Conversation with an influencer
Not every conversation begins with some kind of an affirmation of positive expectations, but this one did. ‘So you fancy you are an influencer?’ I asked. ‘More than that,’ he replied, ‘I am a writer. I draw. I sketch. I handle my DSLR rather adroitly…’ ‘How does all this help?’ ‘You didn’t let me complete,’...
Limerick on a twit
Limerick on a twit When tweets bellow but have no wit They challenge sanity bit by bit I’d say You may Call this tweeting dolt a twittering twit. . . . . . . Arvind Passey 24 August 2017
Rhymes dedicated to Twitter
Twitter is an opportunity to reach out It defines what a target is all about Handle tweeple with care and guide them well Or an influencer may drown in an unruly swell! Twitter is where mobs can be unruly And even right is proven wrong fully!
Sleeping dogs vs barking dogs
‘Dogs are in the new,’ said a friend. I said, ‘Well, dogs were always in the news.’ I remember reading a quote about a man biting a dog being news and not the other way round. Dogs are in maxims, metaphors, similies, and even find a place in abuses. So they are practically everywhere. On...
Flog the micro-blogger
Yeah! The easiest thing to do on the social media and even the offline world is to flog the micro-blogger. It is so easy to say, ‘These 140 character creators are good for nothing dolts.’ People who tweet know that there is more truth carried in their precision than even a 1000 word edit in...
Twitter rhymesters in conversation
The world of twitter and its regiments of hashtags and handles has its share of runaway convicts called RTs. This tweeting world also has spammers sending inane tweets like unthinking bullets coming from some unstoppable LMG… and then there are the plagiarists who don’t have qualms about stealing even 140 character gems! Yes sir, the...
Spontaneity
We’re all always spontaneous. But we aren’t always brilliantly spontaneous. Most of the time, therefore, powerful spontaneity comes in the form of a perfumed after-thought or brilliance that exists in our minds only. The world thus misses out on millions of such quotable spontaneous responses each minute… and spontaneity remains, at best, mediocre. In the...
Tipsy twitter
‘Life is lived in 140 characters,’ said Specky that fine evening as she took a sip of Black Dog TGR. I agreed with this notion and replied, ‘True. We are so like tweets, full of spelling errors, without the grammar of sanity, and in a hurry to say everything fast.’ Specky laughed. Sometimes I wonder...
My darling Delhi
My darling Delhi A few rhyming lines on Delhi… #MyDarlingDelhi is smart-n-tech Even with a muffler around its neck! *** #MyDarlingDelhi with its pot-holes And mid-road shamiana poles Still will smile In style Despite its poor on doles! *** The city gives sleepless nights To the corrupt and the blights! *** #MyDarlingDelhi loves early morns...
Knowledge Is Great
This set of couplets and stanzas is a part of my twitter poetry for #KnowledgeIsGreat Every couplet/stanza fits in a 140 character tweet. [1] Answers are everywhere here I see them when I’m ready, dear! [2] I know that I know is what I know But I know more if I don’t show! [3]...
The JobReady Poems
Note: These poems on JobReady are also TwitterReady… they’re all trim enough to be sent as tweets of 140 characters or less. These poems were written and sent as a part of a twitter contest by Wiley India and the hashtag was #JobReady. [one] Know the brand To stand Apart from those Who need...
The great teacher analysed
Technology may not be what you teach your student, but technology is certainly what you use when you teach. The bits and the bytes, the internet, the social media, and all things that travel at speeds that the mind cannot even think of, are as real as the bunch of students that you see in...
