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Persian Calligraphy and Rumi (Mevlana)
Persian calligraphy of a Rumi poem: ‘Do not say ‘Who will guide me on the path of love?’ Just get on the road and God gives success’. I’d been thinking about typefaces and was drawn to Islamic Calligraphy which didn’t have type set characters. It took me a while to remember where I’d first seen them. Yes,…
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On the way to the bus
On the way to the bus
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Granite sculpture, inspired by Giacometti’s method
“This was followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out; her limbs elongated.Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisaged through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much…
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17 Dec1273 Anniversary of Rumi”s death.
Oh Beloved,take me.Liberate my soul.Fill me with your love andrelease me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but youlet fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved,take away what I want.Take away what I do.Take away what I need.Take away everythingthat takes me from you. Translated by Shahram ShivaHush – Don’t…
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Kore = Κόρη ( Greek) =maiden
Kore = Κόρη ( Greek) =maiden
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Callanish Stone Circle 7th December 2010
Callanish Stone Circle 7th December 2010
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Fragments of ‘Immortality’
Fragments of ‘Immortality’
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Twelve young artists at an autumn exhibition
Twelve young artists at an autumn exhibitionand we their only visitors.The brief day dawns, auspicious, cold, a silent breeze. Palettes dance with oranges and lemonsas cuspid shapes drift into placein golden pools around each tree. Proudly the artists standand in the coming daysblush briefly to a scarlet brown. to twelve twenty-five year old Norway maples. Acer…
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My Remembrance – 1999 Kashmir
In Brolmo, Kashmir, nothing new ever happened. At least that’s the way it seemed to Fatima, at age ten. She remembers looking into her older sister’s face when the sky began singing its unfamiliar song, and seeing her own surprise echoed there in Aamina’s wide eyes, a look that said ,”Here is something new.” But…
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Losing my Memory
Immersed in reading ‘Immortality’ by Kundera he refers to,’ the glasses incident’. I remember the broken glasses, but whose and why and refer back to chapter 12. I forget why I said that. I’m like a drop of water babbling in the stream, there for a moment and then forgetting everything in a dark ocean…