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Imprisoned

Kaushal Kishore

For a long time
I have been imprisoned in this cage,
which people affectionately call
the home library,
lying beside my friends
I keep sobbing at my loneliness,
no one picks me up,
no one bothers to see
how hard was my every word
threaded by someone…

Those who used to read me,
who used to hide secrets in me,
and who used to swear by me,
are lost somewhere in devices
like mobile, iPad and kindle,
they don’t even have time
and will to see
that the beautiful flowers
they had kept inside my pages
for a purpose,
have since reduced to skeletons,
was I made for this purpose?

When a new friend joins me
in this cage,
for a while I envy
for its brilliant effulgence,
looking at the dust above me,
but I know very well
that it will also end up
facing the same fate,
who…

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Parashat Shoftim, and the Rule of Law — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Parashat Shoftim /שׁוֹפְטִיםפרשת      This week we read about judges, and about the rules of warfare, among other things.   The very existence of such rules indicates that there are certain levels of compassion which we are required to extend even to our enemies.  This set of laws having been written several thousand years ago, […]

Parashat Shoftim, and the Rule of Law — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ Bring It On Home To Me ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

It’s been a while since I played some Sam Cooke, hasn’t it?  Like a few others in my repertoire, Cooke is always good for a nice, mellow sound.  I have played this one only once, almost exactly three years ago on September 4th, 2019. This song, written by Cooke, was released on May 8, 1962 […]

♫ Bring It On Home To Me ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Saturday Surprise — Meet Wally!!! — Filosofa’s Word

You’ve all heard of Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) right?  If a person is going through a very difficult time, for whatever reason, and is suffering from depression, sometimes the company of a pet can bring that person out of his darkness.  I fully believe in this … one of our ‘feral five’, Oliver aka Ollie, […]

Saturday Surprise — Meet Wally!!! — Filosofa’s Word

एक किताब / One Book

Kaushal Kishore

कैसे पढूं मैं इतनी सारी किताबों को
उलझ के रह गया हूं एक ही किताब में
तुम्हारे चेहरे की…

📖📖📖📖📖📖

How do I read so many books
I’m stuck in just one book
of your face…

–Kaushal Kishore

image: pinterest

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Pictures At An Exhibition Nr. 76

Skizzenbuch/Blog

Da steckt Musik drin! Auf dem Event “60 Jahre The Rolling Stones”, organisiert von Manfred Engelhardt und seinem Team, durfte ich meine Portraits der Stones ausstellen / Foto: Günther Sander

„It`s Only Rock`n`Roll, but we like it!“
Gibt es ein Zitat, das besser zu dem Event „60 JAHRE THE ROLLING STONES“ passen könnte? Wahrscheinlich nicht. Das sah Manfred Engelhardt, Manager des wahrscheinlich größten “Rolling-Stones-Fan-Clubs” mit 600 Mitgliedern weltweit ganz genau so. Und darum lud er nach mehr als zweijähriger, coronabedingter Abstinenz zu einem ganz besonderen Event ein, um der „größten und besten Rockband aller Zeiten“ zum 60-jährigen zu gratulieren.

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