Ghazal
In your absence, no pain. And wine? None.
And an answer to my longing, again none.
Once in a while, do pay attention to it for Other than your heart, a better book? None.
Death, why did you come again today? For on her secret face, a veil today? None!
They keep counting their good deeds on their hands, Those whose account of oppression there’s none
Translated, approximately, from the Hindustani of Jagjit Singh's "Tum NahiN, Gham NahiN"
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Night Music - Brilliant-ville
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly", from the OST of "Once". Just a f-ing brilliant song from a f-ing brilliant movie - I can't believe I chose this movie from the hotel TV movie listings, only to provide company to my silence. Must watch!
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A Plan for Winter
My days are breathless with silence.
Sunlight takes a richer hue
As our little earth hurtles
Towards its long winter nights.
Your notes arrive; one in many days.
There is no hurry now for
Another summer is turning in its
Bed of windblown leaves.
When the bear sleeps under its
Bare blanket of snowy earth,
On pages as pearly as the bark
Of birches, I will write you, Dear
Stranger, few words in coal black.
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