Category: Mindscapes
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Last of the Dreams (part 2)
She has celebrated numerous henna ceremonies before, but her own ceremony is nothing like she has imagined. It seems that chaos is everywhere. And although the whole world seems to be happy, she knows many to be superficial smiles. Worn only for the evening as a gesture of good will. As she sits with her husband-to-be,…
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Last of the Dreams
Finally, the long-awaited time arrived. She had been dreaming about this moment since she was young, imagining how it would be, when it would happen and where. For the bride, who is soon to depart from her childhood home, the day of the Henna ritual is long and exhausting, but a day where she is…
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Alone
I am sure the nights are not really longer. It’s just that I miss you the most during the small hours of the morning when I lie awake tossing and turning. I am sure the winter is not really colder. It’s just that I don’t have your warm embrace to comfort me during those chilly…
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Summer of 2014
I remember the warm sweaty nights and the long hungry days. I remember the busy early mornings, the lazy afternoons, and the restless evenings. I remember the prayers, the good intentions, the virtues and my sins. And the hope for forgiveness. I remember the desire to grasp purpose, and to embrace it. I remember longing…
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Life (part 2)
Life is rules. Your own, or others’, no matter where they come from. And living by those rules. Moment by moment. Breath by breath. As time passes by. Life is compromise. In anything and everything that comes your way. It’s the grey mix of realities rather than the black and white of dreams. Life is…
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Two Planets
From the very first time I read this poem, I knew I was going to blog it. I just wasn’t sure when. As time passed by, it kept changing. Drawing energy from events around me, and from me. Always draping itself with shades of sadness somehow familiar if I only dared to slip beneath the…
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Life
Life is making choices, some easy, some hard. Sometimes knowing and sometimes unknowingly, and then living by those choices. And always being wise after the event. Life is a test. No, a series of tests, big and small. And you are taking them, like it or not. You’re taking them and may not even be…
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Freedom
Tied up, locked down is my desire to fly. Like the instinct of a caged bird. I have been told that freedom is the perception of reaching the impossible. Did not make much sense to me at the time. Today I look back and I see all the impossibles that knocked on my door and…
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Eid Mubarak!
About Eid, the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, `They are days of eating, drinking, and remembrance of God.´ (Reported by Bukhari in his Sahih, an authoritative collection of the sayings of the Prophet) I wish all Muslims a happy and blessed Eid!
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The Tree
I am the tree. Always rooted strongly to the ground, looking up at the sky. Always staying still, while others pass me by. Some times things get caught in my branches. But that they will stay with me, there are little chances. Because all it takes for them to fly away, is a gust of…
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