Oxymoron who?

Let it go, Learn and grow, People with the life-jacket will bark, Our world is Noah’s ark, This life has no prior dawn, A bright dusk is an oxymoron.…

My Dentist, Dr. Fairy

[http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4282838] > And if the darkness is to keep us apart And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off And if your glass heart should crack Before the second you turn back Oh no, be strong You’re…

Ghost of what they were

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. The late Kaifi Azmi [http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/kaifiazmi.html] sahab, a renowned urdu poet, left behind a compelling thought in his poem ‘Intishar’ (divulging) [ mp3 excerpts [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/mbrs/master/salrp/…

Cathartic Kiss

That’s one of history’s famous kisses. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 “LIFE” magazine photograph of a sailor stamping a passionate kiss on a nurse (Edith Shain). Well, if kissing is universal, then someone must have invented it, or rather discovered it. Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist at Texas A&…

Dreaming Lhasa

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