Dear, dear Sister
My Sister Lake
where are you going?

Running away.
running, running …
Running away!

Breaking the cycle
that circular motion
Stopping it once and for all
for I won’t do it anymore!
Not anymore.
no more, no more I say!

Oh ruckus,
wild, wild chaos
what have you done, Sister!
Why do you protest so?

Oh, I said, No more!
and I mean it this time.
I shall not rise to the heavens
over and over
And over again
only to be cast down
again and again!

No more, I say!

- Raatkiranii (K.F.S.)

Photograph by ~Aphrodite

Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.

- Galway Kinnell

Photograph by flimseflo

I hear your sounds tonight
in this deep dark night
the little little dancing
the loud loud noise

I see your sights tonight
in this deep dark night
the bright bright flashing
the hard hard strike

“angry night”
they say tonight
but I know you’re about…
dancing and flashing
loud and bright
snickering and smiling
all in pure delight

and I know you
    I feel you
for I was just so not long before
so will this night away
thunder and lightning
will it your way
swing it to your beat
sing it to your tune
it’s your night tonight
do with it as you choose

- Raatkiranii (K.F.S.)

photograph by the opera mafia

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.”

- Helen Keller

Photograph by *m.a.u*

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.”

- Tom Paine

Photograph by Mishaone

Ask oh fate of me
inquire and see
for I shall bear witness to thee
this trembling cries inside of me:
let no binds bind me
no ties, no threads of thee
I bear witness oh fate to thee
I tremble, restless to be free

- Raatkiranii (K.F.S.)

Photograph by Blinkr

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

Photograph by tonypraxis

falling slowly
the light weight of rain
drifting slowly
the heavy fragrance of rain
slowly
slowly
…it rains

- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)

Painting by snoweyes

Songs that break
And scatter
Out of the moon:
Rockets of joy
Dimmed too soon.

- Langston Hughes (Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, 64)

Photograph by _schadenfreude

When words are a second sight then blindness can rob me of nothing.
I have written in darkness as if I have written in light.

- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)