Posted in Life, Mankind, Poetry, Random, Writing, fate, tagged free, fate, Poetry, Writing, Restless, Witness, Trembling, Cries, Binds, Threads on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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.)
Posted in Poetry, Rain, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Fragrance, Poetry, Light, Writing, Rain, slow rain, slowly, Falling, drifting, heavy on June 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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)
Posted in Books, Painting, Passages, Poetry, tagged Poet, melodies, Poetry, Songs, Break, Langston Hughes, Scatter, Moon, Rockets, Joy, Poems, Gypsy Melodies, Gypsy on June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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)
Posted in Life, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Beauty, Poetry, World, Nothing, Light, Sight, Dawn, Random, Peace, Stillness, Tune, Darkness, Give, Illuminated, Vision, Glory, Give Me on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by sam_samantha
give me light
if it be darkness illuminated
give me then darkness
if darkness be thy sight
give me thy vision
if a vision be that of beauty
give me then the world in glory
if glory be a tune of stillness
give me then the raising of the early dawn
and if there be nothing for you to give me
give me then [...]
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, tagged Chaos, Dream, Eyes, Far, Flicky, Lips, Madness, Photography, Poetry, Sealed, Serene, silent, Sit, Untitled, Witness on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph by deborah lattimore
Such chaos
Yet these lips are sealed
Such chaos
Yet you sit silent
Thine eyes must see some far off dream
To witness madness, madness!
Yet sit so serene
By RaatKiRanii (K.F.S)
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, 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 [...]
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, Love, Photography, Poetry, Random, tagged flickr, Poetry, Photography, Love, passion, Poem, Sorrow, Stand, Fool, Greater on December 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Photograph by Ahmad Kavousian
There is no passion
Greater than your passion
No love
Greater than your love
No sorrow
Greater than your sorrow
And yet here I stand
No fool
Greater than your fool
- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)
Posted in Ramblings, Random, tagged 21, Age, Asleep, Bloom, Books, Celebrate, Cestrum Nocturnm, Classes, Creative, Dark, Day, Existence, Faces, Finals, Flower, Fragrance, Friends, Home, Ideas, Jasmine, Lady, Lazy, Midnight, Mind, Names, Night Urdu, Pen, Poetry, Princess, Prose, Queen, Raat, Rani, Ranii, Return, Senile, sleep, soul, Sundown, Thought, Translate on December 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by Denise F
Well, for those who may not know what Raat ki ranii (normally spelled with just one “i” 
means, it literally translates to “Queen [Lady, Princess] of the night” in Urdu. Raat ki ranii refers to a flower, the Cestrum Nocturnum, a type of jasmine, which blooms at night emitting an intoxicating fragrance.
Creatively [...]
"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
