tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9788719563767406892024-03-05T02:58:28.929-10:00THE EARTH WITHINShakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-40496920517427159422013-07-11T10:59:00.001-10:002013-07-11T10:59:09.907-10:00HEAVEN'S IN HELL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the reason you are blinking</div>
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want to know why you're sinking</div>
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blank your mind</div>
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forget the time</div>
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its all mine</div>
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mow fucking feel fine</div>
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there is no peak</div>
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this is no joke</div>
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your God I have spoke</div>
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you want to</div>
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Taiste heaven waiste</div>
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embrace my face</div>
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find me in every place</div>
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this beyond the human race</div>
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Heaven's in hell</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Among the chenille petals in the pimpernel of your love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Let me add my own among them</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So that when you caress the chervil bouquet</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The chartreuse will break the silence</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And then my heart will be one with your estoteric fragrance</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is what I wish…….</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the cosmogony of the numberless stars</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I want to be the lantern of ethereal light</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The dazzling one among the brightest</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So that, in the dance of the festival of lights</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My heart will swing with enrapturous delight</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And my life will be one, with your intoxicated smile.</span></div>
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Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-2542296519027846892013-03-07T08:43:00.000-10:002013-03-07T08:43:55.100-10:00I WAS NEVER THAT BEAUTIFUL<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The morning mist kissed the <br />
green pasture, as it spoke of autumn dew.<br />
Dripping a coat of frozen foot-prints,<br />
leaking memories of only you. <br />
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I decided the sun was use-less that day. A point-less<br />
picture of misplaced energies. It left me stranded.<br />
abandoned, with frost bitten emotions, a hypothermic <br />
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And I remembered he romanced me blind with <br />
a thorn not a rose. Reciting verses of you’s and I’s. <br />
labeled poetry but not a poem. only virtue(al) <br />
reality. A linear brutality of a love spoken upon deaf ears. <br />
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A heart home-less, hope-less.<br />
a melancholy space. a trace <br />
of Venus and spun sugar. He <br />
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though "we" no longer have "that" gravitation(al) pull.<br />
He told me I never was that beautiful.<br />
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So I engraved a picture of a sand-dollar <br />
against the crease of his forehead. Today<br />
I would find the shell whole. A beautiful score <br />
of an oceans floor. Artistry that would last forever. <br />
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Then I realized my imagination got the best of me…<br />
Sadly, <em>so did he</em>.</span></div>
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Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-36235069491864247512013-02-14T02:37:00.000-10:002013-02-14T02:37:52.737-10:00THE DARKEST LAND ON VALENTINE'S DAY<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Days of old, in rainy shires of heathen disorder <br />
I look out beyond, beyond my window and I see the blooms of earth into a disaster</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I seek to sky, to cry, to writhe out of nothing, to seek the blasphemed border<br />
Of all recklessness, and fakened poise; graceful hearts blackened, from white to gray<br />
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Not one soul, not one has stepped forth from Earth’s garden, not one has flowered<br />
To behold in my light a sweet Azalea of perfected candor and blithe<br />
I have read, I have sought, but none have ever taken me to be sapphire showered<br />
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Sweet music, so soft and delighted, like drifting thoughts filled with elegance of soul<br />
Melancholy thoughts, truth of the heart, death of the art, my heart it does pull<br />
I wish not to contend, but I wish to know him who weaves this whole<br />
