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Fire Fly

Sadia Rauf October 11, 2006

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#10 Posted by tantric on May 25, 2007 7:39:41 am
Re: # 8
``swallows patience``! I still like that. Sometimes, I don`t like stuff when I read it after a while. But `swallows patience` I can still feel. The `need` swallows the patience. Is that tacky you think? *shrug* Felt it. Wrote it.
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#9 Posted by tantric on May 25, 2007 6:57:40 am
Re: # 8
So, months later, I see this `interact`. My pets like me. I talk to them a lot actually. And I seem to understand more of what they say than what people say. There`s like, serious conversation going on in the pet realm.

Yes, you`re allowed to write this :)

Poetry is just impulse. Unreined and reckless. Usually, I rinse the `irrepressible emotions` with music. :)
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#8 Posted by SaqlainKhwajha on February 23, 2007 7:25:31 am
Yeah, I got that the other other day; saw someone who I wished, really, like totally, wished was someone else, y`know. It was on a bus, at night. And as i turned to stand I caught my own reflection in the glass- for the first time in weeks I liked the person I saw smiling happily.
So is this your Asmaan, Zameen: now I hear a rythym in the stuff you pen, but that`s a compliment. What i wanted to note was that this seeing out from a place where, I don`t know, like, you`re blocked in.. nah, this is a feedback system. You need to have a strong healthy regimen to move these colours around the chakras, or whatever, so that these obviously irrepressible emotions which must have been given you for a reason can make miss sharp(er) an` quick even better... really would like to hear what your pet thinks of you, if possible. -Other than that, nothing really.
`swallows patience` - where`d you even learn to spell that word?- bad joke but better than the one I was going to make (obviously your own fiction). Am I allowed to write this?
Mind: this poetry is what words are good for; mostly i do music for the this kind of buzz.
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#7 Posted by shobig_sifar on October 20, 2006 3:37:33 am
Actually, on a second thought, the poem actually refers to a `moth` and its pernicious love of light/flame - and not to a fire fly as per the title; unless there`s been a dearth of interpretation on my part. Please confirm.

regards
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#6 Posted by shobig_sifar on October 20, 2006 3:23:45 am
That`s pretty intense stuff. Looks inspired to a great extent by Urdu/Hindi poetry where similies to this game of death between sham`a and perwana for lovers are quite banal. Beautifully done nonetheless.
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#5 Posted by Sahara on October 19, 2006 4:24:25 pm
Gosh, hon, u`re gifted! Love your work. Love the intensity. Very powerful, indeed.
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#4 Posted by Azure on October 12, 2006 10:46:00 pm
Maybe it was the supermassive, or all the super words you used in your poem, but I think it was the atmosphere you generated which I can relate to the trippy arpeggios in Muse`s music. Their tracks `Bliss` and `Starlight` are very much like Kingdom Come. You managed to create the pull of the blackhole in your revelations, without ever using the word.

Now let`s see what you have to say about Mozart and Beethoven! ;)
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#3 Posted by IamNadia on October 12, 2006 10:45:12 pm
Trip me on wires
Slay all the liars
Raise me above
Save me when push comes to shove.
Rescue.

**Is there any obscure meaning of this stanza, the theme you have carried out is passionate through out but it seems just exhausting the words, hallucinating.
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#2 Posted by tantric on October 12, 2006 5:38:29 am
Hahaha - `Kingdom Come` was written tripping on Muse! :) I guess the `supermassive` gave that away. Heard that song (was on repeat for about 3 days) and had this whole madness spinning in my head..Then it came...in words..as it did. Inspiration? Music and select people who instigate emotions intense enough to take the form and flow of words.
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#1 Posted by Azure on October 12, 2006 4:53:41 am
This is very powerful Sadia. Have you heard music by the rock band `Muse`? Your poems remind me of some of their music, especially Kingdom Come. It would be nice if you`d share your source of inspiration here with us... or do you wish to keep it a secret?

You are strong. Keep writing!
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    #10 tantric
    #9 tantric
    #8 SaqlainKhwajha
    #7 shobig_sifar
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    #5 Sahara
    #4 Azure
    #3 IamNadia
    #2 tantric
    #1 Azure

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