Daily Regimen
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In the morning
take a walk in the park
to lower the risk of
Maxi pooping on the carpet.
Limit two heartbreaks a day-
sunny side up.
If dick swells with irrationality
whack it out of its trance.
Thick spread of overtime
on slices of restlessness.
Abstain from chatting
to dead people
inside your head.
Do not confuse
perfect smiles
with easy love.
Rein the daydreams in-
thoughts wandering
are thoughts wasted.
Read one (1) sentence
of Proust each night
before bed.

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mG. (11-23-04)

answers
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nights are for ghosts
days for vultures
minutes are for messengers
hours for marathoners
les for women
beer-bellies for six-packers
jars for candy
sticks to beat thives
fans for rockstars
coffee for nightowl
tea for British
Bible for jesus freaks
warranty for your watch, cell phone, car, life
guarantee of snow tomorrow
loss for athletes
huge paychecks for primadonnas
hourly for the laborer
Whopper Jr. for lunch, dinner and tomorrow's lunch too...
life for answers
faces for memory
love for agony
introductions for false hopes
dreams for nightmares
patience for dissappointment
sorrow for strength
atlantic for sunrise!

---
mG (11-21-04)

questions?
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Is baldness better than gray hair?
Is there a patch for sex?
Does Turkey recognize Thanksgiving?
Are there bottles of boobies?
Can athletes fake wins -
like some fake orgasms?
I knew a woman who who had an orgasm with the moon.
Is Moon's dick that long?
She was Japanese.
Did she cry out Moonsan, Moonsan, Moonsan, Moonsan.....?
Do the Japanese name their kids Moon?
What happens when the moon ejaculates?
Enough. There is no answer in grossness.
Did Jesus masturbate? Did Buddha?
Did they wash their dicks afterwards and say "binabi," "binabi"... like the priests in Pashupati?
Jesus was perfect. Did he have a perfect dick?
Did Buddha leave his Palace because he had mid-life crisis?
If Buddha was alive today rather than leaving the Palace would he buy:
a. a convertible
b. a Porsche ?
Are Cheech and Chong the reincarnations of the pot-head God, Shivaji?
...



mG(11-21-04)

it's always interesting and intriguing to read the poems that get posted on sajha. sharing your creative expressions always puts you in a position of being vulnerable and i appreciate your openness and willingness to do this.

mg, if i remember correctly, you said you were a student in another thread. are you a creative writing or english major? where are you studying? have you ever compiled your writings for some sort of publication? i'd love to read more.....

thanks for sharing everyone!

palpali gaule, I am Communication Arts major. I don't have a compilation yet. Someday soon. thanks,
mG.

MG, with alsmot all of sajha basis, i too enjoy ur writing/poems ..they are deep, simple and sometimes halarious :)

and Mg, i usually like ur poems / writings because they are not mono-toned, each of ur writing are fresh and hot. ..

hahah and enjoyed reading, the questions?, ...

keep on writing ...cant get enough of ur poems and stories..

Humberto Maturana, a biologist and a philosopher, whose views I got introduced with by Gokul jee, has this to say-

"When one puts objectivity in parenthesis, all views, all verses in the multiverse are equally valid".

This is what came to my mind when I read Oys' verses along with mG's. And then I thought what if one removes the parentheses ?

I don't mean to offend Oys, but his response of Regimen II, III to mG's Regimen is innocent at best and lacks respect to mG's peerless creation at worst.

(I know, I know, Oys is a big admirer of mG's works. That's why I said it innocent.)

I don't mean Oys' pieces are not good. They are good. They are as good as mG's. Nor do I mean they have no right to sit next to mG's. They can make a valid claim for that. But all this only in the condition Maturana described.

My experiment was to test that with his condition removed. I want to be clear on this before anyone thinks I might be interfering with other's creative sovereignty or as they call, poetic license.

As far as I can see, Oys' regimens symbolize a petty, mundane, stale, de-inspiring, limited and unreasoned routine. mG's is the opposite. Petty yet transcendal and inspiring, unexplained yet reasonable, preachy yet not assertive and so on.

If Oys meant to contrast, fine. Otherwise they are good poems at a wrong place.

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'Answers' and 'Questions' by mG- stunning !

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nepe Sir,
My due apologies.

I understand where your sentiments come from, as my rambling was totally out of context to the themes of MG's writings. Les jus say, sometimes you feel compelled to spew out your thoughts at what they call "heat of the moment"..n MG's thread was a mere coincidence. I did not mean to take away the spotlight or the content from MG's writings, nor was I admiring or contrasting his pieces with my own in anyway:). I am sorry if any of you feel otherwise.