Into my heart, a whole from beauty, a whole wanting to fill with beauty<br />
To behold that face with splendor quietness</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So likest the poems with tassels of romance and frightened city<br />
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I wish to conjure your presence upon the sad sky<br />
I wish to serenade your heart with hopes of love<br />
It is Valentine, It is of you I do address, to seek of my<br />
Hand in friendship, in love, in peace, in something, to only touch your eyes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The eyes that turns the orchid to blush with embarrassment<br />
The sky to turn bright with creation<br />
The flowers to waltz and the Seasons spread wild<br />
Do not~ on my knees, on my hands~ do not shun<br />
And cast out my plea which is brought forth so riled<br />
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It begins with the sound of jazz<br />
It is wonder, it is a drink of a fountain in distress for immortality<br />
It is a way soft, It is prelude to the warm rain in reverse<br />
Leaves twirl in the wind, fall back to the branches of which have disgraced<br />
Storms turn to die, Apollo pulls down the sun with his halo<br />
The ground sheds tears, it falls, smeared paint, it is erased<br />
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There is nothing. <br />
Then there is Valentine. A dance upon a sky of purple, a single of hope<br />
It is like the Fur Elise, so melancholy in search of hope<br />
Fur Elise, the old cliché, but new to my heart, pulling with golden rope<br />
Made strong with lush stems of Orchids and stardust entwined<br />
~Of violet skies and rainy tears of bliss do you remind<br />
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Will you have this dance? <br />
There goes that warm eyes once again, to touch or to leave<br />
I only wish to see, to know of your beautified cadence<br />
I have fallen through all plunder, through earth’s sieve<br />
It is Fantasia, it is Cannon in D, take your pick, <br />
Hands around your waist, smooth float across the clouds<br />
One turn, one burn of my heart, my soul is speaking loud<br />
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I can serenade, your hand in mine, what shall it be?<br />
The dripping tears of the Appasionata<br />
To flower your heart, and open your eyes to my crimson tea<br />
I can pour forth of my own, a deep purpled sonata<br />
Make it like the flowing sea and foamy shores of bree</span><br />
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Four a.m. is a terrible time of day, too late for night owls, too early for early risers. The exception is 4 a.m. at Borobudur, waiting for the sun to rise over the Kedu Plain in central Java with 504 figures of Buddha.
The heavens really opened up, and water, the equivalent of Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls and probably a few hundred other waterfalls combined, fell upon the earth. Or to be less dramatic about the whole thing – it rained like there was no tomorrow.</span>
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This 9th century Mahayana Buddhist monument has six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The main dome located at the centre of the top platform is surrounded by 72 Buddhas.
Borobudur was restored between 1975 and 1982. The temple is 40km northwest of Jogja, and the view you get from the top is incredible. The whole valley sprawls below it as you take in the fantastic 360° view. There were many visitors when we were there but not too many. We still got that sense of calm and peace at the top.
The largest Buddhist temple in the world is Borobudur, near Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, built between AD 750 and 842.”</span>
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Buddhist use water as an offering to symbolically represent giving up some worldly things, and water is chosen because even the most poor person can obtain water to carry out the ceremony.<br />
A lot of restoration work has gone into Borobudur which suffered extensive damage after the May 2006 earthquake in Java. In fact, many of the inner temples are still out of bounds to visitors because they are not structurally safe.<br />
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As we came within sight of the imposing peaks of the temple, it started to rain again. We took shelter at the very small security post that already had three security guards squeezed inside. Soon, many laughing and drenched kids from a school tour, as well as tourists, also tried to cram their bedraggled selves in there. <br />
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When the rain eased off, we decided to make the best of our time there. The weather did not distract us from the magnificent surroundings. It was quite awesome to see the black clouds hovering over the tiered temple, which rose to 47m at the highest point. It took our breath away. The shooting started from here.<br />
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You can circle the monument with them or climb to the top, but only by looking at a diagram can you tell that the temple is shaped like a mandala, a mystical scheme of the Buddhist cosmos. The three levels denote states of consciousness, from human suffering to enlightenment. Little is known beyond that, leaving the cosmos locked shut while Borobudur reigns, silent and solitary, over the volcano-ringed garden of Java.
