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Here’s wishing all the authors and readers of deadpanthoughts a Happy new year…2009 I hope you’ve all managed to wrap up the odds and ends of 2008 – lets walk into the new day and the new year with hope, enthusiasm, and a fresh perspective for the future best of luck…
Hello Hello! I’ve been on a bit of a sabbatical lately, partially cause inspiration hasn’t struck recently… but mostly because winter-weddings have been taking up most of my time! I mean we’re talking 8-10 weddings a week – and you’re expected to be at all three weddings on the same night- this includes eating greasy
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Balancing a guitar, the coke bottle, and themselves… … trying not to trip over the rocks, trying to steady nature to suit their unsteadiness. “yeh shaam phir nahin aai gi…”, voices lilted, wobbled, and carried in the wind, fading out slowing over the moonlit ocean. The waves splashed the rocks gently, and the fine mist
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by Ramla Akhtar The Divine Feminine Artist unknown Part 1: The Trouble in the Pakistani Family Construct Deserves De-Construction All right. Included henceforth in my life mission is to engage hearts on the subject of women. Rather, the Feminine Principle, but let’s, for ease of conversation, begin with women – as in the “sex: female”
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The phone beeps – *Mushy’s being impeached..go put on geo..NOW*… Frantic flicking through channels, not knowing what to expect, and there sits Musharraf giving his last address. And after a while of listening to how,In the calmest possible tone, he points out, sector by sector, things have improved… how in each area, we drastically rose
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Watching the twinkling stars fade into a new dawn, Through the frosted glass and sigh… Sleeping forms lay breathing soundly still, Green lights flicker in the dark, steadying against will… Bathed in those harsh flourescent hues, Tired eyes scan the horizon, a sea of blue… The sky is aglow with the first signs of light,
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Two figures walk in the dark night. The crunch of gravel defies the heavy stillness in the monsoon air. Crawling creepers outline vacant garages, their open doors resonate the echo of crickets in the lush surroundings.. The walls continue, on and on, the empty pitch black panels make them like gaping toothy smiles on the
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A story foretold has come unwrit, Many a woven tale has come undone, Shattered bangles scar wrists in star shaped crimson bloom, Reminiscent of the night, when two hearts become one… Unravelled seams leave heartache abound, Sob rise, and choke – there is no sound. Hot molten tears prickle behind eyes burning bright, The reel
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By Z.S In life, there aren’t any guarantees. One lives on hope ,hoping against hope at times. Surprises are all the more sweet especially when, if you were hoping against hope that something would happen, and suddenly, it does… Its sort of a war going on between the heart and the mind. You think -she’ll
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The one line that made me crack up today: “Sometimes bacteria is the only culture some people have”. *giggles*
