From Jingshan peak
They surveyed the world
From the heart
Of The Middle Kingdom
They surveyed the world
From the heart
Of The Middle Kingdom
Tag: China
NWW Photo Prompt ~ Alien Places
Alien Places Welcome to the September 15th, 2015 edition of the NWW Photo Prompt! The New West Writers Photo Prompt is a twice-monthly challenge for writers of all genres. It’s easy to participate — and we…
Revering the dead
In many ways
We give more reverence
To the dead
Than the living
Pic and a Word Challenge #2: Attraction
Zuhra noticed Tahir was still at his shop. She shuttered her own, the veils and headscarves already neatly tucked away for the night, and closed the clasp on the lock.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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