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Ever been in love?
Dear Kunjubi
This poem is marvelous...inspired...pure and radiant.... and so very fresh
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My Krishna, my brother my all
I don't read or speak Hindi, binagupta - but your introduction and of what I could make out of the Hindi (?) poem , I think here is another lovely and radiant devotional piece...
I do listen to HInid bhajans (though I may not understand well) and I felt a sense of peace reading your poem as I have when I listen to some of the beautiful Hindi bhajans...
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JC AND ME n Novena Part 2
truly marvelous and beautfiul and radiant....This is absolutley delightful and just so full of spiritual insight....
These lines are full of light and radiance:
He said that people didn’t need miracles. All that they needed was already within themselves. Just like fish needed no instructions to swim; just as all creatures in nature were born with the innate knowledge within themselves – so too were humans. All their magic and miracles are already within each one, just waiting to be discovered and known
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JC AND ME n Novena Part 1
a beautiful story of faith, devotion and love of the Divine....
The story is well narrated and there is certain pure genuinness that reflects the pure gentleness of Novena herself....
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Mayawati - our next Prime Minister?
Dear Matheikal
I don't know much about Indian politics but I can only wish for India the fair sysytem
I enjoy here in my adopted country, Australia - and that principle here is
as you point out: an inclusive vision... May your dream come true.
P.S.
(I'll be away till 1 Sep)
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Art of Dying
An insightful blog on life and death, Shamoli.
May I add to the dimensions you've introduced:
* One dies to every day and is reborn.
* One dies to the past and the future so one actually lives - so time is no more.
Thank you for a refershing blog, Shamoli. No doubt your insight is from your meditations.
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Aaaa-chooooooo
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A lovely and very realistic poem, Meera San - so realistic I held my head away as I heard that sneeze! (I don't want to catch a cold!) BUt seriously, yoru description of the sneeze is very life-like.
* Personally I'm happy to see an Indian term, Dheerga-aayisu in this poem; such poems
have a more genuine flavor and will retain an identity when such poems are read by mainstream interantional audiences sooner or later.
* As a general point:
If you're here, some friends would have said: Bless you! instead of Dheerga-aayisu.
I remember reading a long time ago how in the medieval ages people believed that one may actually draw in the evil spirits after a sneeze and so one says: Bless you! Now it's more liek a blessing. I wonder what the origin(s) of Dheerga-aayisu is.....
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Johannesburg - Photo Marathon
what can I say, Ether? It's just an impressive and highly informative range of blogs you've got on all these places....
Thank you all these blogs.
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I don't know...
Full of pure romance as always - but this time there is a certain delightful playfulness and wit about the poem
Words like nectar and charming may be appearing too often in your poems - watch out, they may lose their effectiveness.... Do challenge my view if I am wrong so I can learn too.
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Stranger to me..!!
Bhavna14 - a marvelous story and very well told. It's very touching and realistic and has very many strong moments:
Today, I reached home. Finally. Amma saw me but didn't recognise. After all, it was 20 long years. She bid good bye to a girl and I returned today, a woman.
Amma didn't ask me about my well being. I didn't belong here. All she said "You shouldn't have come back. You shouldn't have come back. Couldn't you stay in the dark and sacrifice yourself completely for the family?"
Truly an original and strong story.
SUGGESTION
May I say that while the whole story is well-written and very realistic, the ending is not what one would think of as suitable for a story. You see, suicide is a weak way of ending a story....
Perhaps a very tragic but relaistic ending could have been something like:
God did not want me here...That is why he sent me away...Because this has been the way since the beginning of time: and I was chosen to serve....But I'm too old now...not as attractive...Yes, that's what he wants of me: he wants me to be another Shabina Begum...And so I'll be that....We can serve men, as from the beginning of time - and I'll be a mother to teh girls....This is what God wants of me....
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