He thought he was the hero of the story but it was a story without a hero, a villain or an anti-hero. It was a play with multiple bit roles and no main cast. It was as abject or as grandiose a tale as there are perspectives in the universe. There were trials and tribulations, […]
Posts Tagged ‘love’
His Unique Life
Posted: 18th June 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: belonging, castles, code, confusion, crowd, epic, exceptional, existential, fame, Hero, highs, imperfect, life, love, lows, messy, mirage, mortality, nothingness, perfectly, play, reality, romance, success, trials, unique, villain
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Words and the Allure of Languages
Posted: 22nd May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: allure, caveman, complex, define, dream, envy, etymology, everything, expression, figment, fuzzy, happy, hieroglyph, hollowness, inert, knowledge, languages, life, live, love, manifest, mankind, nothing, reader, sad, sadness, salute, semiconscious, symbols, waking, warm, words
When you think about the etymology of words don’t you wonder how words for emotions and more complex phenomenon evolved? I often wonder who coined the term ‘Happy’ or its predecessors in various languages. I would have loved to have been present there to experience the indefinable joy of knowing what to call that warm […]
Unrequited Love
Posted: 5th May 2014 by aseem.ace in Poems, ThoughtsTags: chaos, chords, crushing, damning, existence, hair, heart, life, loneliness, love, marred, poem, proof, scarred, smiled, tousle, tried, unrequited, vanity, welcome, wisps
Transfixed he stared at those errant strands wanting nought but to touch them, Tousle those further to see her play longer on the chords that seemed to his touch alluringly welcome, Those wisps of hair she kept fiddling with when nervous or angry, perhaps driven by a subconscious desire for order amidst the chaos that […]
My Dad- A Eulogy
Posted: 21st April 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: adventures, best, bond, cloudiest, crazy, dad, dead, death, doubts, eulogy, friend, grandson, grief, guide, happiness, idea, integrity, lived, love, miss, mom, soul, sunshine, time, unconditional, whispers, you
More than 4 years have gone since I last heard your sage advice and received that unconditional love. Your voice is fading like faint whispers on the ether of time. Yet you live on through me and mom; through Aditya and your daughter in law; and through your grandson who you couldn’t see. What wonderful […]
H. L. Mencken Funny Quotes
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alimony, animal, beautiful, bore, children, church, cynic, democracy, election, faith, funny, H.L, heaven, idealist, love, machine, man, married, Mencken, newspaper, politician, professor, quotes, sunday, thought
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to […]
Lost love- a short poem by me
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in PoemsTags: adolescent, bleak, cry, effort, first, goodbye, heartache, lost, love, morrow, smile, sorrow, sublime, wind, words
I don’t want to forget the day I saw you smile for the first time, It lit up everything around and made the moment sublime, I don’t want to forget the first time I saw you cry, tears streaming down your cheek, For that day my heart wept and never before nor since have I […]