A craven capriccio in watercolour on papier mâché
i caught you napping in the office yesterday. You don’t know that i did. (i didn’t want to embarrass you.)
You were slumped in your plush recliner — snoring gently — head back — Pert Plus hair a mess — pert nose pointing towards an emulsion sky — sallow cheeks glowing — [...]
a (hopefully non-contagious) rash of versificationings by kinkminos
to know i’m not
i can’t say why
i can’t say how
i can’t say who’s
behind me now
i can’t be held
responsible
for things i’m not
accountable
to who or why or where or what
it’s who i am i know
not who i’m not
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dimetrically opposed
don’t drink of me twice
cos this once i just might [...]
temporal
a granite rock ensconced on a peak
aloof, majestic, on top of the world
fell in love with a coquettish cloud
floating miles from ocean
spreading shadow-relief
over parched fields and plains
hiding in its bosom water, sound, fury and
We are posting this brilliant piece by a Karachi based author that indicates the new contours of relationships and the transformations that are taking place in the realm of romance, relationships and marriage… (Raza Rumi)
Majed Akhter writes on the emerging Geography of romance in Pakistan:
Not only does the novel spatiality of cyberspace offer great potential for [...]
temporal
Dil say jo baat nikalti hay, asar rakhti hay
Par nahiN, taaqat e parwaaz magar rakhti hay
Words that emanate from the heart carry (more) weight
Without wings, they can fly (great) distances – Iqbal
The large majority of those who live in the west have difficulty in understanding what it is to think with the mind of the [...]
Spare the poor goat or lamb’s life. Chapter 22, Verse 37 of the holy Qur’an talks about your devotion, piety, God-consciousness and taqwa that reaches Him.
Contributed by Kinkminos
truth, so often relative,
is hard to place when family is called upon
to mediate between the rock and harder place
of marital kabaddi
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