Nestled Clutter
Organizing the Chaos
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 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]
- Read These Wonderful Words — August 2024 by Samantha Lazar
- There is a Season — Wonderful Words in July 20204 by Samantha Lazar
- Wonderful Words — Late Spring Edition — May & June 2024 by Samantha Lazar
- Wonderful Words — April 2024 by Ann Marie Steele
- Wonderful Words — March 2024 by Samantha Lazar
- Wonderful Words — from February 2024
- Wonderful Words — September 2023 by Samantha Lazar
- Wonderful Words — August 2023 by Samantha Lazar
- Wonderful Words — July 2023 by Samantha Lazar
- Meet an Editor — Viraji Ogodapola
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
Haiku
- Tribute to James G Brennan
- Motes — in the sun| In The Horizon — a rainbow away
- Living Dreams | Silhouettes
- Salutation | Message in a Bottle | Dancing in Tune
- Two Words | Lost Identity | Bookmarks | Moments Defined | Closed Doors
- wishing on a star | Relative Errors | Disappearance | Cascading Love
- Quantum Vice-Versa | Left Alone | Transmission
- Oxymoronic State of Being |(Not Yet) Dead | Soul Healing
- To Catch a Thought