Tag: water

• Face Reveal – a Half-Ghazal

  

  Face Reveal – a Half-Ghazal My son, age 10, is into Rumi, and his face reveal The Youtuber who does voices, and HowToBasic’s face reveal Rumi the murid to murshid Shams He whispered, away from all, I will make my face reveal Trust is built brick by brick, layer over layer Till, one day, the…

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  7 Apr 2018

  Art, microblogging, Parenting, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

  are you listening, bhindi, broken, eastern things, faces, for apoorva, Ghazal, half ghazal, heads, heart matters, i am speaking, life, macbeth, masks, my son, now in the west, poems, ravana, Rumi, sexuality, shams, the other, the writing life, trust, voices, water, Writing

• Birds of Amstel

  

  The river has a large heart, she just gives and gives. Her path determined, she runs her course, yet yields. Alongside her banks: bounties – trees, grass, shrubs, dragonflies. I watch rowboats, cycles, runners, skaters, an unruly kid way ahead of her guardian on a space scooter, her mischievous gurgling laughter infecting the air. I…

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  15 Jan 2018

  microblogging, Photography, Story, Travel

  amstel, amstel park, beautiful, beauty, bird watching, birds, blackbird, by the river, coot, ducks, dutch, dutch birds, emu, fauna, flora, geese, heart, heart matters, holland, meditation, mindful, muscovy duck, Netherlands, notice, peace, pigeon, river amstel, robin, self care, thrush, walking, walks, water

• Walks around Beatrixpark

  

  I have been enjoying my walks around Beatrixpark. It is a quieter, smaller, and more romantic park than the other ones in Amsterdam. There are secluded sections that allow for solitude, which can in some cases seem perilous if you have been watching one too many murder mysteries. They have an open paddle pool for…

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  28 Sep 2017

  Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, autumn, beatrixpark, breathe, exhale, fun, garden, green lungs, greenery, in the city, journal, lake, leaves, life, nature, open, park, park in the city, parks in amsterdam, photos, places, pond, romantic, romantic places, romantic places in amsterdam, space, step out, trails, trees, unwind, urban trails, urban treks, walking, walks, water, wild, wild flowers

• Lisbon day 4: Belem and Museu Berardo

  

  Belem pichkari jo tune mujhe maari Toh bole re zamana kharabi ho gayi Planning the day for Belem had Apoorva constantly singing this warped song and now everytime I think of Belem this tune is stuck in my head, HELP! Belem is gorgeous. What an inadequate adjective to use, so let me try harder, the sky is…

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  24 Aug 2017

  Academic, Apoorva, Gender, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  animals, art, belem, belem tower, blog, discover, duck, duckling, Earth, exhibits, faith, feminism, film, fun, genetics, happiness, home, journal, learning, life, lisboa, lisbon, living with the enemy, marina, meta, mobility, modern art, monument, museu berardo, museums, pedro neves marques, photos, places, politics, portugal, religion, River, space, sun, tagus, technology, thoughts, Travel, warhol, water, work, Writing

• Lisbon day 3: Oceanario, Mercado, and Urban trekking

  

  On the third day in Lisbon my true love said to me, Wear walking shoes, eat good breakfast, and take pictures plentifully…. For children and grown-up children like me the Oceanario de Lisboa is a wondrous place. Aquariums are such a joy, their darkness cocoons you, you feel isolated from the world, above and beyond,…

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  22 Aug 2017

  Art, Food, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  aquarium, architecture, azulejos, blue, bock, bread, breakfast, buildings, clouds, cocoon, come with me, comercio, coral, dory, eat, eating out, eggs, flowers, food, food coma, food court, food review, fun, graffiti, grass, ice cream, jelly fish, jhumpa lahiri, journal, ki gull, laugh, learning, life, lisboa, lisbon, live, looking up, mapparium, market, mercado da ribeira, oceanario, open, pasteis de nata, pets, portugal, portugese, River, roads, sagres, sardines, sausage, sculpture, seagull, sexy, sharks, sky, space, spaces, special, starfish, streets, summer, summer holidays, sunny side up, sunset, sunshine, super bock, tagus river, tiles, tram, Travel, tuktuk, walking, water, wine, yellow walls

• Light and Water: Visual Poetry

  

  Video: central Amsterdam under water in a poetic light display. “After having us cycle along starry night bike paths, Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde has now turned his attention to the power of water. Just over one quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level and the sea is kept at bay by a…

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  20 May 2015

  Art, Poetry, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, art, daan roosegaarde, dutch, light, Netherlands, news, water

• My heart is a firework

  

    I have so much love in my heart I could drown the dining table and chairs in it They would float around the room wobbling, bobbing, from there to there I have so much love in my heart I am tossing you buoys Here, hold on, saturate in my desire for me I have…

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  10 Jul 2014

  Awareness, Poetry, Story

  confetti, drown, firework, flood, glitter, love, party, Poem, pop, skin, water