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A Scene

Mutaal Mooquin November 21, 2007

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#5 Posted by quin on December 24, 2007 8:30:32 am
Re: # 4 Appreciated; I was also earlier helped by ZK and much thanks to both of you, I was able to add a poem.
PS: I liked your caustic expression "Pak land of Pakistan"
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#4 Posted by Ravi_Kopra on December 23, 2007 8:21:25 pm
Go to your iLogs page. See the top right hand corner. It reads:

my iLogs
my favorite iLogs
my friends iLogs
ADD NEW
manage my iLogs

Click on ADD NEW. And proceed....
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#3 Posted by quin on December 23, 2007 7:55:13 am
Re: # 1 I appreciate your encouraging comments. It were surely the unfolding events of this November in Pakistan that brought that imagery to my mind. I was at that time at a countryside and was more exposed to Nature/human interface. Thus the inspirtation. Many types of issues stir my imagination, from political to environmental, from interpersonal to intrapersoal. I thought to add some of my other poems on the iLog but still have not been able to figure out how that is done. If I click on 'write an iLog' it just take me to the list of the iLogs. I will keep working on that. Any help is appreciated.
Best regards, MM
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#2 Posted by Ravi_Kopra on December 19, 2007 12:06:25 pm
And that is the Pakistan Scene -
Dogs, bitches, murderers, dictators
from its inception till present times.

Does Islam know what's democracy?
Is Sharia law not the backbone of Islam?
Do mullahs, gundaas, kings, dictators

not rule all lands of Islam?
Why should it be any other way
in the Paak Land of Paakistan?




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#1 Posted by guarana on December 7, 2007 8:20:24 pm
Maybe it is because my head is full of current events in Pakistan but the imagery of this poem clearly brings the situation there to my mind.
A wonderful attempt of saying so much with such simple and very, very few words.Well done!! looking forward to more from you.
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