Tag: arts
group name: thoughtprovoking
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July 26, 2007 05:33 AM EDT --
“Happy 2007!” said Kishore as he warmly shook hands with his friends on a parting note. All of them were in high spirits. Indeed they were expected to be in the highest of spirits, having consumed . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
Rodin carved your pensive reverie
A reflective moment etched in imagination
Eternally trapped in brooding repose
Questioning the Gods of reason
Your demise is nearing
Soon the figure head . . .
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October 22, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
I couldn't fall asleep last night, after seeing The Science of Sleep yesterday afternoon. The movie was too brilliant, too enigmatic, and just a tad too close to the bone for me to dismiss it with . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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November 11, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
We passed through the Qeysarieh gate (see previous post for location), a pair of Parthian horsemen turning backwards, bows drawn, ready for a final shot, stand at opposite ends of the tympanum. Was the . . .
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February 12, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
That’s wonderful
From Link
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . .
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September 07, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
This is dedicated to my sister, Jeannie, who inspired this article about my experience of writing on Gather.com
I wrote a poem /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976787035 . . .
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July 28, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Two decades ago, when large-scale computerisation of our department was begun, it caused apprehensions of a possible layoff among the staff. The members of the employees’ association in my unit came . . .
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June 25, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Once it is all done ---
Once Science has dismantled the Universe
And ripped apart its every meson,
Will I still be able to put it back
And see its beauties as a Whole again?
Or will it be lost . . .
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October 26, 2006 09:37 AM EDT --
WINGED MESSENGERS
Illusions sheen longing for all to see
Velvet passing, kissed too delicate to recall
The sky hears their whispers and dreams
Fluttering outside our visionary sight
Winged messengers . . .
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . .
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May 30, 2007 03:03 AM EDT --
(This was a story I wrote way back in 8th grade I believe and it was in response to a poem about an ode on time, or age,or something. Hope you enjoy)
"Will we stay forever, . . .
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September 17, 2006 09:56 PM EDT --
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaissance in . . .
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September 08, 2006 07:22 PM EDT --
Education: Theoretical or Proven
Yesterday as I was having my lunch in the . . .
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October 05, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
ACT I
Tingling, tantalized, terrified,
Will I remember my lines?
Will my foundation blend with the cast?
Will I catch on a phrase?
ACT II
Kleig lights shine wicker hot
Blinding my memory . . .
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September 19, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
Eastern and Western cultures are different. There is no question about that. Over the last five years I have attempted to understand the enmity that Muslim fundamentalists feel towards us. Is it . . .
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November 19, 2006 04:32 PM EST --
Hazy winter sun throbs on his weather beaten face. Grime caked sweat rolls off bearded, wizened skin. Gashed brow, life in tow, he struggles up hill. Greeting the morning with warm, . . .
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