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Photography has brought a lot of truth to the people. Before photography, war was presented to the public as being romantic; you can see this in old paintings of war heroes in museums. Photography made an early great impression during the Civil War, as an early example, as it brought home to many people the gruesome realities of war.<br />
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Photography "set painting free." Prior to photography, paintings usually attempted to show reality as well as the could. When photography took over that job during the late 1800s, painters started to express their inner feelings rather than show scenes realistically. The first painters to successfully express themselves in this way were the "Expressionists."<br />
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I believe that even today there as been a similar artistic change in photography; it was predicted that the digital camera would eliminate the film camera, but I have been learning that many people prefer the effects of film images over digital images because they can be made to be more expressive.<br />
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I personally support openness in information and expression, so I don't feel that there are too many ethical issues surrounding photography. If a person is in a public place where he can be seen by many, I feel that he should not be upset if he gets photographed. In today's world with its many dangers there are many security cameras pointing at us in public places so the ethical issue has become moot in a sense.<br />
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Photojournalists bring us many images of suffering, and many people feel that these images are an intrusions. In fact the great war photographer Don McCullin felt great guilt for taking pictures of people who were dying or about to be killed.<br />
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He wrote: <em>"I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: "I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child." That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace."<br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So maybe I like spending most of my time <br />
with my hands between my legs <br />
maybe I like a little kink with my love <br />
maybe I'm happiest when i'm in bed <br />
with someone feeling them <br />
slam into me hard, rough,fierce <br />
cum and emotions flow with it <br />
sticky sweet and tender <br />
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call me a slut <br />
if it'll make you understand <br />
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wanna know <br />
why I am such a slut ? <br />
why I succumb <br />
to slavery to being sacrificed <br />
over and again? <br />
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because I don't allow myself <br />
to express feelings <br />
in the canned soup <br />
we call life <br />
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I let myself <br />
go bland <br />
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but in sex in pure <br />
unadulterated fucking <br />
I can be me I can cry and scream <br />
and let my feelings go <br />
I can be helpless and needy<br />
and vulnerable and loved <br />
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and the sweet relief of orgasm <br />
tires me out so that I can recover <br />
from the intensity of feeling everything <br />
I left bottled <br />
on forgotten dusty inner shelves <br />
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the comfort of a warm body next to me <br />
makes me realize I'm not alone <br />
and Iam at last untroubled at peace <br />
safe <br />
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so yes I love sex <br />
and I could be a kinky little minx <br />
I like my pleasure with a touch of pain </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't apologize <br />
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to be the person I am within <br />
I can fight I can lose and it's all right <br />
I can be frail weak and it makes me more desirable <br />
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Idon't want to be an equal <br />
I want to be fucked <br />
I want to be forced to enjoy myself <br />
to let go <br />
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i want my hair pulled as my cunt <br />
is filled with thick hot humanity <br />
I want to be slammed into <br />
I want to be an animal who is just driven <br />
by primal desires reasonable fears <br />
and never ever doubt <br />
I want to be able to struggle and weep <br />
and cry out and yet have my emotions <br />
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sex allows me to be myself without <br />
having to justify <br />
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in the buckled restraints <br />
that I strain against <br />
in the floggings that burn my skin <br />
in the feral way I am fucked <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I wants you to remember that one of the greatest illusions is the search for pleasure without pain, praise without reprimand, or nice without mean . . .<br />
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Ironically it is in looking for those illusive one-sided events in a two-sided universe that many experience so-called suffering.<br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I feel the heat from these burning embers. <br />A melodic glow from day resonates through the torn<br />asunder haze of this balmy december rain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have become something so vascular in nature,<br />yet so delicate. The fabric of this tryst has become a blood<br />ridden thing. A fleshy laceration, flapping in the wind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know these warm humid streets we walk too well. What<br />lies ahead is nothing by nightmares entombed in cryptic<br />words, built on a blue-collar workers sweaty spin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am but a woman, I am composed of my limitations, the<br />rest is only animated imitations, but as long as I’ve the light of<br />the moon to guide my eyes, I will always see you - <br />as a strong plam tree.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Quand, les deux yeux fermés, en un soir chaud d’automne,<br />
Je respire l’odeur de ton sein chaleureux,<br />
Je vois se dérouler des rivages heureux<br />
Qu’éblouissent les feux d’un soleil monotone ;<br />
Une île paresseuse où la nature donne<br />
Des arbres singuliers et des fruits savoureux ;<br />
Des hommes dont le corps est mince et vigoureux,<br />
Et des femmes dont l’œil par sa franchise étonne.<br />
Guidé par ton odeur vers de charmants climats,<br />
Je vois un port rempli de voiles et de mâts<br />
Encore tout fatigués par la vague marine,<br />
Pendant que le parfum des verts tamariniers,<br />
Qui circule dans l’air et m’enfle la narine,<br />
Se mêle dans mon âme au chant des mariniers.<br />
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When, both eyes closed, on a hot autumn night,<br />
