In many ways
We give more reverence
To the dead
Than the living
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Doorways
When I see the light
Right there, before me
I try to remember
Right there, before me
I try to remember
I may have to step
Through many doorways
To find its source
The Children of Kashgar
They run amok
These unwashed ragamuffins
My mother would say
But they are happy
These unwashed ragamuffins
My mother would say
But they are happy
Happy and curious
Enthralled with
The foreigner
And his camera
Pic and a Word Challenge #5 ~ Curiosity
Curiosity
May well have
Killed the cat
May well have
Killed the cat
But it made
A man
Of the boy
Main Street
Arriving in Kashgar
Was like landing
On an alien planet
A stranger in a strange land
Was like landing
On an alien planet
A stranger in a strange land
Sights, sounds, smells
Unlike anywhere else
In a country
Unlike anywhere else
Magic is a child
Magic is a child
All the better
In bunches
Happiness in Kashgar
“Take my picture!”
She’d seen my camera
A foreigner with a camera
“Take my picture!”
Happily, I oblige
Line her up with the street
The cyclist, passing by
Pic and a Word Challenge #6 ~ Time
It’s only time, you know
That perfect line in nature
Whatever the process which created it
Whether physics, chemistry or biology
That perfect line in nature
Whatever the process which created it
Whether physics, chemistry or biology
The line is just a moment in time
Created over time
And this moment
Is simply a snapshot
In a Haze
In a haze of incense
The pilgrims
And the tourists
Come
The pilgrims
And the tourists
Come
To Tibet
In the heart of Beijing
It’s so decreed
By The Party
On being grateful in a shroud of dust
I awaken to a shroud of dust
A sun hangs low and wan
Weakly luminous
Shadowless
Its light dispersed
By an atmosphere
Still, unmoving
Thick with particles