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Archive for July 2008

Posted by: pankajunk on: July 30, 2008

to choose life,
you have to chase life,
life cares naught for your passive virtues,
to sway the cold dice in your favor,
you must act

Going to Goa 1

Posted by: pankajunk on: July 25, 2008

The shorter the travel, the longer the travelogue – Old Chinese Saying
 
Ok. A happy post for a change.
 
My recent trip to Goa was a first in many respects – my first trip to the beautiful beach state itself, my first plane trip, and the first time in my 28 years of not very well traveled [...]

The Raft

Posted by: pankajunk on: July 16, 2008

I used to float on a raft,
Bathed in the bright sun, washed by the cool winds,
I believed it to be Land, and so they also told me,
But someone told me, it was just a piece of wood,
Afloat on unsteady currents,
Then did I also not feel my balance asunder, my knees tremble,
As the raft [...]

Posted by: pankajunk on: July 13, 2008

I must say it right,
what do i say?
i must do it right,
what do i do?
one syllable askew, one action out of line
and it shall be lost,
so anxious am i to step right,
that i step wrong, invariably