Cocoa Butter and Strawberries: Florence Diary

one more thing..
fozia: i found it wonderful, the adoration of david. many people walk by it or take pictures or touch its base to say hey we`ve been there, done that, one more thing off our list...that disturbs me. one cannot walk into the accedemia and not be overwhelmed by the sight of david. i was inordinately pleased to see a person with a non extensive renaissance background point out to me what i had been reading in the books and had studied. it was something i didnt know we shared.
go to florence if you can...its much too wonderful to miss out on...i had been there before and had decided that i would go back for an extended period of time...and so did :)

Zehra #32:

I KNOW what you meant honey, I meant something else... I didn`t mean it in the literal sense.

What came to my mind was an image of freshness and ripeness when you used strawberries to describe the texture of his skin. And then you used the scent of cocoa butter to describe the smell of his skin. Sooooo, I just took these - cocoa butter and strawberries - as IMAGES to describe how delightful this combination of skin and smell seemed and how I would prefer it in a person (man) as well.

Never mind!

hai hai, yeh bachee hath sai nikalgayu

a veiled threat? no my dear, more like brotherly concern which doesn`t necessarily have to be solicited in order to be genuine..

issues to discuss:
why has everyone assumed its a man when i havent really given my second person a gender
and
why when a man talks about sex its ok but when i, a woman do its like, hai hai yeh bachee and interacts that sound like whines of ``do your parents know about this?``


lubna...ahh, i see..my mistake :)

rizvi.

z,

`why did everyone assume it was a man` LOL.

Since I read Ali5000`s comments a few days ago, I wanted to respond, but as yet haven`t found the right words to do so. But, in short, I think Zehra is an adult and is perfectly capable of deciding which of her writings she wants up on Chowk and what is private. Ali5000, your response indeed seems like a threat of a sort, at least intimidation, veiled in ``concern``. Are you related to Zehra or do you just think you have a God-given right to tell her what she should and shouldn`t publish?

A worthless, useless poem by a wannabe poet(ess) but in reality a third class fraud.

Yours truly

Yasser Latif Hamdani

ylh: such kind words...thanks. am i such a bad fraud that i must be a third class one? why not first class?

bina: he isnt related to me...his brotherly concern is misplaced. but then again, if you notice, some men on chowk feel that they can make blanket statements to protect our (womens) integrity...we ofcourse, are incapable and helpless to run our own lives and make our own decisions and thus must be told what is right, wrong, appropriate for a woman or inappropriate.

slink...anything to get people to discuss issues they wont...(and call me names and throw words at me..)

rizvi.

dear zehra,

thats the spirit! being shameless isn`t as bad as it`s made out to be (i should know :). and in an environement where people are in total and complete denial (``we`re special``..``women don`t think like that``)people like you help prove otherwise.

shandana

p.s: i also think (but only if you were..er..forced to..at gunpoint..or on the rack)you`d make a first rate fraud.

Not a Man! what an excellent thought..

that makes this poem like 100 times hotter..

toba, someone put a stop to this girl!

Intimacy between women? sick sick sickkkkkk!

YLH,

Now that`s a terrible thing to say. Zehra`s poetry was drenched in glucose but not bad.

i am truly sorry, because it was not my intention to trigger this line of discussion..i also have to reiterate that a ``veiled threat`` never even came close to entering my mind..i`m sorry if i offended you zehra, or anyone else who read my comments..although i don`t know you personally, i did enjoy your work and have a level of respect for you..my comment was made out of concern, and there was absolutely no malicious intent involved whatsoever..i guess the concern was misplaced or i may have been out of line, and i apologize for that..

I think I ain`t gonna miss WWF Women Championship bout anyway. hmmm. Life is good.

STORM’N A TEA CUP

Some are cursed more than others
creative people more than ...
is that good or bad?
depends on one’s perspective
the curse am referring to
turbo-charges the imagination
enabling some to view
a vision a trance
of dreams and fantasies
in fireworks that last
seconds or hours

mostly
it troubles the soul
does nothing to quench the fire
raging within
but the urge
to glean and share
that spark, gleam or vision
overwhelms that
which is better than valor...

and
footinmouthis helps not
zehra-o-zehra
rest of me friends
sheath the swords and daggers
storm it is
in a tea cup.

Zehra #37:

It`s okay... :)

``why has everyone assumed its a man when i havent really given my second person a gender``

hmmm... have you heard k.d. lang`s ``summerfling``?

For some reason I thought of this song when I read that. I wonder if she`d have anything to say on assumptions (at least mine) that it`s a woman she`s referring to in the song...