I breathe in the fragrance of your welcoming heart,<br />
I see happy shores spread out before me,<br />
Blazing in the fire or a monotonous sun;<br />
A lazy isle to which nature has given<br />
Lonely trees, savory fruits,<br />
Men whose bodies are slender and vigorous,<br />
And women in whose eyes shines a surprising candor.<br />
Guided by your fragrance to these charming moods,<br />
I see a port filled with sails and masts<br />
Still tired by the waves of the sea,<br />
While the perfume of the green tamarinds,<br />
That flows through the air, and fills my nose, <br />
Mingles in my soul to the sailors' song.<br />
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Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-35356813823583421182012-12-22T09:05:00.000-10:002012-12-22T09:05:27.876-10:00GREEN BUTTERFLY<br />
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<span lang=""><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to be</span><br />
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the green butterflies you notice</span><br />
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out the corner of your eye</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
as faraway a drama teacher studies the beauty in your frown,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to be the memory of </span><br />
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watching the children you once</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
played hopskotch with</span><br />
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now re-enacting shakespeare and cobain in</span><br />
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rainy carparks as though the two went together,</span><br />
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to be that common and unthought of at the time</span><br />
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yet somehow part of the backdrop</span><br />
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to when you were at your most carefree</span><br />
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like white tigers passing school gates, </span><br />
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like black butterflies</span><br />
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in a jar of honey or</span><br />
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the corners of photographs </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
that slipped between burnt thumb and forefinger, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
the rest gone to ashes</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
he thinks what he cannot say, he isn't a poet</span><br />
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all his thoughts turn on a burning rotisserie</span><br />
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but he imagines a trapeze girl tossing a ribboned hoop</span><br />
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over a lion and twilight trying to</span><br />
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find its way through spaces between odd </span><br />
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shaped temples dooms;</span><br />
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all of this in a flick of your hair, </span><br />
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and then that</span><br />
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nirvana tattoo under your December eyes,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would be inked there forever if I could</span><br />
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while the rain went on dragging the mascara down</span><br />
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mybuttefly white cheeks</span><br />
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like shadow puppets on Chinese lantern paper</span><br />
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you still always smile when it rains</span><br />
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you saw three stars on the sky</span><br />
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it is the tear that will never make its way to your lips,</span><br />
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the salt of someones desire you will never taste.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you carry it with you, and you only think of it</span><br />
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when you see green butterflies</span><br />
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I'm not sure how the two go together, </span><br />
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its a long distance thing,</span><br />
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a marriage so liquid and ribbon like, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forever breeze and moment caught </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
that there is no way it will ever solidify</span><br />
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there is always thepromise of watching </span><br />
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the sunrise from the rooftop of the blue seafront house </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where you grew up</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
waiting for dandelions to grow one month out </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the year on the way to school so that you could get all your wishes</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
in at once before Christmas</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is something I will never do without you there. </span><br />
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still, ill fall asleep sometimes</span><br />
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not at the beach but on the docks</span><br />
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and listen to the water, not quite the sea where you are</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
but a sea inside when I close my eyes and</span><br />
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think of all the gr bueen tterflies flittering over</span><br />
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its dark silks</span><br />
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reminded of how i would listen to you fall asleep</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
from across the lines</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
your smile is a postcard, an empty bench on the pier.</span><br />
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if you were hear i would watch you sleep in the same way i watched </span><br />
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the trees from my window where </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was kept secluded as a child a thousand miles from home</span><br />
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not with sadness but longing, not with love but wanting</span><br />
