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, Prose, Rain, Ramblings, Random, Spring, Writing, tagged Cold, Dark Mood, Droplets, earth, Fog, Mood, Rain, Random, See, Sight, soul, Ticklish, Umbrella, Writing on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ~~Mandana~~
When it rains and the earth is in its dark mood as today I begin to feel my soul lighten. I have forgone the umbrella just to feel the droplets on my face. They are ticklish and cold. And you can see them wetting this page. They covered my glasses so I see through [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Poetry, tagged appreciate, Beauty, beloved, candles, daggers, delicate, desire, emptiness, extinguish, fallen, fate, flickr, Ghazal, grave, heavenly, inspired, island, Life, melodies, memories, nameless, Nasir Kazmi, night, Painting, Poety, silence, silent, sleep, slumber, soul, thirst, time, Translation, unfulfilled, unsung, uproar, Urdu, waters, Wave, window, Within, wound on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Painting by apaintingaday
Within me a wave has swept up – just [...]
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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
