Almonds are sweet,
but walnut-bitterness is sweeter.
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A Leprechaun’s Gaze
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Loose ends were tied, the message sent
As I walked on in merriment
With ruddy arms I build a cairn
That lies a ways past yonder barn
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One piece of gold I have in tow
My back faced to the winds that blow
This growing monumental mound
Will hide my grief on sacred ground
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A daily prayer, a daily grind
A rock a day to ease my mind
To reach the sky! To find my love!
To live the dream I’m dreaming of
A Thousand Words
I don’t want you’ll to fall asleep with me harping on the same theme. But please bear with me this time.
Preparing to go off for the Oscars:
Frozen Limbs
The warm sap has thickened my bark
Giving me a much needed and welcome tough skin
When the wind blows I curl in my roots
Like toes in tight shoes
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The reading now branches off to my blog:
Tumbling Over Worms
O, I shall be a slave to love
In seed, a sap I’ll be
SDM and Me
Watched Slum Dog over the week end. Enjoyed the story very much. It held my interest throughout. Yet I really can’t quite figure out what makes it so outstanding. Other than for the music, aren’t most of the awards/nominations for
technical quality? The story has all the ingredients of a good ‘masala’ movie – a game show which took India by storm a few years ago, violence, the underworld, romance thrown in and some disturbing visual content on the misery of life in the slums.
For me the people who really made the story
come to life were the three street kids who are actually from the slums. I don’t see any of them in any of the zillion photographs or TV screens. They just seem forgotten and I get the feeling they are perhaps just a very little better off in their lives than before. I get the feeling these kids have been exploited and left out to dry now that they have served their purpose. Maybe I’m wrong but I can’t for the life of me remember seeing those three wonder kids in any newspaper or on a TV screen.
Dara
Rahmania
“Who’s A.R. Rahman?”
If you’re from the U.S., U.K. or Europe, that might be your thought if you heard his name, even if you’ve seen Slumdog Millionaire, or heard its music. Yes, even then.
So just who the heck is Rahman, and why this blog post titled Rahmania, and what does the A.R. stand for?
