Back from a ‘lil getaway to Penang (known as the “Pearl of the Orient”), where yours truly was pleasantly surprised by the sheer quietude of even the roads, let alone the temples for which the place is pretty popular too.
Loved the trusting candour of the people we’d met, who made the entire trip memorable: total [...]
Archive for December, 2007
28 Dec
Own true Gift
14 Dec
Friday Poem: Breathe.
Inspired by a cherished routine @fave site, 3QuarksDaily, a poem ~ despite the puzzlingly protracted emotional/physical fatigue of late.
Via NoUtopia:
How to Leave the World That Worships Should
Ros Barber
Let faxes butter-curl on dusty shelves.
Let junkmail build its castles in the hush
of other people’s halls. Let deadlines burst
and flash like glorious fireworks somewhere else.
As hours go softly by, [...]
8 Dec
pilgrim soul
Few melodies catch at one’s heart.. evenso, in a time of need.
What more of a balm than a beautiful melody doth ’tis wandering heart need..?
Solace in downish times as these:
Kahani Mohabbat Ki by the uber-cool Strings
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And, inspired by an old fave poet (whose lines i’ve filched for a title [...]
2 Dec
twenty minutes’ rendezvous
A Word of Thanks
To these I owe a debt past retelling:
My several muses, harsh and kind;
My folks, who stood my sulks and yelling,
And (in the long run) did not mind;
Dead legislators, whose orations
I’ve filched to mix my own potations;
Indeed, all those whose brains I’ve pressed,
Unmerciful, because obsessed;
My own dumb soul, which on a pittance
Survived to [...]
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