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Red

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 [...]

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Username/Nickname Origins: Raatkiranii

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 [...]