&quot; it thumped benevolently over Norbert&#39;s silently screeching hypothalamus. It&#39;s a cardiac calisthenic. Breathe and jump. Rinse and repeat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the eye tried to stare Norbert down, he knew he must rise to the challenge and climb the stair on the double. And didn&#39;t he dare worry that he seemed not to be able to play by Their rules. Truth be conjectured, They didn&#39;t seem to be able to convey with any sort of clarity what the rules were themselves, and Norbert would be a fool to himself if he attempted to understand that which strove not to be understood. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meanwhile, it still remained to be seen what would be done about the insidious bar of chocolate. More on that as it unfolds, or unwraps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irredeemable insanity should really be banned. Just saying.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2012/01/chocolate-neednt-have-been-served-if.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-8964093475697225317</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-25T14:31:29.214-07:00</atom:updated><title>My Lord, for comfort!</title><description>The cushion lounged,

sat back on its revered bum, flanked 

by two carefree attendants 


Who liked nothing more 

than to emulate their liege lord,

albeit they were given only to produce 

a more squashed-looking facsimile.


On that regal dais,

sketchy-looking pages lay, bowed,

having come unbound of what adhered them once 

to their hardbound face, although they still 

maintained sibling cohesion. 


And so they beseeched 

the royal bolsters to grant them 

shelter and patronage.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-lord-for-comfort.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-8813756413025295318</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-19T05:21:14.466-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>I find I can be quite productive when not being crushed by despair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breathing helps to calm my nerves and detect my bones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I take refuge in whatever will promise to entertain me and keep its promise unfailingly.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-find-i-can-be-quite-productive-when.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-5176889590643334731</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-11T03:51:23.967-07:00</atom:updated><title>Conversations</title><description>All the current literature state sanctimoniously that listening is a quality to be cherished and cultivated. Textbooks, morals, TV shows all talking everywhichwhere about the virtue of the listener. &quot;Ooh, I&#39;m a great listener,&quot; brags this friend of mine, unabashedly, just having got off a sermon of a phone conversation, in which she had delivered earnest advice to this love-lorn friend of hers for, like, half an hour straight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everywhere I go, though, people are actually hounding the conversation and steering the flow of debate towards their ideas and liking. It&#39;s the sign of the successful human being that he ensure that he is in full control of a situation. Allowing another person&#39;s ideas and notions to cordon the conversation, I&#39;ve found in my experience, is tantamount to succumbing to death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m faced with a moral dilemma everytime I enter into a conversation. Are you supposed to listen wholeheartedly, submissively even, or come to the fore with views of your own, even it they&#39;re harsh or abrasive, and potentially dangerous for that matter? I guess the key would be not to have harsh, abrasive views. Also, it so happens that I&#39;m shit scared of advancing views these days lest they be held against me or misconstrued. This happens very often, so I find my fear understandable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lord, help me hold my own and not get washed down under the merciless cascade of someone else&#39;s views. I beseech yous, World o&#39; mine, let&#39;s all just work with the power we have on our own. No one needs to stomp on another person to feel a power surge. We all have power of our own. I think it ought to be enough if we cultivate our own. I don&#39;t even wanna know how this view is going to come back to bite me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe God&#39;ll sink his teeth into me today.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/conversations.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-7434122257231589306</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T08:21:57.806-07:00</atom:updated><title>Eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction</title><description>Future tidings rang out &lt;br /&gt;and sounded strong gongs.&lt;br /&gt;The acolyte drank in the clamour&lt;br /&gt;and digested them as silken songs.&lt;br /&gt;Of eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every act and thought &lt;br /&gt;became a rectifying mercy.&lt;br /&gt;Steep steps climbed&lt;br /&gt;all the way to pleasing surety.&lt;br /&gt;In eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three doors above,&lt;br /&gt;the dragon expired with a start.&lt;br /&gt;With its final blow it called the shrieking ogre&lt;br /&gt;to come claim its heart.&lt;br /&gt;Of eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Complexities unravelled,&lt;br /&gt;subtleties ran outside to play. &lt;br /&gt;In the sunny morning,&lt;br /&gt;every cell made hay.&lt;br /&gt;With eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fleets came together in solidity,&lt;br /&gt;captured by an even speedier instant.&lt;br /&gt;Things were said as they were&lt;br /&gt;and meanings, like they were meant.&lt;br /&gt;For eternal mirth and mindful satisfaction.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/eternal-mirth-and-mindful-satisfaction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-3389298117670173961</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-23T11:42:43.453-07:00</atom:updated><title>Survival indistinct? Kicketh in survival instinct</title><description>The fish called F swam in the sea. F had its fins to guide it through the water, its eyes to see, and its digestive system to process nutrients for its sustenance. Its gills were smoothly functioning respirators. It did not ever have to wonder about anything, for the answer was always apparent without needing even to be asked. F was very happy, for it knew its environment like the back of its fin. It also knew how its neighbours and colleagues functioned, what made them tick. Therefore, it did not ever fear what the other fish might do to it, for it knew the other fish could never gain access to its treasured pearls. The other fish would never seek to or be able to devour it, for F&#39;s success was indispensable to the ecosystem, and the other fish relied on it for their own livelihood. There was no question of worry, anxiety or trouble, for everything was negotiable, and success was a birthright. Life was fluid and nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One fine morning, as the rays of the sun glistened off the surface of a recumbent oyster (it was such a bucolic day as of usual), F found that something was thrusting it upwards, applying an insidious pressure on its underside. F, strangely, felt an odd resentment to this. It was odd that it should feel resentment towards this upward thrust; it was this very same ascensionary pressure that F felt and thrived on day in, day out. So, why was it experiencing an antagonism towards something it had always loved and trusted? A strange anxiety began to grip F and slowly, but surely, F was paralysed. It just could not move through the water. Desperate, F sent shooting bursts of neural instruction to its tailfin for it to move and propel its body forward, it thrashed and flailed, but the water seemed intractable. F seemed no longer to have any clout with the water. The other fish were staring at it, their big fishy eyes agape. They seemed genuinely concerned about the plight F appeared to be in. They seemed to want to help, and they crowded around F, trying to observe it from all angles. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some told F that it had to kick its tailfin harder, that it was guilty of laziness and lacking in self-love. If F could speak, it might have been able to explain that the state it was in seemed to be one of doom, that there seemed nothing within its power to make its tailfin move. But its explanations were incoherent. None of its famed, trusted mental clarity seemed able to work, and whenever F tried to speak, only hazy spumes of seawater and seasand took shape. No communication could take place.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon, the relationship between it and the other fish became confrontative. F did not understand why such smart, successful diagnosticians among the other fish were clueless about how to effect a cure in him. Truth be told, F was horribly frustrated with itself and the mutinous water which would no longer be friends with it. And with the exasperation the other fish displayed at F&#39;s seemingly stubborn refrain that it was feeling incorrigibly incapacitated, F began to feel like the other fish were in some way responsible for his insane condition. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As F reflected on memories of its past triumphs and wondered how to revanche lost territory, it only encountered wispy semblances which, it appeared, need not even ever have been true. It began to doubt its past, its self, its very core right to love, success and life. These were dreary times, they were. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F knew it did not want to be swimming with the fishes. It wanted to be eligible to partake once more of the wonders and beauties of its Life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then F experienced a sharp tug that dragged it straight upwards, towards the light. F went along, but never succumbed to the despondent submission of labeling sadness as being its inherent nature. So long as the pathology persisted, F never stopped squirming and sulking, and thus did it confirm what must constitute success and happiness to it. F did never give in. F was a fish ordained to see the ether after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One fine morning, Life became a breeze. F was a flying fish.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/survival-indistinct-kicketh-in-survival.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-8657617768953842231</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-06T14:09:16.916-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>When your life is an inexorable situation, in which negativity and powerlessness surround you completely and cannot be shrugged off whatsoever, nor placated, coaxed, pleaded with, or entreated into loosening their vice-like grip on your soul/mind/brain/self, and there appears not the tiniest cranny into which your spirit can slip for some solace or redemption, either of two things must be happening: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* You have been cursed by something/someone malevolent, and all the components of your life are being puppeteered, monitored and regulated constantly into keeping you mired in the state of chronic negativity, or...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* You have a mental disease you&#39;d better get checked out asap if you want to live a life of basic human dignity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, it is theoretically possible that you have been thrust into a dystopia which is actually a phenomenon/experience whose culmination will liberate you, fulfilling your original, long-obscured life purpose and therefore is good for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rainbows, sweet-smelling daisies, dainty butterflies, fresh-cut grass in the dewy morning, seaside breeze that is redolent of a new book, warm clothing, love, success and good wishes.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/when-you-are-faced-with-inexorable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-435220740641085134</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-01T14:02:25.523-07:00</atom:updated><title>Wealth redistribution</title><description>He arose one morning,&lt;br /&gt;and saw the moon recede.&lt;br /&gt;Thanked sufficiently, the lunar pearl &lt;br /&gt;had once again became a bead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He plucked the marbles,&lt;br /&gt;hitherto flotsam, adrift,&lt;br /&gt;frazzled in the ether,&lt;br /&gt;and threaded them back as his gift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon, he began to plunder&lt;br /&gt;all his wealth back&lt;br /&gt;from the hooded robins&lt;br /&gt;that had once pronounced him a hack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a kindly altruist,&lt;br /&gt;he exchanged verbs of warmth.&lt;br /&gt;Disallowing the bypass of his filters,&lt;br /&gt;he would know he saved himself from all harms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His currency sniffed the market&lt;br /&gt;and deemed it safe to emerge;&lt;br /&gt;Its deep slumber &lt;br /&gt;had given it a new surge.</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/wealth-redistribution.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-1602770077971794613</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-04T14:17:39.396-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>The falsehood is thriving! All eyes are seeing, feigning obliviousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mongrels have gathered around and are cackling their prey into submission. Isn&#39;t this an opprobrium? Where is the magistrate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why isn&#39;t Radiohead doing anything about this? Why are their songs not potent enough to expurgate this atmosphere? We demand clean oxygen for our living children, Dear Sir! This happens to be a family movie. Kindly desist from having it masquerade as an exploitation film. Does the Censor board know about this... Or are they in on this too?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calling all cops, calling all cops, blare those sirens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sniffing for health.... It&#39;s still rabid out there, so we&#39;ll take our bottle along everywhere won&#39;t we?</description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/falsehood-is-thriving-all-eyes-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2942878766910924363.post-6781662353109212642</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-31T02:41:44.074-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>Fine dining, creative thinking, being immersed in fineness, using music and words to weave powerful monuments of beauty and fortune, spontaneous rectitude, visions and shows that stimulate and tickle, the feeling of deliberated insulation within self, doing the right thing. </description><link>http://all-ablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/fine-dining-creative-thinking.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mihir Balantrapu)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>