<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30078896</id><updated>2012-02-16T19:45:00.826+05:30</updated><category term='animate'/><title type='text'>Rumblings from the soul</title><subtitle type='html'>Translated into poems..</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30078896/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Siddarth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13088336175026749736</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30078896.post-5297988793513186956</id><published>2010-09-01T00:38:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-01T00:38:32.459+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Dirty dishes</title><content type='html'>The dishes are dirty&lt;br /&gt;The spoons grimy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cups filled with remains of yesterday's tea&lt;br /&gt;The bowls lined with salt from the raging sea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The table decorated by the left over’s of last night&lt;br /&gt;Gravy on the wall, witness to the fight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You asked me if there was another one&lt;br /&gt;I asked if I was missing the pun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She said no, she found the lipstick stained shirt&lt;br /&gt;The perfume filled hanky and the long forgotten beach's dirt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to reason with her, tell her that it was all her mind playing tricks&lt;br /&gt;I was trying to escape her wrath, telling her she was throwing imaginary bricks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She left me in a while&lt;br /&gt;I was left with a dirty pile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dishes are dirty&lt;br /&gt;The spoons grimy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30078896-5297988793513186956?l=thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/feeds/5297988793513186956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30078896&amp;postID=5297988793513186956' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30078896/posts/default/5297988793513186956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30078896/posts/default/5297988793513186956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/2010/09/dirty-dishes.html' title='Dirty dishes'/><author><name>Siddarth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13088336175026749736</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30078896.post-6451857058842139618</id><published>2010-08-27T16:48:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-27T17:09:24.033+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animate'/><title type='text'>The weighing machine</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/blog/images/digital-bathroom-weighing-scale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="286" src="http://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/blog/images/digital-bathroom-weighing-scale.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Before you begin it all, you stand on me&lt;br /&gt;making a note of what I display, you make a silent plea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh god, please help me convince the scale&lt;br /&gt;help me pass in this exam coz on my own I'll fail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You run, sweat, sacrifice your sweets&lt;br /&gt;you start avoiding friend's treats&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You watch everything that goes into you&lt;br /&gt;You eat only things that on trees grew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You sweat every day and night, hoping to please me&lt;br /&gt;I do not budge, you have not done enough for me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You look at the chocolates and then at me, resting on the throne&lt;br /&gt;How you wish you could force me to show some good news &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You cry in anguish and pain&lt;br /&gt;you think it was all in vain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little more sweat, a little less food&lt;br /&gt;and you would have been all good&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will oblige when you stand on me once again&lt;br /&gt;And I will tell you, it was worth the pain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30078896-6451857058842139618?l=thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/feeds/6451857058842139618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30078896&amp;postID=6451857058842139618' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30078896/posts/default/6451857058842139618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30078896/posts/default/6451857058842139618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebuddingpoet.blogspot.com/2010/08/weighing-machine.html' title='The weighing machine'/><author><name>Siddarth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13088336175026749736</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
