For a while we lived with people,but we saw no sign in them of the faithfullness we wanted.It’s better to hide completely withinas water hides in metal, as fire hides in a rock. -Rumi
Beware of Oud
Here we are, coming to you live from yet another net cafe in Sharjah where I am surrounded by people speaking the national language, this according to Knicq bhai, being not Arabic, but Malayalam. hehe I don’t know where to start. There are zillions of…
explain thyself
The poem titled ‘From the Homely Brother’ was not written to be overtly sexual or deliberately offensive, but to explain behavior that is so often misunderstood by people- he doesn’t look at her, he must think men are better than women. He walks in front…
For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devil’s tunes Shivering home to pray;To serve one master in the night, Another in the day. — Ernest Hemingway
From the Homely Brother
I want you too much to take youAnd cherish you too much to cheapenSo sister accept my distanceAnd watch my love slowly deepen I am but one man among manyWho longingly thinks to savorYour warmth, your eyes, your smile, And wonder at its flavor My…