Waving goodbye to Patime, who sold baskets, Zuhra aimlessly made her way across the street, being careful to take in all the sights of the nearly closed marketplace before innocently stopping outside Tahir’s shop.
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Saying “Yes”
Sure, when opportunity knocked
I answered the door
But opportunity doesn’t always knock
Sometimes, I just leave the comfort of my own home
Remember Me
I am in Kashgar’s thrall. Its people, its buildings, its colours, its smells. Its efficient simplicity, driven by foot and hoof on these back alleys and lanes. The smiles; the furrowed brows; the twinkling eyes, the hard glares: of shopkeepers and shoppers.
Ming Sha Shan
The ocean’s sigh
And witnessed
Ripples on its shores
The shushing waves
Left in repose
In the ebony hills, an ivory city.
This is no tourist destination. It is a small, busy, virile town of subtle charm like so many other small, busy, virile towns. You will never discover the charms if you arrive on the train and depart on the next bus.
Organic Grid
A grid, man-made
Machine-like regularity
Straight lines and perfect angles
Mundane, boring
Walls within Walls
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding
Layers of mystery
Peeled away
By time
Politics
And Money
Relentless Pursuit
In relentless pursuit
Leaving footprints
In the sky
The beauty of Mesa Verde
What we are capable of
Without all the machines
And technologies of the massive
Such exquisite beauty
Pic and a Word Challenge #8 ~ Desert
Where only death
And the earth
Linger long
In the desert
I strip myself
Bare of conceit
Bare of ego