Nestled Clutter

Organizing the Chaos

6 min readDec 5, 2020

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Stones — Photo by Deniz Altindas on Unsplash

Thoughts fathomable and unwholesome
Rising random ‘n in sporadic passels
Shocked, I’d be much, if I were to see
Tales spun in on my matted labyrinth gray!

Fortunately for us, the aforesaid clutter is not of the visible kind. Clearing such mind clutter is continued work-in-progress, should you care to bother, that is.

The tangible clutter moldering right before our eyes on the other hand can be attended to, if you want to, that is.

And as for the Medium.com clutter, it has become increasingly difficult to locate a specific piece now with its display settings changed, that by the time you reach what you were looking for, you’d have managed to forget what it was that you were looking for.

This, therefore, is an attempt at organizing my work into categories so as to avoid tricking my fellow poet friends into reading boring technical articles and vice versa. Hopefully, now you will get to pick and read only what you want.

Thank you all for being part of this community and for the immense inspiration you bring along!

Featured

Nominator for Medium’s Boost Nominations pilot project from Scrittura & The Howling Owl — August, 2024.
Strained Symbiosis — of our coexistence — October 2024.
Defiance — on the plight of Sri Lanka, April 2022.
Wildflower — Pledges
And I Go — Into the night of oblivion
Featured Poet for Poetry Series at Paper Poetry (September 2021)

Interviews

Meet an Editor — Viraji Ogodapola [May 2023] by Zay Pareltheon
Interview with Viraji Ogodapola [June 2021] by Gurpreet Dhariwal
Now available on Amazon Kindle:

Interview With Gems Of Medium

Every writer has a story to tell. Often, writers are telling the story of other people. Yet what is the story of the…

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Interview with the Editors — [October 2020] Viraji Ogodapola by Zay Pareltheon

Poetry

To Bring Hope — for today’s worth
Glass Menagerie — from backstage
wait for me — by the orb of charms
Smothered — by the rains
The Calling — herring’s tale
As is — Life, as is — a tribute to those who made impressions but are no longer with us.
Tangled Tubes — in the loving memory of our shared moments, for my Father.
All The Love I Know — For you, Mother
Streaming — realities
Waning Moon
Colours — of absence
Charmed — by beauty from within — for Mother’s Day 2022
Tomorrow — Embraced
Spreadeagled — in repose
And I Go — Into the night of oblivion
Upon The Fields — A ride to serendipity on a ghazal
Fading Lights — In pursuit sublime (for Vesak)
My Turn Tonight — To tuck you in, Daddy!
To See You Through — Eudaemonia — in a sonnet
Certitude — in routines mundane — a sonnet
[Makes it to Somsubhra Banerjee’s hand-picked list with his beautiful poem Some Words On The Moon And Sand]
Heroes of the Quill — with wisdom buried in scrolls
Bled — in perpetual malady [Editor’s Picks in Wandering Weird Worlds of Wonder]
Longest Night — from times of old at winter solstice
Orb of the Night — Transcending Tranquility
Derelict Voids — Abandoned Fulfillment
Block Me Not — Yet Again
Residue — What’s Left Behind
Poignant Pose — On a Life Mission of a Worthy Cause
The Walk Together — A Journey Through Life
Brush Strokes — Painted Expressions…
Support Autonomous — Mass Support
Spaces between Us — A Historical Anecdote of Lessons Learned Being Human
Did it hurt…? — Dear Mother, Dear Father
Waltzing Away… — “She died doing what she loved doing”
The (Painted) Life — for Such is Life!
Fathomable Fragments — In Scattered Prose
When I Carried You Within… — A Mother’s Epiphany
Flickering Candles — Not Yet Burned Out
Solace in the Night — to find me in the night
Today’s Note — A Handwritten Note Just for You!
A Bouquet for the June Bride (in 2020) — A Bouquet for the June Bride in 2020, with absent friends.
Scent of Scanty Love — Hastily Wafted Away
Perfect Misfit — On the Pages of a Virtual Thought Profile
Sometimes — I Forget to Remember

Form Poetry

Brew My Day — a dizain on the sunrise over a tea estate in Sri Lanka.
Reverberating Rhymes — Tribute to Zach J. Payne — a sonnet.
Gone for long — the blue sea — A triolet.
Uprooted — a dizain on mangroves
Stilled Waters — a triolet
Silhouettes — diamante
Pipe Dreams — A dizain from down the alleys
Wedding Bells — A sonnet for the bride

Abstract Prose / Free Verse

Strained Symbiosis — of our coexistence
Knotted — beings
It’s Time — for the next story
Turning Point — the alchemy of deception
Wildflower — Pledges
Holding On — Fast on to letting go
Savoured Delights — Free Verse
Amalgamation — in matrimonial hues
Where You Take Me — door ajar for a tumultuous muse
Deflections — of haphazard origins
Secret Chord — everybody knows…
Impeded — Expressions
Disposition — the background noise
Plummeting Skies — Some days to just pull through
Plight of the Muse — lost, found and lost
Taboo Word of the Year — Not Saying It!
Silent Screams — grief withheld
Isomeric — Flimsy Contentment
Eulogy by the Kindred Soul — Good friends write our eulogies while we live.

Prose / Fiction

Death Practice
On A Good Day… - Tuning in — responded to in beautiful prose by Vic Spandrio with Now You’ve Made Me Naked.
In the making… — from a distance
Now available as an ebook at https://gumroad.com/l/av_shabdaaweg
[And a reflection on the above done by Priyanka Srivastava in her piece titled Words Which Stir Your Soul].
[And, is selected for the Literary Impulse Anthology — e-book on Gumroad — final selection announcement here.]
Whistling Kettles — Challenged Conscience
Metro Hour — In Transit
Retort — In Prose
Liberation — Life’s trivialities.

Non-fiction

When Breath Becomes Air — book review.
In The Stillness — between breaths
Do You Mind? — A Case of Mind over Matter.
To Turn a Page — into a new leaf…
A Story to Remember… — The Most Important Things

The Howling Owl — Co-owner and Editor [March 2022 to date]

Readers’ Choice — Nominations — 2023
Hootenanny — of prose, poetry and kindred spirits…

Scrittura — Editor [April 2023 to date]

Editorial Work [October 2020 — September 2021]

I Couldn’t Do It Without Them — J.D.’s anniversary tribute to the editors.
When We Write — Poiesis Newsletter — 13th June 2021 by Zay Pareltheon
Poiesis Newsletter — 2021–01–31 by Zay Pareltheon
Editors’ Top Picks 2021 by J.D. Harms
January | February | March |April | May | June | July | August | September
Io Saturnalia! — Saturday Poetry Prompt:19th December 2020
Interview with the Editors — Viraji Ogodapola by Zay Pareltheon
Editors’ Top Picks 2020 by J.D. Harms
October | November | December

Technical Articles

Good Docs, Anyone? — Here’s where to find them!
Unified Endpoint Management APIs for Enterprise Devices — Complete Enterprise Device Management Solutions by Entgra
Managing Enterprise Mobile Applications Distribution — MAM Solutions from Entgra
Virtual Classrooms — from Chaos to Collaboration

Nestled Clutter

Organizing the Chaos

Interview With Gems Of Medium

Every writer has a story to tell. Often, writers are telling the story of other people. Yet what is the story of the…

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