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Omar Pitras Waqar – “This Sweet Infinity” (English Ghazal) – YouTube
Omar Pitras Waqar – “This Sweet Infinity” (English Ghazal) – YouTube. “Published on Dec 4, 2013 More poetry available for purchase here:http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/omar-w… today the weather changed but I did not, this sweet infinity are we more than space that time forgot, this sweet infinity ~ no need for words, the real poetry is in…
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Jaipur Literature Festival: poets – Nilanjana Roy
Jaipur Literature Festival: poets (1). Jeet Thayil’s ghazal on Malayalam and Nilanjana Roy (who I think I have an academic crush on) speaks about poetry. Also on her blog are some lovely articles on Agha Shahid Ali. A must read. An excerpt I loved: “I like choosing theoretical homes, but the idea of “settling down”…
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When in doubt
When in doubt Draw your heart out, The lines lead you to answers…
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Ghazal by Mimi Khalvati
Ghazal by Mimi Khalvati. If I am the grass and you the breeze, blow through me. If I am the rose and you the bird, then woo me. If you are the rhyme and I the refrain, don’t hang on my lips, come and I’ll come too when you cue me. If yours is the…
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“Dedications”
“I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem standing up in a bookstore far from the ocean on a grey day of…
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“Translations” – Adrienne Rich
You show me the poems of some woman my age, or younger translated from your language Certain words occur: enemy, oven, sorrow enough to let me know she’s a woman of my time obsessed with Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls baked it like bread in our ovens worn…
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“Inheritance” – Warsan Shire
Where did you get those big eyes? My mother. And where did you get those lips? My mother. And the loneliness? My mother. And that broken heart? My mother. And the absence, where did you get that? My father. “Inheritance” Warsan Shire (via prideinthepanther)
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Give a little
“You give according to your means and you receive according to your needs” “Judge a country by how it treats their weakest and poorest but also judge it for how it treats their rich” In case you have some pennies to spare – even if it is just 50 cents do consider giving it to…
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Dinner at Sazanka
A special dinner organised at Sazanka – (Teppanyaki cuisine) at Hotel Okura. A meal prepared with such care and perfection. Sazanka never fails in their excellence and warmth. While the food is delectable and the ingredients are of high quality what remains stunning is the performance of the chefs. Such dexterity is a sheer…
