Posted in Death, Life, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Cease, Die, Disappearing Act, Exist, Life, Moment, Nonexistence, See, Writing on June 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by €eErRbBbiiIEe€
Let me cease to exist for a moment
so that I may see
what nonexistence is like
Let me cease exist for a moment
so that I may see
the disappearing act of life
Let me cease to exist for a moment
for when I have lived all my life
let me cease to live for a moment
so that I may [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Life, Mankind, Quotes, tagged Arnold Bennett, Capacity, Effort, Life, Man, Never, Quotes, Stature, Tradegy on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by RengimMutevellioglu
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett
Posted in Books, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Abandonely, Beauty, Books, Complexity, Eyes, Felt, Life, Lifetime, Mind, Moment, Passages, Read, Simplicity, Unveiled, Value, Wisdom, words, Writing on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ryan loucks photography
Sometimes I write down passages from the books I read for the sheer beauty in which the words are written. Sometimes they are a mere three words and sometimes whole pages.
Sometimes it is the simplicity of the words that carry the complexity of a lifetime. And sometimes it is the complexity of [...]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Life, Passages, Prose, Quotes, Verse, tagged quote, Life, Nothing, Book, Silk, Alessandro Baricco, Nothing more, Side, Never, Vintage International on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by Lumase
“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.”
He said.
“Nothing more, never.”
- Alessandro Baricco (Silk p. 52)
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged Flow, Life, Path, Paths, Unknown, Unsure on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Photographed by ZoofyTheJinx
For paths that know not their destination
I tread upon them, with them on their journey.
- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)
Posted in Death, Life, Mankind, Photography, Prose, Ramblings, Random, fate, tagged Life, fate, Age, Power, Burden, Fear, Question, reality, Death, empty, Writing, Blank, Path, Book, seeking, Weak, Helpless, Weaving, Cradle, Spindle, Thread, Ordained, Eternal, Spun, Promised, Strong, Powerful, Escape, Height, Distance, Conquer, Relief, Possessed, Spell, Fantasy, Dwell, Road, Journey, Vacant, Leafs, Written, Pages, Void, Write on April 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by pchweat
Are you not weak against it’s power? Helpless and trembling.
Weaving in and out spinning the cradle of life in its spindle. A thread that has been made and designed - ordained. Can you feel the turning, the wheel creaking with the weight, rusty from eternal age. No matter it’s burden it has kept [...]
Posted in Islam, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Religious, tagged Quotation, Life, night, Photography, Light, Solace, Islam, God, Lord, Comfort, Forenoon, Darkness, Forget, Leave, Al-Quran on April 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograh by Sergio_One
“By the forenoon’s light.
By the darkness of night.
Your Lord never left you, nor did He forget you.”
- Al-Quran (093: 000-011 Al-Duhaa)
Posted in Life, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Ramblings, Random, tagged Difficulty, Experience, flickr, Life, Original, Peace, Photography, Tranquility, Writing on March 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Photograph by Fran Barrero
Had you not known difficulty
you would not know tranquility
From the experience of one
comes the peace of the other
By RaatKiRanii (K.F.S)
Posted in Life, tagged Bloom, Fiction, flickr, Friend Concept, Hemingway, intimate, Life, Meme, Memoir, Photography, Power, Progressing, Represent, Revealing, Searching, seeking, Six, Summarize, Tagged, Task, wither, words, Writer on March 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Photograph by ~priyak~
I’ve been tagged by my good friend, Baekho to write a six-word memoir. This concept apparently came about due to Hemingway who summarized his own life in the following six words:
For Sale: Baby Shoes, never worn.
