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Apr 06 2015 WIKIMEDIA…Silence of the Piano Sings
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Written/uploaded by Aamir Latif Siddiqui on Silence of the Piano Sings, the book published in 2011 from the UK.
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Jan 12 2014 I Have Poured My Wine
I have poured my wine
Over Time an’ Space.
Everyone is drunk;
Everything is drunk;
Everyone totters;
Everything totters:
Mozart’s tunes echo
Through marble arches
Of the Taj Mahal!
Lo, Catullus strikes
Strings of Dun’booro,
Which sway to Bach’s grand,
Rare musical notes!
With Kalidasa’s
Solemn brush, Van Gogh
Paints Shakuntal on
Red lips of Lesbos,
Where Sappho’s verses
Shine with homely hues!
Using Angelo’s
Stylish, vital tools,
Sartre cuts the Time
Into the grave hand
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Sep 30 2013 From The Thames to Land’s End
The Houses of Parliament abut on the river bank as a regal order for the waves to sing tunes of harmony and peace; London Bridge, along with Tower and Westminster Bridges, spreads as a net for winds of people to blow across the space of time; nothing that flies in the mind of the city … Continue reading
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Sep 30 2013 What You Sculpt, I Do Not
What you sculpt, I do not,
What I carve, you may not,
But hangs still in the mind
Some careless, clueless rhyme!
We make the same music!Florence, 2008 © M. Syre
(Silence of the Piano Sings)
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Sep 30 2013 The Bell Chimes
sizzling rays
of the solar disc
strike the earth as burns;
the bird of silence flies,
while a gravedigger
gashes its wings
with the blade of his spade.
the bell chimes:
hands shiver
but carry on digging!the grave has been dug
and the mourners have
gathered around it.
the earth
opens its mouth
to gulp its morsel:
the bell chimes:
no one hears,
save the gravedigger!with the brush of its
dark, cracked lips,
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Sep 30 2013 On Cloud of Drifting Time
Again a Socrates
Holds a cup brimful of
New, raw, lethal hemlock!
Everything’s mute an’ still!
Everyone’s spineless, dazed.
And lo, the cup trembles,
As the venom trembles!Athens, 2008 © M. Syre
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Sep 30 2013 Men in Gods
Old or young,
Every face—
An idol!
And the world
Temple—vast,
Gigantic!
How puzzling
It’s to find
Men in gods!
Vatican City, 2008 © M. Syre
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