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A CELEBRATION A celebration in your own unassuming way silhouettively…… the ebb and flow edges of the sea dancing with you a sunset dream… Panflute wind voices for music the ocean roar a deep rumbling resonant bass…. the clarinet shrill of seagull swarms the swish hush of shelled sands frictioning chorus ensemble at twilight. Undulating …

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IT WASN’T COURAGE It wasn’t courage or strength you needed to plant that sapling.. just heart and a touch of caring. You wondered if the hole was deep enough and who would water it when the rains were gone. It would grow and years hence you would walk by in its shade and remember. Someone …

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IN THE BLUEDOM KINGDOM In the bluedom kingdom I reign. Toothless, emaciated and alone. The clipped skies fallen the midnight executioner dismembers the solitary rose. Headless eagles shrill note the famined end of spring. Clinging claws clutch the hands of the clock. Time is dead and nothing said can stay the all devouring gloom.

IN SEASON In season cactus flowers bloom fragrance…… gentling the thorns.. 18/ 12 / 87 This year december rains… nature surprised answers in smiles. 18/ 12 / 87 I go through time gathering flowers my life a bouquet for you. 18/ 12 / 87

I SIT THERE ALONE I sit there alone at the river edge on the dark side of the earth distances away from the bright side of the moon wondering silently about things far away and out of reach…… Maybe it is best that way, I have with me at least the earth for home and …

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I GUESS I guess Time passes for us all and one has to sit alone and sip that cup of coffee remembering bits here and there of younger days and seasons When coffee and caring happened more often. The caring still there I know But now I sit alone and sip the coffee trying to …

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I COME BACK I come back to the night forest wondering your presence since we last met in the shadows of the trees. The winds whisper reassurance All is well you are home. I surrender to the dark awaiting the morning of your return…. (Mishka : 14/10/96)

I CANNOT COMPOSE HAIKU I cannot compose Haiku To say how much hailaiku and prose it bores. It’s much too plain for a time like this. So what do I do? Chime a rhyme out of time to say ‘bye’? (sigh!) Do you have to go? I know a rainbow Cannot stay forever. But rainbows …

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ashagad camp 2007                                              photo: terryq they have their grace and beauty too though dark defined – life silhouettes colours unseen for dazzle far ahead yet beautiful in every silhouette announcement clear of dazzle light beyond. though dark defined the foreground

Andy, ArchanaR, Anahita, Behnaz, Bhakti , Connie, francisDm, Gautami, Ian, Julia, kenrick, Lorna, MarisaD., Namita, Nanda, Neenaz, Nicky, Parinaz, PoojaC, PriyankaBajaj, Rosie, Sandhya, SaradaB, Shonali, Simone, SonalG, TonyDias, TanyaM, Yax, Zaitoon, Zarina, retreat house garden, bandra                               photo : terryq Sometimes one frets the unseen sun or celebrates the floral hues in silhouette  or different seen with …

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