Friday, March 30, 2012

Hafiz ...


What
Do sad people have in
Common ???

It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past
And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship ...

What is the beginning of
Happiness ???

It is to stop being
So religious
Like that ...



Monday, March 26, 2012

Ethiopian Proverb ...


When one is in love ... 
A cliff becomes a meadow ...


Thursday, March 22, 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Miranda July ...


Look at the sky ... That is for you ...
Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street ... Those faces are for you ...
And the street itself ... And the ground under the street ...
And the ball of fire underneath the ground ... All these things are for you ...
They are as much for you as they are for other people ...
Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing ...




Monday, March 19, 2012

Afghanistan ...


I can lay no claim to Afghanistan through right of blood or right of soil ... But what about right of heart ??? ... I keep you in my heart #JafarAlamPoetry

Cesare Pavese ...


Traveling forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends ... You are constantly off balance ... Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky ... All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it ...

Thursday, March 15, 2012

I love. I loved. I was in love. I am loving. I am in love. I still love. I am not in love. There was love. I will love #JafarAlamPoetry

Morihei Ueshiba ...


Budo is not a means of felling the opponent by force or by lethal weapons ... Neither is it intended to lead the world to destruction by arms and other illegitimate means ... True Budo calls for bringing the inner energy of the universe in order, protecting the peace of the world , as well as preserving, everything in nature in its right form ...

Splitscreen: A Love Story ...

Splitscreen: A Love Story from James W Griffiths on Vimeo.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Shabistari ...


Know that the whole world is a mirror ...
In each atom are found a hundred blazing suns ...

If you split the center of a single drop of water
A hundred pure oceans spring forth ...

If you examine each particle of dust
A thousand Adams can be seen ...

A universe lies hidden in a grain of millet
Everything is brought together at the point of the present ...

From each point along that circle
Thousands of forms are drawn ...

Each point, as it revolves in a circle, is at times a circle ...

At others, a turning circumference ...