Went out last night
Ran my gaze
Over midnight sky
Segregated by unruffled ocean
By a thin line
Of fairy lights..
I saw strangers
Many of them
Dark random Silhouettes
Of walking, talking
Breathing stories
I didn’t dare go near
Didn’t dare see their faces
Maybe, I was scared
Of their secret stories
Or maybe I was scared
That I would tell them mine..
I didn’t touch the lights
I was afraid
I could burn my hands
Or maybe I was afraid
I would crush them
With my bare hands
I didn’t dip my feet
In the tranquil ocean
I was nervous
Not that the ocean
Could swallow me
But my own chaos
Would stir a violent storm
In the lovely calm ocean..
So,
I just walked
Silently
And watched
Only watched!
The silhouettes..
The fairy lights..
And the calm blue waters..
And returned to my cave
Unaffected and unmoved
As if I never left…
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Love this. Beautiful shots. 😊
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I wish i had proper camera with me.
Anyways. Im glad you liked them 🙂
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Proper camera or not, they turned out great. 😊
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is heavily-edited a words??
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Hahaha! It is today! 😃😃
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thats exactly what it is 😀
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😃👍🏻
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🙂
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Quite a profound string of thoughts. Love the honesty and gorgeous photos. Reading between the lines was fully therapeutic.
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I am glad you felt it was therapeutic.
It was exactly what happened last night and my anxiety shot up again.
I thought maybe going out will help it just got worse.
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So agree with you … took me in all directions. Beautiful 🌸
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thanks a lot. I had no idea people will like it I had so much work today. so wrote it and just posted it.
thanks 🙂
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Instinct works wonders sometimes… planning works other times!!
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today it was literally in between so much work. laundry basket was overflowing. and I am decluttering every place of my home.
well it turned out good.
you are right 🙂
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Simple but so profound. Loved the imagery.
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Thank you so much 🙂
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Loved the poem! Beautiful photos, too! 🙂
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Thanks alot Patty. You are always so kind 🙂
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Wonderful post!
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Thank you. Comming from you, this already means alot 🙂
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you are so welcome!
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an amazing piece stoner, brilliant, I loved it. xoxox ❤ 🙂
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thanks hun. now I am feeling much better. I wrote it on a whim though but I am glad I did. poured out words unfiltered 🙂
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You like living there?
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Yea. Best of both the worlds 🙂
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But it’s a conservative society. Ain’t it. Why not move West?
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Have half of the family there..probably in the long run..
But dubai isnt that conservative. You can live the way you want. And halal food 🙈
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So post marriage, you mean. And you can cook. Also halal is a modern trend, isn’t it. I mean it’s still a label like that vegetarian one.
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dude why are you so hung up on marriage?? I was offered a Persian kitten yesterday, the one I always wanted and I had to refuse. we both know how it is so please stop brining future and all..
yes I can cook.
no its not just a Lebel I am conscious of what I am eating. this is one of few sins I haven’t done yet.
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It’s not a sin to eat. And you’re Asian goddammit. It means you will be pressurised someday. Also you’re trusting someone of doing their job. You remember Nestle and how in their chocolates pork and horse meat traces was found. No one knows what goes in that package so forget it.
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dont do this to me
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What?
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😦
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I don’t understand emoji. I told you.
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I just had food. do you want me to throw up??
and that too I cooked check with my special spice and roasted garlic..yum..well what was I saying..
yes.. don’t tell me something wrong can bee hidden in what I am eating. let me eat in peace.
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Ignorance is bliss. Say what you want Stoner. It’s true. And you have already eaten. So there’s that. In older days I’ve heard they used to grind the spices with their hand. Halal is a modern trend, something cooked up for label like Vegetarians have that green symbol.
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halal is not trend. you don’t know. ok leave it obviously you don’t know.
its nothing like vegetarian and all..
when I still grind some spices by hand. I have a small mortal pestle. for crushing spice fresh.
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No halal label is a trend baka. Halal was there since Islam. Do I have to spell everything for you?
