May 2012
5 posts
Two
The power of infinity lies locked within those fingers you hold In the wake of sleepy eyes on pillows To the melting glide of the sunset.
Date: May 24th, 2012.
“‘We are formed, I suppose, by everybody we meet, out of resistance or emulation,...”
– Mary Meigs
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself...”
– C.S. Lewis
Hilarious
A (referring to C): You remind me of Archie in this picture.
B: ...you wrote this at 3am.YOU WROTE THIS AT 3 IN THE MORNING.
A: THAT DOESN'T ERADICATE THE TRUTHFULNESS OF MY STATEMENT.
B: UNLESS YOU WROTE IT IN A COMPLETE SLEEP-DEPRIVED STATE, THUS RENDERING YOUR CAPACITY OF FACTUAL STATEMENTS INVALID.
A: UNLESS I AM, AS YOU KNOW, A NOCTURNAL BEING AND SO YOUR PETTY MORTAL BEDTIMES DO NOT PERTAIN TO MY MORE GODLY STATE OF AWARENESS.
C: She's right, you know?
April 2012
12 posts
13 tags
6 tags
John Gray on Americans
From an interview on his play Billy Bishop Goes to War written and produced in Canada in 1980s and why it didn’t go Broadway or gain mass appeal in America:
“Look, Americans aren’t particularly interested in anyone but themselves. They’re a big, imperial country. The primary characteristic of imperial countries is that they think the world revolves around them. They...
Lazy Tranquility
Floating past time like
A single leaf
On the silver lake.
Copywright@NoyonimaHassan
“You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in...”
– Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from...”
– Walter Anderson
Walking Wings
Oh brother, dear father, my lover, old friend,
I have let you down
I always let you down.
It’s a war, great war,
That rebels inside
That repels inside
Like the panic and whispering cry
Of young children trapped
Inside
A fiery room with their hair burning
Their eyeballs dissolving
Melting and burning
Like my eyes do now.
It’s a war, dear friend,
That I am fighting, I am
truly fighting
The brains...
March 2012
12 posts
“I never knew anyone with a passion for words who had as much difficulty in...”
– Marianne Moore, key modernist poet of the 20th century (I could not have described myself any better. So much difficulty in conveying the right message with the right words most of the time I utter anything…gaaah)
Phases
Rain and shadow
Sun and fire
Clashing in one harmonious storm
Like swooshed dark grains of sand
Sweeping the land – all green, pink and white
And I, a lonely table
And I, a single pencil resting between your fingers
And I, a lone sigh hanging off the edge of your mouth
Inside looking out
At your ethereal body climbing that tree outside
On top it tastes the fruit of life
Sweet, warm and windy
A...
“Diamonds are forever, so is herpes.”
– My sister’s Microbio prof :D
Paint Me Some Colors
In the stillness I come
All teeth and skin
Drop by drop of floral water
Falling wet shadow
Trickling down your throat
Like a greasy licking tongue
That tastes the sultry earth
Where our children will play and grow.
Date: March 14, 2012
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the...”
– John Lennon
February 2012
9 posts
“It takes a rare, dispassionate intelligence to see the self from outside, a...”
– Jane Rule
Validation
In the streets everyday, walking people with running lives, people who I recognize quite easily - complex, scarred, courageous, funny, inadequate, but trying.
Is that me?
Is that you?
The Circular Coincidence
I am reading this great post-modern autobiographical fiction (an oxymoron, I know. We all know) written by French-Canadian author Clark Blaise called “I had a father”, who talks about his complicated and conflicting relationship with his father through descriptions of all those places he has been in his life, always chasing something more than what he hoped for. The book isn’t...
Love, please come my way
Dusty memories
Long forgotten words
Only spoken yesterday,
Or was it a day or two ago
Of all things fixed in
the receding stones of time
All I recall is the red and good wine
And a passionate yearning
For just that word
you know, happiness,
Feel effects of it
Like the glorious sun
On a silky ginger fall afternoon
Like warm crusted pies
tantalizing the front of your tongue
Like...
lol →
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all you know on earth, and all you need...”
– John Keats
“The glamorization of militaristic nationalism in America mirrors European...”
January 2012
11 posts
Unexpected Sunny Afternoon
Sitting on a wooden chair
I stare at the silky white papers
A sudden sharp glint of sunlight hits the surface
Words on the paper now crisp and clear
My diamond ring glitters onto the page
Flickering rainbow and glowing wide.
Don’t be bashful, come full strength
Past the clouds, pushing through
Like the god of the sky.
Simple pleasures of a quiet afternoon
Sunlight and yellow
Emerging in full...
To live, breathe and exist
Let’s add eternity to our trivial hours, give a sense of infinity to our finite existence. Let’s be great at what we do always, every day. That will be our legacy.
“To be marginal to a dominant culture is to have little or no say in the...”
Fraudulent Morality
I see you
Hiding behind lonely desperation of quiet sufferers
of my time.
I see you
Looking wary, dark and brooding
Weighing every cent of kindness thrown your way.
I see you
Counting luck like counting nightly stars
Abundant everywhere to each one but you.
I see you
Wishing this morning would leave you alone
As you stand by the doorway hating the isolation you chose.
I see you
Smiling secretly...
Let's Not Be That Guy
”I’d be damned if the glory of literature was in the metaphor.” - Morley Callaghan in That Summer In Paris.
Sometimes an egg, is just an egg.
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
– Jonas Salk, when asked in an interview who owned the patent to the polio vaccine.
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 2011
8 posts
Anonymous asked: Squeeze those lemons and make the best lemonade out of it. The tides will crash into you but use your feet to anchor your right to be free. Let the waves of persistence engulf you Noyonima.