first glimpse of mountains smudged above weary plains; my heart set to skipping flat in illinois massed thunderheads awak’ning first glimpse of mountains ____________ Another poem and more explication here.
Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’
Upon Googling the Murree Hills – “first glimpse of mountains” – Some Haiku
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, Senryu, tagged Haiku, hills, illinois, mountains, murree, murree hills, nostalgia, pakistan, poem, Poetry, Senryu on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
arabian sea – Haiku / Poetry on the Death and Burial of Osama Bin Laden
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Pakistan, Poetry, Politics, Senryu, tagged 911, al qaeda, arabian sea, conflict, death, forgiveness, ground zero, guilt, Haiku, islam, James Martin, john brown, john brown's body, lady macbeth, osama bin laden, pakistan, poems, Poetry, sea of forgetfulness, terrorism, united states, war, war on terror on Monday, May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
in murky depths a body lies a mouldering; arabian sea arabian sea, all the perfumes of the land cannot clean stained hands arabian sea, it cannot yet be that sea, of forgetfulness __________________________ Also, though I am not a Catholic and so do not know exactly what to make of this author’s mention of the [...]
“profligate goodness” and “with aunty veda” – Poems / Haiku About Mangoes
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Poetry, tagged eden, Haiku, lahore, mango, mangoes, pakistan, poems, Poetry, Senryu on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
profligate goodness, wild holiness of eden; the scent of mangoes with aunty veda, the mangoes piled before us; summer in lahore
tea on a rainy night – Haiku During Thunderstorms
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, tagged chai, Haiku, himalayas, murree, murree christian school, pakistan, poems, Poetry, Senryu, tea, thunderstorms, tornadoes on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
tea on a rainy night, milky sweet; i smell wet himalayan pines
Please Remember the Pakistani Flood Victims
Posted in World Affairs, tagged flooding, flooding relief, monsoon flooding, pakistan, pakistan flooding, pakistan floods on Friday, September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Please watch this video from the PBS NewsHour. 100,000 square kilometers flooded. 30,000 kilometers of roads flooded. 9 million acres of crops flooded. 21,000,000 people effected. 150 new villages flooded as water shifts. This is why we are doing Artists for Pakistan and why in addition to that small effort people need to pay attention [...]
Artists for Pakistan…
Posted in Art Thief, World Affairs, tagged art, art sale, art show, flooding, flooding in pakistan, floods, monsoon, monsoon flooding, monsoons, painting, pakistan, pakistan flooding, pakistan floods, photography, photos, relief work, sculpture on Thursday, September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
….is coming soon!
Photography as Inspiration – Mira Nair – The Namesake
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Culture, Pakistan, Poetry, Sonnets, tagged india, jhumpa lahiri, mira nair, pakistan, photography, photos, Poetry, Sonnets, the namesake on Friday, August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If it weren’t for photography, I wouldn’t be a flimmaker. Every film I make is fueled by photographs. Sometimes it is a particular image of a photographer, sometimes it is what I have learned by seeing the world through his or her eyes. Either way, photographs have always helped me crystallize the visual style of [...]
Yellowed pots in Sind
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, tagged floods, Haiku, monsoon flooding, monsoons, pakistan, pakistan flooding, pakistani cooking, pakistani cuisine, pakistani flooding, poems, Poetry, sind, south asian cuisine, spices, turmeric on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yellowed pots in Sind Floating in the flood tide; I Add the turmeric.
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