Chagrined

When you left, you took more
Than what you thought;
It was not just my love
But all my love and my peace too
Why did you have to go?
Were our steps never in rhyme
Were my eyes too high, my step too slow?
And now that you are not here
I look for you in the women i meet,
Verily they disappoint, [...]

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Awww

missing old days and folks…
~*~

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Rubaiyyat

This is a rubayii that i once found, ages ago, written on the door of room 142, H10. It has always held special meaning to me, and i posted it to Minstrels:
Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire!
Would not we shatter it to bits – and [...]

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I know that we are not new…

Once again, Cohen comes to the rescue…

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it’s come to distances and both of [...]

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Hamari Sanson mein — Noorjahan

हमारी सांसौं मैं आज तक वोह हीना की खुश्भू मॆहक रही है
लबोन पे नग्मे मचल रहे है
नज़र से मस्ती झलक रही है

वोह मेरे नज़्दीक आते आते हया से इक दिन सिमट गये थे
मेरे खयालों में आज तक
वोह बदन कि डाली लटक रही है

सदा जो दिल से निकल रही है वोह शेर-ओ-नघ्मों मै ढल रही है
के [...]

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Reluctance

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
~*~
Words by Robert Frost in ”Reluctance”, sentiments shared.

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The secret

Have Faith.
Will Do.
~*~

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To Her

The flowers have turned
The bees seem lost
The scent but remains the same
You think the love is lost, I think not.
~*~

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Dreary

Ah! My dear. What a dreary life.
Misery, sorrow and strife;
A bomb exploded there,
Work is pending -
A lover pines somewhere.
!*~

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Protected: yesterdays

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