Sunday 2 May 2010

love in times of cold

long journey, bad cold--

the girl in the facing seat

smiles each time i sneeze!!!

*****

8 comments:

Arun Meethale Chirakkal said...

Venu Chettan, you must be greatful that the H1N1 hype is no longer in existence, otherwise she would've fled! :)

P. Venugopal said...

ha ha ha!!! she was just four or five years old. bored looking through the window, she found me an interesting subject, seeing me in contortions trying to suppress a sneeze. she smiled. then she started involuntarily counting my sneezes, folding her fingers one after the other. i corrected her when she folded the eighth finger instead of keeping the count at seven when i successfully suppressed a sneeze, but she counted it as a whole sneeze. from then on we were friends for the rest of the journey from Trivanandrum to Ernakulam in the Parasuram Express on Sunday.

Charu said...

:) I didnt know bad cold could be interesting too

P. Venugopal said...

a bad cold too can be turned to advantage through the proper use of its symptoms, Charu. :)

Kalpana said...

Great such a nice way to becone friends and a true Haiku moment :-)

P. Venugopal said...

Kalpana, i wrote it to show you to the level i can what a haiku is. this one is a tolerably good haiku though not something to shout from the rooftop about. haiku is not to be learned at the theoretical level. it is more of a way of looking at life than placing words in a precise and beautiful formation of 5-7-5 beats. keep on reading Basho, Issa and Buson. you have innocence that is poetry. learn the angle from which to zoom your camera and also the craft, reading the masters.

Sorcerer said...

A sneeze..a great conversation starter..actually!

P. Venugopal said...

ha ha ha!!! you could have brought out the fun of it better.