25 Thursday Nov 2010
You shuffle your feet
I do mine
Around the ring
we move and swing
this way and that
in a wary dance
forward and backward
left and right
the steps never in unison
it is no delusion
You advance I withdraw
when you retreat, I press on
Enough of pandering
no one is winning
Puncture the egos
let us call it quits
you are weary
so am I
– Shail Mohan (Nov 2010)
The words this week: shuffle, pander, advance
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How very true !
@Ruchira,
🙂
Isn’t life a waltz?
step by step of playing false
of assaults and counter assaults
that soon we need smelling salts.
Excellent.
*panting* Shail go easy on the blogging. Can’t catch up with you on the comments? 🙂
@Govind,
Just a couple of them more… then I am going to vanish 🙂
@Govind,
Sigh! Very true on the pace that Shail keeps
That I simply cannot catch up, my heart weeps 😀
So I rush over, though my work beeps
Coz this space, the stuff here? For keeps 🙂 🙂
This is one Bad rhyme, but, good feeling on Shail’s poem as usual…
And your comment’s tops too!
Very true….I really wish for punctured egos to sustain relationships…which is becoming so difficult with the newly married ones…
@UmaS,
Hmmm… Is that so?? Maybe earlier the women adjusted too much 😉
yepp so true wish people can jsut forget and be friends again.. world would be a good place to live in if all were happy 🙂
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@bikram,
I admit, the gene to be happy seems to be missing in a lot of people! 🙂
Take a short break and get back in the arena 🙂
@Indian Homemaker,
Haha! If it were me, I wouldn’t get into the arena in the first place. 😉
Ah, yes. “Tired of this dance, can we have some new music please?” Been there. Well painted.
@Lyn Thorne-Alder,
Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you 🙂
Thanks for the welcome! 😀
There is a great rhythm to this Shail..like the dance going on within..thanks for your visit..Jae
@Jae Rose,
Thank you Jae 🙂
Whatever the dance in the ring..you can always go back to your corner where I am waiting.
@Vivek,
That rhymes 🙂
Loved loved and loved it!!
@pallavi,
Thank you! 🙂
Profoundly Observed Dance, Shailji. I feel, we all dance until we either get weary or decide to stand our ground. I enjoyed the rhythm and flow of this writing. Creative use of the three words.:)
@Rashmi,
Thank you. Loved the Profoundly Observed Dance bit 🙂
Oh, this can be applied for life as well, na? Or did you actually have that in mind while drafting this ?
@vimmuuu,
Yes, it can be 🙂
the games people play!!
@Reema,
🙂
Oh that’s what we do. dance the same steps .the dynamic relationship has repetetive dance steps and we give in only when weary .
@kirti,
“Dynamic relationship, repetitive dance steps” How right! 🙂
The dance of life, so untutored, so out of sync sometimes, that unless the egos take a back seat, there is will be no joy only exhaustion, from keeping up and pushing and retreating.
How eloquently and beautifully you capture all of that, the angst, the game, the totally not there feeling!
Blown away …. as usual 🙂
@Usha,
Thank you so much Usha. You have put it rather well 🙂
nice one..loved it!
@sindhu,
Thanks 🙂