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wanting you to know that there is something more than love</span><br />
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will ever be, a conversation that goes so deep into the night</span><br />
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insomnia and adrenaline sets in, and longing becomes so caught up</span><br />
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in itself, in telephone lines and sighs and good byes</span><br />
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so drawn out they have bled into the morning</span><br />
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more stark than Arthur fellig photography and December suicides.</span><br />
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I remember being so tired at work, the thought of you</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
still clutching my chest </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't even feel the anxiety and the trauma set in,</span><br />
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you kept life at bay and promised to take me away</span><br />
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while I went on breathing nostalgia and clementine</span><br />
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until the days I started to collapse</span><br />
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breathing the thought of you but never getting close enough</span><br />
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to feel your breath, the thought of your hands </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
in gloves and the polka dot scarf that somehow matched your eyes</span><br />
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stir in the sky, along the course of migrating birds,while the sky </span><br />
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caves in, and pulls in the city with it</span><br />
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that you almost don't notice you have moved</span><br />
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nauseating, living </span><br />
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to go on living after coming close to so much beauty</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
condensed to a single black tear,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
all my universe in a parallel life;</span><br />
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its singularity the weight of all oceans</span><br />
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just above your cheek</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
where your smile is the last thing to shatter me completely</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Globalization is often touted as the solve it all solution of the problems this world faces today. However there are several very highly toxic effects of globalization as well. For instance these seemingly dissipating borders means that the western world has been and even now is engaged in dumping its plastic and medical waste to third world countries. They are able to do so as there is a lack of whistle blowing as well as checks and balances in countries like Pakistan, Indonesia which has been subjected to dumping for the last 30 odd years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On my visit to Semarang two days ago I along with some other media friends of mine took a drive down to Banyumanik which is the scrapyard heaven in Semarang. I see crushed plastic, piles of medical waste, IV tubes and infusion bags lying on the ground in warehouse and people coming to buy them, I caught hold of one of the kids who works there, to my utter shock he tells me that local manufacturers who make plastic products even down to utensils come and buy this scrap to reuse!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One begins to wonder, how are Indonesian’s authorities allowing this dumping of hazardous materials on our soil? The case though is a multilayered one with many of these materials being passed off and misdeclared in our customs under "plastic scrap" and other categories to be cleared and sold off by importers. What they cannot sell off they dispose, so they are hand in hand with the whole process. Many of our hospitals too are often found disposing medical waste in their own backyards or adjacent rubbish heaps, to the extent that several unborn fetuses have been routinely popping up all over Indonesia in waste heaps.</span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although a strengthening and overhaul of customs law as well as more diligence on control of such imports will prove useful. It is of utmost importance that local communities get involved in keeping our country clean of such products. For this purpose reporting such waste piles are key, too long have we been exposed to harmful diseases due to lack of vigilance. The effort will require us to not drive past burning heaps of open air rubbish in our city and stop to ask why and who is exposing us to these hazardous materials. More can also be achieved by organizing community cleaning drives and not restricting them to beach fronts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Only if we ourselves show care for the environment around us can we effect change in keeping it safe and livable here in my country, Indonesia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My hands are stained with blood, as red as<br />
the surface of the sun, from which I ripped my <br />
still beating heart from my cavernous chest, for <i>you.</i><br />
I tore open my rib cage, and mercilessly thrusted the <br />
jagged ivory into my wretched organ. All in the name of <i>you.</i> <br />
<i>Your</i> preservation. All for <i>you</i>. Before <i>you</i> go would <i>you</i> be so kind,<br />
as to drown me face down, in my own bright red blood? Oh, would <i>you</i> please?</span></div>
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Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-58314671649315359212012-11-06T07:13:00.000-10:002012-11-06T07:13:52.292-10:00WHEN . . . .