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Driving Through Poetry

Razia Husain October 19, 2009

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#1 Posted by Skeptical on October 25, 2009 5:52:34 am
Moving and posseses clarity.
This piece illustrates that the greatest virtue is readability and articulation. Razia, you are a very good addition to chowk
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#2 Posted by ejazharoon on October 25, 2009 7:36:05 am
Ain't America beautiful?
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#3 Posted by pavocavalry on October 25, 2009 11:12:53 am
beautiful thoughts
Agha Amin
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#4 Posted by eleventyone on October 25, 2009 2:39:45 pm
that's such a nice description of fall
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#5 Posted by dost_mittar on October 26, 2009 8:57:29 am
razia:

Beautiful description! Fall is the most spectacular time of the year in both Canada and Northeastern states, more so in Canada. You could be describing my yard and the trees on my lawn. The only downside is that there is a mountain of leaves on my lawn and they are still falling. Hopefully, my lawncare guy will clean the stuff because I do not enjoy stooping to gather all that stuff.

I hate to inject a note of realism in your poetry but what you see is not a celebration but a slow and painful, though spectacular death. The leaves are fighting a last-ditched battle to retain their life and using declining daylight to save the most critical part of their sustenance. But this is the process of renewal, without this death, there wouldn't be a punar-janam next spring.
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#6 Posted by rhusain on October 28, 2009 4:19:14 pm
Re: # 5
Thank you.
beauty is in the eyes of beholder. You can see it as a death dance and someone else might see it is a farewell party!
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#7 Posted by bjkumar on October 29, 2009 3:09:39 pm
Nice depiction of nature! I liked it. It reminded me of a trip to Mount Tamalpais I took awhile ago.
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