Personally, I’m not all too familiar with Hemingway and was at first confounded by his choice of words. Actually, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Fiction, Life, Prose, Ramblings, Random, tagged nameless, Life, soul, Prose, Mind, Pen, Midnight, Faces, Dark, Return, Ponder, reality, Real, Intention, words, Flow, Random, Rambling, Soothing, Writing, Fiction, Scenes, Images, Tales, Imagination, Stroke, Element, Cycle, Stories, Awake, Conjured, Related, Restless, Face, Strangers, Passing, Expression, Blank, Animated, Narrating, Drawing, Impulse, Impulsively, Chain, Guess, Shape, Pictures, Gaze, Waves, Gentle, Tides, Smothering, Deeper, Drown, Vivid, Knight, Cast Away, Borders, Unhinged, Unwanted, Wanted on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by *gocha*
There are scenes, images, tales that play themselves out in my mind. Unrelenting, heedless, sweeping in their pursuit to flow from the confines of the imagination to the scribbling stroke of the pen, to be laid out and manifested in words adding yet another element of life to its cycle. Where do they come [...]
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged Dance, Dawn, flickr, Life, Morning, Music, Observation, Panting, Peace, Photography, Rambling, Random, Restlessness, Rhythm, Rush, silence, Soothing, Stillness, Sunrise, Tune, World, Writing on February 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by serni
There was a stirring all around, the soothing restlessness of peace, of the emerging day. Here disappeared the panting rush of the world. No tune to dance to, no rhythm to step to. Silence was music and the dance was stillness.
- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)
Posted in Character, Culture, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Society, tagged flickr, quote, Society, Life, Quotations, Character, Photography, Sacrifice, Self-sacrifice, realization, Culture on February 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by superkev
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
—Eric Hoffer
Posted in Life, Mankind, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, tagged photograph, flickr, Life, sleep, Poetry, Poem, Mankind, empty, Man, Rivers, Oceans, River, Flow, Hate, Vengeance, Child, Blood, Strom, Life Blood, Valleys, Valley, Sky, Skies, Birth, Sight, Breathe, Eat, Awaken, Dawn, Demise, Beat, Pulse, Reek, Seeth, Blood Red, Red on January 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Photograph by nixArt
Let rivers flow
Flow red with hate
Flow red with vengeance
Let rivers flow
Flow red with man
Flow red with child
Let rivers flow
Flow red with blood
Strom red blood
Life blood
Let rivers flow
Flow and empty
Empty into oceans
Red oceans
Red rivers
Red valleys
Red skies
To every birth red
Every child red
For whose sight is red
Breathe red
Eat red
Sleep to red
Awaken to red
Red to dawn
Red to demise
Every beat [...]
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged guide, Disease, Life, soul, time, Day, Home, Power, Willpower, Strength, Faith, bitter, memory, World, Beliefs, Emotions, Test, Light, Ailment, Illness, Terminal, Break, Perspective, Living, Moment, Blessing, Mortality, Bold, Enlighten, Immortality, Cheated, Angry, Vitality, Breath, Shrine, Sacred, Faithful, Souls, Guiding Light, Chaos, Body, Rationality, Reason, Person, Eyes, See, Hearts, Hearth, Depth, Seen, Felt, Endurance, Care, Salvage, Save on January 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by .tintin.
Ailments of the body are an odd thing, not in their occurrence but rather in their affect on us and our responses to them. Terminal illnesses in particular seem to have the power to make or break us. Our willpower, our perspectives, and the importance we place on life can be sourly tested [...]
Posted in Character, Life, Love, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, tagged Character, Discovery, Error, Errors, flickr, Life, Love, Man, Mankind, Photography, Quotations, Quotes on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Photograph by laredecouverte
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
- James Joyce
Posted in Life, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Society, Verse, tagged Society, Humanity, island, Life, Poetry, Quotations, Death, Mankind, Quotes, Verse, Man, Continent, Sea, Europe, Diminish, Bell, Bells, Tolls, John Donne, Brotherhood on January 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by MarceloRuiz
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, Religion, tagged photograph, flickr, Religion, Life, Thought, Integrity, Spirit, Wrong, Sin, Truth, Burden, Gulit, Coward, Willpower, Strength, Faith, Fear, Question, Answer, Human on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Photograph by babeffe
“Integrity of Spirit”: What is it?
Is it to know that you could have wronged when no one else save yourself would have known, and then to feel that burden of truth, the guilt at the thought of committing a wrong as if you actually had? To know that you were capable, that you considered, [...]
"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