<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When water turns into blood<br />When the sun fades into black<br />When my heart pounds for the last time<br />When I will see you go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m washed to the shore<br />Breaking into the rocks of loneliness<br />Aching my empty life without you<br />Drifting through memories of us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">we all carry a few pounds of explosives in </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">our heads - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">the sniff dog in wait can't smell it - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">the sniper on the roof can't get it in his sights </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we carry it though - and we saunter </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">through their detection blockades - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">and we can't be stopped </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">some of us think it's simply precious cargo - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">like some wedding night sheets rolled into a ball and </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">protected by skull plates - comparison parties with the </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">girls from work - love the love you own </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">or like there's an antidote in there - like </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">anybody ever gets better without blood on their hands - </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">that designer placebo was tested on runaways </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">or even an anectdote that's worth a fuck - like i said , </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">then he said - and then we said - we said , and said - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">and said .... all day - so we can say it again </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">we're simply wired to go bombastic - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">that's the only truth that comes - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">and at any point we can take out a city block - </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">with a flippant split decision </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we can't help with the same whim - cause </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we're not designed for joy spread healing humility - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we're about the train wreck onslaught crescendo </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we can catpult ourselves into someone else's oblivion </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">and pull all the pins - cutting them to pieces </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">but we can't give love - without keeping score </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">the flower you picked for your love fucking died - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">but the lie you told is still ticking away - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we punish , we bring hell to , we cut the daisies </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">god , we even rape </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">we're all simply eachother's obstacles - </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">we will clear the way for our pleasure </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">- daisycutters - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">kill babies so we can fuck without someone </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">crying in the other room </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">mother invalids so we can sing about lovebirds </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">uninterrupted </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">set fire to the homeless so you can own them </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">forever - keep them locked inside the smirk on </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">your ugly cannibal face </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">i saw the scorch marks on the pavement and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">the twinkle in your eye </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">i saw the mutts invade the dumpster outside the clinic - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">while you humped like dogs - i heard you say yes </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">a thousand times </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">and i saw your grandmother's make-up smeared all over </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">the pillow case inside the coffee can - </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">don't sing lovesongs about sparrows to me ... it won't </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">exonerate you - i'll just show you - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">there is DNA everywhere - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">that's what we're about - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">it's on your bed - your floors - your doorknobs - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">it's on your lips , it's on your streets - in your dumpsters </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">it's even in your coffee cans </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">we leave a trail of what we are - </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">every step of the way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">where are the rose petals </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">where is the pixie dust </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">where's the fucking confetti </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Walking into the next genocide,<br />Of a million minds at once,<br />Upon the
falter of a life enraged by thoughts of love,<br />A loving gaze into a
daze,<br />That summons you to dwell,<br />Upon the thoughts which summon you to
heaven or to hell,<br />A life denied of chaos,<br />Entropy into the sun,<br />The
sun of which your soul is born, a mourning never learned,<br />Into the faithful
sun you burn,<br />Into the moon you cry,<br />As nothing comes before you, <br />And never leave another life inside your mourning
star,<br />To cry for everything that all us zeros truly are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am typing up and retyping my scattering thoughts in the dark tonight, trying to scribble down every word and every syllable on my computer before they fall behind my thoughts</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The windows feel too tight, the door too shut and the ceiling spinning, closing in </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These sleepless nights, I imagine all the scattered words and fairytales with no endings and whispering beautiful songs I would whisper in your ear</span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But when I see you, all I could say is <em>‘I missed you’</em> just like anyone else would have said, with a blank expression and emotion, emotion stronger than the whole universe, bubbling inside of me</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The window blows open by the late night wind and the blank curtains hover in the room, casting big shadows and reviving the most fearful, childhood nightmares</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The wind blew hard and I sat on the steps breathing in the cold air, an atmosphere without you beside me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> They have all left, in crowds and in pairs, but I was still alone, breathing in cold air like a cigarette and ruining my lungs.....</span></span><br />
