Posted in Life, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Heart, time, Thought, Mind, Burden, Moment, Body, Writing, Lips, Tired, Vitals, Survival, Lungs, Sound, Nuisance, Utterance, Meaning on May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Photograph by Ana Santos
There are times when a body is so tired that even the mind feels its burden. The vitals that ought to function do so only as to assure that the basest form of survival is met. That the heart beats and the lungs take and give what they ought. There is no [...]
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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 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 Photography, Poetry, tagged bitter, bittersweet, bud, burned, chances, desires, dreams, everygreen, explore, fantasies, fester, forgotten, guilt, Heart, lingering, Love, memory, Mind, pain, passion, private, reality, regret, reminiscence, scorch, self doubt, sigh, smile, spark, tear, temptation, time, unspoiled, wasted, wither, wound, years, youthful on December 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Photograph by marirs
What happens to a love that you’re unable to explore, that first spark, that, which starts with temptation?
Does it wither away?
Scorched, burned, a wound that’s best left untended? A pain that’s best left forgotten?
Does it remain an unextinguished temptation?
Inappropriate desires, fantasies, reality gone unchecked? Passion fulfilled in dreams?
Perhaps it becomes a self-doubting, lingering [...]
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Posted in Poetry, tagged flickr, Beauty, Poety, Wave, Within, Painting, uproar, delicate, wound, daggers, desire, unfulfilled, thirst, emptiness, melodies, appreciate, silence, unsung, nameless, memories, island, waters, silent, Life, grave, soul, sleep, slumber, heavenly, candles, window, extinguish, beloved, night, time, fate, fallen, Nasir Kazmi, Translation, Urdu, Ghazal, inspired 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
