Cerebrations

Feeling Poetic

I'm reposting past poems I've composed. Wala lang. I just felt a bit nostalgic. These were all written back in '04

rain

i drifted into a trance
as drops drummed heavily on the tops
into an emerging realm of boredom.
the swish of rods
hypnotically sway me into absorption
thru perilous depths of thoughts.
swimming, as though drowning,
gracious as the blaring horn jolts me
but still staring blankly
into the immense vast pane.

~ lmyd 062304

***

bliss

the hot breath of your moist mouth
on my skin,
it tingles with anticipation.
the subtleness of your touch
wreaks havoc yet is sublime.
my lips quiver as they await,
yearning with a thirst
only you can sate.
the absurdity of it all
i care not,
as i ceaselessly wait
for exquisite bliss.

~ lmyd 062304

***

slave

you haunt me,
in wanton pursuit,
whether in dreams of deep slumber
or in wakened states of consciousness.
a fragment of you,
a reminder everywhere,
i extricate myself.
sheer madness is what it is,
as the vicious cycle
ceases not,
i am enslaved once more.

~ lmyd 062304

I just realised that I wrote them all in just one day. Just goes to show how 'inspired' I was then.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

by Mark Haddon

Done! It was a fast and very refreshing read as compared to the last novel I took up. As it is categorized under Young Adult Fiction, the narration was quite straight-forward yet highly entertaining. I guess I could blame my sleepless nights on this piece of lit because I had a difficult time putting it down. Haddon is truly a gifted writer!

Related link: Random House's audio excerpt

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

Oh boy... I don't know what to make of this book. To tell you the truth, it took me months (4 months to be exact) to finish it.

Maybe it's because of her writing style. She commonly used all these flashbacks in her novel which made it quite confusing for me to keep track of the story. In fact, in the early stages of reading it, I had to go back to the beginning maybe two to three times just to refresh my memory of what she had earlier written. The unusual names of the characters in the book were also a struggle for me to recall.

With that said, I am just glad I'm done and definitely over with it. On to the next...

Happy Holidays!

Better late than never! We just would want to greet everyone a wonderful holiday season. May the good Lord shower your lives with endless blessings in the new year ahead! Cheers! :)

Oh so true!

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

~ Buddha

The Namesake

By Jhumpa Lahiri

What an wonderful read! This has got to be my favorite literary piece so far. Lahiri is an exemplary story-teller.

It tells about the life of Gogol, an American of Bengali descent. His family migrated to the States from India and the novel relates how migrating to a foreign land is never really an easy task.

There are several lines from the book which I can so very well relate to:

But nothing feels normal to Ashima. For the past eighteen months, ever since she's arrived in Cambridge, nothing has felt normal at all. It's not so much the pain, which she knows, somehow, she will survive. It's the consequence: motherhood in a foreign land. For it was one thing to be pregnant, to suffer the queasy mornings in bed, the sleepless nights, the dull throbbing in her back, the countless visits to the bathroom. Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing disconfort, she'd been astonished by her body's ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her great-grandmothers had done. That it was happening so far from home, unmonitored and unobserved by those she loved, had made it more miraculous still. But she is terrified to raise a child in a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare.

UPDATE (09 March 2007):

I just found out that The Namesake has been made into a film with Kal Penn as the lead actor and Mira Nair as director. It starts showing in the States today. I can't wait to see it here in Oz. The trailer looks quite promising so I'm pretty excited to see if the movie is as well made as the book.