Posted in Life, Prose, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Blind, Broken, Call, Conveyance, Crippled, Cry, Darkness, Dazed, Deaf, Disappear, Essence, Everywhere, Fade, Feel, Grasp, Groping, Hand, Heart, Life, Linger, Lost, Meaning, Mind, Music, Never, Power, Read, Scattered, Shattered, Sight, soul, Staggering, Stumbling, Sword, Thought, Trembled, Understand, Voice, Weaving, Wind, words, World, Write, Writing on May 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by pl9300
…and if I could not read or write I would be crippled
the soul of words…
if this sight could not recognize the little shapes I saw before me…
if this heart could not feel their essence as I felt the world around me…
if this mind could not understand their meaning, grasp it’s power…
if this hand trembled at [...]
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Posted in Life, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Heart, time, Thought, Mind, Burden, Moment, Body, Writing, Lips, Tired, Vitals, Survival, Lungs, Sound, Nuisance, Utterance, Meaning on May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Photograph by Ana Santos
There are times when a body is so tired that even the mind feels its burden. The vitals that ought to function do so only as to assure that the basest form of survival is met. That the heart beats and the lungs take and give what they ought. There is no [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, tagged Birthday, Breathing, Decades, Dreaming, Era, Eyes, Heart, Insha Allah, Life, Mind, Perspective, Real, Sight, Sleepgin, soul, time, Twenty-two, Waking, window, Wishing on February 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Photograph by Perlette
Twenty-two years of life today and I wonder how have I reached this point. This point in which two decades have gone by, two decades of life, of breathing, of waking and sleeping, of wishing and dreaming, of joys and sorrows – two decades. It hardly seems real that such a long expanse [...]
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Posted in Life, Love, Photography, Poetry, Translation, Verse, tagged photograph, flickr, Music, Heart, desire, extinguish, Translation, Poetry, desires, words, Verse, Lyrics, Songs, Movie, Bollywood, Test, Rivers, Gather, Oceans, Fires, Light, Burn, Candle, Ek Duuje ke Liye, Solah Baras Ki Bali Umar Ko Salaam, Koshish, Dariya, Nadiya, Dil, Lagi, Bujhti, Chingari on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by nikaa
You may try
And
You may test my words
You may gather the rivers
And
You may gather the oceans
You may disperse them upon the greatest of fires
Yet
The heart’s desires are not extinguished
Every other light may burn out
Though
Every other candle may burn out
The heart’s desires are not extinguished
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* Loose Translation by RaatKiRanii(K.F.S) of the 1st verse of [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Society, tagged Acknowledge, Blind, Blinding, Cause, Cold, Demons, desires, Desperations, Detached, Emotions, Fears, flickr, Heart, Intent, Intention, Judge, Judgement, Life, Mankind, Mind, Photography, Probe, Purpose, Realities, Senseless, Society, Thoughts, Understand, World on January 2, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Photograph by waqar bukhari
We, not one of us know another’s intention and yet we judge. How we judge! What is in another’s heart and mind, the workings of their thoughts - how do we know such thing? We don’t. Many times we don’t know our own heart and mind and not knowing our own we [...]
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Posted in Photography, Poetry, tagged bitter, bittersweet, bud, burned, chances, desires, dreams, everygreen, explore, fantasies, fester, forgotten, guilt, Heart, lingering, Love, memory, Mind, pain, passion, private, reality, regret, reminiscence, scorch, self doubt, sigh, smile, spark, tear, temptation, time, unspoiled, wasted, wither, wound, years, youthful on December 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Photograph by marirs
What happens to a love that you’re unable to explore, that first spark, that, which starts with temptation?
Does it wither away?
Scorched, burned, a wound that’s best left untended? A pain that’s best left forgotten?
Does it remain an unextinguished temptation?
Inappropriate desires, fantasies, reality gone unchecked? Passion fulfilled in dreams?
Perhaps it becomes a self-doubting, lingering [...]
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Posted in Quotations, tagged flickr, Heart, Key, Magic, Maria Von Trapp, Music, photograph, Quotation, quote on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
- Maria Von Trapp
Enlightenment
Originally posted by abhinavt’s
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"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
