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The Spell of Winter

Ibrahim M Khalil September 14, 2003

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#5 Posted by MeiraJ08 on August 8, 2008 3:55:19 am
Late one evening,
It came silently creeping
Like a cat closing in on prey
But the cool zephyr gave it away
Winter is here at last
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very nice beginning, Ibrahim.
In the nearest language, it always works.
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#4 Posted by temporal on September 15, 2003 8:37:14 am
Ibrahim:


Winter is an incongruent conundrum in Karachi…like other tropical cities it has two seasons… warm and hot…barring those quetta winds that you have captured here!…only after leaving Karachi did I begin to appreciate the uniqueness of spring, summer, fall and winter as distinct seasons…

…t
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#3 Posted by cmp99 on September 15, 2003 6:44:58 am

....
Hand in hand, others walk down the street
Or make love between the sheets
Here in Karachi, this spell may last only a week



Spell of walking down the street, hand in hand OR making love between the sheets will ONLY last a week.
No wonder those people in Karachi are so pumped up all the time.
If they get one week, in the whole year for such festivities.

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#2 Posted by Irum on September 14, 2003 8:54:22 pm
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#1 Posted by rsaxena on September 14, 2003 3:23:57 pm
...at least it rhymes well...
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