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Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-70313510418141710752012-09-17T03:52:00.000-10:002012-09-17T03:52:59.145-10:00Conversation Overheard<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>"We grow and evolve, <br />
And move away from things that<br />
Used to captivate us."</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>"It's part of life..."<br />
"I don't really remember..."<br />
"I don't really want to know."</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>"You're so far beyond me..."</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>"Trade offs - "<br />
"So what do you say<br />
We move on..."</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em></em></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em></em></span> </div>Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-978871956376740689.post-18062289156359813622012-09-09T05:23:00.000-10:002012-09-09T05:23:42.725-10:00MNEMOSYNE<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0UeDr6wLNM/UEyzXikRGHI/AAAAAAAAFV0/5MO94v5S5io/s1600/green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0UeDr6wLNM/UEyzXikRGHI/AAAAAAAAFV0/5MO94v5S5io/s1600/green.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div dir="LTR" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">i fell in love with the delicate curve of her neck,<br />
faint and lithe as a flame writes itself into the cracks of souls<br />
as if an angel wet her finger in the clouds and painted a scene<br />
of doves in the belltower of hell,<br />
moon children with phantom masks that make the world tremble with shadows<br />
and their black despair<br />
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i crumble when you touch my tears<br />
i can smell funeral orchids curling in your hair<br />
skull pregnant with the snowy ashes of memory<br />
that can only be reborn <br />
in the dread chimes of eternity, twelve strokes at midnight, twelve songs<br />
a child laughing somewhere very far away, smoke filling the room<br />
and moving her lacy hips<br />
in time with dying<br />
<br />
i watched her from my window she had white victorian birds in her hair<br />
and i could do nothing but smile softly without a face<br />
as my shadow formed the silhouette of a phoenix <br />
her face was bone china and without movement<br />
but her eyes burned <br />
i saw the black and dreaming ocean of a parisian silent film through them<br />
bloated with cracked roses and mirror salt<br />
she walked into the sea<br />
and floated forever away from the light<br />
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but i knew she was writhing with the shadows and sea dandelions,<br />
lighting beautifully the skeleton of a beast <br />
with her swan plume of death and life and everything in between<br />
pearl laden mermaid hair and flowered moss matted to my thighs, i was carried to a beach <br />
littered with gray diamonds and apple cores and longing<br />
i floated with peacock feathers glued to my eye sockets<br />
i saw with the palms of my hands and the murmur of lightning in my chest<br />
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i bloom now only in memoir shaped regret <br />
slumbering only when the stars die on my spine just so<br />
feigning the deference of wings,<br />
plagued with nightmares of being happy that mold the pulp of my lips like clay<br />
when i dream, i will dream only <br />
of that fateful ride to the coroner's office,<br />
her skinless paper doll face<br />
my last poem penned on a cold february morning<br />
before the sun had risen and i could feel my blood<br />
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i wrote a requiem for her,<br />
blue veined and masterful<br />
the sponge that sucked the life of the last lingering vines of my flower bed<br />
in hopes that her blood chrysalis would find wings <br />
and flicker sometimes in my peripheral vision,<br />
a soft cool hand pressed against my feverish brow<br />
<br />
i go to my window every morning hoping i'll find a cocoon <br />
or a hairline fracture in the clouds<br />
i torture myself<br />
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you refuse to think of me or or even haunt the crumbling labyrinth of my thoughts<br />
spanish lolitas, dried red flowers pressed in between the pages of their hair, <br />
disappear around corners i never knew existed<br />
and minotaurs scream with savage mourning, skeletons of clouds chained<br />
to the wall<br />
my skin still smelling like yesterday rain<br />
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so i will think of you as a broken doll<br />
heart like a blue bird dying in your chest<br />
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i will think of you as me<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One can easily envisage a love that is flawless. <br />
A sovereignty of inhibitions, a union impassible, infallible. <br />
Phenomenal perfection from every perspective. <br />
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In almost every heart the acceptance and anticipation of<br />
disappointment and betrayal have become a comforting familiarity.<br />
Contemporary love is almost classified as being laden with heartache, <br />
burdened by suspicion and insecurity.<br />
Soaked bone deep with preconceived notions and <br />
expectations of performances and milestones.<br />
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We silently criticize and emasculate our so called "lovers".<br />
Miscarry our own intentions of virtue. <br />
We are almost predisposed to failure and torture <br />
at the hands of our own desire.<br />
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But with you my love...<br />
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I exhale, respire and I feel your warmth within.<br />
Floating on the moonlight <br />
Bathed in the glow of adoration, unadulterated fixation. <br />
<br />
I am aware of my entirety. <br />
Not only do I sense every single fiber of my being, <br />
But I am enthralled by it. Sensual, concupiscent.<br />
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There is no admonishing, only inclusive consent.<br />
Not from one another, but from within ourselves. <br />
The blessing of permissive intuition.<br />
<br />
Atonement, sustainable gratification. <br />
With every breath drawn in…<br />
impenetrable, inscrutable, unfathomable<br />
<br />
Every question answered, every discovery made<br />
Every unknown expelled along with the rush<br />
It poured out of me like a river of fire. <br />
From the valley between me flooded euphoria.<br />
<br />
Moments to hours and heart beats to symphony. <br />
It was alive, lucidity. <br />
To experience what the majority can barely dream, <br />
Together, repeatedly, and know…<br />
If there were ever two hearts designed to beat together<br />
they belong to us, and beat together now.<br />
To attain this love is unheard of, <br />
To realize that you have attained it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Rapture of euphoria . . . .</em></span>Shakuntaladevi Mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11668020594465299457noreply@blogger.com1