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I am talking about actual halal food. in Dubai it is actually halal food!!
a little bit of something else they inform you loud and clear.
and don’t scare me please I am very picky about it
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How do you know without the label? You’re trusting someone. Ask your Dad there was no halal label during his time. So he would have trusted his butcher, so would you. It’s just like when my parent were growing up they didn’t have vegetarian labels. See and I’m also picky about my food. But when people act crazy over a label I want to tell them, hey it’s just a label.
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okay stop. please
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Alright. So still going to gym?
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Nice one! Photos are great and I always love those night shots but they are not so easy to take. Your words create a world with shadowy beings moving within it. Nice nice nice!
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aw..
thank you so much Anne.
I had to edit these images a lot!!
thanks for this comment 🙂 means a lot. I am smiling 🙂
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Simple, profound and beautiful!
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thank you. honestly I am feeling way better than I should have felt after going out just by looking at the comments. you guys are better therapy 🙂
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Your’re so awesome. I love what you share! Your writing, photography, everything is delightful. Fresh. Human! and therefore relateable.
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maybe because I was cleaning wardrobe, cooking and doing laundry when I wrote this 😀
thank you so much covert novelist I appreciate your presence
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It really is my pleasure.
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🙂
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I’m so glad I found you or you found me, whichever happened first, at this point not sure. But it is wonderful.
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it sure is 🙂 I love this place and you guys.
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Feelings pretty mutual I’m thinking! 🙂
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It sure is 🙂
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i have a painting I did which is very similar to the city scape picture at the top. weird. lovely and poignant.
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you paint too???
Sir, tell me something that you don’t do.
the picture is of Sharjah Corniche. what did you look at when you painted your piece??
this is where I got your comment in Urdu and I was beaming 😀
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I did it out of my head, but I had new york in mind
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really?? New York city scape is like this?? maybe most of them are like that..sometimes things hide in our conscience and they come out when we are working on an art piece. happens to me every time.
I plan on something and something else magically transfers to the paper. maybe you saw it somewhere and it was there in the back of your mind all along.
just guessing
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a lot of the pictures I use in my blog are my paintings, the one today watch, is a painting I did in the style of Jack Vettriano
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now I will have to check. I haven’t started reading blogs yet. been really busy today.
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i have a rough copy of it
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let me tell you something I learnt few days back. if you want to share an image here.
you can go to this site https://prnt.sc
upload the image. it will concert it into a link.
you can share that link.
try it. its awesome
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i’m a bit dodgy on doing magic
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ahaha..its not working??
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https://t.co/9CFYaIIxo5
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i will try to find a picture of my painting
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please do. I would love to see 🙂
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it wont open like this
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I know. I will publish on my site. It’s very rough, not at all what the finished piece was like… But its five years ago. I don’t even know who I gave it to.
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ive posted the chalk version at the bottom of watch blog
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ahah I started reading the story.
the art is great I am sure it would have come out ever better when painted. first I thought the one in the beginning is painted by you. that is good too.
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the top one is mine but in the style of vettriano
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wow!! I am impressed
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https://t.co/9CFYaIIxo5
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Beautiful words and photography! ❤
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Thanks alot 🙂
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Amazing post & pictures… The whole piece was brilliant!! 🙂
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Thank you Beckie. So, finally going out wasnt that useless of an idea 😆 i thought i just wasted my time.
Now i feel it was worth it.
Thank you 🙂
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It was well worth it Toots! Gorgeous shots and the writing was impeccable.
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Ahaha thats so kind of you. Thank you 🙂
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It’s such a profound and beautiful composition…it got my feelings flowing on the paper…and before I knew it, my comments emerged as an independent rendition. Don’t want it getting lost in the crowd of comments, so posting it on my blog. Hope you don’t mind. Here’s the link for you to peruse:
https://phonynonie.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/behind-the-silhouttes/
PS: If you don’t want me posting it on my blog, just tell me frankly; I’ll remove it immediately.
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Hey. This is such a sweet gesture why would i.mind.
Thanks alot 🙂 this means alot to me
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Thanks. Hope what I have written does justice to your original creation.
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Hey, did you read what I wrote?
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Sorry hun. I read it needed time to comment.
Thanks alot i highly appriciate this gesture
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