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living in a shell

O shell-izen!
just stay inside
you’re safe… and blind.

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Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!

~ Lewis Carroll

 


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Rooftop – Hughes Hall.

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During his undergrad (if you can call it that), Iqbal read at Trinity College, Cambridge. By current definition of the phrase, he was a ‘mature student’. He stayed at 17 Portugal Place.At that time, the house might have been college-owned, but I can’t confirm that.

It’s a smallish house with a narrow street on one side and a wider one on the other. The wider street opens up in Jesus Green, a large ground. The house is a 5 minute  walk away from the river Cam. 

I wish I could go and live there for some time, just to check if creativity is influenced by proximity to greatness, even if it’s time-shifted. Without going into any more details, here are some pictures.

the street 

the sky

the corner

the house

the plaque

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write the saddest lines

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos”.
Write, for example: “The night is shattered,
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.”

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

~ Pablo Neruda

 

The night wind

(P.S. Quoting Neruda doesn’t mean you are in love… Being in love doesn’t mean you should quote Neruda)

(P.P.S. The images go with the lines. I just took the pictures)

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old fog

کھڑکی سے جھانکتی ہے کسے بار بار دُھند

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image

]]> http://chaoticity.com/certainty/feed/ 0 آلووں کو پکنے دو http://chaoticity.com/%d8%a2%d9%84%d9%88%d9%88%da%ba-%da%a9%d9%88-%d9%be%da%a9%d9%86%db%92-%d8%af%d9%88/ http://chaoticity.com/%d8%a2%d9%84%d9%88%d9%88%da%ba-%da%a9%d9%88-%d9%be%da%a9%d9%86%db%92-%d8%af%d9%88/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000 awais http://chaoticity.com/%d8%a2%d9%84%d9%88%d9%88%da%ba-%da%a9%d9%88-%d9%be%da%a9%d9%86%db%92-%d8%af%d9%88/

aaloo آلووں کو پکنے دو
آلووں کو چولہے کی
دھیمی دھیمی آنچوں کا
کچھ مزہ تو چکھنے دو
آلووں کو پکنے دو

تیز تپتے تیل سے
پانی کو پرے رکھنا
پاس نہ ذرا کرنا
ورنہ چلملاتی سی
گرم سی کئ چھینٹیں
تم پر اُڑ کر آئیں گی
خوب پھر جلائیں گی
اِس لیے میں ٹوکے ہوں
اِس جلن سے روکے ہوں
مجھ کو روک سکنے دو
آلووں کو پکنے دو

اب کچن میں پھیلے گی
آلووں کے پکنے کی
بھینی بھینی سی خوشبو
بھوک سینچنے والی
روح اینچنے والی
دل کو کھینچنے والی
وہ کمینی سی خوشبو

لوگ پھر یہ سوچیں گے
یہ کہاں سے آئی ہے
اور وہ تعاقب میں
تیرے پاس آئیں گے
تجھ کو یہ بتائیں گے
"جل گئے ہیں آلو"
جبکہ خود وہ جلتے ہیں
آلووں کی اِس ڈش کو
خود ہی حاصل کرنے کی
خواہشوں میں پلتے ہیں
اور ہاتھ مَلتے ہیں

ان تمام لوگوں کی
چکنی چپڑی باتوں پر
نہ دھیان تم دینا
ایک کان سے سننا
ان سنی پھر کر دینا
دل میں کینہ رکھتے ہیں
وہ تو صرف بَکتے ہیں
ان کو تم بھی بَکنے دو
آلووں کو پکنے دو

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cherry coke can

sleep
please
the half empty
cherry coke can
will still be there
when you wake up
صبح کام نہیں کرنا کیا؟

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guitar web

Once there was a spider, who lived in my guitar
he listened to the blues, la musique de popular
but every time I rocked, he looked a bit crocked
and muttered, "at least play something in 12 bar"   

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