Expectations

Mum asks me
how are your studies
Dad says always be good
Friends say u r lucky
Brother says do what nobody could
so many expectations
dont know what I want?
Even my soul tells me to' break free'
but my mind asks me for a reason.

just gave a try dont know if its god or not ...comments highly appreciated.

oys, please do not apologize for your genuine feelings ever again - not to Nepe or to anyone else. we all appreciate your emotions and are grateful that you share your feelings. criticizing is ruthless but very easy whereas seeing through to the beauty in words is as difficult as creating the said beauty. oys, you have those deep eyes! keep on talking...
mG.

Frekin, same brush that shouts stop it, as I wither so shall your white pearls, the same story of a roll complaing about the work to the brush.
Same camel drink to flush out the accumulated uric acid, same way to the school, same routine breakfast and complaints. A routine, almost easily achieved visionless, how I long for the variation, the diverse colours, greens everywhere.

Fleeting moments come back to haunt me
U smile n joke oblivious to what i feel
Cause you've moved on now
Karma is all that i have left
U walked out, and u didn't look back
But i stared long after u'd dissapeared
I still yearn for things to be different
Trying out different solutions in my head
Clearly you never really loved me
How else could u forget so easily.

Oys,

You did not have to apologize. I knew it was innocent, genuine and, as you called, a 'heat of the moment'.

And as you seems to be understanding rightly, I was not criticizing your WORK per se but the PRESENTATION. Mero aagraha was that sometimes you have to give space to others. And by others, I absolutely do not mean persons, I mean the atmosphere, the taste, the expectation.

When somebody is enjoying a cup of, let's say, a heavenly made aduwa-chiya, you don't pour a finest bottle of wine to it. Kura tetti ho.

I appreciate mG's compassionate remarks. And I share his appreciation for your writings. I am a great fan of your memory lanes myself.

However, I do have a differing view on criticism.

..criticizing is ruthless but very easy..

Ruthless, may be. But easy, No. Criticizing is way too difficult than giving compliments.

We don't have to go very far. Just compare the frequencies of the criticism and the compliments the poetry in Sajha gets. I don't mean they don't deserve compliments, they do. (Particularly mine, ehehe.) My point is that it is the compliments, not the criticism, that is easy.

Let's appreciate the work and the criticism too.

yes criticism is a hard and most powerful thing to do, but sometimes knowing where to criticize and where to not, is the most INTELLIGENT thing to do, because you do live in OUR world and OUR society, dont you? So, sometimes you need to learn to live with "objectivity in parentheses"

so hence, here's is the last verse of Humberto's quotation, during his interview

"With objectivity in parentheses, it is easy to do things together because one is not denying the other in the process of doing them."

Confused,

It's good to see you sometimes making a decent conversation and a sane argument.

It is also refreshing to see you extending on Maturana's.

Your argument is agreeable except for a small problem.

So, sometimes you need to learn to live with "objectivity in parentheses"

The problem with someone who is asking others (the critical people) to learn to live with objectivity in parentheses is that while making that request the person himself is not living with objectivity in parentheses. It's pretty clear.

If you don't do what you preach, you are a hypocrite.

Preach but be an example too.

Nepe, you have failed to recognize what i have written, so here let me explain it to u...

(i am writing this, understanding you know the difference between, "learn" and 'understand")

Fristly, i never said, i myself have learned anything with Maturana's statement,

Secondly, i was just extending what Humberto Maturana had to say. "Objectivity in parentheses" isnt my personal view, it's Maturana's statement, so who sud i be to set an example for it ? ..i am just a student nepe..trying to understand everything i can, not read and live on everything i have studied, ..and again, if you live on everything you have understood, wouldnt that meke u supid? ..so dont expect me to set an example on everything that i have read and understood....yes ofcourse, do expect opinions from me on subjects that i have studied and understood and thats exactly what i was doing, pourning my opinion....

and thridly, i have asked you many times not to characterize me, with your limited knowledge about me. So therefore, dont call me something i am not, because i have my own personal beilifs that i stand for.

Confused,

Don't be confused. I was not asking you to be anything.

I was simply showing obvious self-contradiction in the statement I highlighted above.

Lonely once again
no sky above me
no ground below
Running like hell
without any destination
who should I blame
My Dreams?
no they were my inspiration
My reality?
It teaches me the way ahead
My time?
Rome was not built in a day
my sufferings?
people can do a lot better
my family?
they encouraged me
my freinds?
they say I am lucky
my luck?
never tried any
my life?
yeah, there may be an answer.


gave a try again, everytime I see this thread I cant resist. fantus bhaye critics welcome, maun hune bhaye I will take it as an advantage.

Wow! A genuine place for the creative minds. My generation and the next generations surely did miss some creations. If we are endowed with such quality, undoubtedly more aspiring creative minds are likely to be born!

Obliged to the person who showed this path! Again I tell, the magnitude of free-flow emotions is awe-inspiring! I could not refrain myself from dropping in few words and YES let the other read who have a passion and reverence for such readings!

Hi Flips, how was your Tihar?

A poetry-night, with twinkling stars up in the sky! I bet all those verses up there tease the crative-mind!

Happy reading! :-)