His hair swayed like nimble dancers as the wind coursed through them. It beat upon his face, bringing with it a unique sense of being alive. It stung his eyes, so much so that they began watering. The water crashed onto the rocks below with a deafening, never ceasing roar, as if crying out to the halls of Heaven itself.
He spread his sinewy arms wide, his head arched up, facing the sky. His naked body glistened with sweat. The muscles on his arms and legs were burning, as if Hellfire were coursing through his veins. He felt more alive than ever before.
With the wind at his face and the evening sun behind his back he jumped. He cut through the air with angelic grace and speed. The surging, foamy waters loomed closer. Steadily, rapidly. As did the jagged rocks strewn among them. He could feel the water splashing at his face. Cold as ice. And he rose up again. Soaring towards the velvety blue sky.
A twinkle in the sky and he became one with it.
There was a whisper in the wind. A voice as old as Time and as sweet as elixir. It echoed throughout the Cosmos: Gabriel. Gabriel. Jibrail. Jibrail. Gabriel. Jibrail. Gabriel. Jibrail….
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As Tennyson’s eagle
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So I was tagged by CJ. My writer’s block kicked in again and I haven’t been able to write anything even borderline decent in a while. Didn’t wanna let the blog die so figured I’d do the tag. Was saving it up for just such an eventuality.
5 things found in your bag
- MP3 Player
- Spiral bind notebook
- Faber Castell triangular pencil, Non Dust eraser and Parker Rollerball (blue) [Yes, I'm particular about these things]
- Some book – Currently A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
- A bottle of water
5 favourite things in your room
- Computer! – What would I do without my ancient excuse of a computer?
- Bookshelf and the books inside – I wanted a wooden bookshelf but a metal one’s better than nothing I guess. I wish I had more books to fill it up with.
- My assortment of crude, improvised, mock medieval weaponry - Yeah yeah, laugh all you want.
- Badminton Racquet – Bought it when I was 12, after lots of begging and nagging and unkept promises. I was in love with it for a long while.
- Random clutter – Old newspapers, sawdust, random scraps of paper with doodles on them etc. Come in very handy at times.
5 things you have always wanted to do
- Get published – This is pretty obvious.
- Lead a real cavalry charge – This one is slightly insane and totally implausible. I blame the history obsession and cavalry fetish.
- Meet Bono and Moby [and David Gemmell too but he's dead so... ] – Two of my favourite musicians. And David Gemmell is quite possibly one of my favourite writers, easily the one who inspires me the most.
- Oh and I wanna meet Girish Jadhav – Amateur military historian with a huge collection of weapons. Need I say more?
- Go to Ireland and Turkey – I love Irish music. And the BEER (I haven’t tasted any, I just succumb easily to the hype )! I wanna see Dublin, the city that inspired the likes of Joyce and Wilde. Turkey is a melting pot of civilisations and cultures. Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) is one of the greatest cities of the world. Of course, I want to travel all over the world but these two are at the top of the list.
5 things you are currently into
- Cartography and sub-creation – Drawing maps of alternate worlds and populating them with people and chalking out a history for them. Fun stuff.
- Grateful Dead – In the words of Lenny Kaye “Their music touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”
- Minimalist fiction – I just like it. The subtleity, the multiple interpretations, the abrupt endings. I like it all.
- Sassanian heavy cavalry – I blame the cavalry fetish again.
- Woodworking – One of my phases. Every once in a while I become obsessed with woodworking and cover my room in sawdust. Right now I’m making a wooden cutlass. I made one earlier but it broke. Not gonna make the same mistake this time.
5 people you want to tag
Ish (If you haven’t done this before)
Vasudha
Amit
Nikita
Nidhi
Currently Listening To: Jeff Beck – Rollin’ And Tumblin’
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