ANGEL

Shaft of light

shining through darkness

Swirling winds

driving away dark clouds

Lashing rains

cooling the parched earth

Angel from the sky

driving away despair

“When storms gathered

blotting out the sun

You vanished never to return

with no hope in the horizon”

“Always with you

I was your shadow

Blinded by sights yonder

you lost sight of here and now”

CELLULOID STARS

           The mugshot was quite attractive really.  Seemed a well-built, tall chap.  It was a friend request on Facebook.  I checked out his profile.  It was mentioned ‘Actor” against  ‘Work’.  Was he really an actor or was he shamming it?

            May be he was an actor doing ‘bit’ roles-one of the numerous extras that pass through the screen, sometimes without uttering even a single syllable.  But then there are actors who have managed to make their co-stars look insignificant even without uttering a single word. Satish Shah and Nagesh who played corpses from the movies “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron” and “Magalir Mattum” flash past my mind immediately.  Cases where non-performers upstaged the performers.

            One of my friends does have the distinction of featuring in a movie.  During our school days, an Associate Director of a movie came scouting for kids to act alongside the “Superstar”.  We were excited about it and our night and days were filled with Technicolor dreams of our future celluloid glory.  The D-day came and we gathered hopefully.  The Associate Director was not sufficiently impressed by me whereas my friend was selected. 

Cut to a few months later, we had all assembled to watch the movie featuring my friend.  With bated breath we waited for the song featuring her.  And she shrieks gleefully “That’s me, that’s me!!”.  I cannot spot her.  I ask her repeatedly.  “Don’t you see the one next to the flower pot? That’s me!” she says proudly.  Well, now I see her-all covered up from head to toe in a cute pink bunny rabbit costume with not an inch of skin showing!!

Well, that brings to my Facebook star-I have no means of knowing if his acting experience was similar to that of my friend.  I rejected his friend request!

WRITERS' BLO(G)CK

Phone rings incessantly

            disturbing my dreamy thrills

Pal speaks appreciatively

            highlighting my writing skills.

“Why the long silence, may I ask?

            No posts on your blog?

Posts came thick and fast,

            now why none?”, he barks.

Me: “Brain on strike now, yaar

            Refuses to churn out stuff

Parked like a petrol-less car

            without a clue to crank it up”

“Don’t worry, my dear”, he says

            “Common is this to writers

To work around it, many are ways

            Desperate situations, desperate measures”

“Ever heard of ‘sudal’?, he winks

            “Do a survey and surf the blogs

Choose what holds your interest

            this is full time business of cogs”

Never heard words sweeter

            that warmed my heart so

Like I got a load of Ferraro Rocher

            that I gobbled at one go!

So here I come fellow bloggers

            to ‘suttufy’ your matter

There are bloggers and coggers

            I choose to join the latter!

PS-1:  This is not a figment of my imagination and all characters are alive and kicking

PS-2: ‘sudal’ and ‘suttufy’ refers to cog in Tamil slang-in plain words copying.

 I graciously accept your thanks for enriching your vocabulary through this post ;)