Take a closer look from these wide open windows. Never was it necessary for only lust to close its fists, slither away and lay inside closed, darkened rooms.
Bonds can be multiple, novel, often so simple and lucid that human maneuvers and a whole life’s agonising weight cannot bind them in knots.
Some knots have to be opened. Some threads don’t have to overlap or get entangled with each other. They remain liberated, free from the necessity of dictated experiences.
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There is or isn’t every worldly desire in us but an internal echo that we identify as our very own. Those of us who pay no obeisance to pleasures of the flesh.
For we have taken as our figurehead a God who is found among the winds, the birds, the innocent cackle of being children at heart.
Recognise us.
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Turn towards us and see. Life wills itself to move out of closed rooms and shuttered windows, to breathe free, liberated without holding us captive to the surrender of putting hands on other bodies, or making us desirous of a heavy consequence.
Our souls then fly skyward, like a boundless kite against heavy currents of the day and age.
Our souls fly skyward, onward, desirous of nothing and yet everything precious, like a vagrant heart true to itself.
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This poem is an honest and humble attempt at personalising my existence as an asexual, aromantic individual within a world of binaries and hypersexual cultural totems. May all the ‘aces’ find representation in these words.
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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An Awadh Boy's Panorama : tracing words on these filigreed, discerning fingertips. 