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 Fiction, Passages, Prose, Quotations, Verse, Writing, tagged Music, smile, Nothing, Light, Sky, Silk, Alessandro Baricco, solitude, Herve Joncour, horizon, international bestseller, birds, flight, earth, flying, terror, frantic, singing, crying, fireworks, wings, clouds, colour, color, sounds on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by Ilina S.
“He could make out Hara Kei’s palace on the far side of the village, barely larger than the other houses, but surrounded by huge cedars that protected its solitude. Herve Joncour continued to look at it, as though there stood nothing else between here and the horizon. Thus he saw,
finally,
suddenly,
the sky above the [...]
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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)
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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 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
