the beauty in you …
My eyes have travelled across oceans, beyond valleys and peaks, across the vast savannah and swirling in murmuring streams,
my eyes have travelled far and wide in many kaleidoscopic dreams,
my eyes have travelled here and there, and through places in between, yet your beauty remains a constant, skipping off the most radiant sunbeams.
I have felt the touch, the wild deluge of the monsoons, drenching me in its cleansing rain,
I have felt the touch, of moonlight cocooning me, a soothing veneer, that has kept me sane,
I have felt the touch, of your body, your lips, your being a healing presence, your unspoken words a melodic refrain.
You come to me in moments alone, when this world seems empty, a chalice brimming with tears,
you come to me in moments dark, your delicate whispers banishing away all my dreadful fears,
you come to me in moments of splintered thoughts, your wondrous self offering shade from the scorching sun that sears.
The beauty in you lends a lifeline to me, dispelling my mute vacuum, raising me from life’s empty hole,
the beauty in you douses the flames of my self-immolating fire, breathing life into me to once more be whole,
the beauty in you is a sublime truth, a truth of love and of belonging, a truth that has firmly taken root, in my once barren soul.
apologies for the emoticon. it was a mistake finger slip
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Fantastic and amazing poem. Just short and straight forward.
You are a phenomenal person with such incredible poem.
Am so glad that I had to comment on it.
I hope you have a wonderful and relaxing Sunday.
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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Thank you very much for your very warm and generous and kind words.
It moves me deeply that my poem touched a chord in you and thank you for your heartwarming words.
My warmest wishes to you and to all those dear to you.
Have a peaceful and gentle week ahead.
Peace and Equality and Gender-rights and Respect and Dignity and Justice and Hope for All ✌✊👍
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You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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Thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful response.
Such an awesome way of replying someone. Thanks. Again
As always your posts are incredible and I enjoying reading every word down till the last line. I must say that you are probably one of the excellent bloggers on WordPress that write inspired
Writing/post
Also, I just posted:
IN HONOUR OF WOMEN.
Would love to know your views. Love to see your contributions on it. I’m always excited for your comment. 🙂
You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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Thank you Patrick and it shall be a pleasure as always to read your work. Thank you once again for your kind and generous words
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I will be expecting your views and contribution on it.
You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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it is a remarkable piece of writing and deeply touching as well as inspiring
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Yeah. That is true. I just saw it now. thanks Mr Molla
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All thanks to you, my brother. I am just Afzal and not Mr.
We are one.
Peace and Justice and Hope and Equality and Gender-rights and Respect for All
✊✌👍
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Ohhhhh. Yeah thanks for that Moolla
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😩👍
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So you believe in gender equality and feminist and feminism.
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I was brought up by a mother who inculcated in me a deep respect for women. I believe that the inequality that women have faced through the centuries and today as well is a failure of all societies, and especially the mindset of male patriarchy. I cannot call myself anything other than a person who believes strongly in justice and gender-rights for women everywhere. It would be arrogant of me to call myself a feminist, though I believe strongly in the cause of the emancipation of women in all societies that repress women and pursue the same practices of male domination.
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Am so please by that wonderful compliment in the beginning of your comment where you said as I quote:
“””‘ I believe that the inequality that women have faced through the centuries and today as well is a failure of all societies, and especially the mindset of male patriarchy. “”””””
As I went further your own contribution states that women should be see as having equal right with men in the society.
For me personally, I kick against the fact that women are weak and less important in the society. We are equal. No body have the right to detect if a person is less or weak. Society has made it look like that. Even some of the women has accepted this fact that they are weak and less important. There by making them weaker vessels and there by making them not to have the equal right withe men.
Because of this it gave rise to gender equality that is been declared by feminist.
According to a popular literature book “””. Dear ijeawele or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions “””
FEMINIST Adichie Chimanmanda Ngozi she says in her book:
“”””””” Teach her, too, to
question the idea of women as a special species. I once heard an American politician, in his
bid to show his support for women, speak of how women should be ‘revered’ and
‘championed’ – a sentiment that is all too common.
Tell Chizalum that women actually don’t need to be championed and revered; they just need
to be treated as equal human beings. There is a patronizing undertone to the idea of women
needing to be ‘championed and revered’ because they are women. It makes me think of
chivalry, and the premise of chivalry is female weakness.
“”””””
The society again has made male patriarchy’s so important that women are not given any position. Again also in terms of power and authority, the society has made men as the point to handle such. Even in the school setting, government establishment and private firm. Women are seen as less and weak to accept such position.
According to a popular literature book “””. Dear ijeawele or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions “””
FEMINIST Adichie Chimanmanda Ngozi she says in her book:
“””””””” But here is a sad truth: our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful
women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an
aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women – is she humble? Does she
smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of
powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We
judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men “””””””””
Because of the ideal of power, authority and patriarchy’s, this again gave rise to different opinion to make women agitating for gender equality thereby forming the word FEMINISM and FEMINIST.
As I went further I was also to pick a good point again in your last line in the comment taking about emancipation and male dominance. Here is the point as I quote:
“”””””‘” though I believe strongly in the cause of the emancipation of women in all societies that repress women and pursue the same practices of male domination. “”””””””
According to a popular literature book “”” we should all be feminist “””
FEMINIST Adichie Chimanmanda Ngozi she says in her book:
Men and women are different. We have different hormones and different sexual organs
and different biological abilities—women can have babies, men cannot. Men have more
testosterone and are, in general, physically stronger than women. There are slightly
more women than men in the world—52 percent of the world’s population is female—
but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan
Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher
you go, the fewer women there are.
Thanks for giving a chance to talk to you. Am please now I have someone who have my same idea.
You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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I am so moved and challenged by Chinamanda Adichie’s words you have quoted – her words are a challenge to me as a man and it makes me think about the words like “revered” and “championed” – it makes me think about the words I use as well and that is why I am so thankful and grateful to you for quoting Chinamanda Adichie – she always makes one think about our own actions and words.
Once again thank you and warmest wishes and regards to you and those dear to you
I remain respectfully,
Afzal
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Thanks .
You are welcome . Moolla
You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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✌👍✊
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✌ ❤
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Am sorry for that. Since its gender equality. Am please by that.
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no apologies necessary ever my dear friend.
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Thanks for taking you time and saying that to me
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It is a pleasure and thank you for your powerful work.
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You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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Peace ✌ and Love 💜
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You are welcome
#PATRICKSTORIES
Peace ✌and Love ❤
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✊
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✌ ❤
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So beautiful
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thank you ever so much my friend … always warm and kind words.
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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Wonderful writing. As always
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you are kind and generous my friend as always
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All
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Thankyou. Peace, my friend
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thank you again my friend
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Beautifully penned!
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thank you very much, my friend. your generous words are deeply touching.
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Pleasure is mine! Keep writing and inspiring!
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all thanks to you for inspiring me to keep writing with you generous words.
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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Oh the credit is yours! I’m just appreciating your work and you totally deserve it!
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Thank you yet again dear friend … Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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You came to me…. Beauty lives in your ink
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Thank you so very much, my friend. Your warm words are deeply appreciated.
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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☮🌻
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Stunning!
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Thank you very much my friend … much appreciated and humbled as always
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Beautifully written my friend 🙂
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thank you very much, my friend. as always deeply appreciated and humbled.
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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🙂
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