As we know, we occupy a highly sexualized culture where the very idea of privacy and decent spaces has lost its meaning. So here is my summation of that feeling, informed by a fictional realization in this poetic form but presided by attitudes I encounter around me .
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Out in the open,
sticky beads of sweat and dried semen,
the particularity of an encounter and spooky peekaboos of sexual frustrations.
As winter calls omit midnight oil lamps,
the last autumnal groans leave logs of seedy ‘first times’
and ‘lust at first sight’ alterations make preferred cut-offs for tonight’s fellowship.
**
The wooden bed is rusted,
creaking a kettle like squeal for all dead sensual pairs,
and the biting cold leads to hypothermic climaxes,
sheets of all bottled up desires imprisoned in cheap whiskey cans and cigarette butts.
‘I have an unquenchable desire’, they moan and beetles creep up their backs,
leaving a foul remnant on exposed spinal columns,
as one takes the night’s last breezy turn after turn.
*
Hence the ‘morning after’ becomes one transparent peep-hole,
Voyeurism’s broth and a lop sided mirror where battering rams of desire clash with dark casts on either sides.
**
This poem simultaneously appears on my Wattpad poetry collection WORDS ON THE HORIZON.
I launch myself, with a searing, soaring passion for all domains verging on the writerly and creative with a beginner's appetite here and that's how I believe in adding meaning to each day. A lucky mascot of literature, cinema and culture, I come riding on spirited wings from the emblematic city of Lucknow where all those reside and thrive. My breeding ground and my mindscape all are committed to these three life forces. Cinema. Culture. Literature. But the biggest and all consuming parent to these is life that breeds them . There is the discovery that comes from expressing yourself, clear eyed and even mystical, when you come from a city like this. I am here to expand my worldviews, share my earliest inspirations and evolutions and go with the flow through the most accessible outlet there is : writing. Conventionally, my biography is that of a degree holder in English literature encompassing Undergraduate, Postgraduate and M Phil years and every possible experience of learning finer points of knowledge . I have already taken the plunge of creating a solid base for my works by publishing my poems and articles on the renowned worldwide community/ writing sanctuary Wattpad since 2015, a platform which is a miracle for anyone pursuing so much as a flash of wordplay and thoughts to spare. It has redefined my life and allows me to go strong. You can read my works there under the username MadMenWearingFedora / Prithvijeet. That is the springboard that catapulted me to a confident vocational revival. So here I am. Both originality and novelty are the key words to define this eternal student of life. So with the tip of the pen blessing my head and a new vigor, I welcome you all to my realm. AN AWADH BOY'S PANORAMA beckons.
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