Cloud-thinking....

A new blogger friend, Roshan K, from Kerala , posted this photo on Google+. You can see some of his work here.

The skies are a peaceful blue. But sometimes misleading.


In our own
people sky,
blue and together,
pointed targeting
of masses
happens.

Those that hit,
generate
clouds
of their own,
behind them
as they escape.
thinking
they can blend in
and hide amidst the
rest.

But their clouds,
violent,
avaricious,
fuel rich
and polluting
will never find
a place
in the social
peaceful cloud network
C+ in the sky,
as a friend, acquaintance
or family.

They will be blocked......

Tearful Skies

A picture taken by a blogger friend Sujatha , through what she calls the "moonroof" of her car, on a starlit/moonlight winter night possibly somewhere in Washington DC.

And , then again, one is, not surprised by the teardrops on the glass roof....

(photo by Sujatha Bagal)

Sky Akka***,
presiding
turn by turn
across
flooded countries,
killing fields,
drunk dictators,
cheating politicians,
uncontrolled guns,
starving populaces,
molested children,
rampant pirates,
embarassing Leaks,
can't hold
her emotions
any longer....


She shakes
away
her clouded eyes
with a slight
disgusted rumble,
despairs
of the
greenless trees below,
and
weeps
drop by drop,
sometimes copiously,
and sometimes pausing
for a blue breath,
at the bareness of it all......

***Akka : elder sister
.
.

The Last Picture Show....

My friend Sylvia posts wonderful Sky views in her blog . And you get to enjoy her seasons through them.

Here's possibly something that happens twice a month. If we only noticed.....

(photo by Sylvia Kirkwood)
If
all the world's
a stage,
and all the sky
the curtain,
then,
given what
goes on
in the name
of
religion,
power,
insults,
fatwas,
defense,
attack,
and so on,
is it any wonder,
that the moon
peers
carefully,
again and again,
through
the stage curtain
before
making an effort
to appear
in the sky ?