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Dans la rue de déjà vu

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  • Satyaki
    Satyaki 
    Je ne connais rien
Tu non plus? C'est est bien
Mon frère, d'où tu viens?
Je m'appelle oubli, peut-être
Et tu? Perdu, ou ne veux pas te connaître? 
    Feathers Feathers

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The Puppet-Puppeteer Paradox

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  • Nayana Dasgupta
    Nayana Dasgupta 
    "And whence did I let you in my mind?" asks the puppeteer
To the blindning  glow of his creation;
"why? wasn't I what made thee?" replies the puppet gleefully;
As the mystic wind swallows the time of night.
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  • Venkatesh Bala
    Venkatesh Bala 
    Hours stroll by quiet and calm,
Yet wars within are raging storm.
"Its strange to have you mumble those words" says the puppeteer
"Words are mere body to soul" grins the puppet subtly soft.
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  • Nayana Dasgupta
    Nayana Dasgupta 
    "And that soul you speak of, is it yours, puppet?"
says the puppeteer, stealthily tying the chains on this case;
"But you sold me this soul, this name, the fame- the day you sold yourself away"
And hence lost the puppeteer his might over the timber he had shaped.
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    1
  • Venkatesh Bala
    Venkatesh Bala 
    "You dance to my finger's move and speak what I will of you"
Glares the puppeteer, final strife to savor his soul.
"Every master is indeed a slave, basking in the powers they fake"
Witful words measured with skill, stared the puppet in steely gaze.
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    1
  • Nayana Dasgupta
    Nayana Dasgupta 
    "The Maker's a slave to none, and I for one, puppet, owe you none"
"Try you may to steal my stance, but fail you will "- puppeteer a mightysnarl
"Then I for one, dare you- leave this game, this craze, this maze", says timber
"Many a people do ye fool,but can you start afresh, and fail to a state- nimbler
    Feathers Feathers
    1
  • Venkatesh Bala
    Venkatesh Bala 
    For once, his heart is filled with light!
"Yo little bark, deserve my love, deserve to live." hails the puppeteer.
But the puppet is in calm, just a piece of wood in his palm.
"Will I kill thee, what I made of my soul?"
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    1
  • Nayana Dasgupta
    Nayana Dasgupta 
    "Will I kill thee, you wrteched little twitch?"
"Twitching, twitching, twitching, twitch, twitch, twitch"
cried the puppet, onto his palm, the puppeteer, very alarmed!
"And lo! you little bark, shown how heartless you are!" puppeteer, still alarmed
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Great Duels

einstein's gods

Time: 1 day

  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    six sides to roll with
who chose to number fate
when the die was cast?
    Feathers Feathers
    9
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    from naught unto nothing 
who conceived time eternal
 a constant, yet slow and fast?
    Feathers Feathers
    4
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    in a warp? on a wave?
how did they carve us
into this nebulous space?
    Feathers Feathers
    5
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    part of a plan or a plot? 
Or an 'atoms + glue' experiment 
of a force without a face?
    Feathers Feathers
    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    who wrought these shapless forms,
wrote myth into idea 
and created absolutes?
    Feathers Feathers
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    and then left us to make sense of   
the inexplicable indefinites
and irrefutable resolutes?
    Feathers Feathers
    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    do we fade to black
or must the show go on
condemned to earth in eternal encores?
    Feathers Feathers
    4
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    do we simply let it be
or gauge this existence
cast in rituals, routine and mathematical scores?
    Feathers Feathers
    4
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    is there a us and them,
or did some of us cast life
unto the sum of them?
    Feathers Feathers
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    Are we just the seeds?
Or are we the complete works -
 the roots, the leaves, the flowers, the stem?
    Feathers Feathers
    5
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    where are the answers kept?
in the musty hallowed minds of science
or the rigid sacred vortex of religions?
    Feathers Feathers
    5
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    free like music in the air?
or controlled, layered and submerged
unto the darkest depths of divine legions?
    Feathers Feathers
    3
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    are they cast in doubt
entombed in a shroud of fear
or are they a scream, a sea of fists in the air?
    Feathers Feathers
    3
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    perhaps it is in the search,
never about the answers derived;
secrets living forever, in the stars at which we stare.
    Feathers Feathers
    1
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    entangled in the storms ofdoubt
would this siren song of quest
lead us into the death of reason?
    Feathers Feathers
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    a 360 degree churn to convictions?
pardigm shifts? intellectual drifts?
perceptions changing like the turn of a season?
    Feathers Feathers
    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    or should I wave by
the straws of curiosity
and drown in life languid?
    Feathers Feathers
    1
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    what if we weren't human?
would the living others spend
 lifetimes taming reason, as we did?
    Feathers Feathers
    1
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    would we live by the primal instinct
eat, fight, procreate
to survive, to subsist?
    Feathers Feathers
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    should we forever question the code
wander, explore, deviate 
never to cease and desist?
    Feathers Feathers
    1
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    Or do we defer to faith
seek to yield, strive to submit 
to almighty fate, kneel?
    Feathers Feathers
    2
  • Harish Shankaran
    Harish Shankaran 
    and what if our myriad questions,
come a day, find answers?
how would we feel? how would we deal?
    Feathers Feathers
    2
  • Supriya Madangarli
    Supriya Madangarli 
    If the athiest has to believe, would it be a relief?
if the devout has to deny, would it be a judas cry?
if the agnost has the proof, which side would loose?
    Feathers Feathers
    17